The American Presidents; Special Report
Betty Brugger (Art Director) Chicago, Il: Time Inc., 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Magazine. 80 pages plus covers. One page of text and one color portrait for each President. Cover has an ink notation and some moisture and scuffing damage and staining at the bottom. Decreasing bottom rippling to Abraham Lincoln section. Some ink underlining noted. Theodore Roosevelt in on the cover of this Bicentennial tribute. The writers were A. T. Baker, Rodney Campbell, Gilbert Cant, Tyler Mathisen, and John Verdon. Champ Clark, bearer of a famous 19th and early 20th Century political name, was a reporter, Kansas Missouri Star, 1947-1951; writer, Time magazine, 1951-1974; senior editor, Time magazine, 1960-1974; Chicago bureau chief, Time magazine, 1969-1972; senior correspondent, 1972-1974; teacher journalism, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. The Editors of Time wrote: Implicit in the pages of the Special Report, which presents a profile of each of the Presidents, is a bias--a bias in favor of the American Presidency and of the men who have occupied that office. Some were abler than others, or higher intellect and character, of greater achievement. But one and all have preserve the legitimacy whence springs the strength of the Presidency. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: Presidents, Bicentennial, Theodore Roosevelt, United States, Political Leaders, Democracy, Elections
[Book #77121]
Price: $15.00