[bottom right and top right corners slightly bumped, no other signficant wear]. (cartoon illustrations) A satirical A-to-Z look at Nixon and his policies, e.g.: "M is for Minorities. As a member myself of a minority -- the Republican Party -- I am only too familiar with the frustration, discrimination and oppression suffered by minority groups. Believe me when I say that if I had my way there would be no minorities." Possibly my favorite, not least because of its great resonance for today: "S is for Secrecy. In my first inaugural address, I vowed that mine would be an open administration... View More...
[moderate shelfwear to top and bottom edges, typical with this cheaply-produced book, but generally a good sound copy; the jacket spine is slightly faded, with just a teensy bit of paper loss at top of spine and at a couple of corners]. A passionate memoir by blacklisted journalist/editor/novelist (and one-time film critic) Belfrage, written during the three months he spent in jail in New York awaiting his eventual deportation, in which he expresses both his admiration for America and Americans -- but also "his detestation of that small group of Americans who seek to panic their countrymen int... View More...
[nice tight copy, minor shelfwear to bottom edge, faint soiling to top page edges; jacket shows a bit of wear at extremities, one tiny tear at top right-hand corner of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. A "highly charged collection of essays, speeches, and interviews examining the impact of populism in the 1980s," at a time when it appeared as though this "movement could change the face of American democracy." Wonder how that worked out? Contributors include Studs Terkel, Robert Coles, Jim Hightower, Barbara Mikulski, Tom Harkin, Ernesto Cortes, and Cornel West . View More...
[book is flawless but for a thin vertical line (discoloration of some sort) running up the middle of the ffep; jacket a teensy bit scrunched at top front corner, minor surface wear; slipcase lightly scuffed but still in nice condition]. (cartoons) SIGNED boldly by Paul Conrad on the ffep. More than 240 examples of the work of one of the greatest political cartoonists. "Arranged in eight sections, covering everything from gun control to the Watergate scandal to President Reagan's misguided 1985 visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, the cartoon are accompanied by Conrad's own one-line captio... View More...
[minor wear to book, light age-tanning to page edges; jacket shows moderate soiling]. (cartoon drawings) Tongue-in-cheek how-to-run-for-high-office handbook that "charts your course from the inevitable denial that you are a candidate to the polite wire of condolence to your defeated opponent," including such helpful advice as "how to throw your hat into the ring with a forthright statement which, carefully avoiding anything specific, demands justice, honor, thrift, generosity, tolerance, courage, and decency in public affairs -- thus at one stroke indicting any opponent as an unfa... View More...
[nice tight clean copy, light age-toning to edges of text block but no significant wear; jacket similarly nice, just a touch of browning at the edges]. (cartoon drawings) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the dedication page by the dedicatee, one Milton R. Polland, who is described in the printed dedication as a man "who has never aspired to public office and probably never will, but who has helped so many to win in politics." Polland was a mover and shaker, all right; here's what Wikipedia has to say about him: "He was an American life insurance executive, businessman and political activi... View More...
[brand-new copy, bright and tight with no discernible wear]. Trade PB INSCRIBED generically ("Blessings!") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. A couple of dozen brief anti-GWB rants, by an author described on the book's cover as "an environmentalist who advocates more trees and less Bushes." The back-cover blurb declares "Blinky Bin Bush and the Texiban Must Go!" Nice try, but fat lot of good it did, since we ended up suffering through four additional years of his criminal (and criminally incompetent) administration. Don't agree? Then you probably won't wa... View More...
[nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear; minor edgewear to jacket]. (B&W photographs) "The most comprehensive book yet written on how the Federal Bureau of Investigation waged war against American writers and readers from the early years of this century. As [the author] reveals for the first time, this assault on freedom of expression began long before iron-fisted J. Edgar Hoover joined the Justice Department and made his name synonymous with that of the FBI for over forty years. The war carried over into the 1980s, when librarians, as part of a Library Awareness Program, were recruited to spy ... View More...
(price-clipped) [jacket worn, with several tears, soiling on back cover]. Pity the poor author -- he set out to simply write a biography of his beloved professor Ellwood Patterson Cubberly, first dean of the School of Education at Stanford, "for over fifty years devoted to American public education to the exclusion of all else save his devoted wife." In the process of research, however, he smelled something rotten, and upon further investigation discovered nothing less than what he termed "a mortal defect in the body-politic of North America." So instead he decided to write a history of Stanfo... View More...
[nice tight copy, with some minor surface paper loss at bottom corners of front cover]. Mass Market PB "This is the McCarthy wit, ironic, meaningful, incisive. It is a wit that reveals a brilliant but gentle man whose ideas rallied millions of devoted followers. Like the humor of Churchill, Stevenson, and Kennedy [this in reference to the editor's previous compilations in this vein], the McCarthy wit is a joy to be heard and will be read and quoted for years to come. Selected from campaign speeches, media interviews and articles, letters and remarks to friends, addresses made as a Senator, [... View More...
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