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Time Special Edition. Franklin D.
Roosevelt; The Power of Leadership
2018 - Brand New
Single Issue Magazine
Publisher: Time, Topix (2018)
ASIN: B07K5FZ3BR
Time Magazine 2018 Franklin D
Roosevelt The Power of Leadership.
Wonderful book in a chaotic time for
politics and America.
Writing to his fellow Democrats in
the 1920s, Roosevelt noted that
their party could not hope to return
to power until the Republicans led
the nation "into a serious period of
depression and unemployment." The
Great Depression soon brought a far
longer and deeper period of woe than
F.D.R. foresaw. But the crisis of
the 1930s also provided an object
lesson in the relationship between
economic danger and political
opportunity.....
A More Secure America
It's old news that F.D.R.'s New Deal
did not end the Depression. On that
score, there was little difference
between Roosevelt and Herbert
Hoover. But unlike Hoover, F.D.R.
seized the occasion to shape a
legacy of durable reforms. For that
accomplishment — along with winning
World War II — historians routinely
rank him among the greatest
Presidents.
Brand new, never read. Please email
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purchase. Great gift idea for the
political junky.
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American Buffalo in Transition –
1970 First Ed. by John A. Rorabacher
Paperback: 142 pages excluding Index
Publisher: North Star Express, St.
Cloud, MN; 1st edition 1970
ISBN-10: 0878390073; ISBN-13:
978-0878390076
Approx. Size 9 x 6
inches
Subjects: American bison
Between 1800 to 1890 the free
roaming buffalo in North America
were reduced from an estimated 60
million to fewer than 20 wild bison
in the U.S. " Now there are over
17,000 bison living under varying
degrees of supervision ranging from
private herds to restrictive zoos to
large parks where the animals can
again roam freely. This book is an
attempt to present a survey of the
decimation of the bison; to consider
the major factors that have
influenced the growth of the buffalo
population since 1990." From the
book's preface.
"This book provides specific details
regarding the destruction of the
American Buffalo in the USA. The
writer provides numbers to support
his report. The information this
book presents is disturbing but we
need to know it!" via online review.
Wonderful hardcover book, like
new...looks un-read with like dust
jacket. Illustrated endpapers with
two original bookmark and file card
from bookstore from original
purchaser in Winnipeg. Excellent
illustrations throughout book.
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questions.
Shop No. BOC11514 $22.50
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Nineteen Hundred Fifty (1950)
Premium List Beltrami County Fair,
Bemidji ~ local business
advertisements
Bemidji Minnesota, Beltrami County
History 1950
Original and Rare 125 page booklet
full of Beltrami County Fair
Supporters....many, many local and
close are business's. Fantastic
piece for the family or town or
county history or genealogy.
H. A. Krebs, President.....Bemidji
N. A. Welle, Vice
President....Bemidji
G. E. Guyan, Secretary....Bemidji
and many more Beltrami county Fair
Association Board of Directors
20th Century Shows * 15 Rides * 8
Shows * 40 Clean Concessions ~ Many
of these business's are closed or
altogether gone but what a fun look
into the past of a town that used to
be all about the tourist and
hallmark the wonder's of such a
large Country get together.
B&W illustrations throughout.
Clean pages. Burnt orange paper
covers with black illustration and
letter that show a bumped upper
right hand corner. Otherwise this
8.5 by 5.25" booklet is in excellent
shape.
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The Betrayal of America 2001: How
the Supreme Court Undermined the
Constitution and Chose Our President
Publisher : Bold Type Books; 2nd
Paperback Edition
ISBN-10 : 156025355X
ISBN-13 : 978-1560253556
Paperback : 192 pages --
approx. size: 7.75" by 5"
During the course of American
history, wrongful events have
occurred and certain Americans have
stood up and spoken out against
these wrongs: Tom Paine, Edward R.
Murrow, Daniel Ellsberg. Vincent
Bugliosi takes his place in this
special pantheon of patriots with
his powerful, brilliant, and
courageous expose of crime by the
highest court in the land. When an
article he wrote on this topic
appeared in The Nation magazine in
February 2001, it drew the largest
outpouring of letters and e-mail in
the magazine's 136-year history,
tapping a deep reservoir of outrage.
The original article is now
expanded, amended, and backed by
amplifications, endnotes, and the
relevant Supreme Court documents.
Very nice like new condition. Looks
as if never read. Interior spotless.
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Item No. BOC12109 $11.50
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The Rise of American Civilization:
One Volume Edition Hardcover – 1930
by Charles A. & Beard, Mary R.
