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Agency Of Fear
by Edward Jay Epstein
Edward Jay Epstein’s books include Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America, Deception: The Invisible War Between the CIA and the KGB, The Rise and Fall of Diamonds, Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth and News from Nowhere.
Government Books & Ephemera
Descent into Chaos
by Ahmed Rashid
New York: Viking. Hardcover. June 2008. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light shelfwear to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. lx + 484 pages. The ongoing turmoil in Afghanistan and Central Asia receives a searching retrospective as Rashid surveys the region to reveal a thicket of ominous threats and lost opportunities--in Pakistan, a rickety dictatorship colludes with militants, and Afghanistan's weak...
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$11.65
Measures Short of War : the George F. Kennan Lectures at the National War College, 1946-47
by George F. Kennan; Giles D. Harlow (ed); George C. Maerz
Washington, DC: National Defense University. Trade Paperback. First Edition / First Printing, May 1991 (stated). Near Fine book. Interior Pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Rubbing to covers and 1/2 inch scratch to spine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Seems unread. 326 pages.
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$21.95
Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
by Paul Krugman
New York: W. W. Norton. Trade Paperback. April 17, 1995. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Not from a library. No remainder mark. vi + 303 pages.
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$6.45
Betrayed By Those We Trust
by Clif Everett
Self-published, 1993. Paperback. Good +. Good+ blue softcover. 1993. SIGNED by author w/no inscription. Price blacked out to cover. Light marginali to pages. LIght edgewear/shelfwear. Binding solid.92 pp.
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$10.00
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
by Robert Baer
New York: Three Rivers Press. Trade Paperback. 2002. First Paperback Edition (stated). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Light shelfwear. xx + 292 pages.
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$6.95
The Shoeblack and the Sovereign: Reflections on Ethics and Foreign Policy
by George Walden
New York: St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. 1988. First Edition / full number line. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Rubbing to covers. Foxing to edges. xii + 172 pages.
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$5.95
The Supreme Court in American History
by Marjorie Fribourg
New York: Avon Camelot. Mass Market Paperback. February 1969. First Camelot Printing (stated). Good. Text unmarked. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 223 pages.
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$9.95
The Grenada Papers
by Paul Seabury (ed); Walter A. McDougall (ed); Sidney Hook (forward)
San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press. Hardcover. October 1984. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Light shelfwear. Light foxing to edges. xviii + 346 pages.
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$18.95
Spoils of War: The Politics of Patronage
by Simpson Jeffrey, ** Signed **
Toronto, Ont: Collins. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 0002177595 . Black hard boards with gilt lettering on the spine. First Edition and SIGNED by the author. Light spine bumping with a clean bright interior and a solid binding. The DJ has some overall light scuffing and edgwear. "This book is a hard hitting account of one of the liveliest and most controversial issues in Canadian politics. Should be read by all politicians in this country. Everything you...
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CA$32.25
Up the Hill
by Johnston Donald
Montreal, Quebec: Optimum Publishing International. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 088890178X . Fine cream colored hard cover with red spine covering with white lettering on spine. The DJ is unclipped and has some minor edgewear. Includes notes, bibliography and index. "This book will fascinate all Canadians, conservative and liberal, Tory or Grit. Johnston writes frankly about his brand of liberalism whether it conicides with his party or not." ; 8vo -...
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CA$17.25
American Polity: The People and Their Government
by Ladd Everett Carll
New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1985. Pictorial Cover. 0393953483 . Pictorial Hard cover, issued without a DJ. Very clean, tight copy with slight bow on front cover. Contents: American Society, Political Beliefs and Practice, Governance, Participation, Public Policy. Also includes Glossary, Index and the American Constitution. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 678 pages .
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CA$45.25
An American Renaissance A Strategy for the 1980's
by Kemp Jack
New York: Harper & Row Publishers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1979. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 0060122838 . Clean, tight copy with slight fading around the edges, grey boards with blue cloth spine, gilt lettering on the spine. Front free-endpaper missing. DJ has been clipped with small piece missing of off the bottom of the front cover. Back flap has crease, fading around inside edges. Written when Kemp was a Congressman, this book is a readabeland powerful indictment of excessive taxation. ;...
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CA$15.25
Eleanor: The Years Alone
by Lash Joseph P
New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1972. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 0393073610 . First Edition, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Very Clean, unmarked book. Spine ends bumped. DJ is price clipped with a piece missing of off the bottom right hand corner and flap. End papers have 24 photos of Eleanor Roosevelt at various ages, and there are black and white photos throughout. An account of the last 17 years of Eleanor Roosevelt's life after the death of...
