American Politics from Craftsbury Antiquarian Books

New York : Crown, 2023. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Possibly read once, but looks new. No prior owner marks. No flaws to the dust jacket. Can our country successfully move into a multi-racial society ? .

New Tirj : The Review of Reviews Company, 1904. Book. Illus. by each of 14 volumes has a frontispiece, mostly of Roosevelt. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This complete set of 14 voumes was published when Teddy Roosevelt was still President, hence legitimately called The Statesman Edition. Original red cloth, very clean and… Read more about this item

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original yellow cloth with no rubs or edgewear and a black title on the spine. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has no tears. No prior owner marks. An interesting book during these Trump years in which… Read more about this item

New York & London: The Free Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The premise is that economic life is pervaded by culture and depends on moral bonds of social trust. I like that thesis, but it has not worked so well in the U.S. in the last decades. … Read more about this item

New York: Random House , 2021. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author was winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and this volume is superbly written about American income disparities. A fine copy, once read. Recommended. this copy includes a May 2022 review of the book by Adam Hochschild. .

Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. Book. Illus. by 12 pages of photos. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An advisor to Presidents, and an esteemed scholar of the institution of the Presidency, this series of essays is a tribute to his accomplishments at Harvard and before. A fine copy with no prior owner… Read more about this item

Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Power, threats, promises, costs both economic and politicl - with help from psychologi, political science and economics. A wise book in original black cloth with bright gilt title on the unfaded spine. No edge wear. Dust jacket without… Read more about this item

Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 2008. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A thought provoking set of essays on climate change - looking at a variety of institutions as both solution and problem. An unread copy of this paperback. No prior owner marks.i.

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fascinating , insider account of American policies and actions toward Iran and Iraq in the 1980s. An unread copy, as new inside and out. , i.

New York : Crown Publishers, 2006. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An unread copy, as new inside and out. Protected in a clear, mylar sleeve. .

New York: Penguin Press, 2015. Book. Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The brilliant thinker, sadly now deceased, has consistently given us passionate and lucid history and current affairs of Europe and the U.S. An unblemished copy, no prior owner marks and dust jacket is NOT price clipped. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cloth Binding with no edge wear, dust jacket with no wear and unclipped, as new inside and out. Gates was a highly successful intelligence analyst before rising to be Director of CIA and repacing Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense because… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Subtitled, How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq. It comes down to this. If you give the policy maker a choice of whether a dismal failure was the fault of bad policy or inept intelligence, he will choose that it… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Government of West Pakistan, 1866. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A nice piece of Americana, the first edition of eulogies for Judge Collomer, a respected congressman, Postmaster General, and Senator from Vermont in the 1840s through the Civil War. Bound in the original stiff brown boards with… Read more about this item