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New York: Random House, Inc. BOOK: Repaired; Sticker Pull to Front Free Endpaper; Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Missing. CONTENTS: 1 Divided Childhood 2 from Cambridge to Cairo 1934-1940 3 The Road to Jerusalem 1941-1945 4 The Break in the Clouds 1945-1947 5 Present at the Birth 1947-1948 6 The First Flush of Statehood 1948-1950 7 Story of a Mission 1950-1956 8 Explosion at Suez 1956-1957 9 End of a Mission: First Steps in Politics 1957-1960 10 Seven Ministerial Years 1960-1966 11 The Foreign Ministry 1966-1967 12 Nasser toward the Brink 1967 13 Negotiations in Three Cities 1967 14 Days of Decision June 1967 15 A Political Success 1967 16 Jarring, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and "242" 1967-1970 17 The Twilight Years 1971-1972 18 Year of Wrath 1973 19 The Geneva Conference Disengagement and Cabinet Changes 1974 20 In Retrospect; Index.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. by John Toland, Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning "The Rising Sun". BOOK NUMBER: 2962. JACKET BY: Al Nagy. CONTENTS: List of Maps and Tables; Part 6 "To the Very Brink of Boldness" - 18 Crystal Night November 1938-March 1939; 19 The Fox and the Bear January-August 24, 1939; 20 "A Calamity Without Parallel in History: August 24-September 3, 1939; Part 7 By Force of Arms - 21 Victory in the West September 3, 1939 - June 25, 1940; 22 "Ev'n Victors by Victory are Undone" June-October 28, 1940; 23 "The World Will Hold Its Breath" November 12, 1940-June 22, 1941; 24 "A Door into a Dark, Unseen Room" June 22-December 19, 1941; Part 8 The Fourth Horseman - 25… Read More

New York: Atheneum BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: One Man's Road to Watergate. BOOK NUMBER: 6283. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Naltchayan. CONTENTS: Prologue CHAPTER I: Starting Out CHAPTER II: The Corporate Ladder CHAPTER III: Inside the Oval Office CHAPTER IV: Learning the Ropes CHAPTER V: The Office of Communications CHAPTER VI: Carswell, Cambodia, and the 1970 Campaign CHAPTER VII: Moving On CHAPTER VIII: The Committee to Re-elect CHAPTER IX: The Liddy Plan CHAPTER X: Break-In CHAPTER XI: Cover-Up CHAPTER XII: The Cover Story CHAPTER XIII: The Campaign CHAPTER XIV: The Cover-Up Fails CHAPTER XV: Waiting; Index. SYNOPSIS: For the first thirty-seven years of his life, Jeb Stuart Magruder lived the American dream. A charming, intelligent, intensely ambitious young… Read More

New York: Quill An Imprint of William Morrow and Company, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 27F5. BOOK DESIGN BY: Margaret Hinders. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Oistin Macbride/Corbis Bettmann. COVER DESIGN BY: Peter Davis. ISBN: 0-688-14312-1 (Copyright Page)/0-688-16101-4 (Rear Cover). SYNOPSIS: Gerry Adams is widely regarded as the most controversial leader in modern Irish history, yet few know what sort of man he really is. Now he speaks out in a remarkable memoir that tells both an intimately personal story and a tale of political awakening in the crucible of northern Irish conflict. Born in West Belfast in 1948, Gerry Adams is the eldest in a large family who endured poverty and discrimination without ever losing the strong affections and the sense of humor so characteristic of the Irish. He describes a deprived yet happy childhood, and celebrates the closeness not only of… Read More

Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1975. Previous Owner Markings (Name and Address Neatly Inked to Half Title Page); Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: A Biography of J. S. Woodsworth. BOOK NUMBER: LC 59-4879. CONTENTS: Preface; PART I: 1874-1921 1. Frontier Evangelism 2. Oxford and the British Slums 3. Trial 4. The Social Gospel 5. Practical Experiments 6. Decision 7. The Plunge 8. The Winnipeg Strike 9. Electoral Verdict PART II: 1922-1927 10. Ottawa 11. The New Member 12. Assessing "National Policies" 13. Militarism, Imperialism, and Nationalism 14. A Question of Politics 15. Death of a Doctrine PART III: 1928-1935 16. The Depression (I) 17. The Depression (II) 18. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation PART IV: 1935-1942 19. A Leader's Problems 20. War 21. Epilogue APPENDIX Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme; Index. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kenneth McNaught was… Read More

