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Revolution to Reconstruction.
by [Biography]. BRUCE, David K. E
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939. First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.5"), ix & 486 pages, plus frontispiece & 15 plates (portraits). Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine with the embossed Seal of the United States in blind on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Gilt dull, one corner bruised, offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good in good or better moderately rubbed & soiled dust jacket, with light edge wear (including nicks & tiny losses), & an old tape repair on the verso.
Diplomat, intelligence officer and politician, author David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce served as ambassador to France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Provides biographies, each with portrait illustration, of George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - John Quincy Adams - Andrew Jackson - Martin Van Buren - William Henry Harrison - John Tyler - James K. Polk - Zachary Taylor - Millard Fillmore - Franklin Pierce - James Buchanan - & Abraham Lincoln.
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1480
- Title
- Revolution to Reconstruction.
- Author
- [Biography]. BRUCE, David K. E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Biography, American Presidents, American Revolution, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; Biography, Autobiography; American History; Presidents;
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