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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Good in very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 743 p. Includes index, bibliography. Audience: General/trade. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. TINY bit of bumping to spine tail. Else binding and pages are clean. DJ is also clean & bright. No price on DJ. ; BIH17D; 284 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. About As New in all respects in an As New dust jacket. Clean and unmarked, unread. The cloth bound trade edition."Professor Robert J. Rayback's history of Millard Fillmore is still the best biography of the 13th President of the United States. In one of the many unexplained, unfortunate quirks of history, most of the official papers of Fillmore's administration were destroyed by his son. Scholars have consequently been denied the source material which is so essential to examining and gaining insight into the underlying truth of a Presidency. Regarding Fillmore, the few records that do survive can only be compiled piecemeal, a laborious task which few have had the stamina to undertake. Thus is the historical importance of Robert J. Rayback's authoritative biography, which gives documented substance to Fillmore and his three years in office." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An on-line bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Facsimile. A pristine facsimile copy of the 1922 original. This is Vol. I only of a two-volume history. The jacket is protected by a mylar Brodart cover. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; 372 pages.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Octavo, hardcover, fine in fine white pictorial dj. Vol. 2. To the end of a career, 1845 to 1849. Here is definitive biography on the chief figure of the Mexican War and the Oregon controversy. pp 373 to 746, concludes the biography. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 682 pp. with bibliogarphy, index. Illustrations. Biography.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Like new. xii, 433, [1] pages. Illustrations. Sources. Notes. Index. The author shows Hoover as a man who foresaw the country's economic collapse, but whose rational and impersonal approach to social problems was bound to fail. David Burner was professor emeritus of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and founder of the Brandywine Press. Burner received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1965. In the 1970s, Burner shifted his scholarly focus to the other side of American politics. His biography Herbert Hoover: A Public Life became the most important contribution to the rehabilitation of the former president's reputation. Contrary to the scholarly consensus, which for decades had viewed Hoover as responsible for the untold suffering of the Great Depression, Burner viewed him as a more activist president than his GOP predecessors during the 1920s and anything but a laissez-faire purist. "By categorizing the needed reforms Hoover initiated prior to the crash," one reviewer wrote, "Burner concludes that his presidency attempted to create great cooperative units that would receive energies from the bottom up and their efficiencies from the top downward. Burner describes Hoover as a strong president and suggests that his tenure be viewed as part of a larger effort dating back to his commerce years . . . an effort . . . distantly related to a later (post New Deal) joining of technical proficiency to a diffusion of power." Burner composed textbooks, anthologies, and documents collections, and his John F. Kennedy and a New Generation remains popular in the Library of American Biography. He was one of the extraordinary Americans of this century. Inexhaustibly energetic, a progressive and a humanitarian, he would build a society on the virtues of hard, intelligent work, voluntary cooperation, commonsensical decency, and good neighborliness. Yet for three decades after he left the presidency Herbert Hoover met with opprobrium and derision, and now his name is almost invariably associated with economic depression and inept leadership. But, as historian David Burner argues in this compellingly readable biography, the conventional view of our thirty-first President is distorted and largely unjust. Hoover's early years were in the classic American tradition. Born in Iowa, orphaned by the age of nine, raised by relatives in Oregon, he was in the first graduating class of Stanford University. He spent the next twenty years as a mining engineer and entrepreneur in Australia, China, and England, and quickly became a millionaire. His organizing and supervising of the massive Belgian relief operations of World War I made him an international figure, and he came home to the United States to oversee the wartime production and distribution of food. After the war he led a European relief program that saved millions of lives. When he became President in 1929 - the first professional engineer to reach the White House - Hoover's standing was at its zenith, and he urged upon Congress a program that was the most socially adventurous proposed in America before Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days in 1933. But, as Burner makes clear, there were flaws in Hoover that rendered him unable to deal with the crises following the Wall Street crash of 1929. He shows Hoover as a lonely individualist traveling faithfully along on his own course, who understood the importance of instilling public confidence but could not bring himself to employ public relations technique to manufacture it. Like new [Removed from shrinkwrap for cataloging] Third printing of the First Edition [stated].