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Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813 by: Schutz, John A / Douglass Adair

Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813
by: Schutz, John A / Douglass Adair

Softcover. Indianapolis, Liberty Fund, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages. John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for their generation prove remarkably timely--even for the twenty-first century. Adams and Rush championed very different views on the nature of the American Revolution and of the republic established with the United States Constitution; yet they shared one of the most important correspondences of their time. John Adams and Benjamin Rush met in 1774 as members of the Continental Congress--Adams from Massachusetts, Rush from Pennsylvania. In 1805, after Adams was defeated in his quest of a second term as the new republic's second President, the two men self-consciously commenced an exchange of letters. Their recurring subject was fame. This emphasis on fame was crucial, Adams and Rush believed, because on the fame attached to individual leaders of the Revolutionary generation would depend the view of the Revolution and of the Constitution and republican government that would be embraced by generations to come, including our own. The Liberty Fund edition of The Spur of Fame reproduces a text originally published by the Huntington Library.

Record # 386893

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Stephen A. Douglas by: Johannsen, Robert W.

Stephen A. Douglas
by: Johannsen, Robert W.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 993 pages. A biography of the "Little Giant from Illinois", Lincoln's highly influential opponent for the Presidency in 1860. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396384

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The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bushby: Iwan Morgan

The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush
by: Iwan Morgan

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket, 375 pages. The debate over the federal budget-and the deficit spending it tends to produce-has assumed a renewed urgency for reasons that are painfully clear to all of us. Over the past thirty-two years-from the presidency of Jimmy Carter through that of George W. Bush-the U.S. government has in fact balanced its budget in only four of them, while the fiscal challenges confronting President Obama make a balanced budget anytime soon a remote possibility. Iwan Morgan's book provides a much-needed historical perspective on this perennially troubling issue. Clean copy.

Record # 378810

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The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way by: Lary May

The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
by: Lary May

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this daring reexamination of the connections between national politics and Hollywood movies, Lary May offers a fresh interpretation of American culture from the New Deal through the Cold War and one in which a populist, egalitarian ethos found itself eventually supplanted by a far different view of the nation. Clean copy.

Record # 379028

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The Black Panthersby: Marine, Gene

The Black Panthers
by: Marine, Gene

Softcover. NY, New American Library Signet,, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Softcover, mass market paperback, 224 pages, b&w photos. Light shelfwear, clean.

Record # 372664

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The Bonus Army: An American Epic by: Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen

The Bonus Army: An American Epic
by: Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen

Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. n the summer of 1932, at the height of the Depression, some forty-five thousand veterans of World War I descended on Washington, D.C., from all over the country to demand the bonus promised them eight years earlier for their wartime service. They lived in shantytowns, white and black together, and for two months they protested and rallied for their cause-an action that would have a profound effect on American history. Clean copy.

Record # 398746

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The Brink: Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962 by: Detzer, David

The Brink: Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962
by: Detzer, David

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 299 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396486

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The Character of John Adamsby: Shaw, Peter

The Character of John Adams
by: Shaw, Peter

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 324 pages, b&w illustrations. Published for the Williamsburg, VA Institute of Early American History & Culture. Instead of recounting, in detail, the public events of John Adams's extraordinary career, Peter Shaw views as a whole Adams's character, thought, and acts, personalizing for the reader the most remote of our Founding Fathers. This compact but comprehensive biography brilliantly portrays the poignant revelations of John Adams's inner life implicit in the recently released Adams family manuscripts. The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by the author's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Adams's behavior appears less eccentric when viewed in the context of its origin in the village life of eighteenth~century Massachusetts; and his politics and ideas appear less abstractly motivated when viewed in the light of the evolution of his character. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397537

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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War 1945-1947 by: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War 1945-1947
by: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

Hardcover. NY, WW Norton & Co,, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission-this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. In his thirteen months in China, Marshall journeyed across battle-scarred landscapes, grappled with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and plotted and argued with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his brilliant wife, often over card games or cocktails. The results at first seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice. Its consequences would define the rest of his career, as the secretary of state who launched the Marshall Plan and set the standard for American leadership, and the shape of the Cold War and the US-China relationship for decades to come. It would also help spark one of the darkest turns in American civic life, as Marshall and the mission became a first prominent target of McCarthyism, and the question of "who lost China" roiled American politics. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise like new.

Record # 385364

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The Colonial Legacy: Vol. II: Some Eighteenth-Century Commentators by: Leder, Lawrence H. (Ed.)

