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Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs by: Young, Marguerite

Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
by: Young, Marguerite

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 599 pages. Don't pick up this fascinating, deeply eccentric book expecting to find a conventional biography of Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926). The fiery American labor leader who founded the Socialist Party of America is not so much the subject as the central figure in a group portrait of utopian dreamers--including Karl Marx, Brigham Young, abolitionist Wendell Phillips, poet James Whitcomb Riley, and detective-agency founder Allan Pinkerton--from the time of the French Revolution through the dawn of the 20th century. Author Marguerite Young is a legendary Greenwich Village bohemian who died in 1995. She devoted the last 25 years of her life to this volume, which was intended as a recapitulation of the issues that had engaged Debs - justice for workers, peace for everyone, racial equality - and continued to galvanize America in the 1960s and beyond. Young doesn't provide a lot of straight factual information about Debs's life, but takes instead a snapshot of his soul as it was formed by reading and experience. The narrative closes (sort of) with the national railroad strike of 1877, a bitter defeat for labor that turned railroad worker and union activist Debs toward greater radicalism. Though not a work for the traditionally minded, Young's genre-bending book will thrill students of American social and socialist history. Clean copy.

Record # 396692

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Hayes: The Diary of a President 1875-1881-Covering the Disputed Election, the End of Reconstruction, and the Beginning of Civil Service by: Hayes, Rutherford / Willia

Hayes: The Diary of a President 1875-1881-Covering the Disputed Election, the End of Reconstruction, and the Beginning of Civil Service
by: Hayes, Rutherford / Willia

Hardcover. NY, David Mckay, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 329 pages. "This volume puts together as a continuous narrative the diary of Rutherford B. Hayes from March, 1875 to March 1881 - covering his nomination as the Republican candidate, the campaign of 1876, the disputed election and its compromise, and his Presidency. It is based on a typed copy of the original manuscript supplied by The Rutherford B. Hayes Library of Fremont, Ohio, and its director, Watt P. Marchman. Hayes was an inveterate diary keeper from his youth to his old age. In this record of the presidential years the diary is reproduced virtually in facsimile form. All misspellings, errors in punctuation, and other eccentricities have been retained, as have the deletions and gaps in the original copy." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387768

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Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asiaby: Herzstein, Robert E.

Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia
by: Herzstein, Robert E.

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 346 pages, b&w photographs. This book shows how Henry Robinson Luce used his famous magazines to advance his interventionist agenda in Cold War China, Korea, Japan, and above all, Vietnam. This is the first balanced work on Luce and his influence, using hitherto undiscovered or inaccessible sources. Luce saw the American Century as the heir to the fading British Empire; he failed to see the hubris and cultural blindness that would lead to disaster in Vietnam - a disaster for which his magazines paved the way. Remainder mark on top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 397819

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Henry Ward Beecher The Shakespeare of the Pulpitby: John Henry Barrows

Henry Ward Beecher The Shakespeare of the Pulpit
by: John Henry Barrows

Hardcover. NY, Funk & Wagnalls , 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth. b&w frontis. portrait, 541 page biography, works of the great nineteenth century American preacher, lecturer, orator, and journalist. From the American Reformers Series. Spine is sunned, gilt lettering on the cover. Ex-lib with endpapers marked, stamped. Interior clean.

Record # 396501

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How We Drafted Adlai Stevenson by: Johnson, Walter

How We Drafted Adlai Stevenson
by: Johnson, Walter

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 172 pages plus index. "The exciting story of the Democratic Presidential Convention of 1952; a record of what occurred, how it occurred, and why; Told by a leader of the draft movement, who is also a prominent American historian." Clean copy.

Record # 383167

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Ideological Origins of the American Revolutionby: Bernard Bailyn

Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by: Bernard Bailyn

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 335 pages. Awarded both the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes, Bailyn's work is considered one of the most influential studies of the American Revolution published during the 20th century and was hailed at its first appearance as "the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Mild discoloration to dj spine.

Record # 387810

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Ike's Letters to a Friend 1941-1958by: Griffith, Robert W. [Editor]

Ike's Letters to a Friend 1941-1958
by: Griffith, Robert W. [Editor]

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 211 pages. Small in notations to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 378839

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Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam by: George McT. Kahin

Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam
by: George McT. Kahin

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 550 pages. A fascinating historical study using newly-declassified documents from the time the British were in Indochina through the end of the war. A detailed, specific history of the debacle. Clean copy.

