2022, ISBN: 9780691037844

Hardcover

New York: MJF Books, 2010. First Printing this edition [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Very good. The format is approximately 5.5. inches by 9.5 inches. xii, 270 pages. Bibliography. Notes. I… More...

New York: MJF Books, 2010. First Printing this edition [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Very good. The format is approximately 5.5. inches by 9.5 inches. xii, 270 pages. Bibliography. Notes. Inventory. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor weakness observed at page 269, restrengthened with some glue. James P. Duffy's books cover a number of nonfiction subjects, ranging from earning a college degree in a nontraditional setting to military history. Was aviation pioneer and popular American hero Charles A. Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite? Or was he the target of a vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt? In Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt, author James Duffy tackles these questions head-on, by examining the conflicting personalities, aspirations, and actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles A. Lindbergh. Painting a politically incorrect portrait of both men, Duffy shows how the hostility between these two American giants divided the nation on both domestic and international affairs. From canceling U.S. air mail contracts to intervening in World War II, Lindbergh and Roosevelt's clash of ideas and opinions shaped the nation's policies here and abroad. Insightful, and engaging, Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt reveals the untold story about two of history's most controversial men, and how the White House waged a smear campaign against Lindbergh that blighted his reputation forever., MJF Books, 2010, 2.75, Mexico-Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Economica, (1954).. (1954).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial blue & brown wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & bumped with creases to the spine. 551 pages plus colophon, unopened. Very good. <p>First edition. The text is in Spanish., Mexico-Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Economica, (1954)., 3, New York: Random House, 2022. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Nina Subin (Author photograph). xxvii, {1]. 407, [13] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Jonathan Darman is a journalist and historian who writes about American politics and the presidency. He is the author of the books BECOMING FDR: The Personal Crisis that Made a President and LANDSLIDE: Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America. As a former national political correspondent for Newsweek, Jonathan covered the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Mitt Romney and wrote extensively about other major figures in national politics and media. He covered the 2004 presidential campaign for the magazine's special election project, which garnered the National Magazine Award for Single Topic Issue. Jonathan has also appeared frequently as a commentator on politics and presidential history on broadcast television, cable news and public radio. Jonathan is a graduate of Harvard College where he studied American history and literature. In popular memory, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the quintessential political "natural." Born in 1882 to a wealthy, influential family, he seemed destined for high office. Yet for all his gifts, the young Roosevelt lacked depth, empathy, and an ability to think strategically. Those qualities, so essential to his success as president, were skills he acquired during his seven-year journey through illness and recovery. Becoming FDR traces the riveting story of the struggle that forged Roosevelt's character and political ascent. Soon after contracting polio in 1921 at the age of thirty-nine, the former failed vice-presidential candidate was left paralyzed from the waist down. He spent much of the next decade trying to rehabilitate his body and adapt to the stark new reality of his life. By the time he reemerged on the national stage in 1928 as the Democratic candidate for governor of New York, his character and his abilities had been transformed. He had become compassionate and shrewd by necessity, tailoring his speeches to inspire listeners and to reach them through a new mediumradio. Suffering cemented his bond with those he once famously called "the forgotten man." Most crucially, he had discovered how to find hope in a seemingly hopeless situationa skill that he employed to motivate Americans through the Great Depression and World War II. The polio years were transformative, too, for the marriage of Franklin and Eleanor, and for Eleanor herself, who became, at first reluctantly, her husband's surrogate at public events, and who grew to