The Colonial Legacy: Vol. II: Some Eighteenth-Century Commentators
by: Leder, Lawrence H. (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 228 pages. Articles on Thomas Clap, William Douglas, Archibald Kennedy, William Livingston, Thomas Jeffreys, Samuel Smith, John Adams, and Mercy Warren. Volume 2 only. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397473

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The Colonial Period of American History: Volume 4 England's Commercial and Colonial Policiesby: Charles M. Andrews

The Colonial Period of American History: Volume 4 England's Commercial and Colonial Policies
by: Charles M. Andrews

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 477 pages. Original edition of this major study of British policies toward its North American colonies by a premiere early 20th century historian of Colonial America, Charles M. Andrews. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 387781

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The Committee of One Million: China Lobby Politics, 1953-1971by: Bachrack, Stanley D.

The Committee of One Million: China Lobby Politics, 1953-1971
by: Bachrack, Stanley D.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 371 pages. Looks into the origins and activities of a foreign-policy interest group which emerged after the Korean War and exerted pressure on the federal government not to recognize the People's Republic of China. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397205

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The Completion Of Independence 1790-1830 by: Krout, John Allen / Fox, Dixon Ryan

The Completion Of Independence 1790-1830
by: Krout, John Allen / Fox, Dixon Ryan

Softcover. Chicago, Quadrangle, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 487 pages. This "Early National" period, one of yearning adolescence in the life of the nation, is the subject of this study which shows how the United States went about winning economic and cultural independence from Europe to match the political emancipation gained by the Revolution.

Record # 397588

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The Constitution of the United States of America; The Declaration of Independence; The Articles of Confederation; The Prominent Political Acts of George Washington; Electorial Votes for all the Presidents and Vice-Presidents ;. Chron

The Constitution of the United States of America; The Declaration of Independence; The Articles of Confederation; The Prominent Political Acts of George Washington; Electorial Votes for all the Presidents and Vice-Presidents ;. Chron

Hardcover. Philadelphia, 7th Ed., 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, 521 pages. Cloth has peeled back from spine with some missing chips. The book's binding is solid and tight, clean interior. First published in 1854. This is the seventh printing with an illustrated title page dated 1855. Name and address on blank prelim page otherwise clean.

Record # 387917

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The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century by: Ikenberry, G. John; Knock, Thomas; Slaughter, Anne-Marie; Smith, Tony

The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
by: Ikenberry, G. John; Knock, Thomas; Slaughter, Anne-Marie; Smith, Tony

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2009, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 157 pages. Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign policy discuss the relationship between the ideals of Woodrow Wilson and those of George W. Bush. The Crisis of American Foreign Policy exposes the challenges resulting from Bush's foreign policy and ponders America's place in the international arena. Led by John Ikenberry, one of today's foremost foreign policy thinkers, this provocative collection examines the traditions of liberal internationalism that have dominated American foreign policy since the end of World War II. Clean copy.

Record # 378848

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The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification Part Two: January to August 1788 by:

The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification Part Two: January to August 1788
by:

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 1175 pages. Part Two of a two-volume set. Assembled here in chronological order are hundreds of newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches, and private letters written or delivered in the aftermath of the Constitutional Convention. Along with familiar figures like Franklin, Madison, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, and Washington, scores of less famous citizens are represented, all speaking clearly and passionately about government. The most famous writings of the ratification struggle - the Federalist essays of Hamilton and Madison - are placed in their original context, alongside the arguments of able antagonists, such as "Brutus" and the "Federal Farmer." Part Two gathers collected press polemics and private commentaries from January to August 1788, including all the amendments proposed by state ratifying conventions as well as dozens of speeches from the South Carolina, Virginia, New York, and North Carolina conventions. Included are dramatic confrontations from Virginia, where Patrick Henry pitted his legendary oratorical skills against the persuasive logic of Madison, and from New York, where Alexander Hamilton faced the brilliant Antifederalist Melancton Smith. Like new.

Record # 379206

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The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: Part One September 1787 - February 1788 by:

The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: Part One September 1787 - February 1788
by:

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 1214 pages. Part One of a two-volume set.

Record # 379205

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The Decision to Intervene: The Prelude to Allied Intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution by: Kennan, George F.

