Cleared for Strange Ports
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 254, illus., weakness to front board, some wear to board and spine edges, ink name inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 254, illus., weakness to front board, some wear to board and spine edges, ink name inside front flyleaf. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. First Edition. First? Printing. 304, illus., index, DJ worn, torn, and soiled, large piece missing in rear DJ. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1967. 205, illus., notes, index, usual library markings, DJ pasted inside boards, DJ worn & small edge tears. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Reprint Edition. 373, illus., appendices, usual library markings, tissue sheet over frontis illus. has been torn out, some weakness to rear board. More
Paris: Librairie Hachette Et Cie, 1910. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. TEXT IS IN FRENCH. RARE surviving copy of a quickly published contemporary ephemeral version of a work of enduring value. Format is approximately 4.875 inches by 7.25 inches. [2], 31, [1] pages. Frontispiece portrait of Theodore Roosevelt with facsimile signature, with flimsy. Cover worn, soiled with some edge chips. Theodore Roosevelt delivered the speech entitled “Citizenship in a Republic” at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910. The speech is popularly known as “The Man in the Arena.” His statements at the Sorbonne were part of a larger trip to Europe. Librairie Hachette was founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as Brédif, a bookshop and publishing company. It became L. Hachette et Compagnie on 1 January 1846. Louis Christophe François Hachette (5 May 1800 – 31 July 1864) was a French publisher who established a Paris publishing house. Publications were initially focused on the classics and subsequently expanded to include books and magazines of all types. Hachette lent the weight of his influence towards a just settlement of issues relating to international literary copyright. One reference to a 2013 auction sale was found through an extensive Internet search. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. 320, illus., appendices, bds scuffed, edges of spine worn, frontis separated & edges fragile, front and rear boards weak. More
New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1990. Reprint Edition. 298, wraps, illus., appendices, slight wear to cover edges. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. Second Printing. 615, illus., boards weak, binding cracked at p.209, some foxing to text & inside boards/flyleaves, ink notation inside front board. More
Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 220 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. DJ has minor sticker residue at back. Includes Editor's Preface; Introduction: The Bull Moose on the Stump; and Index. Chapters include Starting Out in New England; The Second New England Tour; Campaigning in the Middle West; The Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Coast; Returning to Oyster Bay; The Second Western Tour; and The End of the Campaign. Publisher's ephemera from the University Press of Kansas Press has been laid in. Historian Lewis L. Gould has specialized in the history of American politics. His books have often focused on the American presidency, as well as First Ladies of the White House. In many cases Gould's books have contradicted conventional wisdom to offer a fresh historical viewpoint on his subject. In addition to books with more narrow focuses, such as 1968 and his analyses of individual presidents like McKinley and Roosevelt, Gould has written broad histories of American politics. In The Modern American Presidency, for example, the historian covers the administrations of William McKinley through George W. Bush. His main thesis in tracing the evolution of the presidential office is that the head of state's responsibilities have become so broad over the years that it is nearly impossible for any one person to carry out the leadership role effectively, especially as the president has become more of a national symbol of the country. Gould also criticizes the cult of celebrity that has caused presidents to spend increasingly large amounts of time and energy campaigning for reelection, rather than focusing on their executive responsibilities. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1957. 342, frontis illus., footnotes, ink gift inscription (not from author) and pencil notations inside front flyleaf. More
Harrisonburg, VA: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 2003. 317, illus. (some in color), index. More
Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1958. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], Illustrations. Cartoons. Bibliography. Footnotes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Senator Dolliver was a speaker, along with William Jennings Bryan, at the Centennial of Lincoln's birth celebration in Springfield Illinois. This biography was issued on the centennial of Dolliver's birth. Professor Ross earned a BA in history at Park College. He entered Military service in 1942. After the war he entered Harvard University where he earned M.A. and Ph.D.. Degrees in history. In 1949, Dr. Ross joined the faculty of Davis & Elkins College as an Associate Professor of History. Subsequently, he was promoted to Professor of History, was appointed Chairman of the Department of History and Political Science, and served as academic dean from 1958 to 1970 and again in 1986-1987 after having retired in 1985. At the invitation of President Gerald Ford, he attended a White House Conference on Education, Economics, and Environmental Problems in 1974. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. viii, [2], 482, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is an American Republican political consultant and policy advisor. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has also headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Since leaving the White House, Rove has worked as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal. Prior to his White House appointments, he is credited with the 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial victories of George W. Bush, as well as Bush's 2000 and 2004 successful presidential campaigns. In his 2004 victory speech Bush referred to Rove as "the Architect". Rove has also been credited for the successful campaigns of John Ashcroft (1994 U.S. Senate election), Bill Clements (1986 Texas gubernatorial election), Senator John Cornyn (2002 U.S. Senate election), Governor Rick Perry (1990 Agriculture Commission election), and Phil Gramm (1982 U.S. House and 1984 U.S. Senate elections). More
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 18.5 cm, 162 pages. Illus., index. Bookplate signed by the author. More
n.p. L. H. Walter, 1919. Memorial Edition. 448, illus., bds quite weak & partly separated, bds scuffed & stained, edges of spine worn & small tears, ink name ins fr bd. More
New York: Scribner, 2019. First Scribner hardcover Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. vii, [1], 438, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Sources. Image and Map Credits. Index. Minor ink marts on page 1. Eric Rutkow is a writer, lawyer, and historian. His first book, American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation, received the Association of American Publisher’s PROSE award for U.S. history and was named one of the top twelve books of the year by Smithsonian magazine. His second book is The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas. He taught at Yale University and recently joined the faculty of the University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor of History. His research and teaching focus on international relations, the environment, political economy, and tourism. Rutkow practiced as an environmental human rights lawyer in Cambodia and as a junior associate with Latham & Watkins LLC in New York. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale and his JD from Harvard. More
New York: Putnam, [1967]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 316, bibliography, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and some edge tears. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Chelsea House Publishers in association with McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 550, [6] pages. Presidential Chronology. Popular Electoral Vote Tables. About the Contributors. Index. DJ in plastic. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian and public intellectual. A specialist in American history, his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns, he was a primary speechwriter and adviser to the Democratic presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson. Schlesinger served as special assistant to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, titled A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, which won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Schlesinger wrote a popular biography, Robert Kennedy and His Times. He popularized the term "imperial presidency" during the Nixon administration. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2013. Hardcover. 265 pages. Illus., appendix, endnotes, bibliography, index. Signed by the author. More
Place_Pub: New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. Second Printing. 26 cm, 278, illus., color frontis, endpaper map, bibliography, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
Sious Falls, SD: The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 1985. Reprint. Second printing, 1986. Hardcover. xv, 379 p. Endpapers depict Mount Rushmore. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
New York: HarperPerennial, 2000. First HarperPerennial edition, first printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xix, [1], 360, [2] p. Occasional Footnotes. Table of Presidents. Notes. Index. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. Second Printing. Hardcover. xii, [2], 284, [2] pages. A Note on Sources. Index. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Inscribed by the author on title page. Robert Shogan was a former Los Angeles Times national political correspondent who covered Washington for more than 30 years and wrote more than a dozen books on topics as diverse as the New Deal, violence in West Virginia's coal fields and the nature of presidential leadership. Before joining The Times in 1973, Shogan reported from Washington for Newsweek. The author argues that presidential character is a double-edge sword--a weapon that can discredit a president and destroy his credibility, but also a weapon that he can use to define himself and mobilize support--in sum, the ultimate weapon in modern American politics. The White House gave Theodore Roosevelt an unparalleled opportunity to enlarge the image of himself that he had vigorously promoted for 20 years, and he took full advantage of it. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, c1981. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 269, illus., bibliography, index, black marks on edges. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiv, [2], 385, [5] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. Damp stains to boards, flyleaves, & a few text pages (no pages stuck). DJ stuck to boards Fore-edge stained. DJ soiled, stained, and wrinkled with several tears to DJ and small pieces missing. Ellen Maury Slayden (1860–1926) was born at the Maury family home, Piedmont, in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1860; she received her education from tutors at home. On June 12, 1883, she married James Luther Slayden, a merchant and rancher in San Antonio. Mrs. Slayden served for a time as society editor of the San Antonio Express. Upon her husband's election to Congress in 1896, they moved to Washington, where they maintained a residence for the next twenty-one years. She continued her writing, contributing to various magazines and newspapers, and was a tireless record keeper and diarist. Her notebooks with observations of the social and political life in Washington from 1897 to 1919 were left to her nephew F. Maury Maverick. More