Search Results: Politics from S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

New York: Viking Press. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1967. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0670102008 . This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and tears along with some light rubbing and wear, especially to the spine ends. "Theodore H. "Ted" Draper (September 11, 1912 – February 21, 2006) was an American historian and political writer. Draper is best known for the 14 books he completed during his life, including work regarded as seminal on the formative period of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution, and the Iran-Contra Affair. Draper was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Herbert Feis Award for Nonacademically Affiliated Historians from the American Historical Association. " .

Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office. Very Good-. 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0160418275 . B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have light bumping and noticeable spots of rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. "FactorsInfluencingCocaReductionInitiatives 2T he Andean region is complex in its geology, ecology, andcultural history. This complexity precludes simple orbroadly applicable coca substitution strategies. Success-ful, cooperative, counternarcotics efforts among theUnited States and Andean countries require careful considerationof all of these factors. This chapter examines the biophysical, cultural, socio-political, and economic conditions that may affectthe success of efforts to reduce coca cultivation in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia." (from the book) .

New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 039301407X . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a remnant of a previous owner's address label on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has several small to smallish edge tears and nicks, along with a clipped corner (not price clipped) . "Ms. Whedon began her radio and television career in 1952 as assistant producer of "ABC College News Conference." In 1958, when the program won a Peabody award for youth television programming, the show's producer and moderator, Ruth Hagy, insisted that Ms. Whedon, her "girl Friday," also take a bow. In 1960, she became producer of the "Issues and Answers" Sunday newsmagazine, and… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Miles & Scott, Inc.. Very Good. 1935. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The front cover has several spots of foxing by the spine and top front corner. There is a bit of generalized toning to the entire cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "" (from Wikipedia) .

New York, NY: New York Labor News Company. Good. 1911. Trade Edition. Pamphlet. This is a small format booklet with self covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have some bumping, rubbing, wear, and at least one tear along with large chips to the back rear corners that has taken off good portions of each. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "In 1901 Gustave Hervé had attained notoriety with an apparent image of the tricolor planted in a dungpile. Soon he forged a prominent antimilitarist movement called Hervéism. When France's socialist parties united in 1905, Hervé led the most extreme faction. Soon Hervéists created a weekly newspaper, La Guerre sociale, which attempted to unite the extreme French left. Before World War I Hervé was one of the most strident voices within both French socialism and the Second International, advocating violent, revolutionary means… Read More

New York, NY: The Economics Club. Very Good-. 1934. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a trade sized booklet with self covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have some light, generalized toning. There are several spots of foxing to the spine joint of the booklet. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The rear cover of the book has a three inch long patch of discoloration from something being dropped on it. "Ogden Livingston Mills (August 23, 1884 – October 11, 1937) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Treasury in President Herbert Hoover's cabinet, during which time Mills pushed for tax increases, spending cuts and other austerity measures that would deepen the economic crisis. A member of the Republican Party, Mills also represented New York in the United States House of Representatives, served as… Read More

Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but does have an inch long tear to the top spine end, a couple of tiny edge nicks to the bottom spine end and some light ground-in dirt to the white covers. " "Most seasoned researchers are aware of Morrow's longstanding claims: that he operated under contract with the CIA in the murky world of CIA-funded anti-Castro Cubans in an effort to destabilize Castro's government, and that these same people, fuelled by President Kennedy's perceived betrayal of the exile cause, went on to hatch a plot against the President with the CIA's active participation. " .

New York: Viewpoints / Franklin Watts, Inc.. Very Good. 1974. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Graphs; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The white covers have some ground-in dirt and light rubbing. There is some light bumping and creasing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. "I began this final draft on January 20, 1973, the day Richard Nixon stood for the fifth time on the inaugural platform. As he began his second term as president of the United States, it was none too soon to begin to think about the 1976 election." "Andrew M. Greeley (February 5, 1928 – May 29, 2013) was an American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist. Greeley was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a Research… Read More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0226238008 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean." The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August 23 to August 29, 1968. Many left-wing counterculture and anti-Vietnam War groups, as well as supporters of anti-war Democratic candidate Eugene McCarthy, began planning protests, marches, and demonstrations in response to the convention and the impending presidential nomination of Democratic vice-president nominee Hubert Humphrey. There were… Read More

Taipei, Taiwan: China Publishing Company. Very Good-. 1975. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. SIGNED EDITION. This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good- only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The front cover of the book has been torn at the top edge and travels down nearly to the middle of the book. The covers also have noticeable rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author, witn an inscription, on the front endpaper. "This is not a traveler's diary or a journalist report, or a narrow and specialized dissertation on some detached aspects or details, but a comprehensive and critical presentation of the policies and practices of the Chinese Communists and of the problems they present to the Chinese people and the world." ; Signed by Author .

