First Strategy (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Manual only vg+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed first edition of Peace and the Strategy Conflict by William R. Kintner, inscribed to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xiii, 264pp. Blue cloth, title in silver on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, light foxing to endpapers, a touch of rubbing to cloth at corners, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $6.95 retail price on front flap, foxing to front panel and verso, sunning to spine, a few small closed tears, light shelf wear. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Nov 1967 / To Nicholas Katzenbach - with regards - William R. Kintner." William R. Kintner was Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute before serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand during the Ford administration. The recipient of this book, Nicholas Katzenbach, served as United States Attorney General for Lyndon B. Johnson. While serving as Deputy U.S. Attorney General , he notoriously confronted Alabama Governor George Wallace at the University of Alabama, demanding the school be integrated. Shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Katzenbach advised Johnson that an independent investigation into the assassination was needed, leading to the creation of the Warren Commission. Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Inscribed to Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., first edition of Strategy for Tomorrow by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hanson W. Baldwin. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 377pp. Gray cloth, title in red on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint toning to top edge, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $12.50 retail price on front flap, faint shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed opposite the half title: "October - 1970. For Jack McCain, "Mr. Sea Power," whose vision first foresaw the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean to U.S. security, and for Roberta, who "protects and defends" the Nation as much as any commissioned officer / Affectionately, Hanson W. Baldwin." Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. (1911-1981) served in the United States Navy for 45 years. He was the son of Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., a four-star admiral who commanded South Pacific aircraft operations in World War II, and the father of Senator John McCain. During the Vietnam War, Admiral McCain was Commander-in-Chief of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater and an ardent supporter of the Vietnamization policy of President Nixon. McCain retired in 1972 and died of a heart attack in 1981. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Signed.