The Experts: A scathing indictment of the opinion makers who flood the press, the networks and the policy-making departments of our government with their special brand of instantaneous wisdom de Seymour Freidin and George Bailey - 1968

Macmillan Co., 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing.

NY Macmillan [1968] 1st ed., 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. cloth, dust jacket, 398p. VG/VG

New York: MacMillan & Co LTD. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 vo. .

The Macmillan Company, 1968. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1968. First Edition. 398 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped Jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and panel. Minor tanning to interior flaps, panels and spine.

The Macmillan Co., New York 1968 Hard cover with dust jacket GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Who are the experts? They are opinion leaders, key diplomats, influencial journalists: a select group who include in their ranks Kremlinologists, China Watchers, Germanophobes, and instant specialists on Asian, African, and Latin American affairs. Where do they get their expertise? In this bold, iconoclastic book, the authors answer this key question with a barrage of startling facts.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xvii, 398pp. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear. Handsome, tight first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "scathing indictment of the opinion makers who flood the press, the networks and the policy-making departments of our government with their special brand of instantaneous wisdom." Co-author and investigative journalist Freidin (1917-91) boldly inscribes and signs the title page in blue ballpoint "For Luke Carroll, my old friend & colleague, / Who knows all the "experts" -- / Affectionately, / Si Freidin." (Luke P. Carroll, 1916-82, served as managing editor of "The New York Herald Tribune" and "Chicago's American" before becoming editor of "Chicago Today" in 1968.).