9780393014815 - past has another pattern cl di ball, george w. (27 risultati)
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Da: Once Upon A Time Books, Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.Once Upon A Time Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.
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Condizione: Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Hardcover.
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Da: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.Better World Books: West
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Condizione: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Da: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.Better World Books
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Condizione: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Da: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.Library House Internet Sales
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. In his long and multifaceted career as a diplomat, international lawyer, and statesman, George W. Ball has been at the center of many crises. His book is filled with candid portraits of major figures on the world stage, as well as keen and controversial insights into past and present inter…national problems. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, fading to spine and creasing.
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Da: Olympia Books, Dowagiac, MI, U.S.A.Olympia Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1945-1989; 20th Century; Ball, George W.; Biography; Foreign relations; History; United States.
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Da: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, Regno UnitoM Godding Books Ltd
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hardcover. Condizione: Good. Acceptable Jacket. The jacket is permanently stuck to the book using self adhesive film. Number written on the fly leaf. Previous owner's personal rubber stamp. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item….
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Da: Sell Books, Elland, YORKS, Regno UnitoSell Books
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hardcover. Condizione: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category tha…t encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.
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Da: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.Daniel Montemarano
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Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition/1st Printing (complete numberline). SIGNED by author on a bookplate affixed to front end page (signature only). Sunning to DJ spine and top rear; $19.95 price present on DJ flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
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Da: CMG Books and Art, Toronto, ON, CanadaCMG Books and Art
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hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. INSCRIBED by George Ball on the front liner page. No additional interior markings. Front of dust jacket rubbed at bottom outer corner (in brodart). U.S. orders are shipped from N.Y. state. Signed.
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Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condizione: very good. 24 cm, 527, illus., maps, notes, index, slight wear to spine edges, ink name inside front flyleaf. George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 - May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the US State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the on…ly major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He also helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and the Iranian Revolution. During 1942, he became an official of the Lend Lease program. During 1944 and 1945, he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London. During 1945, Ball began collaboration with Jean Monnet and the French government in its economic recovery in its negotiations regarding the Marshall Plan. During 1950 he helped draft the Schuman Plan and the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty. Ball was the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs for the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He is known for his opposition to escalation of the Vietnam War. Ball also served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. During August 1968 at the UN Security Council, he endorsed the Czechoslovaks' struggle against the Soviet invasion and their right to live without dictatorship. During Nixon's administration, he helped draft policy proposals on the Persian Gulf. Derived from a Kirkus review: George Ball--New Deal "dogsbody," Lend-Lease policy-shaper, strategic-bombing investigator, "ardent advocate of liberal trade," international lawyer, Under Secretary of State (1960-66)--was often told by his friend Jean Monnet, he recounts, that he spread himself too thin. But that very absence of driving ambition or a fixed commitment, whatever the cost to a public career, is a godsend in a memoirist: with the events, we get the afterthoughts, the open questions; with the certitudes, the doubts. A less inquiring, less skeptical man would also not have been the only top official to challenge, from day one, American intervention in Vietnam. Ball went to Northwestern and passed into the hands--manna for a shaky ego--of upstart instructor "Benny" De Voto and 18th-century specialist Garrett Mattingly. New Deal Washington was for him, as for others, a moment when "nothing was impossible." Chicago law practice began a 35-year friendship with Stevenson. Lend-Lease planted the idea of "a postwar economic environment" free of the constraints and conflicts of the inter-war period. On the strategic-bombing survey, in a still-armed Reich: "Speer met us in the Great Hall, friendly and self-consciously affable. 'I'm glad you've come,' he said. 'I was afraid I'd been forgotten." There then follows reducing Jean Monnet's visionary ideas of a unified Europe "to coherent expression"; the first exhilarating Stevenson campaign, the "dismal" 1956 anticlimax; the multifarious foreign-policy embroilments of the Kennedy and early Johnson years--the Congo, the Cuban missile crisis, Cyprus, de Gaulle and NATO, the Dominican intervention; LBJ himself; and, in Ball's words: "The Vietnam Aberration"-which may be the finest exposition extant of the refusal to ask "why?" and the reluctance to turn back. When Ball finally left, in late '66, he left quietly--so as not to use his "privileged information" to undercut the US; but that question, too, he throws open to discussion. It's one of the great, examined public lives of our time. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].
