Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement
Language: English
Published by Simon and Schuster, 1984
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Clean first edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean green boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, all pages are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. 249 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Greene's account of the friendship he developed with Omar Torrijos, the charismatic Panamanian general who took power in 1968, ending the right-wing dictatorship of President Arias and bringing new pressure to bear on the U.S. for the completion of a new Panama Canal Treaty. A penetrating, witty and moving description of a country and its people, as well as a friendship, and portrait of a fascinating and complex man.
Seller Inventory # 034558
- Title
- Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement
- Author
- Greene, Graham
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0671541609
- ISBN 13
- 9780671541606
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, Latin America, Political
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Old Scrolls Book Shop
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