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.. Very Good+. 1900. Early printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine of the book has noticeable toning / sunning, along with some foxing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front pastedown page. "Lloyd was one of the precursors to the later muckraker journalists, writing a searing exposé of the monopolistic abuses of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, "The Story of a Great Monopoly," published in the March 1881 issue of The Atlantic. He later fleshed out his case against the unbridled corporate power of Standard Oil and similar corporations in his best-known book, Wealth Against Commonwealth, published in 1894. Lloyd's work thus preceded Ida Tarbell's… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster / Threshold Editions. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. This copy has been signed by the author on a pasted down bookplate on the front endpaper. "From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America's political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans." ; Signed by Author .

New York: St. Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0312284330 . SIGNED EDITION. Signed by the author in black ink on the half title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Nader's activism has been directly credited with the passage of several landmark pieces of American consumer protection legislation including the Clean Water Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. He has been repeatedly named to lists of the "100 Most Influential Americans", including those published by Life, Time, and The Atlantic. The New York Times described him as a "dissident". " (from… Read More

Raleigh, NC: Edward & Broughton Co.. Very Good. 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This pamphlet is smaller than trade sized, with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet covers have noticeable toning / darkening. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's penciled notation on the rear cover of the book. (not related to the booklet's subject). " Returning to North Carolina on the eve of World War II, Humber retired from business for the next decade devoted all his time, energy, and resources to what he considered the greatest single challenge confronting mankind—world peace. Stirred by his travels and exposure to other cultures, he was convinced that man's only hope for a permanent and lasting peace lay in the establishment of a world order implemented by a world federal government. In his pamphlet, The Declaration of the Federation of the World, he set forth his idea that order among men could be maintained only under… Read More

Washington D. C.: Citizens Organized To Replace Kennedy. Good. 1982. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback / booklet. The book has illustrated self-covers and a stapled spine. The book covers have noticeable generalized toning, and some spots of biopredation (bug nibbles ) to the top front cover. The rear cover has a large varied group of spots of foxing. There is one small edge tear to the bottom edge of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a red ink stamped " Proof Copy Not for Distribution " on the front of the book. "Dick Hafer (1937-2003) , the "Comics Commando!", was a right-wing comic book artist who also did some mainstream comics on such subjects as model railroading (collected in his books This Is NOT The Honeymoon I Anticipated and Sometimes You Gotta Compromise) , dog ownership, and Christian humor books with titles like Church Chuckles and Sunday Snickers. His mainstream… Read More

New York, NY: The Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs. Very Good+. 1934. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a trade sized booklet with self covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There are several small spots of foxing to the covers, and there is toning to the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. This is an address "Given before the Annual Meeting of the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs" "The most powerful of FDR’s conservative opponents eventually came together as the American Liberty League. Prominent industrialists and financiers formed the Liberty League in August of 1934. Democrats such as 1924 presidential nominee John W. Davis, 1928 presidential nominee Alfred Smith, and former party chairman John J. Raskob joined corporate leaders such as Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, the DuPont family, and others to oppose the administration in… Read More

Tulsa, OK: Christian Crusade Publications. Very Good+. 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Pamphlet. This is a trade sized pamphlet with illustrated cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The pamphlet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The corners of the covers have some beginning creasing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society." .

New York, NY: Summit Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0671661477 . Cover Photograph; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has a tiny nick / tear to the top spine end. <P> "Thompson remains best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) , a book first serialized in Rolling Stone in which he grapples with the implications of what he considered the failure of the 1960s counterculture movement. It was adapted for film twice: loosely in Where the Buffalo Roam starring Bill Murray as Thompson in 1980, and explicitly in 1998 by director Terry Gilliam in the eponymous film starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Thompson ran unsuccessfully for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, in 1970 on the Freak Power ticket. His campaign was chronicled in the… Read More

Washington, D. C.: The Committee On Public Information. Very Good. 1914. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a small booklet with self covers and a stapled spine ( approx. 4.5" x 3") . The booklet cover has a noticeable crease to the front cover, along with some light rubbing, bumping and wear. There is a small beginning tear to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. This little booklet is a noticeable screed of propoganda against Germans, both in the US and in Germany in the ramp up to World War I. "He was born in London, Ontario, in 1876. He studied in the University of Toronto from 1893 to 1897 but did not graduate. He worked as a journalist in Toronto but soon moved to the United States when his detective stories became popular in American magazines. He also wrote for political and sociological journals. He then began writing longer works of fiction, and then works on social questions with various specialists as… Read More

Marzani & Munsell. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book cover. There is a light bump to the top front corner of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge tears and nicks. The dust jacket also has generalized rubbing. "MacDougall was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He obtained a BA in English from Ripon College in 1923 and a Master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 1926). In 1933, he received his PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin. He joined the Northwestern faculty in 1935. MacDougall worked for the St. Louis Star-Times and United Press International. He also edited the Evanston Daily News and the Chicago Sun. MacDougall was the… Read More