Overtaken by events: The Dominican crisis from the fall of Trujillo to the civil war by Martin, John Bartlow - 1966T

Garden City NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, 821 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine off-white, black and sage green with white, red and sage green lettering. Dust jacket has moderate wear including light soiling, slightly age toned spine and few, small chips to the head/tail edges. Price clipped front flap. Boards has light exterior wear and minor wear to the edges. Text block has age toning/soiling to the edges. Deckled fore edge. Pictorial end papers. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column J, ND-J. 1380537. FP New Rockville Stock.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Multiple chips and tears to jacket, jacket mended with tape on jacket reverse. 1966 Hard Cover. xiv, 821 pp. When Martin went to the Dominican Republic in 1962 as American ambassador, the country had only recently emerged from thirty years of cruel and greedy dictatorship. The seven-man governing junta had little political support and could not rely on the loyalty of the armed forces, still commanded by officers trained under Trujillo. Economic conditions were bad. There was much disorder in the capital, where the Communists and the pro-Castro 14th of July movement were inciting and paying for antigovernment and anti-American riots. One of the brightest students studying English in the bi-national center told the ambassador’s daughter that he was earning money for a trip to the United States by participating in these turbas for fifty cents or a dollar a day.… Read More

Doubleday and Company. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Dominican republic History, United States History, foreign Relations) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968 Book. As New. Hardcover. Third Printing. 4to. No Dust Jacket, As Issued. xx, 215 pp, preface, introduction, I. The Web of Open-Field Life; II Land, Hunger, Borough Rights, and the Power to Tax; III. The Secrets of the Corporation of This Town of Sudbury; IV. "It Is Ordered by the Court; V. Watertown on the Charles; VI. "It Is Ordered and Agreed by This Town"; VII. "All Liberties As Other Towns Have"; Viii. "We Shall Be Judged by Men of Our Own Choosing"; IX. "interest in This Town of Marlborough"; X. The Origin and Stability of a New England Town; notes, appendices, bibliography, index. Third Printing, September 1986. "This unique book is a study not of the early Massachusetts town but of a town, Sudbury, examined in depth and re-created from a painstaking analysis of its own well-kept records and of the individual English backgrounds of its first settlers." In Pristine Slipcase. Pristine, no wear.… Read More

Doubleday, January 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed with a personal inscription to Phil G. Pulitzer prize winning editor of the washington post

Doubleday, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.