2010, ISBN: 9781165536962

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xvi+805 pages with frontispiece, photographs, maps, sources sited and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black label to spine in gilt lette… Mehr…

xvi+805 pages with frontispiece, photographs, maps, sources sited and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black label to spine in gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. From the library Professor Donald E Worcester. First edition. Early in a sixteen-year sojourn in Mexico as an engineer for an American mining company, John W F Dulles became fascinated by the story of Mexico's emergence as a modern nation, and was imbued with the urge to tell that story as it had not yet been told--by letting events speak for themselves, without any interpretation or appraisal. The resultant book offers an interesting paradox: it is "chronicle" in the medieval sense--a straight-forward record of events in chronological order, recounted with no effort at evaluation or interpretation; yet in one aspect it is highly personal narrative, since much of its significant new material came to Mr Dulles as a result of personal interviews with principals of the Revolution. From them he obtained firsthand version of events and other reminiscences, and he has distilled these accounts into a work of history characterized by thorough research and objective narration. Donald E. Worcester (1915-2003) was an American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history. He was president of the Western History Association from 1974-1975. Worcester graduated from Bard College in 1939. He received an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941. He then served in the US Naval Reserve in World War II. He received a PhD. from Berkeley in 1947. From 1947 until 1963 he was a professor at the University of Florida. He then was a professor at Texas Christian University and history department chair. From 1960 until 1965 he was managing editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review. Worcester's view that history is made of complexities, not dualities, is seen as foundational for much of the understanding by later scholars of Southwest United States history. Condition: Worcester's name on front end paper and head end pages else a better than very good in a near fine dust jacket., University of Texas Press, 1961, 3.5, New York: Grosset & Dunlap A Filmways Company, 1978. BOOK: Non-Sticky Residue to Front Free Endpaper (I Suspect From Removal of Previous Owner's Bookplate); Corners Bumped; Edges Moderately Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Sun Exposure Along Top and Bottom Edges; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 14374. ALSO KNOWN AS: Some of the factual events in this book were treated in greater detail in Six Crises (Doubleday & Company, Inc. copyright 1962 by Richard M. Nixon). CONTENTS: Early Years 1913-1946; Congressman and Senator 1947-1952; Vice President 1953-1960; Private Citizen 1961-1967; 1968 Campaign and Election; The Presidency 1969-1972; The Presidency 1973-1974; Index; (Illustrations follow pages 212, 532, and 916.) SYNOPSIS: This is the autobiography of Richard Nixon, the thirty-seventh president of the United States. Before him only six men who held the office wrote comprehensive memoirs. Now, here is Richard Nixon's self-portrait: a major work of autobiography, an extraordinary historical document, an intensely personal memoir. Richard Nixon begins his story with his earliest recollections of a rural California boyhood and continues through the moment he and his family left the White House for the last time. Within that journey, we see the struggle of a man to implement what he believed. Richard Nixon's is the story of a life of conflict and contrasts, of supreme happiness and anguished sorrow. It is the story of a political man, a man who lives and fights in the arena of American politics, winning great victories and suffering shattering defeats. Above all, it is the story of a man who chose to lead his life in public, but who remained a private person. Even his closest associates have contended that they never came to know the real Nixon. Throughout his public career Richard Nixon made extensive notes about his ideas, conversations, activities, meetings. During his presidency, from November 1971 until April 1973 and again in June and July 1974, he kept an almost daily diary of reflections, analyses, and perceptions. These notes and diary dictations, quoted throughout this book, provide a unique insight into the complexities of the modern presidency and the great issues of American policy and politics. Never before have we been able to share with such immediacy in the thoughts and feelings of a working President. Without question, this book will be a basic source for historians and scholars. It is likely to engender as much debate and discussion as did the author himself throughout his public life. Here is the opportunity to see and to judge the kind of man Richard Nixon perceives himself to be; here he candidly analyzes his strengths and his weaknesses, his doubts and strong beliefs, his successes and failures, his good--and his bad--decisions. What kind of man was the first president to resign the office: why did he do what he did? These are the things we want to know from the man himself; these are the things Richard Nixon now tells us.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Grosset & Dunlap A Filmways Company, 1978, 3, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10, 2.5<