American Politics
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One Nation, Two Cultures
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb taught for twenty-three years at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where she was named Distinguished Professor of History in 1978. Now Professor Emeritus, she lives with her husband, Irving Kristol, in Washington, D.C. Her previous books include The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values; On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society; Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late...
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Restless Giant
by James T Patterson
Part of the series, Oxford History of the United States, David M. Kennedy, General Editor in which Professor Patterson has written several books. This one advances the time frame to the period following the specific events of Watergate and takes the reader into the later 1970's and beyond through the Clinton years. The book presents a comprehensive review of the events with very extensive bibliographic references. It is the work of a skilled and dedicated academician, not a political insider, making...
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Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
by Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins was born and raised in Texas. She has been a journalist for more than twenty years and has written for the Texas Observer, The New York Times, Time, and many other national magazines. She has appeared on the Mac-Neil/Lehrer News Hour, Nightline, The Tonight Show, and Today. She currently lives in Austin, Texas, and writes a nationally syndicated column for the Fort Worth Star.
There's a Riot Going On
by Peter Doggett
Includes bibliographical references (p. 577-588) and index.
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A Godly Hero
by Kazin, Michael
MICHAEL KAZIN is professor of history at Georgetown University. The author of three previous books about American history--America Divided, The Populist Persuasion, and Barons of Labor-he is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and The American Prospect and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Fulbright Scholar Program. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
by Al Franken
Binding is tight and square, pages are clean and unmarked. Book is in gently read condition.
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A$11.62
Dawes -- the Doer!
by ACKERMAN, Carl W
New York: ERA Publications, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 12mo, 87pp. Ex-library with the usual markings. Mild edgewear, and apart from library markings, an otherwise clean copy internally; good or better. A scarce little hagiography of this American businessman and the author of the Dawes Plan, which organized the procedures by which the German government would pay their large reparations bill as stipulated in their surrender after World War I. The year after publication, Dawes would be...
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A$69.72
Robert Kennedy and His Times
by SCHLESINGER, Arthur M., Jr
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. Octavo, 1066pp. A crisp, square copy of this huge tome; very good. Foxing to the top and fore-edge, bookplate affixed to the front paste-down (concealed by the jacket flap). In a near fine dust jacket, clean, with some gentle sunning and creasing to the spine.
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A$38.74
Hard Choices
by CLINTON, Hillary
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 635pp., illustrated. A fine, crisp copy in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Clinton (as just "Hillary:) on the publisher's tipped-in leaf. Nice, fresh copy.
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A$77.47
A Short History of Presidential Elections
by Roseboom, Eugene
Collier Books, New York, 1967. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. white titles spine; "No single event in America's history expresses the drama of democracy more fully than the quadrennial battle for the Presidency. In this book the issues, the contenders, the victories and defeats form a concise but highly readable political history of the United States. Invaluable as a reference work for citizen and student, the book covers each of the forty-five elections from George...
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A$11.63
EL DRAMA DE PUERTO RICO
by Partido Aprista Argentino
Rosario, Argentina: Editorial Continente, 1938. Stapled wraps. Very good. 32p. Pamphlet vertically creased, pages lightly toned. Produced by the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance of Argentina in support of members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party who were convicted of sedition against the United States and imprisoned in an Atlanta, Georgia, federal penitentiary. Text in Spanish. B&w photographs. (7"x5-1/4")
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A$54.23
Notes as Vice President 1928-1929
by DAWES, Charles G
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-. Octavo, 329pp., illustrated. About very good in the publisher's navy cloth, with the spine dulled, and an ink stain to the top edge (not affecting the interior), lacking the dust jacket. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Dawes on the front free endpaper in the year after publication: "For William J. Cram from his friend Charles G. Dawes July 4th 1936." We know little about Cram, but note that some correspondence between him and Dawes is retained...
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A$271.15
Morning and Noon: A Memoir
by ACHESON, Dean
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good-. Octavo, 288pp., illustrated. About very good in the publisher's two-tone pale green cloth, with gentle bumps to the corners and some isolated foxing to the top edge. In a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and shallow tears and chips. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Acheson on the front free endpaper to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr: "To Douglas Fairbanks with the affectionate regard and best wishes of his friend, Dean Acheson, February...
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A$154.94
Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy
by Beloff, Max
Pelican / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1972. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. black titles spine; "Thomas Jefferson contributed more than any other thinker and statesman to shaping the ideals and political techniques of modern America. He was a participant in every important development in American affairs between the Declaration of Independence and the Momoe Doctrine. His dramatic confllct with Alexander Hamilton prefigured many vital issues of later...
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THE FEDERALIST, ON THE NEW CONSTITUTION, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1788, BY MR. HAMILTON, MR. MADISON, AND MR. JAY WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE LETTERS OF PACIFICUS AND HELVIDIUS, ON THE PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY OF 1793; ALSO, THE ORIGINAL ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH THE AMENDMENTS MADE THERETO
by HAMILTON, Mr. [Alexander]; MADISON, Mr. [James]; JAY, Mr. [John]
Washington DC: Jacob Gideon, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. Text evenly darkened with some foxing and staining. Old rebacking with a newer front board, front hinge a tad tender but firm. Very Good. Bound in contemporary sheep leather with a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label; 671 pages. The First Edition of this classic in which the authors of each essay were identified by name. Comprises 85 political essays, most written by Hamilton, all but the last 8 of which were first published in newspapers...
