The Constitutional Convention as an Amending Device.
Washington, D.C. American Historical Association, 1981. Hardcover. 160 pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Scuffed. Bumping to sp. ends and corners. Slight crease to ffep.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Freedom Is Power:; Liberty Through Political Representation
Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 2014. Hardcover. 231 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Contemporary Political Theory series. Very light rubbing, flexing & shelfwear to boards. Very faint creasing to joints. Bumping to spine ends. Slight cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Pgs clean & crisp. Light scuffing.....
Goliath.
New York: Richard W. Baron, 1970. First edition. Cloth. 134 pp. 8vo. Cloth in dj. First edition. Scuffed soil and edgewear to dj, bumping w/ tears/chips to sp. ends and corners, foxing to front folded edge, 2" tear to rear upper edge, 1 1/2" tear to front upper edge, rear.....
Restoration of the Republic:; The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 292 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Inscribed by author on title pg. Boards & spine fine. Binding tight. textblock clean & crisp. Dj fine. Inscribed by author.
Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq.
London and Ithaca (NY): C. Hurst and Co., and Cornell University Press, 2006. Hardcover. 482 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Inscribed. Slightest bump to spine foot. Binding tight. Pages clean & crisp. Clean & bright. Inscribed.
The Citizens Book.
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1916. Cloth. 8vo. 242 pp. Cloth. Spine ends lightly bumped. Covers are lightly soiled and bumped. Front cover has a nice gilt seal and a b&w photo. Interior is tight and clean. Includes: The Geography of Cincinnati; The Settlement of Columbia; The Founding of Losantiville;.....
Open Spaces: The Life of American Cities.
NY: Harper & Row, 1977. Wraps. 8vo. 386 pp. Light edgewear with some rubbing to edges of spine. Red remainder mark along bottom edge of text block. The author illustrates how spatial organization affects people--a specific and vivid account that will interest laypeople as well as professional city planners.
Party Campaigning in the 1980s.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 176 pp. Dj top spine end and rear top edge have light wear. Top and rear front dj corners have very slight wear. Subtitle: Have the national parties made a comeback as key players in congressional elections?
Trends in American Electoral Behavior.
Itasca, IL: F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1981. Paperback. 8vo. 171 pp. Creasing to joints, light wear to corners, sticker to first page. The decline of party and partianship, the decline in political participation, the decline of political trust, the meaning of change in the American electorate.
Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy since the Cold War.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978. Cloth. 8vo. 331 pp. Quarter cloth over boards in dustjacket. Previous owner's name to ffep. Dj price-clipped, slight wear to top edge. Edgewear to dj including sm chip to spine head. Minor wear to book edges. Probes the inadequacy of the Cold war "containment.....
The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 526 pp. Corners and spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. With review slip. Stain to three-quarters of pages 10 and 11 and slightly to 13 and 14 from newspaper. Sunning to spine and near edges of dj. Pages are.....
The Rule of Nobody:; Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2014. Hardcover. 244 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Inscribed by author. "...Philip K. Howard argues for a return to the framers' vision of public law -- setting goals & boundaries, not dictating daily choices." Some very light soiling & shelfwear to.....
Countering Terrorism:; Dimensions of Preparedness
Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2003. Cloth. 477 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover in dj. BCSIA Studies in International Security in cooperation with the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness. Light flexing to boards. Some shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Very faint soiling to textblock.....
The Anti-Redeemers.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Wraps. 8vo. 252 pp. In excellent condition. "Hill country political dissenters in the lower south from redemption to populism"
War and Virtual War: The Challenges to Communities.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. Paperback. 8vo. 240 pp. Book is in Excellent condition. Pages are fresh and clean, binding is tight. "First, an act of civil disobedience is justified only if it is an attempt to defend the democratic ideal of the state, when and where some of its fundamental principles.....
U.S. National Security: Beyond the Cold War.
Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, 1993. Paperback. 8vo. 114 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed. Otherwise book is in excellent condition. Pages are crisp and clean.
Political Affairs, Vol XXXIV, No. 3, March 1955:; A Theoretical and Political Magazine of Scientific Socialism
New York: New Century, 1955. Paperback. 65 pp., 12mo. Stapled paperback. Featuring contributions by N. A. Bulganin, Frederick C. Hastings, Charles P. Mann, George Morris, Nat Ganley, & Mary Norris. Slight soiling & wear to covers; some foxing & light sunning to front cover. Textblock quite clean.
Making Histories:; Studies in History Writing and Politics
Minneapolis, MN: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1982. Paperback. 379 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Yellowed. Lightly edgeworn. Lightly soiled. Textblock foxed. Foreword by Mary Jo Maynes.
The American Solution II.
Prattsville, NY: Huntersfield Mountain press, 1994. Hard Cover. 8vo. 192 pp. Jacket very slightly soiled, otherwise in excellent condition. American solutions to political situations.
Journeying Far & Wide : A Political and Diplomatic Memoir.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. First edition. Quarter Cloth. 8vo. 352 pp. spine ends and corners lightly bumped. light rubbing to dj edges. Signed first edition with letter from author. Philip Kaiser's account of his time as an assistant secretary of labor under four presidents; Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and.....
The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years.
Connecticut and London: Praeger, 1999. Paperback. 8vo. 262 pp.
The "Underclass" Debate: Views from History.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Cloth. 8vo. 507pp., textblock soiled, rubbing to covers, spine ends rubbed and lightly bumped, foot of spine and foot of rear cover have "used book" stickers on them, interior is clean aside from some underlining.
The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe: The Politics of Post-Wall Arms Control.
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellscheft, 1996. Flexible cloth. 8vo. 370 pp. Light bumping to edges. Otherwise excellent condition. Clean interior. Essays on: Historical concept, course and content of the CFE negotiations, prospects and perspectives on CFE, etc.
Trade Unions and Socialist Politics.
London and New York: Verso, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 333 pp. Very light rubbing to dj, light bumping to spine head and upper corners, tiny tear to spine head. Very light wear to book cover edges, text block yellowed and lightly soiled, faint tobacco odor. Interior clean and tight.....
Postmodern Political Communication: The Fringe Challenges the Center.
Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1992. Cloth. 8vo. 188 pp. Prager Series in Political Communication. The "fringe" or powerless groups from the viewpoint of the empowered majority: how do the outsiders engage the center in discourse and use mass media for political power?