Markham: Viking - the Penguin Group Penguin Books Canada Ltd BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: First Impressions CHAPTER ONE Broadbent, Ontario CHAPTER TWO Toronto, 1955: The New Generation CHAPTER THREE The "S" Words: The Sixties, Sex and Socialism CHAPTER FOUR A Political Career CHAPTER FIVE The Perils of Politics CHAPTER SIX The Boss: Rebuilding the Party CHAPTER SEVEN Walking Through Fire: The Constitutional Wars CHAPTER EIGHT Breaking Through the Barriers CHAPTER NINE The Pursuit of Power; Chronology; Select Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: EVERYONE KNOWS WHO HE IS BUT NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT HIM. Ed Broadbent has been a force in Canadian politics for 20 years. The bare facts are on record but up to now there has been little insight into his character, nothing to suggest where his deep ambition comes from. THE EXPERIENCE OF… Read More

Scarborough: A Signet Book from New American Library Times Mirror Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1973. Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. #1 Bestseller. The Most Honored Book of the Year. Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection. With 32 Pages of Photographs. SUB-TITLE: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers. BOOK NUMBER: J5310. FOREWORD BY: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. INTRODUCTION BY: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. CONTENTS: Foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; Author's Note; Preface I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 1 Eleanor's Father 2 Her Mother 3 The World into Which Eleanor Was Born 4 The Crack-Up 5 Her Mother's Death 6 "He Lived in My Dreams" 7 The Outsider 8 The Spark Is… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. FOREWORD BY: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. CONTENTS: Foreword by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; Author's Note; Preface; I. Champion of Her Husband's Ideals; II. The Hardest Working Delegate; III. A Magna Charta for Mankind; IV. Reluctant Cold-Warrior; V. The United Nations and a Jewish Homeland; VI. The 1948 Campaign: A New Party--Not a Third Party; VII. Cardinal and Former First Lady; VIII. An American Phenomenon; IX. America's Best Ambassador; X. Resignation Accepted; XI. Private Citizen Again; XII. "Madly for Adlai"; XIII. Two Bosses--Khrushchev and De Sapio; XIV. A New Generation Takes Over; XV. To the End, Courage; Appendix A: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Nobel Peace Prize; Appendix B: Mrs. Roosevelt and the Sultan of Morocco; References; Index.… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910. BOOKS: Corners, Spines Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spines Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKETS: None. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. SUB-TITLE: in Two Volumes. EXCERPT: PREFACE . . . It was originally intended for the series of Foreign Statesmen. I found, however, that the inevitable limitation of space would entail, in the case of Charles V., one of two undesirable alternatives. Either the Emperor's life must reduce itself to an unpalatable compendium of facts and dates, or else it must take the form of allusive essays, crediting the general reader with a somewhat ideal knowledge of European history. It was therefore decided to detach the story of Charles from the series, and to give it the wider range accorded by these two volumes . . . Even with the… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 1085895. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: John Bryson/TIME Magazine. DESIGNED BY: Edith Fowler. COVER DESIGN: Robert Anthony, Inc. CONTENTS: 1 Homeward 2 The First Month 3 The Pardon 4 Fire Storm 5 Shock 6 Transition 7 Watergate Redux 8 End of a Year 9 China Passage 10 Interval 11 The Wizard 12 The Frost Interviews 13 Memoirs 14 Stirrings 15 Moving On 16 The Fast Track 17 Return of the Wizard 18 Into His Own 19 Funeral in Cairo 20 Never Looking Back; A Note on Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index ISBN: 0-671-44021-7 (Copyright Page)/0-671-60566-6 (Rear Cover). SYNOPSIS: Richard M. Nixon continues to be one of the most fascinating public figures in America. Driven from office in disgrace, this strange, tough, determined, brilliant man made a dramatic comeback from physical and… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Missing; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Heavily Chipped (Portions Missing); Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Frenchman presents the great American sage so that everyone may know him intimately. Printings Before Publication 75,000 Copies! With 15 illustrations and 5 maps. SUB-TITLE: The Apostle of Modern Times. With Illustrations. CONTENTS: BOOK ONE The Rearing of an XVIIIth Century Radical; BOOK TWO The "Way to Wealth"; BOOK THREE Dr. Franklin Builds an Empire; BOOK FOUR His Excellency, Doctor Franklin, the Patriarch; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: The many-sided Franklin, whose varied activities have puzzled so many historians, had nevertheless a central purpose in life, and the unity of his career can be understood only from that point of view; he was before all and always a moral leader. The… Read More