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A$9,683.75
A Nation of Agents The American Path to a Modern Self and Society
by Block, James E
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2002. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 658 pages. A sweeling reinterpretation of American political culture. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$30.00
OBSERVATIONS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND THE MEANS OF MAKING IT A BENEFIT TO THE WORLD
by PRICE, Richard
Boston: Powars and Willis, 1784. First American Edition. Softcover. Minor staining to title page; corners unevenly clipped to last page. Very Good. Published in London the same year. Early marbled wraps (4-1/4" x 6-3/4"); 87, [1] pages. The last page with addendum notes for pages 6 and 45. Price, an intimate friend of Benjamin Franklin, was along with Thomas Paine among the most influential British advocates of American Independence. In this work, Price congratulates the victorious former colonists,...
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A$3,873.50
Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine
by Marion Nestle
219 Pages. First Edition by the Numbers.This is a very interesting and gripping book on the sources of pet food and the contaminants that were in it. The dust jacket, exterior and interior book are all in like-new condition with no visible damages, all print well-preserved and good and tight bindings.This book will be carefully wrapped up and boxed and then shipped right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes with our total appreciation for your order.
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A$26.34
American Government and Politics
by Potter, Allen Meyers
Faber & Faber, London, 1955. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. white titles spine; "after a brief account of the framing of the Constitution, of the ideas which lay behind it and of how those ideas have been changed and modified by the shifting currents of history and politics, Mr. Potter gives a full and lively explanation of the position today. Through the complex and sometimes bewildering maze of constitutional theory and practice, of the relationship between President,...
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A$9.69
Perle: My Story
by MESTA, Perle; with Robert Cahn
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo, 251pp., illustrated. A very good copy in the publisher's maroon boards with black spine. Top edge dust-soiled, but the contents crisp and clean. In a very good dust jacket with some creases and short tears, and a few clear tape repairs to verso. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Mesta on the front free endpaper: "For Ray Parker With my best wishes and good luck. Perle Mesta." Uncommon signed. Mesta was an influential American...
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A$100.71
Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive
by Joan Hoff & Oscar Handlin (Editor) Wilson
Waveland Press Inc, Prospect Heights, Illinois, 1992. Re-issue. Softcover. Good Condition. Herbert Hoover's place of birth was the American heartland; but for much of his life, he was a stranger to his native country, and never more so than while he was its president. His career followed a pattern familiar in the history of the United States - not quite the log cabin to the White House, but almost. Humble birth, hard work, the desire for achievement and finally, wealth, public service and the...
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A$38.76
The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed
by STOCKMAN, David A
New York: Harper and Row, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo, 422pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, in the publisher's blue boards with navy cloth spine. Faint foxing to the top edge. In like dust jacket, with trivial foxing to the flaps. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Stockman "To Dan with my best wishes, Dave Stockman." Laid-in is a typed letter from Stockman's secretary (on his letterhead) to the Dan in question, with instructions for getting the book autographed via...
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St. George and the Godfather
by Mailer, Norman
Signet, New York, 1972. Second Printing. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. red titles spine; "Norman Mailer presents himself once more as a witness of our times-inside the conventions, 1972, he eyes the candidates with skyrocket brilliance, smells their aura, feels around their crowds, and sniffs the general ambiance. Through potent description, philosophic genius, humor and compassion, great reporting becomes an art as Norman Mailer, with exquisite cunning and precision, exposes the forces that...
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A$11.63
27 Masters of Politics
by MOLEY, Raymond
New York: Newsweek / Funk and Wagnalls, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo, 276pp. A very good copy, gently soiled on the spine, else clean and crisp internally. In a good dust jacket, stained, with some large chips, but intact. Pp. 72-3 faintly offset from an old laid-in news clipping (now absent). This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Moley on the front free endpaper, and dated in the year of publication. Moley, born in suburban Cleveland, was a speechwriter for Franklin D. Roosevelt,...
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A$387.35
RIGHT AND THE POWER The Prosecution of Watergate
by Jaworski, Leon
New York NY: Reader's Digest/Gulf Publishing. 1976. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0872017923 . Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. Previous owner's name blacked out; 305 pages .
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A$15.49A$10.85
San Francisco
by HERMANN, Bernard; Text by Scott Blackey; Foreword by Dianne Feinstein
Papeete, Tahiti: Les editions du pacifique, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small quarto, 160pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, about fine, in like dust jacket, a tinge rubbed. Top edge gently foxed. This copy SIGNED and warmly INSCRIBED by then-President of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein (who also wrote the Foreword): "To Karen and Bruce, With love and friendship. In thanks and admiration. Dianne. Christmas, 1975." The inscription page, which is opposite...
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Political Parties and Party Problems in the United States: A Sketch of American Party History and of the Development and Operations of Party Machinery, Together with a Consideration of Certain Party Problems in their Relations to Political Morality
by WOODBURN, James Albert
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. Third Edition, revised. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Octavo, 542pp., plus advertisements. One foldout chart, in fine condition. A nice, crisp, clean, copy, very good or better in a very good or better dust jacket with a crease and small tear on the front panel. A nice example.
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A$69.72
Obama and Twenty-First-Century Politics. A Revolutionary Movement in the USA
by Campbell, Horace G
London: Pluto Press. 2010. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 319 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.
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A$20.00
Red Handed
by Peter Schweizer
341 Pages. Stated: First Edition; The dust jacket is Not price-clipped. This is an investigative book examining China's influence over parts of the American economy and how it gained that influence. The dust jacket to the book is in Near Fine condition with only slight wearing on the bottom of the front cover's edge and the same at the top of the spine keeping it from being in Fine condition. The interior book is in Very Good condition as there is highlighting and underlining throughout the book, but...
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A$13.93
