THE RECKONING by David Halberstam - 1986

Nice First Edition hardcover, pages are clean, crisp and sharp, binding tight. Cover boards near fine, 1/4 cream cloth, blue boards, silver lettering along spine, minor bumping to spine head and heel & front tips. Dust jacket near fine, minor sticker shadow on inside fold. A excellent and bright copy
-- From Pulitzer Prize winning author a book five years in the making, The Reckoning reveals a society that got too rich for its own good, racing thru its postwar prosperity, developing wasteful habits. Finally in the mid-70s it fell prey to an unlikely rival: Japan, a nation only recently scorned for the low quality of its goods. This chastening study, portrays the conflict between the culture of affluence & that of adversity. It's a high-minded reminder that America's greatness is on the line & that vigilance is the price of survival.