Toronto: Viking Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1996. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. FRONT COVER PHOTO BY: Paul Orenstein. BACK COVER PHOTOS COURTESY: Bob Rae. COVER DESIGN BY: Martin Gould. CONTENTS: Prologue--A Dose of Reality at Honey Harbour; One--Getting There; Two--Student Days; Three--English Adventures; Four--The Lure of Politics; Five--Up the Hill and Down Again; Six--No Soft Landings; Seven--In the Valley; Eight--How Sweet the Taste; Nine--"No, Premier"; Ten--Jobs, Jobs, Jobs; Eleven--Our Home and Native Land; Twelve--The Road to Charlottetown; Thirteen--Social Contract; Fourteen--Anyone Can Sail in Good Weather; Fifteen--Hard Choices; Sixteen--Losing & Leaving; Postscript; Index. SYNOPSIS: "Throughout my political life I have disagreed with the perspective that it is more moral to be out of power than in." When Bob… Read More

Lester & Orpen Dennys Publishers Limited BOOK: Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Story of an Involvement. JACKET DESIGN: Public Good. CONTENTS: Foreword; Part I, 1976; Part II, 1977; Part III, 1978; Part IV, 1979 and 1980; Epilogue; Postscript. SYNOPSIS: In the winter of 1976, Graham Greene was invited to Panama by Omar Torrijos, the charismatic general who had taken power in 1968. His book is an account of that visit and the friendship that continued through subsequent visits. Graham Greene's penetrating and moving descriptions of Panama and its people reconfirm his mastery of travel writing, and the extraordinary Torrijos--complex, courageous, deeply democratic and profoundly human--emerges as one of the most fascinating characters in all of Graham Greene's books. Graham Greene writes in his Preface: "In August 1981 my bag was… Read More

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation, 1989. Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. PHOTOGRAPH: Yousuf Karsh/Miller Comstock Inc. DESIGN: David Wyman. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Prologue 1 Growing Pains 2 The War Years 3 The Long Road to Yukon 4 Yukon Politics 5 A Reluctant Candidate 6 Moving the Elephant 7 The Flying MP 8 The Diefenbaker Parliaments 9 The Education of an MP or, the Making of a Cynic 10 Scandal Time: The Rivard Affair 11 Fallout 12 The Death of P.J. 13 Swallow the Leader 14 Stanfield and Trudeau 15 Joe Clark 16 The Media Is the Mess 17 Life with Brian 18 My Home and Native Land 19 Scandal Time--Again 20 The Sinc Stevens Affair; Epilogue: Lessons; Some Key Dates; Appendix; Index REVIEWS: "Nielsen's assessment of various ministers in the Mulroney government are… Read More