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Da: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.Southampton Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by W.W. Norton & Company, 1982. Octavo. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed on flyleaf. Book is very good with spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and price-clipped. An excellent, signed copy of this prolific bio…graphy.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 24 cm. xii, [2], 527, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Some wear to DJ edges. George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 - May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the US State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is r…emembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He also helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and the Iranian Revolution. During 1942, he became an official of the Lend Lease program. During 1944 and 1945, he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London. During 1945, Ball began collaboration with Jean Monnet and the French government in its economic recovery in its negotiations regarding the Marshall Plan. During 1950 he helped draft the Schuman Plan and the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty. Ball was the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs for the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He is known for his opposition to escalation of the Vietnam War. Ball also served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. During August 1968 at the UN Security Council, he endorsed the Czechoslovaks' struggle against the Soviet invasion and their right to live without dictatorship. During Nixon's administration, he helped draft policy proposals on the Persian Gulf. Derived from a Kirkus review: George Ball--New Deal "dogsbody," Lend-Lease policy-shaper, strategic-bombing investigator, "ardent advocate of liberal trade," international lawyer, Under Secretary of State (1960-66)--was often told by his friend Jean Monnet, he recounts, that he spread himself too thin. But that very absence of driving ambition or a fixed commitment, whatever the cost to a public career, is a godsend in a memoirist: with the events, we get the afterthoughts, the open questions; with the certitudes, the doubts. A less inquiring, less skeptical man would also not have been the only top official to challenge, from day one, American intervention in Vietnam. Ball went to Northwestern and passed into the hands--manna for a shaky ego--of upstart instructor "Benny" De Voto and 18th-century specialist Garrett Mattingly. New Deal Washington was for him, as for others, a moment when "nothing was impossible." Chicago law practice began a 35-year friendship with Stevenson. Lend-Lease planted the idea of "a postwar economic environment" free of the constraints and conflicts of the inter-war period. On the strategic-bombing survey, in a still-armed Reich: "Speer met us in the Great Hall, friendly and self-consciously affable. 'I'm glad you've come,' he said. 'I was afraid I'd been forgotten." There then follows reducing Jean Monnet's visionary ideas of a unified Europe "to coherent expression"; the first exhilarating Stevenson campaign, the "dismal" 1956 anticlimax; the multifarious foreign-policy embroilments of the Kennedy and early Johnson years--the Congo, the Cuban missile crisis, Cyprus, de Gaulle and NATO, the Dominican intervention; LBJ himself; and, in Ball's words: "The Vietnam Aberration"-which may be the finest exposition extant of the refusal to ask "why?" and the reluctance to turn back. When Ball finally left, in late '66, he left quietly--so as not to use his "privileged information" to undercut the US; but that question, too, he throws open to discussion. It's one of the great, examined public lives of our time. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].
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Da: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
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Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering and beige paper over boards. xii, 527pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Spine mildly discolored, though binding tight and nice and internally fine; lacks dust jacket. Nice first edition of the autobiography of the influential American diplomat and State Departm…ent official (1909-94). Interesting provenance, hailing from the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81) and son of the governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate -- who appears often in this book and is pictured. Senator Stevenson pens two quotations from the text -- a dozen or so lines -- and notes the page where it appears, squiggling the margin of that page as well.
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Da: librisaggi, SAN VITO ROMANO, Italialibrisaggi
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EUR 16,00
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rilegato. Condizione: Good. Buono stato. Rilegatura editoriale in mezza tela. Sovraccoperta a colori con alette con lievi segni d'uso. Paginazione ingiallita. Dedica con firma autografa dell'Autore. Testo in inglese. Economia George W Ball THE PAST HAS ANOTHER PATTERN Norton 1982 Economia 9780393014815 Buono (Good) . Book.
