Wally Mcnamee (6 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Ballantine Books Edition. 322 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased spine.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Wally McNamee, Cover Photo (illustrator). Cover creases, tears at spine; name address label remnants on cover. Features: Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation; Gerald Ford's appointment; Nixon and Watergate. Also features the 1973 Israel-Arab War and the strategies on both sides; pictures of the Golan Heights, proud Israeli soldiers crossing into Syria. Articles on Moshe Dayan and David Elazar. Also includes advertisements of 1974 Pontiac Firebirds, several pages on Polaroid's new invention of the SX-70, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Foltz, Bradford (jacket design); McNamee, Wally (jacket photograph); Oler, Anna (book design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition white boards, red spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Patrick Diggins; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Herman Melville and Jacob Burckhardt; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for References; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Photograph Credits and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "An important reassessment of the fourtieth president, placing him in the pantheon with Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. Following his departure from office, Ronald Reagan was marginalized thanks to liberal biases that dominate the teaching of American history, says John Patrick Diggins. Yet Reagan, like Lincoln (who was also attacked for decades after his death), deserves to be regarded as one of our three or four greatest presidents." - from the rear outer jacket. "In this maverick new work, distinguished historian John Patrick Diggins demonstrates how Ronald Reagan altered the course of American history more profoundly than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. Whereas FDR encountered an nation in the throes of a devastating economic depression, Reagan perceived the America of the 1980s as Emerson's "country of tomorrow", a land, Reagan later added, "that has never become, but [is] always in the act of becoming." This optimism was the hallmark of a political and moral philosophy forged for a troubled nation, informing the vision and leadership that ended a half-century's suicidal arms race without a single shot fired. In this work that melds intellectual, social, political, and diplomatic history, Diggins evaluates Reagan from the perspectives of Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, F.A. Hayek, George Kennan, Reinhold Nieburhr, Max Weber, and the two thinkers most admired by the president, Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. As Diggins explains, Reagan's political philosophy was shaped by the personal experiences of his youth. Having rescued dozens of people as a lifeguard, Reagan concluded that people are ashamed of being saved, as if echoing George Orwell's dictim: "A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor." Diggins further reveals how such experiences informed the politician in his later life. Beginning in the late 1940s as the president of the Screen Actors Guild - a platform, Diggins observes, for Reagan's future in politics - and then as governor of California, Reagan fought bureaucratic institutions that did less to solve problems than, as he put it, "subsidize them." Diggins is aware that many Americans would think it a sacrilege to mention Ronald Reagan in the same breath as Franklin Roosevlet or even Abraham Lincoln. But Reagan's legacy, especially his negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev, demonstrates that Reagan was not a rigid hawk, and that he was willing to work toward a peaceful solution to the cold war. In contrast to Lincoln, Reagan, whose hatred of communism was nearly as profound as the abolitionists' hatred of slavery, was able to free an enslaved people from tyranny without resorting to war. As this remarkable new biography shows, Reagan courageously departed from long-established ways of thinking and challenged the fatalism of both the Left and the Right. Radicals saw the historical coming of communism as inevitable; conservatives saw its established presence as irreversible. For Reagan, however, history "is not predetermined," for it "is in our hands." As Ronald Reagan draws to a close, we see how this romantic Emersonian defied an assassin's bullet, saw self-reliance as obedience to the soul, and esteemed freedom as "one of the deepest and most noble aspirations of the human spirit." A radical reassessment by a provocative and intriguing historian, Ronald Reagan is a bold new contribution to Reagan's presidential legacy." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 3rd printing ; 383 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm ; ISBN 9780760746752, 9781405413398, 0760746753, 1405413395 OCLC 748364563 ; photographic stiff paper wrappers ; Tim Hill is the bestselling author of more than twenty books about popular culture and sport. "John, Paul, George & Ringo" is his fifth book about the world's most famous band. His first book about the band, "The Beatles: Unseen Archives," has become a worldwide bestseller since its publication in 2000 ; Contents: Dynastic roots 1850-1945 - Formidable candidate and flawed husband 1945-1959 - President-elect 1960 - The new frontier 1961 - Crisis and separation 1962 - Moral maturity 1963 - Dallas November 22 1963 - Jackie 1963-1994 ; slight scuffs and a nick on back cover, else VG. Book.

[1983], book club edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 358pp. Photographs, map, index. Contributors include Richard Manning, Stryker McGuire, Wally Mcnamee, Vern E. Smith. Locale: United States; Vietnam. (Vietnam War).

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. McNamee, Wally (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. 104 pages. Features: Two-page Honda Prelude ad; Two-page Purolator Courier ad; Karpov vs. Korchnoi at chess; Gasohol; Major coverage of Jimmy Carter's Middle East peace initiative with color photos of Carter, Sadat and Begin; Nice color-photo ad for the Triumph Spitfire; Two-page color-photo ad for Ford's station wagons and van; US moves military assets to Yemen; U.S. Rep. Philip Miller Craine of Illinois; William H. Orr wins Equalimony case at the Supreme Court; Charlie Allen - this freelance executioner gunned down east coast mobsters; Rafer Johnson is featured in a color photo ad for AMF products; Retaking Stateville Prison in Joliet, IL; Iran - Who's In Charge? - with photo of four rapists facing firing squad; Nice color Monte Carlo car ad; Massacre in Chad; Chinese military activity in Vietnam; Communist Spy Ursel Lorenzen; Military forces close in on Idi Amin's capital of Kampala; Colorful centerfold ad for the Polaroid SX-70 Sonar OneStep camera; Color-photo ad for Le Car by Renault features Roy Larson & Family of Spokane, WA; Vantage cigarette ad features Peter Accetta of New York City; Jimmy Connors marries Patti McGuire; Advertising Grows Up; Nice color photo ad for the Volkswagen Rabbit (in snow); Long Beach Naval Regional Medical Center's successful alcohol-abuse programs; Zany Harold Ballard of the Toronto Maple Leafs; Caleb (Cale) Yarborough - article with photo of him fighting Bobby Allison; Homage to Nijinsky; Subaru ad features photo of The Cadillacs; Wonderful color photos of Jupiter; Iran - The Oil Flows; Ray Dolby and the Sound of Dolby; Mavis Lindgren is featured in a Blue Cross / Blue Shield ad; Nice Virginia Slims ad with Niagara Falls sepia photos at top; Network executive Fred Silverman; The Young Romantics - art article; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.