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1945rif. 134H4082New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author FDR's Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. 1891-1967 to his first cousin once removed James Frank Jr. The infamous Morgenthau Plan charted a course for Germany post WWII intended to revert it to a pastoral state. Senator Henrick Shipstead denounced it as "America's eternal monument of shame for the destruction of the German people." - Congressional Record Senate May 15 1946 p.5039. "The punishment policy deeply betrayed the will of the American people against indiscriminate vengeance which had been demonstrated in the nationwide condemnation of the Morgenthau Plan." - James Bacque Other Losses p.158. "The Morgenthau Plan would wipe out everything in Germany except land and the Germans would have to live on the land. Thus only 60 percent of the population could support themselves and the other 40 percent would die." - The Memoirs of Cordell Hull p.1617. When word of the plan leaked to Goebbels he exploited it to stiffen German resistance thus extending the war - and bringing considerable criticism upon Morgenthau. Unmarked with moderate wear to navy blue cloth. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An important and controversial piece of WWII political history.; Germany is Our Problem - A Plan for Germany Suggested Post-Surrender Program for Germany WWII history Politics Harry Dexter White Harsh Peace Morgenthau Plan Starvation Germany Must Perish Theodore Kaufman; Signed by Authors . Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1945rif. 140948892New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. A remarkable association copy not only signed by author Henry Morgenthau on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the then-President of the book's publisher known for picking Pulitzer Prize winners: "For Cass Canfield a swell Publisher with sincere affection." Additionally it is signed in pencil on the book's title page by one its primary ghostwriters government official Harry Dexter White with Morgenthau's name suggestively crossed-out. As White's biographer David Rees put it "White was now to supervise the writing of a book by Treasury staff explaining the Morgenthau Plan eventually published a year later under Morgenthau's name as Germany is Our Problem." Morgenthau himself acknowledged White's role in the signed copy he gave White in 1945 cited in James Boughton's Harry White and the American Creed. In 1948 a handwritten note by White to Whittaker Chambers would embroil him in a covert hunt for Soviet moles within the U.S. government. He died that year but five years later his face would grace newspapers all over the world as he was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union connected to the network of Nathan Silvermaster. His degree of culpability remains debated to this day although release of the Venona decrypts provided damning evidence. The posthumous nature of White's notoriety has meant that his signature is extremely rare especially on books rather than documents. viii 4 ix - xiii iii 239 pp. foldout map printed on speckled wartime paper. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine light rubbing to extremities dulled gilt and dust jacket clipping tipped to front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with lightly worn with a few small tape repairs to verso. Uncommon especially in such nice shape. The book outlines what would become known as The Morgenthau Plan for postwar Germany. The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury called for the defeated enemy's radical total deindustrialization decentralization and transformation into a pastoral society. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt regretted his initial support for Morgenthau's plan after it was vigorously decried at home and abroad and his successor favored the less vengeful and more pragmatic Marshall Plan. White's role in formulating the plan that would bear his superior at the Treasury Department's name remains little-known as it itself has fallen into obscurity since the early Cold War. Less controversial was White's role in co-founding both the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Harper & Brothers unknown
1945rif. 140948892New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. A remarkable association copy not only signed by author Henry Morgenthau on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the then-President of the book's publisher known for picking Pulitzer Prize winners: "For Cass Canfield a swell Publisher with sincere affection." Additionally it is signed in pencil on the book's title page by one its primary ghostwriters government official Harry Dexter White with Morgenthau's name suggestively crossed-out. As White's biographer David Rees put it "White was now to supervise the writing of a book by Treasury staff explaining the Morgenthau Plan eventually published a year later under Morgenthau's name as Germany is Our Problem." Morgenthau himself acknowledged White's role in the signed copy he gave White in 1945 cited in James Boughton's Harry White and the American Creed. In 1948 a handwritten note by White to Whittaker Chambers would embroil him in a covert hunt for Soviet moles within the U.S. government. He died that year but five years later his face would grace newspapers all over the world as he was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union connected to the network of Nathan Silvermaster. His degree of culpability remains debated to this day although release of the Venona decrypts provided damning evidence. The posthumous nature of White's notoriety has meant that his signature is extremely rare especially on books rather than documents. viii 4 ix - xiii iii 239 pp. foldout map printed on speckled wartime paper. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine light rubbing to extremities dulled gilt and dust jacket clipping tipped to front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with lightly worn with a few small tape repairs to verso. Uncommon especially in such nice shape. The book outlines what would become known as The Morgenthau Plan for postwar Germany. The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury called for the defeated enemy's radical total deindustrialization decentralization and transformation into a pastoral society. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt regretted his initial support for Morgenthau's plan after it was vigorously decried at home and abroad and his successor favored the less vengeful and more pragmatic Marshall Plan. White's role in formulating the plan that would bear his superior at the Treasury Department's name remains little-known as it itself has fallen into obscurity since the early Cold War. Less controversial was White's role in co-founding both the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1946rif. 059794Chicago: University Of Chicago Press 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Ix 245 Pp. Green Cloth Gilt. First Printing. Book With Wear Spine Gilt Bright. Inscribed By Morgenthau "With Kindest Regards" To Yves René Marie Simon 1903 - 1961. Simon Studied Under Jacques Maritain At The Institut Catholique De Paris. He Taught At The Institut Catholique De Lille From 1930 To 1938. In 1938 He Went To The University Of Notre Dame Where He Remained Until 1958. He Is Best Known For His Work In Moral And Political Philosophy.Dust Jacket Priced $3.00 Wear Short Edge Tears And Small Losses Somewhat Crushed Spine Panel Completely Pinked . Per Wikipedia Morgenthau's Scientific Man Versus Power Politics 1946 Argued Against An Over Reliance On Science And Technology As Solutions To Political And Social Problems. The Book Presented A "Pessimistic View Of Human Nature" Centered On A Universal Lust For Power And The Inevitability Of Selfishness. Hans Joachim Morgenthau 1904 - 1980 Was A German-American Jurist And Political Scientist Who Was One Of The Major 20Th-Century Figures In The Study Of International Relations. Morgenthau Is Usually Considered Among The Most Influential Realists Of The Post-World War Ii Period. Morgenthau Made Landmark Contributions To International Relations Theory And The Study Of International Law. In 1933 Morgenthau Published A Second Book In French La Notion Du "Politique" Which Was Translated Into English And Published In 2012 As The Concept Of The Political. In This Book Morgenthau Seeks To Articulate The Difference Between Legal Disputes Between Nations And Political Disputes Between Nations Or Other Litigants. The Questions Driving The Inquiry Are: I Who Holds Legal Power Over The Objects Or Concerns Being Disputed Ii In What Manner Can The Holder Of This Legal Power Be Changed Or Held Accountable Iii How Can A Dispute The Object Of Which Concerns A Legal Power Be Resolved And Iv In What Manner Will The Holder Of The Legal Power Be Protected In The Course Of Exercising That Power For Morgenthau The End Goal Of Any Legal System In This Context Is To "Ensure Justice And Peace". In His Work In The 1920S And 1930S Morgenthau Sought A "Functional Jurisprudence" An Alternative To Mainstream International Law. He Borrowed Ideas From Sigmund Freud Max Weber Roscoe Pound And Others. In 1940 Morgenthau Set Out A Research Program For Legal Functionalism In The Article "Positivism Functionalism And International Law". Francis Boyle Has Written That Morgenthau's Post-War Writings Perhaps Contributed To A "Break Between International Political Science And International Legal Studies." However Politics Among Nations Contains A Chapter On International Law And Morgenthau Remained An Active Contributor To The Subject Of The Relationship Between International Politics And International Law Until The End Of His Career. His Politics Among Nations First Published In 1948 Went Through Five Editions During His Lifetime And Was Widely Adopted As A Textbook In U.S. Universities. While Morgenthau Emphasized The Centrality Of Power And "The National Interest" The Subtitle Of Politics Among Nations-"The Struggle For Power And Peace"-Indicates His Concern Not Only With The Struggle For Power But Also With The Ways In Which It Is Limited By Ethical And Legal Norms. In Addition To His Books Morgenthau Wrote Widely About International Politics And U.S. Foreign Policy For General-Circulation Publications Such As The New Leader Commentary Worldview The New York Review Of Books And The New Republic. He Knew And Corresponded With Many Of The Leading Intellectuals And Writers Of His Era Such As Reinhold Niebuhr George F. Kennan Carl Schmitt And Hannah Arendt. Morgenthau Was A Consultant To The U.S. Department Of State When Kennan Headed Its Policy Planning Staff And During The Kennedy And Johnson Administrations Until He Was Dismissed By Johnson After He Began To Publicly Criticize American Policy In Vietnam. University Of Chicago Press hardcover
