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"First Lady of the World" is how President Harry Truman referred to Eleanor Roosevelt. At roughly the same time J. Edgar Hoover thought Eleanor might be a Communist. But as author and intellectual Garry Wills wrote, "there was nothing radical about her, either in temperament or principle. She would not join in civil rights activities if they included civil disobedience."Eleanor Roosevelt beautifully signed card with The White House Washington engraved in top right corner (see picture). Card is very neatly mounted on half title page. Book is very good condition generally toned throughout and price clipped. Dust jacket also very good with tears on top of binding and smaller chips on bottom of binding. Front and back of dust jacket are in very good condition (see pictures). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.
"This I Remember" is Eleanor Roosevelt's recollections of the years preceding FDR's first term as Governor Of NYS to the day of his death during his 4th term as President of the United… Read More

Boldly signed on half title page by Harry S. Truman (aka "Give 'Em Hell Harry"). Book and Dust Jacket are in beautiful condition. Clean text. Unclipped ($3.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Truman is one of our great Presidents. In 1959 former President Truman gave a series of lectures and seminars on government at Columbia University. "The book is a transcript of what he had to tell them about the Presidency, the Constitution and demagoguery more poignant and human than Truman's official memoirs" (New York Times). President Truman had a sign on his desk, "The Buck Stops Here."Truman had been vice president for 82 days when President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. Truman, presiding over the Senate, as usual, had just adjourned the session for the day and was preparing to have a drink in House Speaker Sam Rayburn's office when he received an urgent message to go immediately to the White House, where Eleanor Roosevelt told him that her husband had died after a massive cerebral… Read More

Beautifully signed LBJ bookplate: To Eunice Graham With appreciation for her Competent service during a trying period. Lyndon B Johnson (Note the "C" in Competent is clearly capitalized by LBJ). Book in fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket on front page fine condition with very minor wrinkles (see picture). Tiny chips at top of jacket on binding and small tear and wrinkle on rear cover not impacting picture of LBJ (see picture). Clean text. Unclipped ($15.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.LBJ noted about this book, "I make no pretense of having written a complete and definitive history of my Presidency. I have tried, rather, to review that period from a President's personal and political philosophy, a President's experience and knowledge, a President's aspirations, and a President's response to the demands that were made on him." I have not written these chapters to say' This is how it was," but to say, "This is how I saw it from my vantage point."

First edition, First printing, Association Copy Inscribed: To Jake Seidenberg With every good wish for the years ahead from Dick Nixon Book is in very good condition with a very good dust jacket with a number of tears and small pieces missing at top and bottom of spine. Small pieces missing on front at top near authors name (see pictures). Clean text. Unclipped ($5.95). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.(Note: Seidenberg served in the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford Administrations. He served as the Executive Director of the President's Committee on Government Contracts, appointed by Eisenhower. Vice President Nixon was the Chairman of the Committee. Seidenberg later served as Chairman of he Federal Services Impasses Panel, which settled deadlocks in federal labor negotiations.)Nixon's first book was the result of encouragement from President Kennedy-- who Nixon visited in The White House only months after Nixon was defeated by Kennedy in the 1960 election--and said that a book would… 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

Ronald Reagan Presidential book plate addressed to Daniel Moll With best wishes Ronald ReaganLaid in is address label addressed to Mr. Daniel Moll with a return address of 2121 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, California 90067 (Note: this is the original location of the Office of Ronald Reagan immediately upon leaving The White House).Clean text. Unclipped ($24.95). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.

Ronald Reagan Bookplate attached first free end page inscribed: To Daniel Moll With best wishes, Ronald Reagan Clean Text. Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.

Association Copy. Signed by Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson inscribed to Paul Nitze. To Paul Nitze with the deepest affection and admiration from Dean Acheson Washington November 1955Text clean. Unclipped ($3,00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. From Wikipedia...Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As the 51st U.S. Secretary of State, he set the foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration from 1949 to 1953. He was Truman's main foreign policy advisor from 1945 to 1947, especially regarding the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He was in private law practice from July 1947 to December 1948.[2] After 1949 Acheson came under partisan political attack from Republicans led by Senator Joseph McCarthy over Truman's policy toward the People's Republic of China.As a private citizen in 1968 he counseled President Lyndon B.… 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

Beautifully inscribed on half title page: For Dan Moll With best wishes, James A. Baker III 10/2/1995Clean text. Unclipped price ($32.50). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930) is an American attorney, statesman, and politician in the Republican Party. He served as White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan, and as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.

Inscribed on first blank page: For David With best wishes George P. ShultzLaid in: Original W. Post article 3/13/1994 review of bookClean text. Price unclipped ($30.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book and dust jacket in near new condition unread.

Beautifully inscribed on first blank page: To Dan Moll With the jubilant best wishes of Jack ValentiClean text. Price unclipped ($9.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book and dust jacket in very good plus condition. It is a story of how LBJ managed his White House, an inside account of his handling of the Congress, his sensitivity to the human ego, his irritation with the press, his appetite for facts and information, and his passion for knowing all that was going on in the government.

Beautifully inscribed: To Dan Moll With warm regards, Evelyn LincolnLaid in: hand written address of Evelyn and Harold Lincoln in Chevy Chase, Maryland.Laid in original Washington Post obituary for Lincoln in 1995.Book in near fine condition with Presidential Inaugural Symbol engraved on blue board cover. Dust jacket in near fine condition with small chip to bottom of jacket on spine.Clean text. Price unclipped (4.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.Controversial book in which Lincoln discussed the relationship or lack of between President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson. Lincoln's first book, a best seller entitled, "My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy" did not discuss the relationship.
After the assassination Lincoln was entrusted to catalog the JFK possessions from both his Senate and White House service. Lincoln was ultimately accused by Kennedy's children, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and John F. Kennedy Jr., of stealing, and selling off many items.
"It is now clear that Mrs.… Read More

Inscribed on first blank page: for Dan best wishes, John Updike 8/26/96Clean text. Price unclipped (23.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good plus condition with some minor rubbing on front from shelf wear.John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.Updike is considered one of the greatest American fiction writers of his generation. He was widely praised as America's "last true man of letters", with an immense and far-reaching influence on many writers. The excellence of his prose style is acknowledged even by critics… Read More