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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A NEAR FINE, bright, clean, tight, scholar/collector-worthy copy sans rips/tears, stains, markings and discoloration. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in black-and-white and full-color with accompanying descriptive captions. "In 'Days of Destiny: Crossroads in American History,' the Society of American Historians brings you thirty-one engaging narratives, each illuminating with crisp prose and unapralleled scholarship an event that profoundly shaped the nation and world in which we live. From King Philip's 1675 parley with white colonial officials to the 1973 research conference at which the biotechnology revolution was announced, these vignettes will transport you to places and introduce you to people who have made a continuing difference in the history of America." 496 pages. NOTE: Due to size and weight of the book additional shipping cost will be requested for EXPEDITED and OUT-OF-U.S. shipment. GA1.…

Hard Back. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Printing. 566 Pages Indexed. Ten inked lines of gift inscription on the half-title page. No other marks or stamps to this otherwise very nice and very tight book wit flawless interior text pages. What makes some presidencies triumphant and others disastrous failures? How has the office evolved from the august institution established by the Founding Fathers? The answers can be found in this book, which provides a rich narrative history of our chief executives and their administrations against the backdrop of America's social, cultural, and economic times. This book offers a dramatic excursion through the executive halls, combining essays, sidebars on first families, time lines, and important facts at a glance. With 41 essays by such well-known historians as Eric Foner, Joyce Appleby, James Henretta, Alan Taylor, Jean Baker, Michael Kazin, and Robert Dallek, this book showcases the most provocative interpretive history being written today. Was Madison, for example, an indecisive bungler who led his country to war or a principled politician whose leadership was appropriate to his time? Did Coolidge, generally regarded by historians as saying less, doing less, and sleeping more than any other twentieth-century president, deserve his voters' admiration? Was Eisenhower more involved in shaping foreign policy than previous historians have allowed? From the time George Washington first defined the office, through the challenges of expansion, sectionalism, wars, depressions, and America's rising responsibilities on the world stage, The Reader's Companion examines not only the brilliance, and hubris, of the nation's leaders but also the symbolic and cultural role of the presidency in American life. Presidents have become the secular icons of the republic - emblems of nationhood and embodiments of the values that American have claimed to cherish. This is an indispensible resource with its sharp insight, colorful detail, and vivid writing.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine/ fine first edition, first [rinting. A great compilation of historical writings examining "thirty-one uncelebrated days that changed the course of history".