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The American Presidents.

Best.-Nr. 153437 — Garden City New York: Doubleday Book & Music Clubs 1989. First edition of this richly illustrated history of the American presidency the deluxe American Bicentennial Presidential Inaugural Edition issued to commemorate the inauguration of George H. W. Bush. Thick octavo publisher’s deluxe full blue cloth the front board and spine stamped in gilt pictorial endpapers all edges gilt silk ribbon bound in illustrated throughout. One of only 1000 copies signed by President George H.W. Bush on an inserted leaf to commemorate his inauguration on January 20 1989. This copy is further signed by five other American presidents on inserted leaves: Dwight D. Eisenhower Lyndon B. Johnson Richard M. Nixon Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter. Their leaves are drawn from other sources and not called for in this edition making it a rare and possibly unique gathering of six presidential signatures in a single volume. In fine condition. Housed in the publisher’s matching blue cloth slipcase. A remarkable assembly of the signatures of six men who held the nation’s highest office. The American Presidents offers a concise illustrated biography of every man to hold the office from George Washington to George H. W. Bush tracing each president’s life his path to the White House and the defining events of his administration. First written by David C. Whitney and revised across successive editions by Robin Vaughn Whitney it gathers portraits photographs and historical images alongside the narrative of the nation’s highest office. The six presidents whose signatures this copy carries span some of the most consequential decades of the twentieth century. Dwight D. Eisenhower led the Allied armies in Europe before two terms of Cold War prosperity. Lyndon B. Johnson was the architect of the Great Society and the Civil Rights Act a presidency later consumed by the Vietnam War. Richard M. Nixon opened relations with China and resigned in the wake of Watergate. Gerald R. Ford steadied the nation in Nixon’s aftermath. Jimmy Carter brokered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel. George H. W. Bush presided over the end of the Cold War and the 1991 Gulf War. Doubleday Book & Music Clubs hardcover