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CA$29.35
Friends in High Places Politics and Patronage in the Mulroney Government
by Hoy Claire
Toronto, Ont.: Key Porter Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 1550130471 . Blue textured hard boards with silver printing on spine, very clean, tight copy, with no markings. Top front corner bumped. The DJ is unclipped and has some minor edgewear and rubbing. 'Friends In High Places' is a controversial, at times shocking analysis of the Mulroney years that raises critical questions about the uses and abuses of power. "; 8vo - over 7¾"...
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CA$15.95
Real David Stockman, The The True Story of America's Most Controversial Power Broker
by Greenya John & Urban Anne
New York: St. Martin's Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0312664702 . Black hardboards with gilt lettering on spine. This is a stated First Edtion. The interior is nice, clean & bright with a solid binding. The DJ is clipped with some chipping on the spine head and browning around the edges, some overall light soiling. " This is a book David Stockman will probably not want to read. In it, he is portrayed as a heartless opportunist with no commitment to...
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CA$14.25
Grenada : The Struggle Against Destabilization
by Chris Searle
London: Writers & Readers. Trade Paperback. 1983. Very Good. Second printing. Very Good. Tear to front cover, otherwise Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Light shelfwear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 164 pages.
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$13.45
Colin Powell Soldier/statesman-Statesman/soldier
by Means Howard
New York: Donald I. fine, Inc. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. 1556113358 . Taupe hard covers with blue spine, Previous owner's blind stamp and date on front free end-paper. Clean, tight. DJ is glossy with minor edgewear and rubbing on back cover. Black & white photos. "..the first in depth probing into the rise of a man who is arguably..the first African American in a position of major national prominence that the general public..is ready to judge...
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CA$17.95
The New Jewel Movement : Grenada's Revolution, 1979-1983
by Gregory W. Sandford; Diane B. Bendahmane (ed)
Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, July 1985. Trade paperback. Very Good. Text unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Edge and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xvi + 215 pages.
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$23.95
Muslim Extremism in Egypt
by Kepel Robert
Berkeley, CA: University Of California Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. Hard Cover. 0520056876 . Grey hard boards / gilt lettering on spine. Wonderful condition, small bump on spine end. DJ unclipped with some minor edgwear and rubbing. " Gilles Kepel takes us into the world of the students, professionals, workers, and unemployed who are caught up in the Islamic movements of our day. Events that have riveted world attention--the World Trade Center bombing, assassinations in...
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CA$29.95
How to Use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
by L. G Sherick
New York: Arco. Paperback. 1978. Near Fine: Light foxing to edges and inside covers. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No tears, no folds, no creases. 138 pages. A great read for any political junkie. An insightful breakdown FOIA and how the average person c an use it to their advantage. .
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$15.95
The Old Revolutionaries
by Pauline Maier
New York: Vintage. Trade Paperback. March 1982. First Vintage Books Edition (stated). Near Fine. Tanned with dust stains to top edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxii+309 pages. The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee, and Charles Carroll. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had their greatest influence in the years between 1769 and 1776, and all of them saw their power transferred after the war to the...
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$23.95
For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush
by Christopher Andrew
New York: HarperPerennial. Paperback. March 1996. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Light shelfwear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 660 pages. This impressive survey assesses the extent to which U.S. secret intelligence has been influenced by the personalities and policies of our presidents. Although George Washington and Woodrow Wilson made good use of secret intelligence, the author shows there was no official American intelligence community until WWII, when Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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$12.95
Crusaders and Pragmatists: Movers of Modern American Foreign Policy
by John G. Stoessinger
New York: W. W. Norton. Trade Paperback. 1979. Very Good. Interior is unmarked. Spine is straight and tight with a reading crease. Chipping at spine tail. Quarter inch peel at spine head. Dust stains to top edge. Shelf and corner wear. Not from a library. 352 pages.
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$10.95
Anarchism : From Theory to Practice
by Daniel Guérin; Noam Chomsky (intro); Mary Klopper (trans)
New York: Monthly Review Press. Trade Paperback. 1970. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light foxing to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xx + 166 pages. Translation of L'anarchisme, de la doctrine a l'action, first published in Paris, 1965.
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$15.95
The economic problem in peace and war
by Lionel Robbins Robbins
Macmillan. Hardcover. Good. Condition: Good; edge wear to DJ. Interior is clean without markings. Minor foxing on front page.
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£9.99
