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United States of Ambition, The - Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office


Ehrenhalt, Alan

NY, Times/Random House, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages.

Record # 68061


Price: $15.00 

 

Utopia Unarmed - The Latin American Left After the Cold War


Castaneda, Jorge G.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 3rd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54324


Price: $20.00 

 

Virginia Conservatives 1867-1879, The: A Study in Reconstruction Politics


Maddex, Jr. , Jack P.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 328 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Rubbing to corners, spine.

Record # 508576


Price: $19.00 

 

Warren Court and American Politics, The


Powe, Jr., Lucas A.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA , The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 566 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. History of The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. With black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951582


Price: $31.00 

 

What's Right - The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America


Frum, David

New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Remainder mark on bottom book edge.

Record # 204855


Price: $15.00 

 

Worst Years of Our Lives, The - Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed


Ehrenreich, Barbara

New York, Pantheon, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. The politics and culture of the 80's in America.

Record # 305265


Price: $18.00 

 

Writing in the New Nation - Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States


Ziff, Larzer

New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages.

Record # 65967


Price: $25.00 

 

A Respectable Ditch: A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway 1833-1920 by: Angus, James

Hardcover. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 455 pages. B/W photographs. Very clean. Record # 801993
Price: $12.00 

Beyond the Politics of Disappointment?: American Elections, 1980-1998 by: McWilliams, Wilson Carey
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Beyond the Politics of Disappointment?: American Elections, 1980-1998 by: McWilliams, Wilson Carey

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. New York, Seven Bridges Press, LLC, 1st, August 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 454400
Price: $12.00 

Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism by: Bogus, Carl T.
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Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism by: Bogus, Carl T.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 405 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, red paper covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book is a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., who was one of the foremost architects of the conservative movement that transformed American politics between the 1960s and the end of the century. Buckley and his allies devised a new-model for conservatism that replaced traditional ideals of Edmund Burke with a passionate belief in the free market; religious faith; and an aggressive stance on foreign policy. Clean copy. Record # 34363
Price: $24.00 

How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller by: Geller, Jacob
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How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller by: Geller, Jacob

Hardcover. NY, Harper Pop (Harper Collins Publishers), 1st thus, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains gorgeous full-color illustrations throughout. This book deftly interweaves video game analysis with the complex narratives of art, politics, and history. It positions video games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves. Clean copy. Record # 34302
Price: $28.00 

Lord and Peasant in Russia: From the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century by: Blum, Jerome
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Lord and Peasant in Russia: From the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century by: Blum, Jerome

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 656 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with light shelf wear and bumping to the top edge. Tan cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is is a political, social, and economic history of Russia. It centers on the evolving relationships between landowners and peasants, and how that relationship impacted the politics and economic conditions inside Russia. Previous owner's signature is present on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34128
Price: $25.00 

 

Major Campaign Speeches by: Stevenson, Adlai E.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Record # 220677
Price: $12.00 

 

Politics in Russia, second edition by: Remington, Thomas

Softcover. New York, Longman Publishers, 2nd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, b & w maps and charts, 1st printing of revised edition, very clean, tight copy. Record # 800543
Price: $12.00 

Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 by: Holloway, David
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Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 by: Holloway, David

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains bind-in with B&W photography. For 40 years the Soviet-American nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Now that the Cold War is over and the Soviet Union has collapsed, it is possible to answer some questions. This magisterial history throws light on Soviet policy at the height of the Cold War, illuminates a central but hitherto secret element of the Stalinist system, and puts into perspective the tragic legacy of this program today-- environmental damage, a vast network of institutes and factories, and a huge stockpile of unwanted weapons. Clean copy. Record # 33910
Price: $25.00 

War & Politics by: Brodie, Bernard
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War & Politics by: Brodie, Bernard

Softcover. NY, MacMillan Publishing Co., 6th Print, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages, soft cover. Covers are generally in very good condition despite some minor wear to the spine and corners. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book draws connections between military affairs and state craft, by the dean of American civilian strategists. A thought-provoking and original look at WHY humans fight. The author puts war in its international political context as he examines the history of World Wars I and II, Korea, and Vietnam, and looks at the changing attitudes toward war, theories on its causes, "vital interests," trade, nuclear weapons, and the true nature of strategy. Clean copy. Record # 33833
Price: $18.00 

Western Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century by: Parker, Geoffrey
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Western Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century by: Parker, Geoffrey

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st thus, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, black cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W maps throughout. This book surveys the development of geopolitical thought in the twentieth century and relates it to international political developments. It discusses present geopolitical thought and its predictions for the future of world politics. Contains some of previous owner's highlights on a few pages throughout, but this does not impact the legibility of any text blocks. Previous owner's name was also signed in blue pen on the front end page, and there are a couple more blue pen markings on the contents page. Record # 34566
Price: $25.00