Goldwater [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Goldwater, Barry M.; Casserly, Jack

Verlag: Doubleday, New York, 1988

Beschreibung

Fine condition blue boards/red cloth spine/gold front cover facsimile Goldwater signature and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface; Epilogue; and Index. Illustrated with sections of black-and-white photographs. "After a career in the Senate that spanned four decades and the terms of six different presidents, Barry M. Goldwater has retired from public office. Now he takes a fond look back at a celebrated career in politics and offers a candid, compelling, and often humorous account of an event-filled life. Here is the elder statesman of American conservatives speaking with often startling frankness about the senators he feels are more interested in TV cameras than in legislation; his deep friendship with John Kennedy, and his abiding distaste for LBJ, and Richard Nixon; his professional relationships with Tip O'Neill, Everett Dirksen, George Patton, Robert Kennedy, Joe McCarthy, and many others. Whether he is describing an astonishing dinner with Richard Nixon shortly before Nixon's disgrace and resignation, his conversations with JFK on the possibility of invading Cuba, or his long service with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, his firsthand acounts give a new perspective to the central events of twentieth-century American politics. Goldwater is a personal story as well: of a lively boyhood in Arizona shortly after that parched territory became the forty-eighth state, of military school and service in the Army Air Corps during World War II, of a successful business career abandoned for public service. It is also the intimate story of a long and happy marriage, and of the necessary sacrifices of a life lived in public." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002974

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Goldwater [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Verlag: Doubleday, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1988

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition