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(Biography titles are arranged by subject)
Sketches From A Life
Kennan, George F.
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Pantheon 1989 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge/corner wear and a small, closed tear of a flap; in a clear protective cover. He was in Berlin and Hamburg as the Nazis rose to power; in Prague at the time of the Nazi-Soviet pact. He was the first American diplomat to enter Paris during the Nazi occupation. Here are his descriptions of travels through Russia at the height of the Stalinist purges - and the eerie atmosphere in the last month's of the dictator's life. RUSSIA,SOVIET UNION,NUCLEAR ARMS,DIPLOMACY,STATE DEPARTMENT,GOVERNMENT, POLITICS,U.S.HISTORY,NAZIS,NAZI GERMANY,WORLD WAR II,JOSEPH STALIN, TWENTIETH CENTURY,EUROPEAN HISTORY,EUROPE Book #2644 |
US$14.50 |
The Kennedy Curse: Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years
Klein, Edward
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St. Martin's Sixth Printing
2003 ISBN: 031231292X New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "This book is a detective story. It is an investigation of one of the greatest mysteries of our time - the Kennedy Curse. It explores the underlying pattern that governs the curse and examines the many influences - historical, psychological and genetic - that have shaped the Kennedys' character and led to their self-defeating behavior. Illustrated. BIOLOGY,POLITICIANS,AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,JFK,RFK,TEDDY KENNEDY Book #6749 |
US$12.00 |
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power
Wills, Garry
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Little, Brown First Edition
1982 ISBN: 0316943851 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Garry Wills, both historian and journalist, exercises both crafts in turn. Sometimes gossipy, sometimes philosophical, he traces the lines of power in the Kenndy's lives." KENNEDYS,GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,JOHN KENNEDY,ROBERT KENNEDY,TED KENNEDY Book #6429 |
US$14.00 |
A Question of Character: A Life of John Kennedy
Reeves, Thomas C.
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Macmillan First Printing
1991 ISBN: 0029259657 Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Small area of writing on front paste-down - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Respected historian and biographer, Thomas C. Reeves, elucidates the discrepancies between Kennedy's public life and private behavior. AMERICAN PRESIDENTS,AMERICAN HISTORY,JFK,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #6270 |
US$10.50 |
RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
Heyman, C. David
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Dutton First Edition
1998 ISBN: New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "The first full-scale biography of this complex and controversial Kennedy, RFK masterfully illuminates the man, his family, and an unforgettable chapter in our national history." Illustrated. GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,WASHINGTON,ATTORNEY GENERAL,JFK,JOHN KENNEDY,KENNEDYS,ASSASSINATION Book #3440 |
US$18.50 |
In Love with the Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy
Steel, Ronald
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Simon & Schuster First
Edition 2000 ISBN: New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. An examination of "The Bobby Myth" by the award-winning author and USC professor of international relations. ROBERT F. KENNEDY,RFK,KENNEDYS,JOHN KENNEDY,JFK,U.S.HISTORY,AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN SOCIETY,WASHINGTON,GOVERNMENT,POLITICS Book #3976 |
US$13.25 |
King Remembered
Schulke, Flip and Penelope O. McPhee
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W.W. Norton Book Club Edition
1986 ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book has a tiny top edge spot and very slight corner wear. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with three small, closed tears; in a clear protective cover. "This book is a biography, a photo essay, and a tribute to one of the most important leaders of our time... Here is the most comprehensive single collection of still photographs of King's life and times." MARTIN LUTHER KING,MLK,CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT,RACISM,SEGREGATION, SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Book #2243 |
US$16.00 |
Lincoln at Home: Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Family Life
Donald, David Herbert
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Simon & Schuster First
Edition 2000 ISBN: New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Full cloth binding with gilt lettering and marbleized endpapers. Top edge stained crimson. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian and Lincoln Biographer. Lincoln at Home is an intimate and rare glimpse of the president as husband and father. U.S.HISTORY,AMERICAN HISTORY,U.S.PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,WHITE HOUSE,CIVIL WAR,ABRAHAM LINCOLN Book #3814 |
US$17.50 |
Mao Tse-Tung
Payne, Robert
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Weybright and Talley
1969 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Robert Payne retraces Mao's course from an obscure village in Hunan to domination over some seven hundred million Chinese. He makes it clear that the Communist revolution in China would have been as unlikely without Mao as the Russian revolution without Lenin. Illustrated with Maps and Photos. CHINA,CHINESE COMMUNISM,LONG MARCH,TWENTIETH CENTURY,KUOMINTANG,CULTURAL REVOLUTION Book #4399 |
US$17.50 |
Arrogant Aussie: The Rupert Murdoch Story
Leapman, Michael
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Lyle Stuart First Thus
1985 ISBN: 0818403705 Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with very slight edge wear; in a clear protective cover. Originally published as Barefaced Cheek. Illustrated. AUSTRALIA,PUBLISHING,NEWSPAPERS Book #5638 |
US$12.00 |
The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years 1946-1952
Gellman, Irwin F.
