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            Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House
               Aldrich, Gary
 Regnery Fifth Printing 1996   ISBN: 0895264544
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 "Unlimited Access is Aldrich's electrifying expose' of a presidential administration with a great deal to hide -
 and willing to put America at risk to keep it hidden."
                     
 AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,BILL CLINTON,HILLARY CLINTON,
 WHITE HOUSE,FBI       Book #6537
 
US$9.00
    


            Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
               Anonymous
 Random House 1996   ISBN: 0679448594
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 "This story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama, and it paints a picture of the
 political state of the nation so vived and authentic that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth..."
                     
 FICTION,WASHINGTON,U.S. PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,CONGRESS,POLITICIANS       Book #6205
 
US$12.50   
  


            Primary Whites: A Novel Look at Right-Wing Politics
               Anonymous as told to Cathy Crimmins and Tom Maeder
 Dove First Edition 1996   ISBN:
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.                      
 LIBERALISM,CONSERVATISM,POLITICAL PARTIES,WASHINGTON       Book #3073
 
US$10.00
    


             Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice
               Ashcroft, John
 Center Street First Edition 2006   ISBN: 1599956802
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 “The most controversial attorney general in U.S. history tells the untold story behind the war on terror in post-9/11 America.”
                     
 AMERICAN HISTORY,JUSTICE DEPARTMENT,ATTORNEYS GENERAL,WAR ON TERROR,PATRIOT ACT,
 9/11 COMMISSION,AL QAEDA,ROBERT HANSSEN,TIMOTHY MCVEIGH       Book #7455,7456,7474
 
US$14.00
    


             Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush
               Barnes, Fred
 Crown First Edition 2006   ISBN: 0307336492
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 With Rebel in Chief, veteran political reporter Fred Barnes provides the defining book on George W. Bush’s presidency...
                     
 PRESIDENTS,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,AMERICAN HISTORY,WASHINGTON,WHITE HOUSE       Book #7651
 
US$10.50
     


            At Ease in the White House: The Uninhibited Memoirs of a Presidential Social Aide
               Bauer, Stephen M. with Frances Spatz Leighton
 Carol First Edition 1991   ISBN: 1559720611
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Stephen M. Bauer was first selected as a White House military social aide in 1972. This book is the amusing, anecdote-filled
 account of his years working in that capacity for three presidents: Nixon, Ford, Carter, and serving in other capacities for
 Reagan and Bush. Illustrated.
                     
 PRESIDENTS,U.S. PRESIDENCY,WHITE HOUSE,WASHINGTON,NIXON,CARTER,FORD,REAGAN,BUSH        Book #5697
 
US$12.00
    


            The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
               Beatty, Jack
 Addison-Wesley First Printing 1992   ISBN: 0201175991
 Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Small gift note and previous owner's small stamp on half-title page.
 Tiny spots on two later pages. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with a small, faint, barely visible
 stain at base of spine; in a clear protective cover.
 He was the most colorful politician in American history...As mayor of Boston, as congressman, as governor of Massachusetts,
 Curley rose from the Irish slums in a career extending from the Progressive Era of Teddy Roosevelt to the ascendancy of JFK.
 Illustrated.
                     
 POLITICIANS,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS,AMERICAN HISTORY       Book #6371
 
US$12.50 
   


            Espionage: An Encyclopedia of Spies and Secrets
               Bennett, Richard
 Virgin Books 2002   ISBN: 1852279427
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 This compelling reference resource contains over 500 entries covering every aspect of modern-day intelligence-gathering
 and counter-terrorism, along with a comprehensive overview of its history. 
                     
 TWENTIETH CENTURY,SPYING,SPIES,COUNTER-TERRORISM,INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY,
 INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES       Book #6596
 
US$19.75 
   


            The De-Valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children
               Bennett, William J.
 Focus on the Family Publishing Reprint Edition 1994   ISBN:
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ has very slight edge wear; in a clear protective cover.
 "In these pages, Bennett tells the stories from his controversial career that clearly define the values he believes are worth fighting for."
                     
 DRUGS,EDUCATION,CIVIL RIGHTS,AMERICAN SOCIETY,AMERICAN CULTURE        Book #2076
 
US$13.50
    


            The De-Valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children
               Bennett, William J.
 Simon & Schuster 1994   ISBN: 0671797190
 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 Written with force and passion, The De-Valuing of America is a cry of alarm - an honest, unsparing account
 of what has gone wrong in American society, and a tough-minded personal assessment of how to reclaim our
 culture and protect and nuture our children.
                     
 CONSERVATISM,MORALITY,EDUCATION,AMERICAN SOCIETY,AMERICAN CULTURE        Book #5849
 
US$8.00
     


            The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals
               Bennett, William J.
 Simon & Schuster 1998   ISBN:
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 "Bill Bennett explains why presidential character matters; why allegations of sexual misconduct need to be taken seriously;
 why reasoned judgment is the mark of a healthy democracy; and why the ends don't justify the means."
                     
