Summer in Italy
de O'Faolain, Sean ; [Kermit Roosevelt Jr.'s copy ]
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Librería
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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New York: Devin-Adair Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. 248 pages; Owner's signature on ffep -- "Kermit Roosevelt / Washington, 1950" Clean and secure in original green cloth binding in dustjacket with edgewear and chipping. Ó Faoláin was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Irish culture and outspoken in his attacks on censorship and the conservative aspects of Irish nationalism and Catholicism. This is his Italian travel narrative book illustrated with eight black & white photographs. "Full of agreeable writing, urbane, scholarly, companionable and witty - This is the Italy of a thousand summers" wrote Alan Moohead in the 'Observer'. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. .
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- Librería
- Antiquarian Book Shop (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 43886
- Título
- Summer in Italy
- Autor
- O'Faolain, Sean ; [Kermit Roosevelt Jr.'s copy ]
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edición
- First American Edition
- Editorial
- Devin-Adair Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1950
- Tamaño
- 8vo.
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Italy, Literary Memoirs, Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
- Catálogos del vendedor
- European History;
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...