Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Acheson
New York: Dodd, Mead, c1980. 24 cm, 350, index, front DJ flap price clipped, ink notation fr endpaper, newspaper discoloration/tape removal scuff at rear endpaper. More
New York: Dodd, Mead, c1980. 24 cm, 350, index, front DJ flap price clipped, ink notation fr endpaper, newspaper discoloration/tape removal scuff at rear endpaper. More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. 219, acronyms, chapter notes, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. Introduction by J. William Fulbright. More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxi. [1], 819, [7] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Cast of Characters. Abbreviations and Terms. 1973-1974 Timeline of Key Events. Index of Subjects. Index of Names. DJ has several small creases. Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Luke A. Nichter is a Professor of History and Beck Family Senior Fellow at Texas A&M University – Central Texas, Book Review Editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar for 2017-2018. His area of specialty is the Cold War, the Presidency, and U.S. Political History, with a focus on the "long 1960s" from John F. Kennedy through Watergate. More
New York: Doubleday, 1987. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 26 cm. xii, [4], 270 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Index. Signed on Vice President of the United States bookplate on fep. Below this is a gift inscription (not from Bush) referencing campaign help. George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, Bush also served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989, in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence. Bush served in the navy during World War II. After the war, he graduated from Yale and moved to Texas, where he built a successful oil company. He won election to the 7th congressional district in 1966. President Nixon appointed Bush Ambassador to the United Nations in 1971 and as chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973. In 1974, President Gerald Ford appointed him as the Chief of the Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China, and in 1976 Bush became the Director of Central Intelligence. Bush was elected vice president in 1980 and 1984 as Reagan's running mate. In the 1988 presidential election, Bush defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis, becoming the first incumbent vice president to be elected president since Martin Van Buren in 1836. Bush navigated the final years of the Cold War and played a key role in the reunification of Germany. Bush presided over the invasion of Panama and the Gulf War, ending the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in the latter conflict. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982. First Paperbk? Printing. 24 cm, 337, wraps, illus., glossary, erasure residue & stamp of Senator Wallop on title page, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1984. First Printing. 25 cm, 319, tears to DJ edges. More
Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. 209, footnotes, biblio, index, some pencil underlining & marginal marks to text, some DJ wear, soil, wrinkles, & edge tears/chips. More
London: Michael Joseph, 1976. First edition. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Text in English, Italian. 376p.; 22 cm. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. ix, 357 p. Notes. Index. More
Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2004. First? Edition. First? Printing. 167, wraps, notes. More
Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2004. 167, wraps, notes. More
Bethesda, MD: DACOR Press, 1994. First Edition. First? Printing. 211, wraps, illus., map, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Warner Books, c1992. First Printing. 24 cm, 610, illus., maps, note on sources, notes, index. Inscribed by the author (Haig). More
New York: Warner Books, c1992. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 610, illus., maps, note on sources, notes, index. Inscribed by the author ("Al Haig") to labor union leader Lane Kirkland. More
New York: Warner Books, c1992. First Printing. 24 cm, 610, illus., maps, references, index. More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, [1973]. Third Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 696, illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on half-title. More
Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1980. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 103, [3] p Vietnam War Chronology, 1972-1973. Index of Names. More
New York: Crane, Russak & Company, Inc, 1977. 314, charts, notes, glossary, biblio, index, lib pocket ins fr bd, DJ scuffed, soiled, & sm tears, lib location written on DJ spine. More
New York: Crane, Russak & Company, Inc, 1977. 314, charts, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, DJ worn and soiled, small tears & chips at DJ edges. More
Doubleday Books, 1977. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. [6], 569, [1] p. Select Bibliography. Index. More
New York: National Affairs, Inc. /In assoc wCarnegie Endowment for International Peac, 1973. Wraps. 191, [1] pages. Occasional footnotes. More
New York: National Affairs, Inc. /In Assoc. wCarnegie Endowment for International Pea, 1974. Presumed First Edition, presumed first printing thus. Wraps. 192 pages. Name of previous owner present. Cover has some wear and soiling. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1984. 24 cm, 634, black dot on bottom edge. More
New York: Dell Publishing, Inc., 1975. First Dell printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 670, [2] pages. Illustrations (inside back cover). Sources. Index. Book is curved in the middle and the edges of several pages are dinged/creased. Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. Kalb was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University. He is currently a James Clark Welling Fellow at George Washington University and a member of the Atlantic Community Advisory Board. He is a guest scholar in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. Bernard Kalb (born February 4, 1922) is an American journalist, moderator, media critic, lecturer, and author. He covered international affairs for more than three decades at CBS News, NBC News and The New York Times. Nearly half that time he was based abroad in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Paris and Saigon. Near the end of his tenure at the Times, Kalb received a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations - awarded annually to a foreign correspondent - and took a leave from the newspaper for a year. He also won an Overseas Press Club Award for a 1968 documentary on the Vietcong. He and his younger brother, journalist Marvin Kalb, traveled extensively with Henry Kissinger on diplomatic missions and later wrote a biography together entitled Kissinger. The two brothers also co-authored The Last Ambassador, a novel about the collapse of Saigon in 1975. More