Beard
Macmillan; First edition
Originally published in two volumes
(The Agricultural Era in 1927 &
The Industrial Era in 1930); this
one volume edition, with its new
introduction, was published in 1930.
B&W illustrations throughout.
Clean pages. Moderate tanning due to
age. 800 pages plus index. Black
cloth cover that shows moderate
wear. Bumped corner. Decorative
embossed stamp on front.
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questions.
boc10821 $24.00 |
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The Strange Death of President
Harding from the Diaries of Gaston
B. Means - A department of Justice
Investigator. 1930
Guild Publishing, New York; 1930
1st Edition, 8th Printing.
This book purports to tell of Gaston
Means' activities as an investigator
for the U. S. Department of Justice
when Harry Daugherty was
Attorney-General. This book purports
to tell of Gaston Means' activities
as an investigator for the U. S.
Department of Justice when Harry
Daugherty was Attorney-General. It
is replete with lengthy quotations
of people Means says he came in
contact with while working for Mrs.
Harding. These cannot be accurate
unless Means had them taped--long
before the days of Watergate. No
doubt Nixon would have been enamored
of Means, who did "dirty tricks" so
successfully--according to him.
Would make for an interesting read
considering today's politics. Covers
show every blemish due to flash,
doesn't appear to be this scuffed to
the naked eye. A stamp of sorts is
partially seen on spine. Hardcover,
good condition, tight and intact.
Rough edged original pages, last few
longer than others. Someone took ink
to three pages in the beginning
including title page and I find one
interior page. Not large scribbling
but enough to be annoying. Toned
pages due to age with some slight
soiling.
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purchase. Thanks
boc11049 $27.00 |
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Gangs of America 2003: The Rise of
Corporate Power and the Disabling of
Democracy First Ed. by Ted Nace
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003
ISBN 10: 1576752607
ISBN 13: 9781576752609
Approx. size: 9.5" by 6.75" -- 281
pages
The corporation has become the core
institution of the modern world.
Designed to seek profit and power,
it has pursued both with endless
tenacity, steadily bending the
framework of law and even
challenging the sovereign status of
the state.
In Gangs of America he details the
rise of corporate power in America
through a series of fascinating
stories, each organized around a
different facet of the central
question: “How did corporations get
more rights than people?” Nace
traces the events and people that
have shaped the modern corporation
to give us a fascinating look into
the rise of corporate power.
Very good condition with original
jacket. Book is like new outside of
a title and reference in the index I
see highlighted. If more I haven't
found but overall in beautiful
condition.
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purchase. Thanks
BOC12018 $14.50
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See, I Told You So 1993 by Rush
Limbaugh (American Political Radio
Host)
Publisher: Pocket Books / Simon
& Schuster
ISBN 10: 067187120X ISBN 13:
9780671871208
364 pages -- Approx. Size 6 x
8.75 inches
Political hardcover without dust
jacket.
The controversial conservative radio
personality presents a collection of
his observations on the Clinton
administration, liberals, and other
topics.
The right-wing radio personality
presents a collection of the
observations conservative
listeners have come to love on his
nationally broadcast radio program
in a work that attacks liberals
and President and Mrs. Clinton.
Very good vintage condition other
than some spotting to front cover,
may be able to remove. Looks un-read
otherwise. Spotless interior.
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purchase. Thanks
BOC12400 $16.50
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Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber
Created Fortunes, Wrecked
Civilizations, and Put America on
the Map 2005 by Stephen
Yafa
Publisher: Viking, 2005
ISBN0670033677,
9780670033676
398 pages --
Approx. size: 8.5 by 6"
Cotton has touched off wars and
revolutions, inspired astonishing
inventions, laid waste to entire
ecosystems, and enslaved untold
millions of people. Today, cotton
is, if anything, more preeminent
than ever and at the center of
raging global controversies.
By the mid-nineteenth century, the
vast plantations of the antebellum
South, the grim mill towns of New
England, and the soot-spewing
factories of the English Midlands
were knit together in a global
system of exploitation and
enslavement—all of it based on
cotton. When Marx and Engels
composed The Communist Manifesto,
they chose cotton manufacturing as
the prime symbol of capitalism run
amok. Beautifully researched and
written, Big Cottontraces the
cultural, economic, and social
history of the “world’s friendliest”
fiber from the kingdoms of
Mesopotamia to the Gap.
Illustrated with wonderful artwork
and photos. Excellent gift idea.
Beautiful condition with original
jacket. The book looks as new but
does show a black remainder mark
next to spine underneath. Jacket is
in very good condition.
