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Gardner, John W.. Morale. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York, 1978.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: 158, [2] pages. Index. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. Inscribed by Gardner on fep. DJ has, front flap clipped and slight wear and soiling. Derived from a Kirkus review: It has become John Gardner's role to remind us periodically that we can be better than we are. Anger against mass impersonality is not capricious or futile: people can form new kinds of community--whether in geographic groupings, in the work place, or in voluntary organizations. Gardner's smooth reasonableness tends to mask the difficulties though he does not ignore them. A major problem is to keep power dispersed--to prevent "not just the government itself but any organized groups or institutions" from dominating the electorate. And just because we are less sanguine, says Gardner, "we can face up to the complexities of action and still act." Whoever reads and heeds redeems Gardner's effort--but how much more could be accomplished with some practical input from Common Cause. John William Gardner, (October 8, 1912 - February 16, 2002) was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) under President Lyndon Johnson. A native of California, Gardner attended Stanford University. As an undergraduate he set several swimming records and won a number of Pacific Coast championships, and graduated "with great distinction." After earning a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1938, Dr. Gardner taught at Connecticut College and at Mount Holyoke. During the early days of World War II he was chief of the Latin American Section, Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service. He subsequently entered the United States Marine Corps and was assigned to the O.S.S., serving in Italy and Austria. He joined the staff of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1946, and in 1955 he became president of that group, and concurrently, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He also served as an advisor to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations and as a consultant to the U.S. Air Force, which awarded him the Exceptional Service Award in 1956. He was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and of the Educational Testing Service and a director of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He served as chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Panel on Education, and was chief draftsman of that group's widely circulated report, The Pursuit of Excellence. He was also the founder of two influential national U.S. organizations: Common Cause and Independent Sector. He authored books on improving leadership in American society and other subjects. He was also the founder of two prestigious fellowship programs, The White House Fellowship and The John Gardner Fellowship at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. In 1966 Gardner was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. Gardner's term as Secretary of HEW was at the height of Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda. During this tenure, the Department undertook both the huge task of launching Medicare, which brought quality health care to senior citizens, and oversaw significant expansions of the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 that redefined the federal role in education and targeted funding to poor students. Gardner resigned as head of HEW because he could not support the war in Vietnam. Gardner was featured on the cover and in an article of the January 20, 1967 Time magazine, and later that year also presided over the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees from 1968 to 1982. In 1970, Gardner created Common Cause. He also founded the Experience Corps. In 1973, he received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. In 1980-1983 he co-founded Independent Sector, which lobbies and does PR on behalf of tax-exempt organizations in order to retain the charitable deduction. In September 2000, Gardner lent his name and support to the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University, a center that partners with communities to develop leadership, conduct research, and effect change to improve the lives of youth. Gardner died of cancer in San Francisco on February 16, 2002. He was buried in San Francisco National Cemetery there. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].
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Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [20], 386, [6] pages. Footnotes. Index. Sign by the author. Includes a special message to subscribers from John Kenneth Galbraith. John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. Among his works was a trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He served as United States Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration. His political activism, literary output and outspokenness brought him wide fame during his lifetime. Galbraith was one of the few to receive both the World War II Medal of Freedom (1946) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000) for his public service and contributions to science. The Affluent Society is a 1958 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. The book sought to clearly outline the manner in which the post-World War II United States was becoming wealthy in the private sector but remained poor in the public sector, lacking social and physical infrastructure, and perpetuating income disparities. The book sparked much public discussion at the time. It is also credited with popularizing the term "conventional wisdom". Many of the ideas presented were later expanded and refined in Galbraith's 1967 book, The New Industrial State. Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich called it his favorite on the subject of economics. The Modern Library placed the book at no. 46 on its list of the top 100 English-language non-fiction books of the 20th century. The "central tradition" in economics, created by Adam Smith and expanded by David Ricardo and Thomas Robert Malthus in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, is poorly suited to the affluent post-World War II U.S. society. This is so because the "central tradition" economists wrote during a time of widespread poverty where production of basic goods was necessary. U.S. society, at the time of Galbraith's writing, was one of widespread affluence, where production was based on luxury goods and wants. Using production, or gross domestic product, as a measure of U.S. society's well-being omits important measures of social and personal well-being. GDP also neglects differences in output. For example, "An increased supply of educational services has a standing in the total not different in kind from an increased output of television receivers." Production has risen to its paramount but unwarranted status because it is held in grace by both Democrats and Republicans. The Franklin Library was a division of The Franklin Mint that produced fine collector edition books over three decades ending in the year 2000. For this reason all Franklin Library editions are now considered "out of print" and are no longer available for sale from the Franklin Mint. The Franklin Library produced books in three different binding styles referred to as full genuine leather, imitation leather, and quarter bound genuine leather. The full leather bound editions were produced through out the Franklin Library's full life span and the other two styles (imitation and quarter bound) were only produced through the 1970's and 80's. Below are some of the characteristics found in all Franklin Library editions along with more detailed information about the different binding styles. All Editions: ⢠High quality paper; ⢠Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding; ⢠Gold gilded page edges on all three sides; ⢠Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. The genuine full leather bound editions are the highest quality of the three. While most characteristics remained constant through out the different series and years of production the style of end papers varied from silk moiré to decorative paper. Some of the characteristics that remained constant: ⢠Full genuine leather binding; ⢠22k. gold lettering and stampings on the spine and covers; and ⢠Attached silk page marker.