The Decision to Intervene: The Prelude to Allied Intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution
by: Kennan, George F.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 513 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable story: the arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of Czechoslovak troops in central Siberia which threatened to overturn the Bolsheviks, the acquisitive ambitions of the Japanese in Manchuria, and finally the decision by President Wilson to intervene with American troops. Of this period Kennan writes, "Never, surely, in the history of American diplomacy, has so much been paid for so little." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387772

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The Diary of James C. Hagerty: Eisenhower in Mid-Course 1954 1955 by: Hagerty, James C/Robert Ferrell(Ed.)

The Diary of James C. Hagerty: Eisenhower in Mid-Course 1954 1955
by: Hagerty, James C/Robert Ferrell(Ed.)

Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an dust jacket with mild fading to spine. A valuable record of the first Presidency of the TV age. Hagerty was President Eisenhower's only press secretary. Clean copy.

Record # 378780

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The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutional Revolt and American Interventionby: Gleijeses, Piero

The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutional Revolt and American Intervention
by: Gleijeses, Piero

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 460 pages. Translated by Lawrence Lipson. A vivid historical narrative of the US military intervention in Central America. Uncommon. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396487

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The Dominican Interventionby: Lowenthal, Abraham F.

The Dominican Intervention
by: Lowenthal, Abraham F.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Preface, Introduction, Chapters on: The United States and the Dominican Republic to 1965: Background to Intervention; The Origins of the 1965 Dominican Crisis: Setting the Stage; The Decision to Intervene; Deploying the Troops; and Explaining the Dominican Intervention. Drawing on nearly 150 personal interviews with individuals in the Dominican Republic and the United States, on rare access to classified U.S. government documents, and on his own first-hand experiences during the crisis, Abraham F. Lowenthal rejects official, liberal, and radical accounts of the intervention. Instead, he explains it as the product of fundamental premises, of decision-making procedures, and of bureaucratic politics. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396900

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The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957by: Boyle, Peter G (Editor)

The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957
by: Boyle, Peter G (Editor)

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The personal correspondence between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Anthony Eden during the time they were simultaneously in office tells the dramatic story of a relationship that began with great promise but ended in division and estrangement. Many of the letters have only recently been declassified, making it possible for the first time to publish this unique historic collection in its entirety. Peter G. Boyle's introduction, annotations, and conclusion provide context for the letters--details about the personalities and careers of Eden and Eisenhower and major issues that influenced the Anglo-American relationship up to 1955, such as relations with the Soviet Union, nuclear concerns, colonialism, the Middle and Far East, economic issues, and intelligence matters. The letters themselves offer an intimate look into the special connection between Britain and the United States through the often eloquent words of their leaders. Clean copy.

Record # 378797

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The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time: 1912-1917 by: May, Henry Farnham

The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time: 1912-1917
by: May, Henry Farnham

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 431 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 387769

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The Enterprising Americans: A Business History of the United States (SIGNED COPY)by: John Chamberlain

The Enterprising Americans: A Business History of the United States (SIGNED COPY)
by: John Chamberlain

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, Revised Ed., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 282 pages. INSCRIBED BY CHAMBERLAIN on the front fly leaf. The Updated Edition of a title first published in the 1960s. Clean copy.

Record # 383727

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The Federalist, On the New Constitution; Written in 1788, By Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Madison - A New Edition (1817)by: Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay and James

The Federalist, On the New Constitution; Written in 1788, By Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Madison - A New Edition (1817)
by: Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay and James

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Benjamin Warner, 1st thus, 1817, Book: Good, Hardcover, 477 pages. Lithographed portrait frontispiece of Hamilton, two other plates with portraits of Madison and Jay, all portraits have tissue overlays. NOTE: This copy has a 1817 date on the title page, and a total of 477 pages while other books listed are dated 1818 with 504 pages. So this is the first single-volume edition minus the Appendix which was added to the 1818 edition. This is an ex-lib from Columbia University, with several stamps and thie bookplate on inside front cover. The book has been rebound in brown buckram with gilt title on spine and call numbers at bottom. The frontispiece plate has a crease through the center and all 3 plates have light foxing and an embossed stamp. Overall Good Plus with about 12 pages having some light pencil marks in margins. Binding is solid. More pictures available on request.

