Search Results: History: U.S from The Owl at the Bridge

Washington, Brookings Institution, 1960. Hard Cover. Reviews the 1956 campaign. Eisenhower had a slight challenge from Harold Stassen; the Democrats had Estes Kefauver and Averell Harriman against Adlai Stevenson. Convention and campaign are carefully studied. This is the sort of thing Theodore White developed in 1960 with more verve, more journalistic ”you are there” feeling, and more currency than this solid, perhaps in the end more reliable scholarly study. 101213. xv, 382 p. Vg/no dj.

Rawding Distributing Co., Winchester, Mass. Copyright 1964. Fifteenth Edition. Soft Cover. 48 pages, illus. incl. photos, maps; stapled in yellow pictorial covers; VG. Stock#101383.

Gregg Press, Ridgewood, N.J. [1966]. Hard Cover. Extra-oversize folio; l, 288, [1], li-lxx p., indexes, illus, facsimiles. The first decade of the 18th century saw quickened economic activity as well as tighter government regulation. In this volume can be traced the foundations of New York's commercial success. 'With the exception of the governor, probably no single official in the colony of New York received as careful selection, or was given more detailed instruction by the crown, than the customs collector. ...Through Customs House doors passed most, if not all, incoming and outgoing provincial trade from overseas, as well as from the other mainland colonies. ...The collectorship was often in the center of political controversy. ...The history of this office is a good example of the essential weakness of the imperial system and the strength, craftiness, and independence of the colonists' (from the introduction). Contents include a glossary of early 18th-century terms, New York shipping… Read More

N.Y., Dutton, 1989. Hard Cover. xii, 397 p. 24 cm. "Ronald Reagan and the supporting players who helped him create the illusion that held America spellbound." Stock #29,406. Vg/ dj vg.

Pamphlet; "Issued by the courtesy of Henry Dexter Sharpe, esquire, governor of the Society." Cover title: "The Pilgrims and Liberty." Softcover. 14 pages; 23.5 cm. Very Good, sewn in printed red paper covers. Stock#40699/h.

Princeton University Press, 1973. Hard Cover. viii, 433 p.; 25 cm. "This book sustains the case for interpreting 1898 and its aftermath as a deliberate search for an 'informal"'or 'insular' empire." ISBN (10): 0691069166. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#NEU246.

Washington, D. C., National Press Books, 1992. Hard Cover. 328 p.; 24 cm. Foreword by Laurence Tribe. The attempts of Bush I to appoint two Conservative judges to the Supreme Court met with ferocious opposition. Senator Simon, who was on the Senate Judiciary Committee that heard the evidence, relates the essential nature of the deliberations and sets the struggle in the historical context of Presidential appointments to the Court. Fine/ dj fine. 101915.

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1972. Hard Cover. [iii], 59 p.; 23 cm. "America will have to come to terms with its waning economic, political, and military power." A British view in the aftermath of Vietnam. ISBN)10): 0300015860. Stock#NEU239. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Hard Cover. xiv, 557 p., 22 cm. The context in which Franklin Roosevelt became president. Book club. AM. Stock# 32,030. Vg/ no dj.

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1970]. Soft Cover. ix, 434 p.; 23 cm. Eight essays in 3 sections: Introduction: Reappraisal of American policy by Robert E. Osgood; Pt. 1. The Principals: The American outlook by Robert W. Tucker --The Soviet outlook by Herbert S. Dinerstein --pt. 2. The conditions: The domestic scene by Francis E. Rourke --The military issues by Robert E. Osgood --The economic constraints by Isaiah Frank --pt. 3. The arenas: Europe by Laurence W. Martin --The Third World by George Liska. ISBN(10) 0801811031. Stock#NEU195. Good+, used soft cover.

American Heritage Publishing Co., NY, 1971.. Hard Cover. 112 p., illus. incl. color. 29 cm. Contents include articles on The American Revolution as England's Vietnam; John Foster Dulles; on Hokum Drugs; David Humphreys Miller who painted Indian survivors of Little Big Horn; the Arnhem air drop; tennis in America; Panama; Picnics; Stock# 40,164x. Vg.

American Heritage Publishing Co., NY, 1970.. Hard Cover. 112 p., illus. incl. color, 29 cm. Contents include: Japan Strikes: 1937; Japan Strikes: 1941; Maxfield Parrish; The Scotch-Irish; The Heart of Savannah; Thomas Edison's Diary; The Night Before Christmas. Stock# 40,161. Vg

American Heritage Publishing Co., NY, 1971. Includes articles on the 19th Century Dinosaur Wars; Thomas Jefferson; James Garfield; a black cadet at West Point; James Farley; Beach wear. Hard Cover. 112 pages, illus. incl. color. 29 cm. Stock#40165. Vg.

Austin, TX. & New Haven, CT, Jenkins and Reese, 1980. Hard Cover. xxi, [iii], 264 p. : facsim. ; 24 cm. Title continues: "printed between 1764 and 1776 dealing with the dispute between Great Britain and her colonies / by Thomas R. Adams." "This book first appeared in the publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Transactions, vol. 43"-- t.p. verso. Stock# 42,942. Fine, new from publisher / no dj.

London, British Library/ Lexington, MA, Museum of Our National Heritage, 1975. Soft Cover. 166 p., illus.; 24.5 cm. "A Commemorative Exhibition Organized by the Map Library and The Department of Manuscripts." 201 entries of choice items from the Library. Stock#32495.Vg/ paper.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Hard Cover. xxi, 168, [2] p.; 22 cm. "My object has been to make what I think is the most interesting country in the world interesting and intelligible to others"-- particularly to his fellow Brits, who felt swamped by Yanks when he wrote this (the Preface is dated March 24th, 1944). Stock#NEU363. Good+; owner name on sunned flyleaf/ no dj.

New Haven, Yale University Press, [ 1955, c 1950].. Hard Cover. ix, 476 p. port. 24 cm."Seventh printing." "Commager's assessment of the American character is regarded as the most serious and comprehensive attempt to supply a history of American thought since Parrington." Bibliography: p. [445]-467. NEU 135. Good+ / no dj. I

Boston, Gambit, 1973.. Hard Cover. xv, 286 p., index. 'Advances a thesis that the myth of a new wonderland as described in ancient books now unread is an illusion that survives strongly in American thinking and writing today.' Stock #100,879, Vg/ dj vg. America History Literature

NY: Hill & Wang / Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1980. Hard Cover. xvii, 398 p.; 24 cm. "Audacious and original interpretation of the functional value and importance of the myths we hold." ISBN (10): 0809025043. Stock#NEU328. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

'First Printing' "...includes not only an account of urban and municipal local units but also of counties, townships, school districts and special districts as well. ...deals in more than usual detail with federal-local and state-local relationships, especially as they have developed since World War II.' Hardcover. xix, 662 pages, index, tables; green cloth covers stamped in white & black; worn, library withdrawal stamps, owner name; no dust jacket; still a useful copy. Stock#27181/h.