Record # 378013

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Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam Warby: Brian VanDeMark

Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
by: Brian VanDeMark

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 268 pages. Focusing mainly on the nine months from November 1964 to July 1965 VanDeMark describes how the Johnson administration progressed along a seemingly inevitable path to double the number of ground troops in Vietnam, polarize the American people, and destroy Johnson's presidency in the short term. Mining a wealth of recently opened material at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and elsewhere, Brian VanDeMark vividly depicts the painful unfolding of a national tragedy. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396485

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Jacksonian Aristocracy; Class and Democracy in New York, 1830-1860 by: Miller, Douglas T.

Jacksonian Aristocracy; Class and Democracy in New York, 1830-1860
by: Miller, Douglas T.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 228 pages. "The period from Andrew Jackson's presidency to the Civil War has traditionally been considered the age of democracy triumphant in the United States. This book sharply contradicts that assumption, contending that while democracy advanced substantially in the political sense, social and economic distinctions became, if anything, more marked. Powerful forces, especially in the economic field, were working toward the stratification of society." Name on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396479

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James Madison: The Founding Fatherby: Rutland, Robert A.

James Madison: The Founding Father
by: Rutland, Robert A.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, Book Club Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Index, notes, illustrations. A detailed biography of the Virginian who served in the Continental Congress, wrote the Federalist Papers, helped write the Constitution and Bill of Rights, was Majority Leader in Congress, and was the fourth president of the US. Clean copy.

Record # 397470

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John Marshall and Alexander Hamilton: Architects of the American Constitution by: Konefsky, Samuel J.

John Marshall and Alexander Hamilton: Architects of the American Constitution
by: Konefsky, Samuel J.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 274 pages, clean copy.

Record # 397541

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John Quincy Adams: Old Man Eloquent by: Bennett Champ Clark

John Quincy Adams: Old Man Eloquent
by: Bennett Champ Clark

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt design and lettering, 437 pages. Includes [9] leaves of plates, illustrations, portraits, bibliographical references, and index. A fine biography on America's sixth President, and the second Adams to hold that office. Clark gives equal attention to Adams' early diplomatic career, his time in State politics, in the U.S. Senate, as Secretary of State, and of his extensive career as an elder-statesman after his Presidency. Spine gilt faded, corners worn, name on front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Record # 397504

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Kennan: A Life Between Worlds by: Costigliola, Frank

Kennan: A Life Between Worlds
by: Costigliola, Frank

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 624 pages, black and white illustrations. The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy and one of its most complex. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's authoritative biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Clean copy.

Record # 387910

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Kissinger Transcripts, The: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing & Moscowby: Burr, William (Ed.)

Kissinger Transcripts, The: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing & Moscow
by: Burr, William (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, The New Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 515 pages. Hardcover. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. In nice shape, Dust jacket unclipped, has just a touch of age yellow. Edges show a little soil (shelfwear). Binding very tight, clean inside. Very good condition.

Record # 31145

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League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Millikenby: Bancroft, George and James Milliken

League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Milliken
by: Bancroft, George and James Milliken

Softcover. Philadelphia, William S. & Alfred Martien, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page booklet, blue wrappers. Two black lines on front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 359793

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Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throatby: Holland, Max

Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat
by: Holland, Max

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Through the shadowy persona of Deep Throat, FBI official Mark Felt became as famous as the Watergate scandal his leaks helped uncover. Best known through Hal Holbrook's portrayal in the film version of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men, Felt was regarded for decades as a conscientious but highly secretive whistleblower who shunned the limelight. Yet even after he finally revealed his identity in 2005, questions about his true motivations persisted. Max Holland has found the missing piece of that Deep Throat puzzle--one that's been hidden in plain sight all along. He reveals for the first time in detail what truly motivated the FBI's number-two executive to become the most fabled secret source in American history. In the process, he directly challenges Felt's own explanations while also demolishing the legend fostered by Woodward and Bernstein's bestselling account. Clean copy.

Record # 378841

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Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams (2 Volumes)by: Adams, Abigail and Charles Francis Ad

Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams (2 Volumes)
by: Adams, Abigail and Charles Francis Ad

Hardcover. Boston, Charles Little and James Brown, 2nd Ed., 1840, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes (199 and 278 pages) bound in brown polished calf with raised bands and gilt design on spine, covers with gilt rules. Minor wear to spine edges. Vol. 1 with engraved portrait frontispiece, Vol. 2 with facsimile of Abigail's handwriting. Library bookplate on first blank page (verso of front fly leaf). Some foxing to preliminary pages, otherwise a clean, bright set.

Record # 404101

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Liberalism and Its Discontentsby: Alan Brinkley

Liberalism and Its Discontents
by: Alan Brinkley

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast? In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, a distinguished historian offers an eloquent account of postwar liberalism, where it came from, where it has gone, and why. The book supplies a crucial chapter in the history of twentieth-century American politics as well as a valuable and clear perspective on the state of our nation's politics today. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 378824

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Liberty and Authority: Early American Political Ideology, 1689-1763 by: Leder, Lawrence H.

Liberty and Authority: Early American Political Ideology, 1689-1763
by: Leder, Lawrence H.

Hardcover. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 167 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397485

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Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adamsby: Sweard, William H.

Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams
by: Sweard, William H.

Hardcover. Auburn, Derby, Miller and Company, 1st, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 404 pages, with tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Adams and gilt title on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper and fly leaf, spine edge and corner wear, light foxing on some pages. Overall, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853905

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Lord Lothian and Anglo-American Relations, 1900-1940 by: Priscilla Roberts (Ed.)

Lord Lothian and Anglo-American Relations, 1900-1940
by: Priscilla Roberts (Ed.)

Hardcover. Netherlands, Dordrecht/Republic of Letters, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated glossy boards, 281 pages. For the first four decades of the twentieth century Philip Kerr, the Eleventh Marquess of Lothian, hovered on the fringes of power in Britain. As a commentator on public affairs, private secretary to Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George, secretary to the Rhodes Trust, Liberal peer, and ambassador to the United States at the beginning of World War II, Lothian's greatest interest was in preserving and strengthening the British Empire and building close bonds with the United States. This international collection of essays by seven scholars explores Lothian's impact on Anglo-American relations and his role, behind the scenes and as a government official, in forging what would eventually become known as the "special relationship." Clean copy.

Record # 378814

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Martin van Buren and the American Political System by: Cole, Donald B.

Martin van Buren and the American Political System
by: Cole, Donald B.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 477 pages. INSCRIBED BY COLE on the title page. Donald Cole analyzes the political skills that brought Van Buren the nickname "Little Magician," describing how he built the Albany Regency (which became a model for political party machines) and how he created the Democratic party of Andrew Jackson. Light fading to dj spine, clean copy.

Record # 397306

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Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Partyby: Remini, Robert V.

Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party
by: Remini, Robert V.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 3rd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.271 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397176

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Most Uncommon Jacksonians: The Radical Leaders of the Early Labor Movement by: Edward Pessen

Most Uncommon Jacksonians: The Radical Leaders of the Early Labor Movement
by: Edward Pessen

Hardcover. Albany NY, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and tanned dust jacket, 208 pages with index. This book attempts to throw new light on that early labor movement, mainly by answering the questions that modern critics have raised concerning its authenticity, but the major concern of the volume is with the labor leaders' views regarding American society. If these were uncommon labor leaders, they were also uncommon Jacksonians. At a time when the mass of Americans seemed to be engaged in a frenzied contest for material gain, and increasingly optimistic about their chances, the labor leaders stood apart both from the pursuit of the main chance and from its moralistic critics. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397476

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New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620??"1860 by: McWilliams, John

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620??"1860
by: McWilliams, John

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 366 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. From the dust jacket back cover: "John McWilliams winnows through the history and myth of New England to recover the past on its own terms while simultaneously tracing its later refractions. The combination, across nine pivotal events in colonial and early republican history, gives us the changing face of New England through as never before." Clean copy.

Record # 386684

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Nine Letters on the Subject of Aaron Burr's Political Defection with an Appendixby: Cheetham, James

Nine Letters on the Subject of Aaron Burr's Political Defection with an Appendix
by: Cheetham, James

Softcover. New York, Denniston and Cheetham, 1803, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages, original softcover pamphlet here bound in archival cardboard folder with cloth spine minus outer wrappers. Some small ink numbers on title page, small stickers on spine and front of folder. Gutter cracked between pages 64 and 65, otherwise very good. No foxing.

Record # 404100

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Nine Old Men, Theby: Pearson, Drew and Robert S. Allen

Nine Old Men, The
by: Pearson, Drew and Robert S. Allen

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt-stamped spine, 325 pages. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover. Dust jacket worn, chipped, spine faded. Internally clean.

Record # 412212

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Northern Protest: Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement (SIGNED COPY)by: Ralph Jr., James R.

Northern Protest: Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement (SIGNED COPY)
by: Ralph Jr., James R.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 338 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. After the triumphs of Montgomery and Selma, Martin Luther King, Jr., rallied his forces and headed north. The law was on his side, the nation seemed to be behind him, the crusade for civil rights was rapidly gathering momentum--and then, in Chicago, heartland of America, the movement stalled. What happened? This book is the first to give us the full story--a vivid account of how the Chicago Freedom Movement of 1965-1967 attempted to combat northern segregation. Northern Protest captures this new kind of campaign for civil rights at a fateful turning point, with effects that pulse through the nation's race relations to the day. James Ralph has written the fullest and most perceptive account yet to appear of the 1966 civil-rights campaign in Chicago, a crucial event in the history of the movement. Clean copy.

Record # 381642

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Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson Hamilton Burr by: Daniels, Jonathan

Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson Hamilton Burr
by: Daniels, Jonathan

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 445 pages. Story of the struggle among Jefferson, Hamilton and Burr for power and influence during the early days of the nation. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397540

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Origins of the New South: 1877-1913 by: Vann Woodward, C.

Origins of the New South: 1877-1913
by: Vann Woodward, C.

Softcover. Louisiana State University, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 654 pages with index. After more than half a century, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South. Historian Sheldon Hackney recently summed it up this way: "The pyramid still stands. Origins of the New South has survived relatively untarnished through twenty years of productive scholarship, including the eras of consensus and of the new radicalism. . . . Woodward recognizes both the likelihood of failure and the necessity of struggle. It is this profound ambiguity which makes his work so interesting. Like the myth of Sisyphus, Origins of the New South still speaks to our condition." Light rubbing to wrappers, clean copy.

Record # 386059

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Pax Americanaby: Ronald Steel

Pax Americana
by: Ronald Steel

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 371 pages. After WW II the US acquired an empire - one that embraces much of the world in a network of military pacts, economic ties, and political commitments. Steel describes how this empire originated, how it grew, and why is has been incapable of defending America's real interests, or of spreading her humanitarian ideals to other nations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396610

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Political Discussions: Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular 1856-1886 by: James G. Blaine

Political Discussions: Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular 1856-1886
by: James G. Blaine

Hardcover. Norwich CT, The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown buckram covers with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait, 525 pages. James Gillespie Blaine (1830 -1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881 He twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889-1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1876 and 1880 before being nominated in 1884 In the general election, he was narrowly defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland. The original edition, here nicely rebound, previous owner's signature otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396541

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Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981 (SIGNED COPY)by: Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Ltd Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Burgundy cloth, gilt spine and front facsimile signature; signed by author in black ink to limitation page, copy #310/500; 2 sections of black & white photographs; tan paper covered slipcase. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966-1968 and held the position of United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Clean, bight copy.

Record # 387775

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Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by: Davis, David Brion

Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
by: Davis, David Brion

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, rubbed dust jacket, 576 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396505

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Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Ageby: Nichols, Christopher McKnight

Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age
by: Nichols, Christopher McKnight

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tracing the history of isolationist and internationalist ideas from the 1890s through the 1930s, Nichols reveals unexpected connections among individuals and groups from across the political spectrum who developed new visions for America's place in the world. From Henry Cabot Lodge and William James to W. E. B. Du Bois and Jane Addams to Randolph Bourne, William Borah, and Emily Balch, Nichols shows how reformers, thinkers, and politicians confronted the challenges of modern society--and then grappled with urgent pressures to balance domestic priorities and foreign commitments.

Record # 378782

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Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962by: Joseph E. Slater

Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962
by: Joseph E. Slater

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 260 pages. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.