 CLINTONS,U.S.PRESIDENCY,WHITE HOUSE,WASHINGTON,POLITICAL CORRUPTION,AMERICAN SOCIETY,
 MORALS        Book #3325,3326,3426
 
US$12.50
    


            The Last Patrician: Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy
               Beran, Michael Knox
 St. Martin's Griffin 1999   ISBN: 0312206593
 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 "Three decades after Robert Kennedy's death, his complexities and contradictions continue to fascinate
 and perplex Americans. In The Last Patrician, Michael Knox Beran offers a much-needed reassessment
 of the man, one that will force many to rethink what they thought they knew."
                     
 BIOGRAPHY,POLITICIANS,KENNEDYS,RFK       Book #6314
 
US$8.50   
  
           

               Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline

               Bork, Robert H.
ReganBooks Fifth Printing 1996   ISBN: 0060391634
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
One of  our nation’s most distinguished conservative scholars offers a prophetic and unprecedented view of a  culture in  decline...
                     
AMERICAN CULTURE,AMERICAN SOCIETY,LIBERALISM,MORALITY,LAW       Book #6973
 
US$12.50
    


            Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted The Reagan Revolution And Hijacked The Bush Presidency
               Buchanan, Patrick J.
 St. Martins First U.S. Edition 2004   ISBN: 0312341156
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked.
 A damning indictment of the present masters of the G.O.P., Where The Right Went Wrong calls to account the
 Bush White House and Beltway conservatives for an abondonment of principle in the pursuit of permanent power. 
                     
 REPUBLICANS,CONSERVATIVES,NEOCONSERVATIVES,POLITICAL PARTIES,G.O.P.,RONALD REAGAN,
 GEORGE BUSH       Book #7112
 
US$14.00
    


            The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy
               Burke, Richard E. with William and Marilyn Hoffer
 St. Martin's Third Printing 1992   ISBN:
 Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Previous owner's name and date written on front endpaper - else Fine.
 Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 "This book is the account of what Richard Burke witnessed and experienced during his decade at the Senator's right hand." Illustrated.
                     
 TED KENNEDY,KENNEDYS,WASHINGTON,SENATE,CONGRESS,MASSACHUSETTS,BIOGRAPHY        Book #3520
 
US$11.50 
   


               The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks With Beijing And Moscow
               Burr, William (edit.)
 New Press First Edition 1998   ISBN: 1565844807
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Here are the transcripts, formerly classified "Top Secret/Sensitive/Exclusive Eyes Only", of Kissinger's talks
 with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Leonid Brezhnev, Andrei Gromyko, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford,
 George Bush and others.
                     
 AMERICAN HISTORY,STATE DEPARTMENT,DIPLOMACY,FOREIGN RELATIONS,
 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,TWENTIETH CENTURY,RICHARD NIXON,MAO ZEDONG       Book #7364
 
US$18.50
    

           
               The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks With Beijing And Moscow
               Burr, William (edit.)
New Press First Edition 1999   ISBN: 1565844807
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
Here are the transcripts, formerly classified "Top Secret/Sensitive/Exclusive Eyes Only", of Kissinger's talks with Mao Zedong,
Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Leonid Brezhnev, Andrei Gromyko, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George Bush and others.
                     
AMERICAN HISTORY,STATE DEPARTMENT,DIPLOMACY,FOREIGN RELATIONS,INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,
TWENTIETH CENTURY,RICHARD NIXON,MAO ZEDONG       Book #6978
 
US$18.50   
  




            A World Transformed
               Bush, George and Brent Scowcroft
 Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 1998   ISBN: 0679432485
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 The collapse of the Soviet empire, the reunification of Germany, Tiananmen Square, The Gulf War ...
 This is a landmark book on the conduct of American foreign policy. Illustrated.
                     
 AMERICAN HISTORY,FOREIGN POLICY,INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,TWENTIETH CENTURY,
 COLD WAR,SOVIET UNION,COMMUNIST CHINA,TIANANMEN SQUARE,GULF WAR       Book #6102
 
US$22.00   
  




            The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years
               Califano, Joseph A., Jr.
 Simon & Schuster First Edition 1991   ISBN:
 Very Good Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Small bottom edge remainder mark and previous owner's
 name and date written small on front paste-down. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild wear;
 in a clear protective cover.
 "Joe Califano - Lyndon Johnson's closest domestic adviser during the White House years - has created a remarkable
 presidential portrait, a frank, tough-minded memoir that reveals not only the singular personality of LBJ, but the
 rough grain of American politics."
                     
 U. S. PRESIDENCY,WHITE HOUSE,WASHINGTON,BIOGRAPHY,VIETNAM WAR        Book #3077
 
US$12.00   
  




            The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
               Caro, Robert A.
 Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 1982   ISBN: 0394499735
 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Full cloth binding with gilt spine and front board lettering.
 Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ price-clipped - else Fine; in a clear protective cover.
 The Path to Power
reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy,
 and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Illustrated.
                     