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Nixon, Richard M.. The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1978.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xii, 1120, [4] pages. Illus., index, Slipcase. Signed on fep. Some spine and slipcase fading. With Letter of Authenticity. Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974. Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to prominence as a representative and senator. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal. He graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice law. He and his wife Pat moved to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. He served on active duty in the Navy Reserve during World War II. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. His pursuit of the Hiss Case established his reputation as a leading anti-Communist which elevated him to national prominence. In 1950, he was elected to the Senate. He was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, subsequently serving for eight years as the vice president. In 1968, he ran for the presidency and was elected, defeating Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in a close election. Nixon ended American involvement in Vietnam in 1973, ending the military draft that same year. Nixon's visit to China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations, and he gained the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. Four years after the Watergate scandal forced him to resign the presidency, President Nixon began another comeback through the publication of this book,RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon,in 1978. The book, Nixon writes, is based on not only on his public papers but also on some 20,000 pages of his "extensive handwritten notes" about his "ideas, conversations, activities, and speeches," diaries that he dictated as Vice President and later as President, and, significantly, the infamous Watergate tapes. In the book, Nixon recounts his life, his political successes and failures, and the foreign and domestic events of his time, including those leading up to his resignation as President on August 9, 1974. This is a stated first printing, and thus the first edition, of the book, published by Grosset & Dunlap. It is the publisher's deluxe cloth signed edition, not the common trade edition. It is covered in dark blue buckram and embossed in gold printing on the cover and the spine. The accompanying slipcase is covered in matching dark blue buckram. In the 20 years between his presidency and his death, Nixon wrote nine booksand reestablished himself as a respected statesman. Nixon has signed this book in black on a page that the publisher bound between the blue front free endpaperand the half title page. Derived from a Kirkus review: "I intended to play the role of the President right to the hilt and right to the end." Thus RN, whose words read less like memos here than they did in the newspaper excerpts and more like the last will and testament of a fighter who never willingly gave ground. Had he been urged to resign, he avers, he would have rebelled; and his review of the two occasions - the "secret fund" crisis, the second v.p. nomination - when he felt himself crowded and didn't cave in, back up his claim. "And tell them I know something about politics too!" he quotes himself as shouting over the phone, in the first instance, to a wheedling, dissembling Tom Dewey. He was a mere freshman senator then, built up by the Hiss case, but always had ideas of his own. Not public affairs: He had nothing against communism, he says, until Churchill's Iron Curtain speech. So it's when he's talking politics that his celebrated caginess becomes an asset and his acumen is in evidence; and only then, too, is he interesting about people. Poor Rose Mary Woods, for instance, turns up unheralded, whereas Bob Haldeman scores for spotting the potential of campaigning-by-TV, not whistle-stop train. By the same token, while the extensive travels are, dull, the final days are distinctly not: Intent on being a leader from the time when, four years out of law school, he was president of every organization in sight, he is fully aware of what's slipping away. He records the silence - instead of the usual applause - that greeted his entrance to the last Cabinet meeting, the "sober, noncommittal" faces as he thanks his aides for their support; and like a prospective suicide, he imagines the effect his farewell cables will have on Chou and Chairman Mao, "in Cairo and Tel Aviv, in Damascus and Amman" - where, "eight weeks ago, I had been accorded unprecedented acclaim." How the mightiest fell: the pages carry weight.
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