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Da: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, Regno UnitoRightWayUp Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ball, George W. The past has another pattern : memoirs. First edition, inscribed by the author on front end paper. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982. Hardback, VG in unclipped dustjacket with moderate shelfwear to edges, sunning to spine and a crease…to inside front flap. Cream boards and brown cloth spine with gilt lettering and bands. Binding strong and tight. Frontispiece b/w photograph. xiii, 527pp., b/w illustrations. Contents clean and bright. George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the US State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He also helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and the Iranian Revolution. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Da: DeckleEdge LLC, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.DeckleEdge LLC
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hardcover. Condizione: new.
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Da: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.BennettBooksLtd
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hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
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Da: monobooks, Waterford, MI, U.S.A.monobooks
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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition 1982, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Signed and inscribed to "Joan and Rich Harford" by Author dated May 1982 on ffep. Also has a bookplate from Harfords on pastedown. Published by W. W. Norton & Company. Hardcover with brown c…loth spine in DJ. Condition as new, square and tight book, no edgewear, sharp corners, no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ fine, no tears, no chips, spine very slightly darkened, price clipped. 8vo, 527 pages. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. 24 cm. xii, [2], 527, [3] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. The DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has an "autographed copy" sticker on the front. Signed on the fep. Previous owner's embossed stamp on fep. George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 - May 26, 1…994) was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the US State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and the Iranian Revolution. During 1944 and 1945, he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London. During 1945, Ball began collaboration with Jean Monnet and the French government in its economic recovery in its negotiations regarding the Marshall Plan. He helped draft the Schuman Plan and the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty. Ball was the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs for the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Ball also served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. During August 1968 at the UN Security Council, he endorsed the Czechoslovaks' struggle against the Soviet invasion and their right to live without dictatorship. During Nixon's administration, he helped draft policy proposals on the Persian Gulf. Derived from a Kirkus review: George Ball--New Deal and Lend-Lease policy-shaper, strategic-bombing investigator, "ardent advocate of liberal trade," international lawyer, Under Secretary of State (1960-66)--was often told by his friend Jean Monnet, he recounts, that he spread himself too thin. But that very absence of driving ambition or a fixed commitment, whatever the cost to a public career, is a godsend in a memoirist: with the events, we get the afterthoughts, the open questions; with the certitudes, the doubts. A less inquiring, less skeptical man would also not have been the only top official to challenge, from day one, American intervention in Vietnam. Ball went to Northwestern and passed into the hands--manna for a shaky ego--of upstart instructor "Benny" De Voto and 18th-century specialist Garrett Mattingly. New Deal Washington was for him, as for others, a moment when "nothing was impossible." Chicago law practice began a 35-year friendship with Stevenson. Lend-Lease planted the idea of "a postwar economic environment" free of the constraints and conflicts of the inter-war period. On the strategic-bombing survey, in a still-armed Reich: "Speer met us in the Great Hall, friendly and self-consciously affable. 'I'm glad you've come,' he said. 'I was afraid I'd been forgotten." There then follows reducing Jean Monnet's visionary ideas of a unified Europe "to coherent expression"; the first exhilarating Stevenson campaign, the "dismal" 1956 anticlimax; the multifarious foreign-policy embroilments of the Kennedy and early Johnson years--the Congo, the Cuban missile crisis, Cyprus, de Gaulle and NATO, the Dominican intervention; LBJ himself; and, in Ball's words: "The Vietnam Aberration"-which may be the finest exposition extant of the refusal to ask "why?" and the reluctance to turn back. When Ball finally left, in late '66, he left quietly--so as not to use his "privileged information" to undercut the US; but that question, too, he throws open to discussion. It's one of the great, examined public lives of our time. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].
