The Age of Overkill: A Preface to World Politics
by Lerner, Max
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning/offset to endpapers, foxing outer edge of text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning, mildly rubbed, NOT clipped ($5.95)
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning/offset to endpapers, foxing outer edge of text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning, mildly rubbed, NOT clipped ($5.95). 8vo 329pp. from front flap: "This is the Age of Overkill. It is the first time in history that at least two great powers have sufficient strength to obliterate each other--to overkill any and all enemy nations. And everyone knows it. [. . .] World politics must be carried on , in the Age Overkill, beyond the power principle. Just how this has been done in the past fifteen years, just how it can be done in the future, is the subject of Max Lerner's lucid, profoundly analytical new book." #01588.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1525
- Title
- The Age of Overkill
- Author
- Lerner, Max
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning/offset to endpapers, foxing outer edge of text block, text clean, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ VG: age toning, mildly rubbed, NOT clipped ($5.95)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- politics, world politics, government, nonfiction, first edition, nuclear war
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Matthew's Books LLC
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About Matthew's Books LLC
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