1945rif. 140949192Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1945. First edition. First edition first printing. Association copy from the library of Hans Morgenthau his card laid in. xxxiii 1 516 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with light wear to extremities and dulling to spine gilt light soiling to upper textblock edge. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with light soiling and appreciable wear including two small holes to rear flap fold and 1.75" split and evidence of label removal to spine panel. A treatise on jurisprudence by the eminent Austrian-American legal theorist Hans Kelsen who wrote the text in German while teaching at the University of California Berkeley. It was translated by the Swedish philosopher Anders Wedberg who had studied at Harvard. Kelsen was a good friend of his fellow jurist and political refugee Hans Morgenthau. He had promoted the younger man's career before the two arrived in the United States and Morgenthau dedicated his 1970 book Truth and Power to Kelsen. Harvard University Press unknown
1945rif. 140949192Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1945. First edition. First edition first printing. Association copy from the library of Hans Morgenthau his card laid in. xxxiii 1 516 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with light wear to extremities and dulling to spine gilt light soiling to upper textblock edge. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with light soiling and appreciable wear including two small holes to rear flap fold and 1.75" split and evidence of label removal to spine panel. A treatise on jurisprudence by the eminent Austrian-American legal theorist Hans Kelsen who wrote the text in German while teaching at the University of California Berkeley. It was translated by the Swedish philosopher Anders Wedberg who had studied at Harvard. Kelsen was a good friend of his fellow jurist and political refugee Hans Morgenthau. He had promoted the younger man's career before the two arrived in the United States and Morgenthau dedicated his 1970 book Truth and Power to Kelsen. Harvard University Press unknown books
1947rif. 509825Latimer House 1947. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/Good. SIGNED by the author on the half-title 'Love signed Hans Morgenthau.' This copy was acquired directly from the author's daughter Susanna Morgenthau who named her mother Irma as the inscription's unnamed beloved. First British Edition First Printing. vii 1 9-207pp. 5x7.5' sewn binding in red cloth with silver gilt lettering. Sun spots to the spine at head and tail where the DJ perished otherwise exceedingly clean and sharp with crisp pages tight binding and sharp corners. DJ extremities rubbed spine with shallow chips at both ends red-lettered author name sunned on the spine white panels somewhat dingy price intact. Scientific Man vs. Power Politics was the first major work by one of the towering intellectuals and political theorists of the 20th century progenitor of 'Political Realism' aka 'Realpolitik' which would find a prominent embodiment in the career of his most prominent student and protege Henry Kissinger. Uncommon in any hardcover state but quite scarce signed. 'Scientific Man vs Power Politics represents his most systematic exposition of a realist philosophy and it constitutes an incisive critique of what he called 'rational liberalism.' In contrast to what he calls the dominant liberal belief in progress' Morgenthau highlights the ''will-to-power' as the defining characteristic of politics' Martin Griffiths Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations. Latimer House hardcover
1945rif. 140947693New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. viii 4 ix - xiii iii 239 pp. foldout map. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine with light toning to contents and bookplate to front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning and light edgewear and soiling. Several scratches to front panel 3 archival tape repairs to chipping at upper edge and small hole at lower right of front panel. Henry Morgenthau's controversial plan for postwar Germany. The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury called for the defeated enemy's total deindustrialization decentralization and transformation into a pastoral society. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt regretted his initial support for Morgenthau's plan after it was vigorously decried at home and abroad and his successor favored the less vengeful and more pragmatic Marshall Plan. Harper & Brothers unknown
