On and Off the Floor: Thirty Years as a Correspondent on Capitol Hill
by SHAFFER, Samuel
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0882252895
- ISBN 13
- 9780882252896
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About This Item
New York: Newsweek Books, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red and black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 304pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Tight and attractive later printing of this memoir by "Newsweek" magazine's long-time chief congressional correspondent (1910-95) -- with superb presentation inscription from him in black fineline filling more than half the front flyleaf: "To Adlai Stevenson, / a good Senator and a / man of conscience. I am / sorry to see you leave the / Senate. The nation will feel / the loss. / I covered your father's / two campaigns for the / Presidency and had a hard / time clinging to my / journalistic objectivity / because I was so fond / of him. / Samuel Shaffer." Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021) served as U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1970 to 1981, and his father, Illinois governor Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), ran against Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49029
- Title
- On and Off the Floor: Thirty Years as a Correspondent on Capitol Hill
- Author
- SHAFFER, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0882252895
- ISBN 13
- 9780882252896
- Publisher
- Newsweek Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Americana;
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