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The Free Press/Simon &
Schuster First Edition 1999 ISBN: New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Here is the rise of Richard Nixon, from nobody to vice president, that makes all previous biographies obsolete...All told, Gellman scoured millions of pages in dozens of collections, the vast majority of which have never been used before." Illustrated. BIOGRAPHY,U.S.PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,WASHINGTON,CONGRESS,POLITICAL CAMPAIGNES,U.S.HISTORY, CALIFORNIA POLITICS,CONSERVATISM,REPUBLICANS Book #3692 |
US$14.75 |
Richard Milhouse Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
Morris, Roger
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Henry Holt First Edition
1990 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Drawn from primary sources and written with an unerring ear and eye for significant detail, Roger Morris's image-shattering narrative enables today's reader to understand the developing character of our thirty-seventh President." Illustrated. U.S.PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,POLITICS,GOVERNMENT,CALIFORNIA,WASHINGTON,WHITE HOUSE Book #2045 |
US$21.50 |
Under Fire: An American Story
North, Oliver L. with William Novak
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HarperCollins Fifth Printing
1991 ISBN: 0060183349 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Oliver North tells the whole story of his life including his role in the “Iran-contra” controversy. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES,COUNTERTERRORISM,WASHINGTON,WHITE HOUSE, RONALD REAGAN,MARINES Book #7101 |
US$14.00 |
James Edward Oglethorpe
Blackburn, Joyce
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Mockingbird 1994
ISBN: 0891769951 Near Fine Trade Paperback. Mild fore-edge spotting - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "...James Edward Oglethorpe, the colorful Englishman who founded the thirteenth colony, was a man who, even today, would be considered progressive beyond his time." ___from the Foreward by Eugenia Price AMERICAN HISTORY,COLONIAL AMERICA,GEORGIA,BRITISH HISTORY,PARLIAMENT,EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Book #7255 |
US$8.00 |
Evita
Fraser, Nicholas & Marysa Navarro
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W.W. Norton 1996
ISBN: 0393315754 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. “The story begins in a dusty village in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Peron being hidden away by nervous politicians fearing revolution.” Illustrated. ARGENTINA,SOUTH AMERICA,EVA PERON,JUAN PERON,POLITICS,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #6893,6894 |
US$9.00 |
Eva Peron
Ortiz, Alicia Dujovne
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St. Martin's Griffin
1997 ISBN: 0312168276 Near Fine Trade Paperback. Slight corner creasing of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Ortiz has reconstructed Peron's life from her impoverished upbringing to her turbulent marriage and rise to political icon as the wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron. The pentrating biography of one of the most captivating figures of the twentieth century. Illustrated. ARGENTINA,SOUTH AMERICA,EVITA,JUAN PERON,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #6284 |
US$7.95 |
Fire & Water: A Life of Peter the Great
De Jonge, Alex
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Coward, McCann &
Geoghegan First American Edition 1980 ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book has very slight edge spotting. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A life of the larger-than-life Czar of the Russias by a Russian-speaking Oxford Professor. Illustrated. RUSSIA,RUSSIAN HISTORY,EUROPEAN HISTORY,SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY,CZARS Book #3176 |
US$14.00 |
My American Journey
Colin Powell with Joseph E. Persico
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Random House First Edition
1995 ISBN: 0679432965 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The life story of a young boy from the Bronx who grew up to live the American dream. Illustrated. GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,U.S.ARMY,SECRETARIES OF STATE,GENERALS,WASHINGTON Book #6299 |
US$14.00 |
Mr. Sam: A Biography of Samuel T. Rayburn,Speaker of the House
Dorough, C. Dwight
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Random House First Edition
1962 ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Decorative cloth binding; top edge stained red. Dustjacket price-clipped with edge wear and closed tears; in a clear protective cover. Illustrated. CONGRESS,HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,WASHINGTON Book #1395 |
US$25.00 |
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan
Reagan, Nancy with William Novak
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Random House First Edition
1989 ISBN: 0394563689 Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. A trace of faint edge spotting - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The memoirs of one of the most fascinating, controversial, and enigmatic first ladies in American history. Illustrated. FIRST LADIES,RONALD REAGAN,AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE Book #6528 |
US$12.00 |
Ronnie and Nancy: A Very Special Love Story
Adler, Bill
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Crown First Edition
1985 ISBN: 0517558459 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. Book has very slight wear. DJ with a small, closed tear; in a clear protective cover. "...tells in great detail how the Reagans withstood the tumult of the 1960s and early 1970s - and life in the public eye - to raise extraordinary children and grow even closer as a couple." Illustrated. U. S. PRESIDENCY,RONALD REAGAN,PRESIDENT REAGAN,NANCY REAGAN,WHITE HOUSE,GOVERNMENT, POLITICS,WASHINGTON,THE GIPPER Book #2474 |
US$13.00 |
The Long Goodbye
Davis, Patti
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Alfred A. Knopf First Edition
1997 ISBN: 0679450920 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. RONALD REAGAN,U.S. PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,ALZHEIMERS DISEASE,DEMENTIA,GIPPER Book #7023 |
US$12.00 |
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader
D’Souza, Dinesh
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Free Press First Edition 1997
ISBN: 0684844281 Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Boards slightly warped - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. D’Souza portrays the private side of Reagan - the man behind the mask - and reveals the moral sources of his vision and leadership. AMERICAN HISTORY,U.S. PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,GIPPER,GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #7609 |
US$10.00 |
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Morris, Edmund
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Random House First Edition
1999 ISBN: Very Good Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book has very slight edge spotting and small spots on a few pages. It is tight and bright. DJ with slight edge wear; in a clear protective cover. "This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting president - yet written with complete interpretive freedom - is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship." U.S.PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENT REAGAN,THE GIPPER Book #2164 |
US$14.50 |
Ronald Reagan: Portrait of an American Hero
Orr, Tamra B.
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Publications International First
Edition 2003 ISBN: 0785397345 New Unread Tall Hardcover in no dustjacket as issued. Laminated pictorial binding. Unmarked. Foreword by former aide to Ronald Reagan, Peter Hannaford. Very well illustrated. AMERICAN HISTORY,U.S.PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,TWENTIETH CENTURY,GIPPER Book #7505 |
US$10.00 |
