SWORDS AND PLOWSHARES [Signed]

Taylor, Maxwell D.

ISBN 10: 0393074609 / ISBN 13: 9780393074604

Published by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York, 1972

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Octavo, 434 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very good dust jacket. Spine red with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$10.00." Mild rubbing to edges and corners of dust jacket. Mild tearing to dust jacket at top edges of front cover and front hinge. Mild chipping to head of spine and top edge of front hinge. Age toning to dust jacket. Mild general shelf wear to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Red ink underlining and marginalia on pages 201, 201, and 35. Light penciling scattered throughout textblock. Age toning throughout. Signed by Taylor on half title page. DL consignment. Shelved Case 1 1/2. Inscription reads, "In deep appreciation of the rare pleasure of A Moment with Deena. / Max Taylor / 14 May 1972." Deena Clark: A Moment With was a variety show on NBC hosted by journalist, Deena Clark. Throughout her career, Clark interviewed many prominent politicians including John F. Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson. 1384495. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SWORDS AND PLOWSHARES [Signed]
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393074609
• ISBN 13: 9780393074604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Warfare and Conflict
  • Dupont Circle

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Synopsis

General Maxwell D. Taylor was one of the great military heroes of recent American history. During World War II, Taylor fought in Sicily and Italy before parachuting into France as head of the 101st Airborne Division on Dday, 1944. Later he commanded the Division in the Arnhem drop in Holland and in the defence of Basting in the Bulge. After the war, Taylor served as superintendent of West Point, U.S. Commander in Berlin, Commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, and Army Chief of Staff under President Eisenhower. John F. Kennedy named him chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and sent him to Vietnam in 1961 he returned to that country as Ambassador in 1965, and served as a key advisor to President Johnson until 1969. In Swords and Plowshares, Taylor tells the firsthand story of a life of action, courage, strategy, and dedication. Offering candid and controversial views of such central figures as Dwight Eisenhower, John Dulles, the Kennedy's, and General Westmoreland, Taylor contrasts their varying views of the role of air power in modern warfare, and presents his own approach to the problems of winning wars and making peace. These memoirs ably illustrate why General Maxwell Taylor deserves to rank among Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Patton as one of the great American military geniuses of our time.