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Inscribed: With best wishes, Robert DallekClean text. Price unclipped ($30.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. From Publishers Weekly...Dallek sums up his subject, the 36th U.S. president, in this generous and touching sentence: ``If Lyndon Johnson demanded much and took much, he also gave much in return.'' In the initial book of this two-volume biography, Dallek ( Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 ) reconstructs Johnson's Texas childhood, his 1937 election to the House, his war experiences as a Navy officer, election to the Senate in '49, his years as ``the greatest Senate majority leader in history,'' and finally his selection as John Kennedy's running mate in 1960. LBJ as wheeler-dealer is already a familiar figure, but Dallek, tracing the origin of the War on Poverty and the Great Society to Johnson's experiences and observations as a young man, reveals that much of the wheeling and dealing was an expression of Johnson's genuine interest in helping the… Read More

Association Copy. Inscribed on front end page: For my old friend and comrade Lawrence Y. Sherman With affectionate regards Charles G. Dawes Oct 20th 1935Note: Sherman was a U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1913-1921. Senator Sherman was one of the more colorful characters in the Senate. As one of the group of senators known as the "irreconcilables" or the "bitter-enders", Sherman opposed the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and of U.S. involvement in the League of Nations, and according to Historian Aaron Chandler, played a key role in its defeat. He characterized the treaty as "humanitarian in purpose, but impracticable in operation", and believed the league would be weak.Laid in is original card stock invitation for the 50th Wedding Anniversary of the Dawes in Evanston in 1939. Laid in is a lengthy letter from the housekeeper for Senator Sherman declining the invitation to attend the 50th Wedding Anniversary of the Dawes. The letter is fascinating and describes many details of the… Read More

Inscribed. First Printing. Inscribed: To Edward Sait With all fond wishes W DouglasClean text. Price unclipped ($4.95). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Douglas was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who was known for his strong progressive views, and is often cited as the U.S. Supreme Court's most liberal justice ever.[2] In 1975, Time called Douglas "the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court."[3]Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Douglas was confirmed at the age of 40, one of the youngest justices appointed to the court. His term, lasting 36 years and 211 days (1939–1975), is the longest in the history of the Supreme Court. After an itinerant childhood, Douglas attended Whitman College on a scholarship. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1925 and joined the Yale Law School faculty. After serving as the third chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Douglas was… Read More

Association Copy First Printing. Inscribed: To Paul Nitze with the high regard of John Foster Dulles April, 1950Clean Text. Price unclipped ($2.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Dulles served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 and was briefly a Republican U.S. Senator for New York in 1949. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world. This book offers a critical analysis of the American policy of containment, which was favored by the foreign policy elite in Washington, particularly in the Democratic administration of Harry S. Truman, whose foreign policy Dulles criticized and instead advocated a policy of "liberation." Dulles tenure as Secretary was marked by conflict with communist governments worldwide, especially the Soviet Union; Dulles strongly opposed communism, calling it "Godless terrorism." Dulles's preferred strategy was containment… Read More

Signed on the first page (see picture): Will Durant Clean text. No dust jacket. Good condition with tear to top 1/4 inch of cloth board at top of spine. This book has been considered ground-breaking work that helped to popularize philosophy. The Story of Philosophy originated as a series of Little Blue Books (educational pamphlets which were aimed at workers) and because it was so popular, it was republished as a hardcover book by Simon & Schuster in 1926 and became a bestseller, giving the Durants the financial independence that allowed them to travel the world several times and spend four decades writing The Story of Civilization. From Perlego...A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey— The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this… Read More