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America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, 1956-1980
by White, Theodore Harold
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060390077
- ISBN 13
- 9780060390075
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Bound in blue cloth, gilt titled, very clean and unmarked, tight and solid sewn binding, square corners. Slight smudge on lower corner of text block. Former owner name on endpaper. Internals very clean, completely unmarked, no creases. The last of T. H. White's prize winning series on American Presidential politics. He tells of the dramas that lie behind the times of upheavals that shatter old dreams and ideas and transform American politics. His time frame is the twenty-five years that climax with the campaign and election of 1980 and its two principal characters, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. 465 pages, indexed. 9.5 x 6 inches. 1982, Harper & Row, New York, New York, USA
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- 015397
- Title
- America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, 1956-1980
- Author
- White, Theodore Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060390077
- ISBN 13
- 9780060390075
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- UNITED STATES, POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT PRESIDENTS, STATES RONALD REAGAN JIMMY CARTER DWIGHT EISENHOWER ESTES KEFAUVER EDWARD KENNEDY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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