Record # 359829

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The Federalistby: Hamilton, Alexander; James Madison; John Jay

The Federalist
by: Hamilton, Alexander; James Madison; John Jay

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Two volumes bound as one. Brown calf with decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Facsimile reprint of the rare first edition. Includes the text of the United States Constitution. One of the undisputed landmarks in American political thought, The Federalist is a collected edition of essays by Hamilton. Madison and Jay that were published under the pseudonym "Publius" in several New York newspapers and journals in 1787 and 1788. Numbered copy #1778 with prior owners name typed on the publishers nameplate pasted to fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Record # 371574

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The Founding Of A Nation: A History of the American Revolution 1763-1776 by: Merrill Jensen

The Founding Of A Nation: A History of the American Revolution 1763-1776
by: Merrill Jensen

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 735 pages. light stamp to top edge. Exceptionally nice condition.

Record # 387764

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The G.I. Billby: Frydl, Kathleen J.

The G.I. Bill
by: Frydl, Kathleen J.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 379 pages. Scholars have argued about U.S. state development - in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity - for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates, but, as yet, no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill. Kathleen J. Frydl addresses the GI Bill in the first study based on systematic and comprehensive use of the records of the Veterans Administration. Frydl's research situates the Bill squarely in debates about institutional development, social policy and citizenship, and political legitimacy. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which the GI Bill advanced federal power and social policy, and, at the very same time, limited its extent and its effects. Clean copy.

Record # 378820

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The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidencyby: Smith, Kathryn

The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
by: Smith, Kathryn

Hardcover. NY, Touchstone, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?s administration, Marguerite "Missy" LeHand, FDR?s de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history until now. If you wanted access to Franklin, you had to get through Missy. She was one of his most trusted advisors, affording her a unique perspective on the president that no one else could claim, and she was deeply admired and respected by Eleanor and the Roosevelt children. Clean copy.

Record # 379559

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The Growth of Southern Civilization 1790-1860by: Clement Eaton

The Growth of Southern Civilization 1790-1860
by: Clement Eaton

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 357 pages. A scholarly study about life in the Old South. Clean copy.

Record # 397487

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The History of the New Deal 1933-1938by: Basil Rauch

The History of the New Deal 1933-1938
by: Basil Rauch

Hardcover. NY, Creative Age Press, 2nd pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 368 pages, red cloth, black border and gilt title on upper cover. Black label with gilt title on spine. Second printing copy of this detailed look at FDR's New Deal. Jacket art by C.B. Falls. Some tape repair to dj, name on inside front cover hidden by dj flap. Otherwise a clean copy,

Record # 387758

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The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrativeby: Wiiliam Starr Myers & Walter H. Newton

The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative
by: Wiiliam Starr Myers & Walter H. Newton

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 553 pages. "The complete, fully documented, and authoritative story of Herbert Hoover's four years in Washington." Written by Myers, a history scholar whose academic field was the GOP, and Newton, a former member of Congress who was for many years Hoover's personal secretary or roughly his Chief of Staff.This is about as good a defense of Hoover's actions just before and during the Great Depression as anything that has come out since. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387892

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The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution by: Ira D. Gruber

The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution
by: Ira D. Gruber

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 396 pages including index. By focusing on the Howe brothers, their political connections, their relationships with the British ministry, their attitude toward the Revolution, and their military activities in America, Gruber answers the frequently asked question of why the British failed to end the American Revolution in its early years. This book supersedes earlier studies because of its broader research and because it elucidates the complex personal interplay between Whitehall and its commanders. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397511

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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet Itby: Hinton Rowan Helper

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
by: Hinton Rowan Helper

Hardcover. NY, Burdick Brothers, reprint, 1857, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Ninth thousand. The Impending Crisis is often considered the only popular antislavery work by a southern author prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Helper (1829-1909)'s argument that "slavery was economically unsound" caused this work to be "officially banned in the South"; in the North, it "vied in popularity and influence with Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Howes). The book stoked fears among southern slaveholders that the "North would promote a class conflict among southern whites," and helped drive many towards secessionism. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Otherwise a clean copy in exceptionally nice condition.

Record # 397170

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The Kennan Diariesby: George F Kennan and Frank Costigliola

The Kennan Diaries
by: George F Kennan and Frank Costigliola

Hardcover. NY, WW Norton, 1wst, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A landmark collection, spanning ninety years of U.S. history, of the never-before-published diaries of George F. Kennan, America's most famous diplomat. Through it all, Kennan kept a diary. Spanning a staggering eighty-eight years and totaling over 8,000 pages, his journals brim with keen political and moral insights, philosophical ruminations, poetry, and vivid descriptions. In these pages, we see Kennan rambling through 1920s Europe as a college student, despairing for capitalism in the midst of the Depression, agonizing over the dilemmas of sex and marriage, becoming enchanted and then horrified by Soviet Russia, and developing into America's foremost Soviet analyst. But it is the second half of this near-century-long record--the blossoming of Kennan the gifted author, wise counselor, and biting critic of the Vietnam and Iraq wars--that showcases this remarkable man at the height of his singular analytic and expressive powers, before giving way, heartbreakingly, to some of his most human moments, as his energy, memory, and finally his ability to write fade away.