become a political and humanitarian force in her own right. Tracing the physical, political, and personal evolution of the iconic president, Becoming FDR shows how adversity can lead to greatness, and to the power to remake the world. Derived from a Kirkus review: A capable account of a specific period in the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). Political historian Darman opens his study of FDR in 1920, when he was plotting a bid to become the vice presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, knowing that he lacked the experience and support to become the top dog but also that "the bottom of the ticket was another matter altogether." Alas, even though FDR labored valiantly "to convince the country that, despite their eight years in power, the Democrats were the party of the future, not the past," the Republicans won by a landslide. Roosevelt regarded the race and, it seems, himself as miserable failures, but his attention would soon be fixed on another problem, for within a year he would be diagnosed with polio. By Darman's account, it was remaking himself over the seven years following contracting the virus that shaped Roosevelt into the politician we think of today. Roosevelt was secretive about the illness. When he returned to political life, Roosevelt had to be carried to the stage, but even there he hid himself behind the curtain and made his way to the lectern on his own. This was both deceptive and close to heroic. The torments continued throughout his four terms as president, during which he was often a visitor to the curative waters of Warm Springs, Georgia. Usefully, Darman writes that even though FDR was "a privileged child of the American aristocracy...years of illness and convalescence had taught him what it felt like to be forgotten, humiliated, and overlooked as unimportant." A welcome, insightful addition to the literature surrounding FDR., Random House, 2022, 3, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Publisher's ephemera laid in.. xviii, 455 p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. This is one of the Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series. Foreword by Richard C. Leone. The strength and prestige of democracy worldwide at the end of the 20th century are due in good measure to the impact of America on international affairs, argues Tony Smith. This book documents the history of American foreign policy with respect to the promotion of democracy worldwide, an effort whose greatest triumph came in the occupations of Japan and Germany but whose setbacks include interventions in Latin America and Vietnam. As Americans ponder the challenges of world affairs at the end of the Cold War, Smith suggests that they think back to other times when Washington's decisions were critical: not only to the end of the World Wars in 1918 and 1945, but to the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and the Civil War in 1865 as well. They will find that in the aftermath of victory, Washington determined to win the peace by promoting a concept of national security calling ultimately for democratic government in Europe, Latin America, and the Far East. So the Congress set out to "reconstruct" the South in 1867; America aimed to democratize the Philippines in 1898; Wilson sought to "make the world safe for democracy, " first in Latin America and then, after 1918, in Central and Eastern Europe; FDR and Truman dictated the democratization of Japan and Germany and called for democracy in Eastern Europe after 1945; Kennedy promoted the Alliance for Progress in Latin America; Carter launched his human rights campaign; Reagan (the most Wilsonian of Wilson's successors), heralded an international "democratic revolution"; Bush called for a "new world order"; and Clinton declared that "our overriding purpose must be to expand and strengthen the world's community of market-based democracies. " Through a study of selected countries-most notably Germany, Japan, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Iran, and Nicaragua (but also Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Greece, South Africa, and Russia)-Smith reviews the American record both in local terms and with respect to its impact on world politics. Smith's story is at once that of the central thrust of American foreign policy in the 20th century, and that of the central international political struggle of the period among nationalists wedded to rival ideologies of fascism, communism, and democracy, each striving to dominate world affairs. Now that this struggle appears to be over, the question is whether democracy can consolidate its position as the sole legitimate form of government worldwide, so creating a common form of government to express the nationalist sentiments that continue to be the hallmark of this century., Princeton University Press, 1994, 3<

