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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012
ISBN 10: 1448200776ISBN 13: 9781448200771
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Published by HarperCollins, 1987
ISBN 10: 006091422XISBN 13: 9780060914226
Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: 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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Published by Collins, 1986
ISBN 10: 0002175843ISBN 13: 9780002175845
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002177811ISBN 13: 9780002177818
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Papermac, 1995
ISBN 10: 0333619978ISBN 13: 9780333619971
Seller: MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. 1704810513. 1/9/2024 2:28:33 PM.
Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, NY, 1986
Seller: Battleground Books, Yorktown, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Harper & Row, Publishers, NY. A biography of Harry Truman. Written by the British politician and historian, Jenkins covers Truman s entire career. Thrust into leadership with the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Truman led the country to through the end of WWII, the Berlin Blockade and into the Korean War. Very good copy of the stated first US edition in a good+ dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear. 232 pages.
Published by Harpercollins, 1986
ISBN 10: 0060155809ISBN 13: 9780060155803
Book First Edition
Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Reviewer's new release and leaflets laid-in. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (US history, presidents, politics).
Published by Collins, 1986
ISBN 10: 0002175843ISBN 13: 9780002175845
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Type: Book pp X, 230. 1st printing. An unread book. DJ shows very slight use.
Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1986. Collins. Hard Cover. Book- VG. DJ- Good, sunned, protective covered. 9.5x6.5. 230pp. 21 b/w plates.
Published by Collins, London, 1986
ISBN 10: 0002175843ISBN 13: 9780002175845
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 230 pp. Photos. Jacket has light edgewear. Spine bumped. A look at Truman's life and career, with a focus on his dealings with the international affairs that occupied so much of his time in office. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages.
Published by Collins, 1986
ISBN 10: 0002175843ISBN 13: 9780002175845
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. pp X, 230. 1st printing. An unread book.
Tapa con sobrecubierta. Condition: Bueno.
Published by 1982-85, 1982
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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The original autograph manuscript of the biography of US President Harry Truman by the British statesman Roy Jenkins, comprising around 100,000 words in Jenkins's hand, written chiefly on House of Commons paper and specially bound. The manuscript constitutes the full main text of the biography, with extensive further corrections by the author, yet prior to subsequent corrections when typeset for publication in 1986. Roy Jenkins was a central figure in British and European politics throughout the 1960s to the 1980s. As Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967, he oversaw core liberal reforms including the decriminalization of homosexuality, relaxation of divorce law, and legalization of abortion. One of the major pro-European voices in British politics, Jenkins served as President of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981. He was a leader of the "Gang of Four" who abandoned the Labour Party to found the Social Democrats in the early 1980s, which by most interpretations split the Labour Party's electoral base and contributed to Margaret Thatcher's large parliamentary majorities. Jenkins maintained a simultaneous career as an author throughout his life, specializing in political biographies, starting with the first official biography of Clement Attlee in 1948 and writing seven further biographies, including of Asquith, Gladstone, and Stanley Baldwin. The biography of Truman was started in 1982, but mostly written in 1984 and early 1985. It was published in the UK by Harper Collins in 1986 and in New York by Harper and Row the same year. Jenkins reflected that he originally intended a book on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but found far too much had already been written on him to break new ground. Truman offered better scope for a new biography: "Although he has inspired biographies and other books about him running well into double figures (of which at least three are good) I did not have any of that sense of repleteness which had afflicted me with Roosevelt. I thought that there would be a good deal that was reasonably fresh to say about Truman, and found this in practice to be so" (in acknowledgements of published edition). Jenkins based his biographies on secondary sources, which evoked some dismissal from academics. For Truman, he was heavily dependent on Robert Donovan's two-volume biography and on Truman's own memoirs. However, in its review The Times commented on Jenkins's unique position as a politician writing biographies: "this insider's perspective is precisely where Mr Jenkins scores. as a practitioner himself, Mr Jenkins knows how politics works" (20 February 1986). The New York Times reviewed his biography as a "well-written, intelligent biography that doesn't grind any axes but is refreshingly opinionated in the British style" (9 November 1986), noting that the focus is perhaps too disproportionately on international rather than domestic affairs. Overall Jenkins presented Truman sympathetically as a politician who maintained his basic integrity when dramatically forced into the position of President, without proper preparation or indeed desire to hold the office. He upheld the Truman legend of the unpretentious common man elevated to the highest position, who then won the war, rebuilt the Western Atlantic community, and maintained the New Deal. The manuscript is neatly and evenly written and always easily legible. It is mostly on the rectos only, with the versos used on occasion for additions and references. Every page has revisions and corrections, with sentences struck through and restarted, and words altered or corrected. The revisions were evidently executed mainly or entirely at the time of writing. Most alterations are stylistic, rather than significant changes of fact or flow of narrative. Still, on occasion whole sentences are omitted and avenues of thought curtailed and refocused. The manuscript perhaps demonstrates the fairly free approach to writing which characterizes Jenkins's biographies, which were very much his interpretation of a figure as opposed to a depersonalized scholarly account. A typescript copy was made from the manuscript by Jenkins's secretaries Celia Beale and Jenny Ross. This typescript was circulated to various individuals for suggestions, including Ian Gilmour, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Arthur M. Schlesinger. Further changes were made to the typescript for publication. Despite these changes at the typescript stage, the manuscript here conforms very closely to the eventual published book. The chief difference with the published book is the manuscript does not include Jenkins's Acknowledgements section, nor the index or references. A small portion of the manuscript is supplied in contemporary photocopy, perhaps as Jenkins circulated the original section and did not receive it back. The final corrected typescript, with Jenkins's research material for the book, is deposited with most of his papers in the Bodleian Library (call number MS. Jenkins 373). A copy of the first edition of the published biography is also supplied. Folio (296 x 208 mm). Bound for the author by R. G. Scales of London in dark red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Comprising 231 numbered leaves, of which 193 handwritten and 38 in contemporary photocopy of original handwritten leaves, written chiefly on rectos with additions on versos, mostly on House of Commons stationery but with a few leaves of personal stationary and the headed paper of the President of the European Commission. Very light spotting to edges, else in fine condition.