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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
by Kluger, Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394570766
- ISBN 13
- 9780394570761
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Fine. Large, heavy, thick, sturdy book, black cloth spine, gray boards with very bright gilt embossed initials, gilt lettering bright on spine, 807 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar, purple background with close-up of burning cigarette on front, white and yellow front and spine borders, back too with praise. DJ has very tiny light creases at spine bottom edge. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.
Synopsis
Richard Kluger began a career in journalism at The Wall Street Journal , and was a writer for Forbes magazine and then the New York Post before becoming literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune during its final years. In book publishing he served as executive editor at Simon and Schuster, and editor-in-chief at Atheneum. A fulltime writer since 1974, he is the author of two other works of social history -- Simple Justice , an account of the epochal 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation, and The Paper , on the life and death of the Herald Tribune ; each was nominated for the National Book Award. The best known of his six novels are Members of the Tribe and The Sheriff of Nottingham . Kluger and his wife, Phyllis, who have two sons and have written two novels together, live near Princton, New Jersey. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54647
- Title
- Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
- Author
- Kluger, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394570766
- ISBN 13
- 9780394570761
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Cigarettes Cigarette Industry Business Crimes Philip Morris
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime; Business; Health;
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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