1994, ISBN: 9780691037844

Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, first edition, 1967. Printed wrappers, square 4to,. 119, [1] pp, plates, ills. Contents include: Introduction; 1800-1900: Nineteenth-Century… More...

Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, first edition, 1967. Printed wrappers, square 4to,. 119, [1] pp, plates, ills. Contents include: Introduction; 1800-1900: Nineteenth-Century Forerunners; 1900-1920: Great Publishers-Vollard and Kahnweiler; 1920-1940: Supremacy of the School of Paris; 1940-1965: Color Explosion and New Graphic Techniques; General Bibliography; Artist Index and Bibliography; Author Index. Publisher Index. Printer Index. Binder Index. From the introduction: "This is a selective exhibition of "great books," beaux livres, illustrated books by modern old masters and modern new masters, displaying the creative vitality of the arts of the French book in our century as centered in the School of Paris. Beaux livres are a far cry from our text books and trade books which, though often handsomely designed, are commercially and mechanically mass-produced to serve an essentially functional and didactic purpose. Neither are these the art of the professional book illustrator, many of whom, like Doré and Grandville in the nineteenth century, skillfully enlivened the text pages of the classics with illustrations of compelling strength, wit and imagination, but whose more limited aim was to translate into wood-engraving or etching the pictorial image of a pen drawing or painting. Rather are we concerned here with the broader dynamic of the artist's contribution to the book, what the French call the livre de peintre, the book of the painter. In the modern art of the book France has led the way, and the great flowering of this art in the twentieth century has been under her leadership. Her unique contribution has been the livre de peintre, the book in which the artist creates something that is not merely decorative illustration, but an important graphic statement in its own right. The illustration is not reproduced from an artist's drawing, but executed by his own hand, and printed by him directly or under his close supervision in an original print medium - woodcut, engraving, etching or lithography - and in a limited edition. Name on front free endpaper, wrappers somewhat browned, otherwise Very Good., Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, first edition, 1967, 1967, 3, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Publisher's ephemera laid in.. xviii, 455 p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. This is one of the Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series. Foreword by Richard C. Leone. The strength and prestige of democracy worldwide at the end of the 20th century are due in good measure to the impact of America on international affairs, argues Tony Smith. This book documents the history of American foreign policy with respect to the promotion of democracy worldwide, an effort whose greatest triumph came in the occupations of Japan and Germany but whose setbacks include interventions in Latin America and Vietnam. As Americans ponder the challenges of world affairs at the end of the Cold War, Smith suggests that they think back to other times when Washington's decisions were critical: not only to the end of the World Wars in 1918 and 1945, but to the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and the Civil War in 1865 as well. They will find that in the aftermath of victory, Washington determined to win the peace by promoting a concept of national security calling ultimately for democratic government in Europe, Latin America, and the Far East. So the Congress set out to "reconstruct" the South in 1867; America aimed to democratize the Philippines in 1898; Wilson sought to "make the world safe for democracy, " first in Latin America and then, after 1918, in Central and Eastern Europe; FDR and Truman dictated the democratization of Japan and Germany and called for democracy in Eastern Europe after 1945; Kennedy promoted the Alliance for Progress in Latin America; Carter launched his human rights campaign; Reagan (the most Wilsonian of Wilson's successors), heralded an international "democratic revolution"; Bush called for a "new world order"; and Clinton declared that "our overriding purpose must be to expand and strengthen the world's community of market-based democracies. " Through a study of selected countries-most notably Germany, Japan, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Iran, and Nicaragua (but also Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Greece, South Africa, and Russia)-Smith reviews the American record both in local terms and with respect to its impact on world politics. Smith's story is at once that of the central thrust of American foreign policy in the 20th century, and that of the central international political struggle of the period among nationalists wedded to rival ideologies of fascism, communism, and democracy, each striving to dominate world affairs. Now that this struggle appears to be over, the question is whether democracy can consolidate its position as the sole legitimate form of government worldwide, so creating a common form of government to express the nationalist sentiments that continue to be the hallmark of this century., Princeton University Press, 1994, 3<

2000, ISBN: 9780691037844

Hardcover

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. fair to good. 936, wraps, notes and sources, bibliography, index, stamps on bottom edge, text has darkened, covers creased and somewhat soiled, … More...

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. fair to good. 936, wraps, notes and sources, bibliography, index, stamps on bottom edge, text has darkened, covers creased and somewhat soiled, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972, 2, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. xviii, 455 pp. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series: First Edition, 1994. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.5". Black cloth with greenish-yellow lettering to spine. DJ in removable acetate protector. foreword by Richard C. Leone, preface, acknowledgments, 1. The United States and the Global Struggle for Democracy; Part II. Liberal Democratic Internationalism and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1921: 2. Democracy in the Philippines; 3. Wilson and Demmocracy in Latin America; 4. Wilson and a World Safe for Democracy. Part II. Liberal Democratic Internationalism, 1933-1947: 5. FDR and World Order: Globalizing the Monroe Doctrine; 6. Democratizing Japan and Germany. Part III. Liberal Democratic Internationalism and the Cold War, 1947-1977: 7. Eisenhower and His Legacy, 1953-1977; 8. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, 1961-1965. Part IV. Liberal Demmocratic Internationalism and the Cold War, 1977-1989: 9. Carter's Human Rights Campaign; 10. Reagan's Democratic Revolution. Part V. Toward the Year 2000: 11. After the Cold War: Wilsonianism Resurgent: appendix, notes, bibliography, index.., Princeton University Press, 1994, 5<