New York: Random House, Inc., 2000. BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Missing; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Light Moisture Damage. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining on Reverse, From Spine of Book); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan. BOOK DESIGN BY: J. K. Lambert. JACKET ILLUSTRATION: Gabi Rona, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. JACKET DESIGN: Robbin Schiff. SYNOPSIS: Starting in 1950, shortly after they met, and up through the 1990s, Ronald Reagan wrote letters to his wife, Nancy. In this beautiful book, those extraordinary letters are woven into a moving portrait of a long and loving marriage, as Nancy Reagan shares not only the letters but also her reflections on them, and on the life that she and Ronald Reagan shared, from courtship, young marriage, and the White House years on through to her life today. No matter what else was going on or where… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. BOOK: Corners, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Red Marks (Paint?) Below Title; Moderately Creased; Heavily Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A warm, personal story of the First Lady illustrated with family pictures. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH OF MRS. KENNEDY BY: Mark Shaw. JACKET DESIGN BY: Charles Gottlieb. SYNOPSIS: From first hand knowledge and with access to family journals, scrapbooks, letters and photographs, Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer has written this authentic and engaging biography of an extraordinary woman--the thirty-first First Lady of the United States. Enlarged from a series of articles published in the Ladies' Home Journal, this delightful personal portrait is illustrated with many photographs, most of which have never appeared in book form. Here is Jacqueline Kennedy--the mischievous imaginative little… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (French Gift Inscription Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service. BOOK NUMBER: 1078. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this book have previously been published in the following magazines: Foreign Service Journal: "Tokyo 1941," Part 1, April 1976; "Tokyo 1941," Part 2, May 1976; "Japanese and Americans in Peru, 1942-43," May 1977; "China-Burma-India," Part 1, October 1977; and "China-Burma-India," Part 2, November 1977. Asia Mail: "'Egg Diplomat' in Taihoku," April 1977. Epoch, Report of U.S. Affairs: "Peru no Nihonjin to Amerikajin" [Japanese and Americans in Peru], in Japanese, No. 2, 1977. JACKET DESIGN: Lawrence Ratzkin. DESIGNER: Amy Hill.… Read More

New York: The University Society Incorporated, 1905. Top 2.5 cm of Front Free Endpaper Neatly Cut Out of Book from Outer to Inner (I suspect that personalization and/or gift inscription was removed by a previous owner, for privacy.); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. AUTHOR: Thomas Jefferson - James Schouler, LL.D.. Author of "History of the United States Under the Constitution." Robert Morris - William Graham Sumner, LL.D., Professor of Political and Social Science in Yale University. CONTENTS: Thomas Jefferson - CHAPTER I. Parentage and Early Childhood (1743-1757) CHAPTER II. A Ward's Education (1757-1765) CHAPTER III. Professional Career and Marriage (1766-1774) CHAPTER IV. Morning of Revolution (1773-1775) CHAPTER V.… Read More

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers BOOK: Corners Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 1290 P. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this work originally appeared in Vanity Fair. JACKET DESIGN BY: Suzanne Noli. DESIGNED BY: Alma Orenstein. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; I Looking for Mikhail Gorbachev...; II First Gorbachev: Country Cossack 1931-1949; III Second Gorbachev: First-Generation Apparatchik 1950-1977; IV Third Gorbachev: Disciple of Doublethink 1978-1984; V Fourth Gorbachev: The Great Persuader 1985-1989; VI Fifth Gorbachev: Dictator for Democracy 1989-1990; VII Sixth Gorbachev: Red Star Falling Spring 1990; VIII Epilogue: Summer-Autumn 1990; Illustrations follow page 210. SYNOPSIS: Among the great visionary statesmen of our century Mikhail S. Gorbachev stands as one of the giants and yet remains the most enigmatic. A daring risk taker who is still under the romantic… Read More

Paddington Press Ltd BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Name Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Corners, Spine Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGNED BY: Colin Lewis. JACKET PHOTOGRAPHY: Front - George Pierre; Back - above left - Wide World Photos; above right and below left - United Press International; below right - the author; center - John Evans/United Press International. JACKET DESIGN: Colin Lewis. CONTENTS: Acknowledgment; Prologue; Growing Up; On the Hippy Trail; A Secret Courtship; Preparing for the Wedding; On Becoming Chatelaine; Official Residences; Family Life; Saved by Protocol; On the Campaign Trail; If You Can't Please Everybody, Please Yourself; False Protection; The Dreams Go Sour; Taking Off; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: A secret romance with a handsome statesman, twenty-nine years… Read More