Record # 378778

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The Korean Decision: June 24-30 1950 by: Glenn D. Paige

The Korean Decision: June 24-30 1950
by: Glenn D. Paige

Hardcover. NY, The Free Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth binding with orange and gilt lettering on spine. 394 pages. Prof. Paige's reconstruction and analysis of the U.S. decision to resist Chinese aggression in Korea in 1950. Name on front fly leaf othewise clean. No dust jacket.

Record # 396903

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The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts by: Barnes, Thomas G. (Introduction)

The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts
by: Barnes, Thomas G. (Introduction)

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages. Quarto [30.5 cm] Maroon leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and decorative gilt stamped designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Marbled endsheets. Very good. There is a former owner's bookplate on the inside of front cover. The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts is one of the seminal documents in the development of the American legal system. It is believed to be the precursor to the General Laws of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Constitution. An influence on the U.S. Constitution, it contains provisions that were incorporated in the Bill of Rights.

Record # 371575

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The Lowering Clouds: The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes Vol. 3by: Harold L. Ickes

The Lowering Clouds: The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes Vol. 3
by: Harold L. Ickes

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, Book Club Ed., 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 695 pages. Journal/diary kept by cabinet member Ickes during the beginning of the outbreak of WWII. He wrote of quiet changes that shifted the United States and the American people from a position of neutrality bordering on isolationism to one of deep and committed involvement with the foreign world. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 387895

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The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak by: Louchheim, Katie

The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak
by: Louchheim, Katie

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket with sunning to spine, 368 pages. There has never been a phenomenon in American life to equal the invasion of Washington by the young New Dealers, hundreds of men and women still in their twenties and thirties, brilliant and dedicated, trained in the law, economics, public administration, technology, pouring into public life to do nothing less than restructure American society. They proposed new programs, drafted legislation, staffed the new agencies. They were active in the Administration, the Congress, the courts, the news media. They fanned out all over America to discover the facts, plan ways of easing the pain of their foundering country, and report on the results. Many of them went on to be rich, famous, and powerful, but their early experience in Washington was perhaps the most inspiriting of their lives. Katie Louchheim was among those who arrived in Washington in the 1930s, and being a keen writer as well as the wife of a member of the SEC, she had a front-row seat for the spectacle of social progress. Now, a half-century later, she has gathered reminiscences from her old friends and colleagues, interviewed others, and woven them together into a lively, informal word-picture of that exciting time. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397267

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The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846by: Charles Sellers

The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
by: Charles Sellers

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, Book Club, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 502 pages. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397514

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The Missiles of October: The Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by: Abel, Elie

The Missiles of October: The Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
by: Abel, Elie

Hardcover. London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 204 pages. "A valuable well-researched study of brinkmanship and of people under pressure presented fully for the first time." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396488

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The Missiles of October: The Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by: Abel, Elie

The Missiles of October: The Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
by: Abel, Elie

Hardcover. London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 204 pages. "A valuable well-researched study of brinkmanship and of people under pressure presented fully for the first time." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 459790

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The Moffat Papers; Selections From the Diplomatic Journals of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 1919-1943 by: Moffat, Jay Pierrepont; Nancy Harvison Hooker (Ed.)

The Moffat Papers; Selections From the Diplomatic Journals of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 1919-1943
by: Moffat, Jay Pierrepont; Nancy Harvison Hooker (Ed.)

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 408 pages, index. Black and white frontis photo portrait of author. "Moffat served for a protracted period and with notable distinction in the key position of what was then termed Chief of the Division of European affairs; he accompanied me as my chief assistant when FDR sent me to Europe as his personal representative in the spring of 1940; and I was in the closest touch with him during the time he served as American Minister to Canada, a service so tragically terminated by his untimely death in 1943. I know of no man who came up through the ranks of the Foreign Service with whose work I am personally familiar who impressed me as having in his latter years greater knowledge, a wiser and more balanced judgement, or a greater devotion to the highest interests of this country." - Sumner Welles.

