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"First Lady of the World" is how President Harry Truman referred to Eleanor Roosevelt. At roughly the same time J. Edgar Hoover thought Eleanor might be a Communist. But as author and intellectual Garry Wills wrote, "there was nothing radical about her, either in temperament or principle. She would not join in civil rights activities if they included civil disobedience."Eleanor Roosevelt beautifully signed card with The White House Washington engraved in top right corner (see picture). Card is very neatly mounted on half title page. Book is very good condition generally toned throughout and price clipped. Dust jacket also very good with tears on top of binding and smaller chips on bottom of binding. Front and back of dust jacket are in very good condition (see pictures). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.
"This I Remember" is Eleanor Roosevelt's recollections of the years preceding FDR's first term as Governor Of NYS to the day of his death during his 4th term as President of the United… Read More

Beautifully signed on half title page: With best wishes, Lyndon B Johnson. (Signature is in fact suspiciously perfect). LBJ was a prolific user of secretarial and autopen signatures. It is possible that this may be an autopen signature. Book is bound in red cloth and is in fine condition. Dust Jacket has one inch tear at top of front impacting LBJ's head (see picture) and two minor tears at top on back. Clean text. Unclipped ($5.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.The author William S. White met 23-year-old Lyndon Johnson in Washington, both Texans, when Johnson worked as a Congressional staffer for Representative Richard Kleberg (D-TX) and White was a reporter for the Associated Press. "No one in Washington stands much higher in Lyndon Johnson's affection," Time reported. "The President loyally reads White's column . . . and he is not above calling White for advice . . . Johnson pays White the ultimate compliment of putting nothing off the record, relying on the total discretion of… Read More

Beautifully signed LBJ bookplate: To Eunice Graham With appreciation for her Competent service during a trying period. Lyndon B Johnson (Note the "C" in Competent is clearly capitalized by LBJ). Book in fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket on front page fine condition with very minor wrinkles (see picture). Tiny chips at top of jacket on binding and small tear and wrinkle on rear cover not impacting picture of LBJ (see picture). Clean text. Unclipped ($15.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.LBJ noted about this book, "I make no pretense of having written a complete and definitive history of my Presidency. I have tried, rather, to review that period from a President's personal and political philosophy, a President's experience and knowledge, a President's aspirations, and a President's response to the demands that were made on him." I have not written these chapters to say' This is how it was," but to say, "This is how I saw it from my vantage point."

First edition, First printing, Association Copy Inscribed: To Jake Seidenberg With every good wish for the years ahead from Dick Nixon Book is in very good condition with a very good dust jacket with a number of tears and small pieces missing at top and bottom of spine. Small pieces missing on front at top near authors name (see pictures). Clean text. Unclipped ($5.95). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.(Note: Seidenberg served in the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford Administrations. He served as the Executive Director of the President's Committee on Government Contracts, appointed by Eisenhower. Vice President Nixon was the Chairman of the Committee. Seidenberg later served as Chairman of he Federal Services Impasses Panel, which settled deadlocks in federal labor negotiations.)Nixon's first book was the result of encouragement from President Kennedy-- who Nixon visited in The White House only months after Nixon was defeated by Kennedy in the 1960 election--and said that a book would… Read More

Association Copy. A beautifully copy inscribed. To Ted Achilles, With appreciation for his service to his nation from Richard Nixon (Ted Achilles was a career diplomat who served as the Ambassador to Peru for President Truman. President Eisenhower named Achilles, Counselor to the State Department, where he was the head of a Special Task Force preparing for the Bay of Pigs Invasion)First edition in beautiful condition. Book in fine condition and dust jacket nearly fine with only a few tiny chips in the top of the spine and a few barely noticeable chips at the bottom of spine. Clean text. Unclipped ($17.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. The former president draws portraits of major political and military figures of our times--including Douglas MacArthur, Shigeru Yoshida, Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Zhou Enlai, Mao, Winston Churchill, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev.A review of the book in 1982 by the Christian Science Monitor included this in part. Richard Nixon will… Read More

First Edition of Lady Bird Johnson A White House Diary. Attached on the first page is a book plate inscribed: To -- Bob and Alice Letro -- happy reading! Lady Bird Johnson Clean text. Unclipped ($10.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Biographer Betty Boyd Caroli said in 2015 of Lady Bird: She really invented the job of the modern first lady. She was the first one to have a big staff, the first one to have a comprehensive program in her own name, the first one to write a book about the White House years, when she leaves. She had an important role in setting up an enduring role for her husband with the LBJ Library. She's the first one to campaign extensively on her own for her husband.
Writing in 1986, William H. Inman observed that Lady Bird was considered by some "the most effective First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt", citing her battles against highway billboard forests, auto heaps, and junk piles as well as her support for American public landscapes maintaining beauty and sanity.

Beautiful book in fine condition with a very good dust jacket. Only a small tear in jacket on back at bottom. Signed on the title page: Ben Bradlee Clean text. Price Clipped. Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. This is Ben Bradlee's first book issued shortly after Kennedy's death.

New unread book inscribed on title page: For Dan Moll Very best wishes, Ben BradleeClean text. Unclipped ($27.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. This is the third and final book by Bradlee following, "That Special Grace" and "Conversations with Kennedy."

Association Copy. Signed by Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson inscribed to Paul Nitze. To Paul Nitze with the deepest affection and admiration from Dean Acheson Washington November 1955Text clean. Unclipped ($3,00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. From Wikipedia...Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As the 51st U.S. Secretary of State, he set the foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration from 1949 to 1953. He was Truman's main foreign policy advisor from 1945 to 1947, especially regarding the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He was in private law practice from July 1947 to December 1948.[2] After 1949 Acheson came under partisan political attack from Republicans led by Senator Joseph McCarthy over Truman's policy toward the People's Republic of China.As a private citizen in 1968 he counseled President Lyndon B.… Read More

Inscribed on front end paper by one of the true Giants of the United States Senate, William Fulbright. Inscribed: To Beverley Githens with appreciation and esteem Bill Fulbright Dec 1964Book in very good condition. Dust jacket also in very good with a few very small chips in bottom of spine, shows some shelf wear. Text clean. Unclipped price ($5.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Fulbright was an American politician, academic, and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. As of 2022, Fulbright is the longest serving chairman in the history of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He is best known for his strong multilateralist positions on international issues, opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War, and the creation of the international fellowship program bearing his name, the Fulbright Program.

Beautifully signed on first page: Margaret Truman (see picture).Book in very good condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with a few chips on bottom of spine and two tears at top right of front and top left near spine both repaired (see pictures).Clean text. Price clipped. Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. From book jacket:This unique portrait of a President by his daughter covers the full sweep of Harry S. Truman's life: from his early days and political career in Missouri through the momentous years in Washington where he served as a United States Senator, Vice President and President.

Beautifully signed on half title page: Pierre Salinger (see picture)Book in very good condition. Book jacket in very good condition a few small chips at bottom of spine and some staining on front white area (see picture). Clean text. Price clipped. Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Press Secretary and close friend to President Kennedy Salinger adds a unique perspective on the founding of Camelot and the New Frontier. Many fascinating stories are included, of particular interest is Salinger's attempt to keep pace with Premier Khrushchev and his consumption of food and vodka!

Signed on the first page (see picture): Will Durant Clean text. No dust jacket. Good condition with tear to top 1/4 inch of cloth board at top of spine. This book has been considered ground-breaking work that helped to popularize philosophy. The Story of Philosophy originated as a series of Little Blue Books (educational pamphlets which were aimed at workers) and because it was so popular, it was republished as a hardcover book by Simon & Schuster in 1926 and became a bestseller, giving the Durants the financial independence that allowed them to travel the world several times and spend four decades writing The Story of Civilization. From Perlego...A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey— The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this… Read More

Signed on first page: Sherman Adams Clean text. Unclipped price ($5.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.Book in good condition with discoloration on some pages. Dust jacket in very good condition with some chips in top and bottom of jacket on and around spine. Sherman Adams was an American businessman and politician, best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of an 18-year political career that also included a stint as the 67th governor of New Hampshire. He lost his White House position in a scandal.
Eisenhower adopted the military model, which emphasizes the importance of the Chief of Staff in handling all of the paperwork and preliminary decisions. With rare exceptions, anyone who spoke with Eisenhower had to have Adams' prior approval. Adams took his role as Chief of Staff very seriously; with the exception of Cabinet members and certain NSC advisors, all requests for access to Eisenhower had to go through his office. This alienated… Read More

Beautifully inscribed: To Dan Moll With warm regards, Evelyn LincolnLaid in: hand written address of Evelyn and Harold Lincoln in Chevy Chase, Maryland.Laid in original Washington Post obituary for Lincoln in 1995.Book in near fine condition with Presidential Inaugural Symbol engraved on blue board cover. Dust jacket in near fine condition with small chip to bottom of jacket on spine.Clean text. Price unclipped (4.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.Controversial book in which Lincoln discussed the relationship or lack of between President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson. Lincoln's first book, a best seller entitled, "My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy" did not discuss the relationship.
After the assassination Lincoln was entrusted to catalog the JFK possessions from both his Senate and White House service. Lincoln was ultimately accused by Kennedy's children, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and John F. Kennedy Jr., of stealing, and selling off many items.
"It is now clear that Mrs.… Read More