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DEMYTHOLOGIZING AN ELITE: AMERICAN PRESIDENTS IN EMPIRICAL, COMPARATIVE, AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
by Rejai, Mostafa, Kay Phillips and Warren L. Mason
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0275943313
- ISBN 13
- 9780275943318
- Seller
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About This Item
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine. Inscription by authors to half-title page. Fourth volume co-authored with Kay Phillips. Signed letter from Rejai laid in. Ever-so-slightly cocked. 155 pp. with appendices, bibliography and index. Clean, tight, bright. The American presidents are often glorified with their flaws glossed over. This books aim is to treat the presidents as human, fallible, human beings. [The authors] "seek to place the presidents in empirical, comparative, and historical perspectives and, in so doing, to demythologize understanding of an important group of political leaders. (taken from Introduction)
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- Bookseller
- The Sensible Magpie
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 425
- Title
- DEMYTHOLOGIZING AN ELITE: AMERICAN PRESIDENTS IN EMPIRICAL, COMPARATIVE, AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
- Author
- Rejai, Mostafa, Kay Phillips and Warren L. Mason
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0275943313
- ISBN 13
- 9780275943318
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Place of Publication
- Westport, CT
- Date Published
- 1993
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