Dobell Byron Introductory Note (2 results)

big thick black embossed cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. a little wrinkling & chipping along the top, 1cm tear spine top, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing (nap) . ix+832p. world history. american history. politics. biography.~ For thirty years, American Heritage magazine has been telling America's story in fresh and vivid articles that have come to represent the best of responsible popular history. Now, for the first time, the editors have combed through every issue to find the most entertaining and illuminating pieces. The result~by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying~is an unusually revealing informal history of American civilization from the first settlements to the fall of Richard Nixon. A Sense of History proves that the best history is always the best reading. And the authors are numbered among the foremost historians, novelists, and public figures of recent years. A few of the illustrious authors included in this rich compilation are: Barbara W. Tuchman on Teddy Roosevelt's Mideast crisis /Alfred Kazin 's study of why Americans have always feared the city /Malcolm Cowley on Nathaniel Hawthorne in love /Edward Hoagland's haunting evocation of the real Johnny Appleseed /Bruce Catton on the Civil War, of course, but also on baseball /Louis Auchincloss on Henry Adams's unlikely sojourn in the South Seas /John Kenneth Galbraith dissecting the Great Depression /William Manchester recalling a hair~raising World War 11 hoax /Robert Silverberg's inquiry into the mystery of the mound builders /Stephen B. Oates on the grim career of Nat Turner /Wallace Stegner's luminous memoir of his Western boyhood /Francis Russell's meticulous reconstruction of the crime that sent Sacco and Vanzetti to the chair /David McCullough's surprising profile of Harriet Beecher Stowe/ Hughes Rudd's perilous World War II sojourn as a spotter pilot.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book-Of-The-Month Club edition. ix, 832pp. Foxing to page edges, else near fine, in a very good dust jacket, with some chips and tears and dampstaining to the foot of the spine, mostly visible on the interior.