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Inscribed on first blank page: To Dan Moll With best wishes, Jules Witcover Jack GermondLaid in: Original receipt for purchase of book and original advertisement for book signing by both authors at the Trover Shop on Capitol Hill on July 27, 1993.Clean text. Price unclipped ($24.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book and dust jacket new condition. After more then three decades of shrinking voter involvement in presidential elections, something happened in 1992. Whether Americans were so fed up with politics as usual or so concerned about signs of an economy and a society in decay that they took matters into their own hands, they dramatically broke the downward spiral of presidential voting and set the nation on a new course.In one of the most unusual and electric campaigns for the White House in history, an unprecedentedly popular Republican president saw his political fortunes plunge almost overnight; a Democratic front-runner was nearly destroyed by scandal, only to recover; and a… Read More

Inscribed on half title page: For Scott Peters, with all best wishes, Theodore H. White (see picture)Clean text. Price unclipped ($10.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition. Minor wrinkles in dust jacket at top and bottom of spine. With experience in analyzing foreign cultures from his time abroad, White took up the challenge of analyzing American culture with the books The Making of the President 1960 (1961), The Making of the President 1964 (1965), The Making of the President 1968 (1969), and The Making of the President 1972 (1973), all analyzing United States presidential elections. The first of these was both a bestseller and a critical success, winning the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. It remains the most influential publication about the 1960 presidential election that made John F. Kennedy the President. The later presidential books sold well but failed to have as great an effect, partly because other authors were by then… Read More

Fourth printing by the author the long-time FBI Director. Inscribed: To Kenneth M. Russell Best Wishes J. Edgar Hoover 3.19.59. Beautifully signed on first front page. Book in fine condition and dust jacket mildly toned with small tear in top of front, wrinkles in top of spine and tears in bottom and tears and folds on on top of back cover. Very dramatic picture of Hoover with hands folded on back cover. Clean text. Unclipped ($5.00). Protected by Brodart book cover. Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and served eight Presidents over his nearly 50 years in charge. Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have routinely violated the very laws the FBI was charged with enforcing, to have used the FBI to harass political dissidents, to amass secret files for blackmailing high level politicians, and to collect evidence using vigilantism and many… Read More

Book and dust jacket in pristine condition. Signed on first blank page; Barbara Bush (see picture). Book unread. Clean text. Unclipped ($30.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Owner obtained book on September 15, 1994 at a book signing at Super Crown Book Store in McLean, Virginia. Laid in original receipt from Super Crown. Laid in original advertisement of Book Signing.Laid in clipped Washington Post review of book in Book World section. Laid in clipped U.S.A. Today review of book.

Book and dust jacket in pristine condition. Signed on first blank page; Barbara Bush (see picture). Book unread. Clean text. Unclipped ($30.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Owner obtained book on September 15, 1994 at a book signing at Super Crown Book Store in McLean, Virginia. Laid in original receipt from Super Crown. Laid in original advertisement of Book Signing.Laid in clipped Washington Post review of book in Book World section. Laid in clipped U.S.A. Today review of book.

Inscribed opposite page one on large picture of Sam Rayburn in Speaker's Chair: To Ann with love, Sam RayburnClean text. No price. Book in good plus condition with some discoloration due to age. The hard spine has some chips visible. Some minor staining on both front and rear boards. Book is a reprint of Excerpts of the Congressional Record from January 31, 1951. A record of proceedings in the Congress of the United States and at the White House in tribute to the Honorable Sam Rayburn of Bonham, Texas, on the occasion of attaining the distinction of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives longer than any other person in American History.