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Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789 (The Political Economy of International Change)
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Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789
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Columbia University Press, New York, 1984
ISBN 10: 0231043708
ISBN 13: 9780231043700
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed first edition/first printing. xvi, 474 pages. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and small chips. Signed by previous owner [Max Holland!]. This is one of the Political Economy of International Change series. William H. Becker has written on business history, business-government relations, and the institutions of the international economy. His books include The Dynamics of Business Government Relations: Industry and Exports, 1893-1921 (1982); Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789 (co-editor, 1984); Bankers with a Mission: The Presidents of the World Bank, 1946-91 (co-author, 1996); Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council (co-author, 2002); and The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000 (co-author, 2003). He was also the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Business History and Biography (9 vols., 1986-1991). Professor Becker is currently writing Shaping Corporate America: Big Business and the Twentieth Century Experience. His media appearances have included National Public Radio and the International Herald Tribune Television. Samuel F. Wells Jr. is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in History and International Relations. At the Wilson Center he founded the International Security Studies Program in 1977 and directed that program until 1985. Since then he has served as Deputy Director of the Center while also serving as Director of West European Studies. Max Holland (born 1950, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American journalist, author, and the editor of Washington Decoded, an internet newsletter on US history that began publishing March 11, 2007. He is currently a contributing editor to The Nation and The Wilson Quarterly, and sits on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. As of 2004 he had more than two decades of journalism experience; his articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, American Heritage, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Studies in Intelligence, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Reviews in American History, and online at History News Network. Holland's published books include: Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (University Press of Kansas, 2012); The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath (Knopf, 2004); The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power (Whittle Direct Books, 1994); and When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America (Harvard Business School Press, 1989). In 2011, he was the lead consultant for a National Geographic Television documentary about the Kennedy assassination that premiered in November 2011, entitled JFK: The Lost Bullet. The findings of the documentary were summarized in The DeRonja-Holland Report. In 2001, Holland won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, bestowed jointly by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and the Columbia University School of Journalism, for a forthcoming narrative history of the Warren Commission, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. That same year he won a Studies in Intelligence Award from the Central Intelligence Agency, the first writer working outside the U.S. government to be so recognized. Seller Inventory # 63342