Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator [First Edition]

Stated at copyright page: "First Edition". Full number-line beginning with 1. Purplish blue boards, blue half-cloth spine wrap, horizontal gilt spine titles with red bands, moderate shelf wear, rub, toning. Pages very good; no writing. Illustrated throughout with b&w photography; approximately fifty images with Baker and/or others of DC. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Classic '70s pictorial wrapper, moderate shelf, edge wear, mended closed tear; unclipped 10.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Date code at front flap: "6-78". Rare very good first printing in matching wrapper. Each of the titled chapters either has a quote from the main subject or a pithy summary of its contents. Contents: "1. In Jail with Jimmy Hoffa. 'Bobby, watch your ass. Don't trust anybody but me and my boys.'; 2. From Pickens to Washington. 'Son, it's a chance for a start.'; 3. New Boy on Capitol Hill. 'From Japanese spies to FDR's missing silver'; 4. Meeting Lyndon B. Johnson. 'Mr. Baker, I understand you know where the bodies are buried.'; 5. Learning the Political Ropes. 'Money talks and bullshit walks.'; 6. Climbing the Ladder with LBJ. 'Hubert can't win, but I don't want him gumming up the works for me.'; 7. The Washington Dollar Game. 'Bobby, we're broke and we owe 39,000. See what you can do.'; 8. Trades, Alliances, and Accommodations. 'Bobby, I'll do anything to kill that bill. Yeah, How much money can you spend?'; 9. Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles. 'Senator Kerr slammed me in the face with his open palm. It sound like a dynamite cap expanding.'; 10. Riding High. 'You've got more powerful contacts than any young man in America. You want to throw that away?'; 11. Becoming a Paper Millionaire. 'The way you're buying that stock you sure must know something. Can you get some for me?' 12. The Beginning of the End. 'You would be a Mongolian idiot not to take the Fifth Amendment. The Senate isn't the place to try your case.'; 13. Wired Informants and the Death of a Lady. 'When I saw her broken body I cried like a baby.'; 14. Charged, Tried, and Convicted. 'This case hangs on the Kerr cash. You've got no choice but to tell it all.'; 15. Surviving in the Slammer. 'Stay away from that man. He's a killer. If he tells you to kiss his ass, you'd better pucker.'; 16. New Troubles with the Watergate Gang. 'What do you know on Larry O'Brien?'; 17. The Prodigal Son Returns. LBJ said, 'Everything within me wanted to come to your aid. But they would have crucified me.'; 18. Reflections of a Political Has-Been. 'Most of the people on top in government haven't experienced serious adversity or they never would have arrived there.'; and, an Index." Bobby Baker was a small-town southern boy when he arrived in 1943 DC; but, he had a confident sense of political clout. Baker soon knew 'which senator wanted what done' almost before the senator knew himself. Senator Robert Kerr was the first instrument of Baker’s rise. He found an even more powerful connect in LBJ, and Baker rose with Johnson until no doors were closed to him. Bobby Baker's depiction of LBJ is pungent with plausible detailing of the Texan’s earthy table talk. Bobby Baker tells a unique insider’s story of the always fascinating methods and motives of power in the U.S. Congress and Washington scene. - Schlesinger and NY Times Book Review (condensed). Features a detailed ten-page index. 296 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.…