BOC12292 $16.50
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything
Your American History Textbook Got
Wrong - 1995 James W. Loewen
Publisher The New
Press
Publication date 1995
Pages 383
ISBN
978-1-56584-100-0
Size: 9 1/4 inches tall by 6 inches
wide
Subject: American history,
Historiography, Native American
history, African American history
It critically examines twelve
popular American high school history
textbooks and concludes that the
textbook authors propagate false,
Eurocentric and mythologized views
of American history. In addition to
his critique of the dominant
historical themes presented in high
school textbooks, Loewen presents
themes that he says are ignored by
traditional history textbooks
Very good condition with slightly
bumped corners. Original paperback.
A revised hardcover edition was
released on April 1, 2008. Interior
spotless with maybe one or two pages
with turned corners. Very good.
boc11244 $14.00
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Pioneer History Stories. Second
Book. Pioneers of the Mississippi
Valley 1906 by Charles A. McMurry
Publication date 1906 (First
published in 1891)
Publisher Macmillan Company
Collection Americana
Very nice early edition of the
Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley
by McMurry. Early map across from
Title page.
Approx. measurements 6" x 7.5",
218pp. MAPS; North America;
Explorations of Joliet and
Marquette, La Salle and Hennepin;
Routes of French Explorers and
French Posts; The West in the
Revolutionary War; Florida with the
March of De Soto and his Men.
"The early history stories of the
Mississippi Valley are proving more
and more acceptable to teachers and
children in intermediate grades. The
present volume of Pioneer Stories
was first published in 1891, and
after many editions has been revised
a second time, and now takes it's
place as the second of a series of
three volumes of American History
Stories."
Very good condition with only
slightly bumped corners and spine
ends. Flash shows some spotting to
covers. Red cloth with black
lettering. Interior spotless with
great illustrations and pic of
Abraham Lincoln. Small stamp of date
July 18, 1907 on front enepaper.
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American Theocracy 2006: The Peril
and Politics of Radical Religion,
Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st
Century - Kevin Phillips
Publisher: Viking; First Edition
2006
Paperback; 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 0739471880
ISBN-13 : 978-0739471883
Size: 9 inches tall by 6 inches wide
Phillips describes three central,
unifying planks in the Republican
coalition. The first is oil. The
second is radical religion. The
third is unprecedented levels of
national and consumer debt.
An explosive examination of the
coalition of forces that threatens
the nation, from the bestselling
author of American Dynasty
In his two most recent bestselling
books, American Dynasty and Wealth
and Democracy, Kevin Phillips
established himself as a powerful
critic of the political and economic
forces that rule—and imperil—the
United States, tracing the ever more
alarming path of the emerging
Republican majority’s rise to power.
Now Phillips takes an uncompromising
view of the current age of global
overreach, fundamentalist religion,
diminishing resources, and
ballooning debt under the GOP
majority. With an eye to the past
and a searing vision of the future,
Phillips confirms what too many
Americans are still unwilling to
admit about the depth of our
misgovernment.
Very nice condition. Spotless
interior, pages are clean and
bright. Binding is tight. Looks
barely read. Only very slight bumped
corners.
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BOC12146 $16.50
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The Bunker Hill Monument Adams and
Jefferson...Two Orations by Daniel
Webster; Riverside Literature Series
#56
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin &
Company
Publication Date: 1893
"As early as 1776, steps were
taken toward the commemoration of
the battle of Bunker Hill and the
heroic death of Dr. Joseph Warren,
who was buried upon the hill the
day after the action. At the time
of the battle, Warren was a
major-general in the Continental
Army. The Massachusetts Lodge of
Masons, over which Warren had
presided, applied to the
provisional government of
Massachusetts for permission to
take up his remains and to bury
them with the usual solemnities.
The Council granted this request,
on condition that the government
of the Colony might have an
opportunity to erect a monument to
his memory. A eulogy on General
Warren was delivered, but no
measures were taken toward
building a monument. --On the 11th
of November, 1794, a committee was
appointed by King Solomon's Lodge,
at Charlestown, /1/ to take
measures for the erection of a
monument to the memory of General
Joseph Warren at the expense of
the Lodge. "
Beautiful and very early edition for
your original series. This being
number 56. 15c. paperback at the
year of publishing.
Normal toned pages due to age. A
very light penciling is the only
writing at the blank first page
stating Hilda Halverson, "Touch Not,
Taste Not, Handle Not" -- obviously
this previous owner had a sense of
humor. Slightly bumped corners, some
discoloration by staples, still
tight and nice edition.
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questions.
Item # Boc11671 $23.00
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