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The Tumultous Years: The Presidency of Harry S Truman 1949-1953
by Robert J. Donovan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393016196
- ISBN 13
- 9780393016192
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, 1982 W.W. Norton and Company, New York. 1982. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ; Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($19.95); light toning to spine and front wrap; small tear to rear upper tip; small missing piece at bottom of rear panel. REd cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine with brown rules. 444 pp 8vo. Truman's contentious defeat of Dewey in 1948 was just the beginning of his problems for his second term as president that continued to the end of 1953. There was the Korean War, the Communist seizure of China, the firing of MacArthur, Soviet nuclear tests, US intervention in Vietnam, NATO, Hiss, McCarthy, Red Scare, and much more. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015847
- Title
- The Tumultous Years: The Presidency of Harry S Truman 1949-1953
- Author
- Robert J. Donovan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393016196
- ISBN 13
- 9780393016192
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Harry S. Truman, President Truman, Thomas Tewey, Dwight Eisenhower, George Marchall, Communist takeover of China, Vietnam, Korean War, General MacArthur, Joe McCarthy, Soviet Nuclear tests,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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