Record # 396318

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Radicals and Visionaries: A History of Dissent in New Jerseyby: Schonbach, Morris

Radicals and Visionaries: A History of Dissent in New Jersey
by: Schonbach, Morris

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 125 pages, endpapers map, 'The New Jersey Historical Series, Volume 12'. A look at radicalism from colonial days forward. Mild soil to dust jacket.

Record # 387848

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Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar Americaby: Stephen E. Kercher

Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America
by: Stephen E. Kercher

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright, unclipped dust jacket. 575 pages, b&w illustrations. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on an impressive range of comedy--not just standup comedians of the day but also satirical publications like MAD magazine, improvisational theater groups such as Second City, the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, and TV shows like That Was the Week That Was--Kercher reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember. His history of these comedic luminaries shows that for a sizeable audience of educated, middle-class Americans who shared such liberal views, the period's satire was a crucial mode of cultural dissent. For such individuals, satire was a vehicle through which concerns over the suppression of civil liberties, Cold War foreign policies, blind social conformity, and our heated racial crisis could be productively addressed. Clean copy.

Record # 381692

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Roosevelt and Wilson: A Comparative Study by: D. H. Elletson

Roosevelt and Wilson: A Comparative Study
by: D. H. Elletson

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 236 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397447

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Roosevelt's Foreign Policy 1933-1941: Unedited Speeches and Messages by: Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt's Foreign Policy 1933-1941: Unedited Speeches and Messages
by: Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Hardcover. NY, Wilfred Funk, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 634 pages, mild shelf wear. An incredible chronologically arranged, unedited and indexed collection of FDR's Foreign Policy, National Defense Policy, Public Letters & Papers, Messages to Congress, Executive Orders, Proclamations, Fireside Chats & Public Addresses. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 387771

Price: $28.00 
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Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P Newton by: Bobby Seale

Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P Newton
by: Bobby Seale

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 429 pages. Brown cloth with embossed red image of Seale gagged and bound in the courtroom during the Chicago 8 Trial. A gorgeous copy of Bobby Seale's narration of the Black Panther Party's origins and his relationship with Huey P Newton. Written as Seale was on trial as part of the Panther 14 in New Haven and during the Chicago 8/7 Conspiracy trial. Dust jacket is bright with original $6.95 price intact and unclipped. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Clean copy.

Record # 398047

Price: $200.00 
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Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopherby: Coffin, Tristram

Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher
by: Coffin, Tristram

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 378 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgwear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 403640

Price: $12.00 
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Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954 by: Gleijeses, Piero

Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954
by: Gleijeses, Piero

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages, b&w illustrations. The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396385

Price: $20.00 
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Six Crises (SIGNED COPY)by: Nixon, Richard M.

Six Crises (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nixon, Richard M.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 460 pages, gray cloth covers. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. SIGNED BY NIXON on tipped-in page. Xerox of dealer's letter laid in on the authenticity of Nixon's autograph. (He suggests it's authentic).

Record # 353614

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Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold Warby: Michael Dobbs

Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War
by: Michael Dobbs

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 418 pages, b&w illustrations. From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace--but instead set the stage for a forty-four-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the twentieth century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower.

Record # 381227

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Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia by: McColley, Robert

Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
by: McColley, Robert

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with two small holes to front cover, 227 pages with index. "Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine the domestic and foreign policy of the "agrarian" party in our early history. For the agrarian politics of Jefferson, while possibly benefiting the small freeholder, very closely served the interests of the plantation system, at least as the planters conceived their interests." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397182

Price: $18.00 
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Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820 by: Robinson, Donald

Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820
by: Robinson, Donald

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 576 pages. Clean copy

Record # 398084

Price: $25.00 
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SPANISH-AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS PRECEDING THE WAR OF 1898 by: Horace Edgar Flack

SPANISH-AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS PRECEDING THE WAR OF 1898
by: Horace Edgar Flack

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 95 pages. Ex-lib with residue, stamping to endpapers. Interior clean, probably a rebound softcover published in 1906.

Record # 387759

Price: $40.00 
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Speeches of Adlai Stevensonby: Steinbeck, John

Speeches of Adlai Stevenson
by: Steinbeck, John

Paperback. NY, Random House, 1st wraps, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pgs. A collection of political speeches with a four page intro by Steinbeck. Fading to color on wraps with some shallow creases.

Record # 101136

Price: $12.00 
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