POLITICS from Barbara Bilson Books

Salt Lake City: Shadow Mountain, 1999. Fine in very good dust jacket (one short closed tear, some rubbing). A study of "social entrepreneurs" and their attempts to solve some of the U.S.'s toughest problems. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper. "Includes information on how to support these companies or start one of your own!"--blurb from back… Read more about this item

London: Pluto Press, 2002. Subtitle: "An investigative reporter exposes the truth about globalization, corporate cons and high finance fraudsters." Interesting book, written before the current economic collapse. 211 pages including index. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Basic Books, 1986. Fine (except for price stamped on first free endpaper) in fine dust jacket. An early exploration of the change in world power from territorial conquest to trading connections.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. Very good+ (rubbed cover edges, top and bottom, otherwise tight and fine) in very good- dust jacket (edgeworn and rubbed with three small closed tears). Subtitled on the dust jacket, "Essays in Democratic Socialism." A collection of essays, 378 pages. Includes contributions from Paul Goodman, Harvey Swados, and Tom Hayden among many others.. 1st Edition.… Read more about this item

Stanford, CA: Stanford Alumni Association, 1973. Good+ (first two pages were stuck together, now separated leaving a scar; soft cover edgeworn and creased; interior clean and firm). The author, a Japanese American born in Washington state, was in the political science department at Stanford University when he wrote this 116 page book on Japanese history and mores, with the emphasis… Read more about this item

Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1970. Good soft cover book (browned page edges, rubbed and edgeworn covers). No dust jacket, of course. A Pelican Original. 220 pages of essays from different writers and points of view dealing with protest, rebellion, and revolution. A result of the efforts of the British "Political Quarterly," having grown out of an idea from Leonard Woolf, joint… Read more about this item

New York: Fortnightly Publishing, 1953. Near fine (very light wear, previous owner's inked name on first free endpaper) without dust jacket. The articles reprinted here from "The Reporter" focus on the key events of 1952, the Korean War and the presidential election campaign culminating in the election of Eisenhower and the ascendancy of the Republican right wing. Interesting map on… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Very good+ (very slight edgewear) in very good- dust jacket (chipped, closed tears, but presentable). Interesting historical document! Written by Goldwater when he was campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination (for the 1964 election). Thoroughly from a Cold War perspective (the first section is titled "The World-wide Communist Menace"). Ends with appeal to… Read more about this item

1961. Volume 28, Number 3-4, 1961. Very good+ (owner's ink name written neatly in tiny printing on front cover, lightly sunned and worn covers). Paperback. Contains a chapter from a novel by Pasternak; stories by Babel, Grin, Pilnyak, Kassil; essays by Zamyatin, Paustovsky, Zoshchenko, Ehrenburg, Polyakov; verse by Esenin, Pasternak, Neiman.. Soft Cover.