Record # 397266

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The New Nationalismby: Theodore Roosevelt /Introduction by Ernest Hamlin Abbott

The New Nationalism
by: Theodore Roosevelt /Introduction by Ernest Hamlin Abbott

Hardcover. NY, The Outlook Company, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright red cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 268 pages. Collects speeches made by Roosevelt in August and September 1910 on his tour of the United States, in which he espoused his political platform of social welfare and opposition to corporate political power. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, sharp copy.

Record # 396906

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The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA by: Hersh, Burton

The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA
by: Hersh, Burton

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1992, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A group biography of the founders and leaders of the CIA shows how the agency became a secret government that goes against the American constitutional system and fosters extra-legal scandals. Hers has performed a prodigious job of research, conducting more than 100 interviews and burrowing through mounds of archives and declassified documents. His narrative runs from the 1919 Versailles conference, where the young Dulles brothers observed uncle Robert Lansing, Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state, to the Bay of Pigs operation and the frustrating retirement years of its principals. Six men occupy the foreground here: sanctimonious John Foster Dulles and his hedonistic younger brother Allen, who before their heyday as Eisenhower cold warriors were well-heeled corporate lawyers who ran interference for German firms instrumental in the Nazis' prewar rearmament; legendary OSS chief ``Wild Bill'' Donovan; Frank Wisner, ultimately CIA operations chief; New Deal diplomat William C. Bullitt; and Carmel Offie, the dandyish assistant to Bullitt and Wisner and a master of diplomatic sleight-of-hand. Hersh hopes to show how these latter-day Wilsonian ``global salvationists,'' aching to roll back the Communist menace, forged an intelligence apparatus intoxicated with the black arts of covert activities- -loosely supervised, often amateurish, sometimes harebrained. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, like new.

Record # 383228

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The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams by: Pauline Maier

The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams
by: Pauline Maier

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee, and Charles Carroll. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had their greatest influence in the years between 1769 and 1776, and all of them saw their power transferred after the war to the men we know as "the Founding Fathers." In telling the stories of these men, Maier shows how the American Revolution was less a collective movement than a commitment to an ideal of a republic, which different people interpreted differently. She describes not just why Americans made the Revolution, but what the Revolution did to them.

Record # 396288

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The Panama Canal Controversy: US. Diplomacy and Defense Interests by: Ryan, Paul B.

The Panama Canal Controversy: US. Diplomacy and Defense Interests
by: Ryan, Paul B.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages. History, politics, economics, and diplomacy surrounding the Panama Canal controversy in the 1970s. Illustrations., maps, appendix, bibliographic note, index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396622

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The Papers of John C. Calhoun:A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Vol. XXVIII)by: John C. Calhoun

The Papers of John C. Calhoun:A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Vol. XXVIII)
by: John C. Calhoun

Hardcover. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth wth gilt lettering on spine, gilt silhouette of Calhoun on cover. 244 pages with index. The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Volume XXVIII is the final volume in a distinguished documentary edition, the first volume of which was published more than fifty years ago. While identical to others in the series in terms of typeface, binding, and letterpress printing, this volume does not contain any of John C. Calhoun's personal papers, rather it features Calhoun's only formal, scholarly writings on political science and political philosophy. A Disquisition on Government is an examination of the first principles of political science, much in the model of Aristotle's Politics or Baron Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. It examines basic principles of politics, including concepts of sovereignty and personal liberty and the relationships between states and nations. A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States is a focused study of American political thought and constitutional history since the ratification of the Constitution. It pays particular attention to antifederalist views of the Constitution, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of the 1790s, and the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Clean copy.

Record # 386466

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The Politicos 1865-1896 A History of the Parties and the Great Party leaders Who Dominated American Politics During the Turbulent Years of the Robber Barons by: Josep

The Politicos 1865-1896 A History of the Parties and the Great Party leaders Who Dominated American Politics During the Turbulent Years of the Robber Barons
by: Josep

Softcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 760 pages. This is a frank and insightful analysis of the political and economic influences in the United States during the Reconstruction Era, covering the years immediately after the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln, and ending shortly before the Spanish-American War. Originally published in 1938. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396285

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The Politics of Provincialism: The Democratic Party in Transition 1918-1932 by: David Burner

The Politics of Provincialism: The Democratic Party in Transition 1918-1932
by: David Burner

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. 293 pages plus index. A survey of the dramatic evolution of the Democratic Party that led to the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 375181

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