 WASHINGTON,TEXAS POLITICS,CONGRESS,U.S. PRESIDENCY,LADY BIRD JOHNSON,AUSTIN,
 SAM RAYBURN        Book #5139
 
US$22.50
     


            We're Right, They're Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives
               Carville, James
 Random House 1996   ISBN: 0679769781
  Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 "James Carville wants to put the Democrats back on the offensive.
"                     
 DEMOCRATS,DEMOCRATIC PARTY,LIBERALISM,LIBERALS,POLITICAL STRATEGY       Book #5979
 
US$6.00
    


             Living History
               Clinton, Hillary Rodham
 Simon & Schuster Fourth Printing 2003   ISBN: 0743222245
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Corner creasing of one leaf. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 DJ in a clear protective cover.
 "Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends
 and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey." Illustrated.
                     
 CLINTONS,POLITICIANS,FIRST LADIES,U.S. SENATE,WASHINGTON       Book #6418
 
US$13.50 
   


            Living History
               Clinton, Hillary Rodham
 Scribner 2004   ISBN: 0743222253
 Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 Contains a reading group guide. Illustrated. 
                     
 BIOGRAPHY,AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,
 BILL CLINTON,WHITE HOUSE       Book #6584
 
US$10.00
    


            Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
               Dallek, Robert
 HarperCollins First Edition 2007   ISBN: 9780060722302
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Tapping into a wealth of recently decassified archives, Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger’s
 tumultuous personal relationship and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in the reach for achievements in
 foreign affairs. Illustrated.
                     
 AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,FOREIGN RELATIONS,FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
STATE DEPARTMENT,DIPLOMACY                              Book #7563
 
US$17.50
     


            Power, Pasta and Politics: The World According to Senator Al D'Amato
               D'Amato, Senator Al
 Hyperion 1995   ISBN: 0786881828
 Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 In the same hard-edged, straightforward style that made him famous, Senator D'Amato tells both his personal story -
 of the grandson of immigrants becoming New York's first Italian-American senator - and the story of New York and
 national politics. Intoduction by Ed Koch. Illustrated.
                     
 BIOGRAPHY,U.S.SENATE,SENATORS,NEW YORK,ITALIAN-AMERICAN       Book #6391
 
US$9.75 
   


            Truth to Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education
               Davis, Lanny J.
 The Free Press / Simon & Schuster First Edition 1999   ISBN:
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 "As President Bill Clinton's chief spokesman for handling 'scandal matters', he had the unenviable job of briefing reporters
 and answering their pointed questions on the most embarrassing allegations against the president and his aides, from charges
 of renting out the Lincoln Bedroom to stories of selling plots in Arlington Cematary, from irregular campaign fundraising
 to sexual improprieties."
                     
 BILL CLINTON,POLITICAL SCANDAL,POLITICAL CORRUPTION,U.S.PRESIDENCY,WHITE HOUSE,WASHINGTON        
 Book #3982
 
US$12.50
    


            A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan
               Deaver, Michael K.
 HarperCollins First Edition 2001   ISBN: 0060197846
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 With a Foreword by Nancy Reagan. A warm, personal portrait of Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer brims
 with recollections from a relationship that spanned more than three decades. 
                     
 RONALD REAGAN,NANCY REAGAN,U.S. PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,GIPPER,WHITE HOUSE,COLD WAR,
 WASHINGTON,BIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS        Book #5714
 
US$15.00
    


            Behind the Scenes: In Which the Author Talks About Ronald and Nancy Reagan...and Himself
               Deaver, Michael K. With Mickey Herskowitz
 William Morrow First Edition 1988   ISBN: 0688064043
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Michael Deaver dissects the body of power that is Washington, D.C., exploring the intricate anatomy of
 one administration during the peak of its popularity. 
                     
 AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,RONALD REAGAN,NANCY REAGAN,
 GIPPER,WHITE HOUSE,WASHINGTON       Book #6573
 
US$14.00 
   


            No Retreat, No Surrender: One American’s Fight
               DeLay, Tom with Stephen Mansfield
 Penguin First Edition 2007   ISBN: 1595230343
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 In this fascinating memoir, DeLay opens up about the experiences that have shaped him including his raucous days as a legislator in Texas...
 He also reveals what really happened in his final days as a congressman, taking the reader behind the Capitol’s closed doors and into
 Washington, D.C,’s network of alliances, egos, and lies.
                     
 CONGRESS,HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,WASHINGTON,TEXAS       Book #7649
 
US$12.00
    


            Thumbs Up: The Life and Courageous Comeback of White House Press Secretary Jim Brady
               Dickenson, Molly
 William Morrow First Edition 1987   ISBN: 0688064973
 Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with several very small, closed tears;
 in a clear protective cover.
 The story of Jim Brady's odyssey - from an idyllic boyhood in smalltown Centralia, Illinois, to the White House, where he became
 the principal spokesman for the Reagan administration only to be critically wounded during John Hinckley's failed assasination attempt.
 Illustrated.
                     
 BIOGRAPHY,RONALD REAGAN,WHITE HOUSE,AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,
 JOHN HINCKLEY,ASSASSINATION       Book #6526
 
US$12.00
    

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