The Politics of Diplomacy
By James A. Baker III 
Inscribed / Signed by James Baker 

• Baker uses his unique perspective to take us inside the collapse of Communism, the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, as well as the end of conflict in Central America, the repression of Tiananmen Square, the invasion of Panama and the birth of freedom in South Africa. In addition Baker covers the coalition-building of the first Gulf War and efforts to build a peace between Israel and the Arabs. 

• Intimate portraits of such people as Gorbachev, Yelstin, Thatcher, Mitterand, Kohl, and more.

• Baker served under Gerald Ford as Under Secretary of Commerce, under Ronald Reagan as Secretary of State, White House Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary, and under George H. W. Bush as Secretary of State, White House Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor.  Baker is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

• Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons., 1995, 687 pages.  First Edition..

• Clean pages and tightly bound. Dust Jacket has moderate wear along edges, and minor general wear. 

$74.95

Historical Almanac of the United States Senate
A Series of Bicentennial Minutes Presented to the Senate 
During the One Hundredth Congress

Signed by the Author, Bob Dole, United States Senator

• Foreword by Senator Robert C. Byrd

• Chapters Include:
  • Creation of the Senate 1787-1788
  • The First Senate: 1789-1791
  • The Formative Years: 1792 - 1820
  • The "Golden Age": 1821-1859
  • War and Reconstruction: 1860 - 1889
  • Origins of the Modern Senate: 1890 - 1920
  • Reorganizing America:  1921 - 1945
  • The Postwar Senate: 1946 - 1964
  • The Modern Senate

   

• Filled with photographs and illustrations covering the history of "The Greatest Deliberative Body"
  
• U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989, 312 pages
• Excellent condition. Only some slight mars on the front cover keep this from being a mint condition volume

$129.95

Poverty

by Robert Hunter

Book is in EXCELLENT + condition. No Dust Jacket

• Appalled by the misery of the depression of 1893, the author decided to become a social worker. His most important book was Poverty (1904), the first general statistical survey of America's poor.  

• Paraphrased from the Preface: The main objects of this volume are: to define poverty and estimate its extent around 1904, and describe some of its evils and ramifications to the poor and to society in general. Declaring himself a Socialist (1905), he was elected to the first executive board of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Becoming a Socialist, he ran for public office several times. In 1914, he left the party disillusioned because Socialism had failed to prevent the outbreak of World War 1. By the end of his life, he had turned right-wing, repudiated the New Deal, and wrote Revolution (1940), which rejected Marxism and revolutions. 

• McMillan Company, 1912 of 1904 copyright, 382 pages 

• Clean pages and tightly bound. Very little shelf wear for age, spine still straight.

$89.95