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Washington, DC: Brookings Inst Pr, 2007. 228pp. Offers an insiders view of what went wrong and allowed this isolated nation - a charter member of the Axis of Evil - to develop nuclear weapons. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971. 163pp/illus. Expresses his idiosyncratic views on politics, big business, marriage, babies, physical fitness and alcohol, to name but a few. Cantankerous, pompous, ribald, Fields was a true eccentric and a rebel. Clean. 4th Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. 160pp/illus. Ballantine's illustrated History of the Violent Century - Politics in Action #9.. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Stanford Univ Pr, 1999. pages 6 tables 11 figures. Using a new institutionalist approach, Zegart asks what forces shaped the initial design of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council in ways that meant they were handicapped from birth. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Scribners, 2004. 256pp. Considers George W. Bush's Iraq incursion through the lens of history. Draws key lessons from Teddy Roosevelt's bold yet unsuccessful fling at empire building at the end of the 19th century--a foray which went very wrong. Clean . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1991. 197pp. Clean no marks. . 1st Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ Pr, 1998. 222p/illus. Compete With photos, drawings & index. Forewords by Senator Daniel P. Moynihan and Senator Alfonse M.D'Amato. New York State politics & government, caricatures, cartoons, Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007. 224pp/illus in b&w/color. Kenneth Baker draws on his own extensive experience of high politics as well as his personal collection of caricatures to give us a fascinating vision of how the English saw their king. Many of these amusing, often irreverent images have not been published before and they provide a new dimension to the story of one of the nation's most well known but least understood monarchs. Clean no marks.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong).

Amherst, MA: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1973. 220pp. An analysis of the Massachusetts political system that examines its electoral history & the forces which have produced victory & defeat for candidates & parties. Illustrated with charts & tables. DJ has tear on back corner. Text clean. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1973. 432 pages, 8 plates, Deals with the encounter between a quite ordinary man and the historical forces then at work. Although the eight years in the White House form the major part of the book, a close study is made of Truman's upbringing, of the influence of his parents and small town milieu on his personality and character. Price clipped on dj. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, D.C: Three Continents Press, 1982. 181pp. Rare first printing. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: John's Hopkins University Press, 1961. 316pp/maps. DJ has wear. Text clean.. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Scorpion Publishing, 1985. Selected memorabilia from the National Museum Of Labour History, London. Clean. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.: Taylor Publishing, 1977. 150pp. "This is Number __ of First Edition" at bottom of title page. The story of Carter's highly effective all-volunteer political platoons, from the New Hampshire primaries and beyond. Clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

New York: Sentinel, 2011. 815pp/illus. INSCRIBED by author Donald Rumsfeld directly on the title page. An unflinching memoir of his half-century career, sharing previously undisclosed details that will fascinate readers and force historians to rethink many controversies. Clea/like new. Inscribed by the Author. 1st Printing. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1986. 273 pages 13 b&w photographs, maps The Chartist movement is a core area of study in many history syllabuses. This book details the last of the Chartist insurrections in 1839. The author concludes that contempories were right to regard the rising as one of the most important turning points in Welsh and British social history. Clean. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1958. 224pp/illus. w/ full-page reproductions of all the Pulitzer Prize cartoons. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.: Indiana Univ Pr, 2005. 452pp/illus. Louis Johnson was FDR's Assistant Secretary of War and the architect of the industrial mobilization plans that put the nation on a war footing prior to its entry into World War II. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago, IL: Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1970. 229pp/illus. Fully bound in green cloth boards. The title, the author's name, and a device depicting a giant cog superimposed over the silhouette of the state of Illinois are yellow-stamped to the front board. The title, the author name, and the Illinois-and-cog device are yellow-stamped to the spine. The publisher device is yellow-stamped to the center of the rear board. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white maps, sketches, and a three-fold fold-out facsimile of a ballot. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1988. Inscribed by George Mitchell. Book has 350 pages with illustrations. Second printing of first edition. Written a year after the hearings by a Cohen and Mitchell about what they know about the Iran-Contra affair.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.