Results for: Cold War US History
Nixon : Volume Two : The Triumph of a Politician, 1962 - 1972.
Ambrose, Stephen E.
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has wear along edges with scuffing to covers and browning mainly along the upper edges of covers. Page edges are lightly browned with slight foxing. Smudging on fore-edges of pages. 736 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A detailed biography of Nixon to the end of his first term as president.
Price: $50.00
Nixon. Volume Three: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990.
Ambrose, Stephen E.
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges with some minor scuffing to covers. Slight stain on fore-edges of pages. 667 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A deatiled examination of the life and career of Richard Nixon from his second inauguration to the Watergate scandal to his efforts to salvage his reputation.
Price: $50.00
Cold Warriors : Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy.
Brands, Jr., H. W.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Octavo. Light wear and slight rubbing to edges of boards with light bumping to heel and head of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with minor browning and scuffing to covers as well. Price sticker on dj's inner front flap. 252 pages with endnotes, list of works cited, and index. A study of Eisenhower's foreign policy team including chapters on John Foster Dulles, Milton Eisenhower, Allen Dulles, Walter Bedell Smith, Robert Murphy, C. D. Jackson, Harold Stassen, Henry Cabot Lodge, and IKE him self.
Price: $40.00
The Marshall Plan : America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947 - 1952.
Hogan, Michael J.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Octavo. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and slight twist to binding. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with many small tears and an inch long tear with crease on lower edge of front cover. Pages 51-52 and 278-280 are lightly wrinkled (waterstained possibly). Light foxing to page edges. 482 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and index. A detailed history of the Marshall Plan and its creators' motives and hopes for rebuilding Western Europe after World War II.
Price: $20.00
American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War : An Insider's Account of U.S. Policy in Europe, 1989 - 1992.
Hutchings, Robert L.
Washington DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press/The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with some light scuffing to covers and faint stainmark on lower edge of back cover. 456 pages with illustrations, chronology, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A look at the end of the Cold War from the view of the director for European affairs at the National Security Council (NSC).
Price: $18.00
Anatomy of Mistrust : U.S. - Soviet Relations during the Cold War.
Larson, Deborah Welch.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards and slight twist to binding. Dj has light wear and rubbing to edges with some scuffing to covers. Stainmark on upper edges of pages and smaller marks on fore-edges of pages. Also stainmark on lower corner of front cover and front free endpaperr and of dj's lower corner and front inner flap. 329 pages with endnotes, list of primary sources, and index.
Price: $20.00
Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era.
Lichtman, Robert M., and Ronald D. Cohen.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight roll to spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges with minor scuffing to covers. Review notice pasted to front free endpaper. 227 pages with illustrations, endnotes, and index. A look at the life of Harvey Matusow and his role as an informer against the American Communist party.
Price: $20.00
Sarge : The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver.
Stossel, Scott. Foreword by Bill Moyers.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers and creasing on upper corner of inner front flap. Inscribed to previous owners by Sargent Shriver on front free endpaper. 761 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A detailed biography of the life and political service of R. Sargent Shriver.
Price: $30.00
One Nation : America Remembers September 11, 2001.
Sullivan, Robert, editor.
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 2001.
Very good quarto-sized hardcover in blue leather binding with 3 raised bands along spine, gilt page edges, gilt decoration and cover illustration of Statue of Liberty and World Trade Center Towers without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of covers and minor scuffing. 192 pages with illustrations. A heavily illustrated look at the events of 9/11 and their effect on the United States.
Price: $20.00
Fulbright : A Biography.
Woods, Randall Bennett.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Octavo. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Light brown marks on fore-edges of pages. 711 pages with footnotes, illustrations, and index. A study of the career of J. William Fulbright and his impact on American foreign policy during the Cold and Vietnam Wars.
Price: $20.00
