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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Lt. blue cl., dk, red lettering to backstr., top and bottom sl. faded at edges. Dj. unclipped, shelfworn. Illus. Xxi, 297pp. CONTENTS MINT.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition/first printing hardcover with dustcover: book very good plus, dustcover very good. Light blue cloth-covered boards, 8 1/4 x 6 inches, 297 pp., b/w photo illustrations. Plate of W. Clement Stone with a Christmas message tipped onto the front free endpaper. ("William Clement Stone (1902 2002) was a businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author. Stone was a living example of the proverbial rags-to-riches protagonist in the Horatio Alger's stories he loved. In 1951, Stone founded the interfaith group 'The Washington Pilgrimage', which later became the 'Religious Heritage of America'. It successfully advocated the Eisenhower administration to add the 'under God' to the Pledge of Allegiance. Stone contributed up to $10 million to President Richard Nixon's election campaigns in 1968 and 1972; they were cited in Congressional debates after the Watergate scandal to institute campaign spending limits. According to Tim Weiner, in One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon, in 1972 President Nixon's lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, helped raise money for Nixon's presidential campaign by selling ambassadorships to large donors, including 'W. Clement Stone, [who] pledged $3 million.'") (K046).