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Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1952. Hardcover. A special edition prepared in honor of Dwight David Eisenhower's return to Abilene , Kansas- June 4, 1952. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; scant shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($2.50); suntanned spine with missing pieces at tail and head; light wear to tips; toning to panels. Gray cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering in a blue shadowbox on the spine; Abilene Edition on front board in silver and blue. Maps as endpapers. Deckle edges; tinted textblock top. Special Abilene Edition wrap-around label present. 252 pp 8vo. Written during the presidential race of 1952 to help the public to get to know the candidate aside from his military accolades. This is a friendly biography of Eisenhower, which combines the quick survey of a career that in itself speaks for the man, and a skilfully interpolated succession of extracts from writings, letters, speeches, so that one gets a sense of an autobiography. A great man- and a humble one- emerges from these pages. The author was a long-time staff member for Eisenhower and one of his major speech writers from 1946-1957. A clean very presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 013549
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