1945rif. 140947693New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. viii 4 ix - xiii iii 239 pp. foldout map. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine with light toning to contents and bookplate to front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning and light edgewear and soiling. Several scratches to front panel 3 archival tape repairs to chipping at upper edge and small hole at lower right of front panel. Henry Morgenthau's controversial plan for postwar Germany. The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury called for the defeated enemy's total deindustrialization decentralization and transformation into a pastoral society. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt regretted his initial support for Morgenthau's plan after it was vigorously decried at home and abroad and his successor favored the less vengeful and more pragmatic Marshall Plan. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1960rif. 509817Alfred A. Knopf 1960. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/Good. SIGNED by the author on the FFEP 'With Love Hans.' xi 3 3-359 viii 2. 12mo sewn binding in burgundy cloth gilt stamped spine lettering and blindstamped HJM monogram to front cover pale blue topstain deckled fore edge. FINE copy exceedingly clean and sharp; DJ clipped by the publisher but dispatched to the author prior to their repriced '$5.00' stamp; tips a bit worn light dampstain and crinkling to rear. Hans Morgenthau was one of the foremost political theorists of the 20th century. He arrived in the US in 1937 as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany going on to a distinguished carreer with appointments and professorships at numberous prestigious institutions including Yale Harvard Columbia California and the University of Chicago. Morgenthau's outsize impact on the study of international relations in the West cannot be underestimated. His 'Political Realism' theory was immensely influential in American Politics notably gaining purchase in his consultancy for Truman Eisenhower and Kennedy as well as in his protege Henry Kissinger. Dubbing him 'the Pope of Realism' Stanley Hoffman writes 'If our discipline has any founding father it is Mortenthau.' William Scheuerman writes 'Morgenthau's intellectual agenda effectively dominated the scholarly study of international relations in the United States well into the 1970's. Not only did Morgenthau write two of postwar Realism's most influential books Politics Among Nations and In Defense of the National Interest but he penned about a dozen others as well as hundreds of scholarly articles on an astonishing range of topics. Unlike most academics Morgenthau also became a much sought-after public intellectual and his oftentimes pithy commentaries on foreign affairs appeared regularly in popular magazines and journals as well as newspapers like the New York Times from the 1950s onwards. In 'Purpose of American Politics he sets out to name the lack thereof--a general malaise in post-war politics wherein the goals of international intervention were disappearing in seemingly inverse proportion to the increase in the exertion of American power. The book provides an intellectual framework for his early and lonely dissnet on American involvement in Vietnam which would lead to his ostracization from the Kennedy White House in 1963. PROVENANCE: From Hans Morgenthau's daughter Susanna Morgenthau. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1946rif. 059751Chicago: University Of Chicago Press 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ix 245 Pp. Green Cloth Gilt. First Printing 1946. Book With Much Wear Spine Gilt Mostly Worn Away Some Dampstaining To Covers Mostly To Rear Cover. Ownership Name "G. Meyer" University Of Chicago Professor Gerhard Meyer And With His Prolific Marginalia Through P. 61. Per Wikipedia Morgenthau's Scientific Man Versus Power Politics 1946 Argued Against An Overreliance On Science And Technology As Solutions To Political And Social Problems. The Book Presented A "Pessimistic View Of Human Nature" Centered On A Universal Lust For Power And The Inevitability Of Selfishness. Hans Joachim Morgenthau 1904 - 1980 Was A German-American Jurist And Political Scientist Who Was One Of The Major 20Th-Century Figures In The Study Of International Relations. Morgenthau's Works Belong To The Tradition Of Realism In International Relations Theory; He Is Usually Considered Among The Most Influential Realists Of The Post-World War Ii Period. Morgenthau Made Landmark Contributions To International Relations Theory And The Study Of International Law. In 1933 Morgenthau Published A Second Book In French La Notion Du "Politique" Which Was Translated Into English And Published In 2012 As The Concept Of The Political. In This Book Morgenthau Seeks To Articulate The Difference Between Legal Disputes Between Nations And Political Disputes Between Nations Or Other Litigants: I Who Holds Legal Power Over The Objects Or Concerns Being Disputed Ii In What Manner Can The Holder Of This Legal Power Be Changed Or Held Accountable Iii How Can A Dispute The Object Of Which Concerns A Legal Power Be Resolved And Iv In What Manner Will The Holder Of The Legal Power Be Protected In The Course Of Exercising That Power For Morgenthau The End Goal Of Any Legal System In This Context Is To "Ensure Justice And Peace". In His Work In The 1920S And 1930S Morgenthau Sought A "Functional Jurisprudence" An Alternative To Mainstream International Law. He Borrowed Ideas From Sigmund Freud Max Weber Roscoe Pound And Others. In 1940 Morgenthau Set Out A Research Program For Legal Functionalism In The Article "Positivism Functionalism And International Law". Francis Boyle Has Written That Morgenthau's Post-War Writings Perhaps Contributed To A "Break Between International Political Science And International Legal Studies." However Politics Among Nations Contains A Chapter On International Law And Morgenthau Remained An Active Contributor To The Subject Of The Relationship Between International Politics And International Law Until The End Of His Career. His Politics Among Nations First Published In 1948 Went Through Five Editions During His Lifetime And Was Widely Adopted As A Textbook In U.S. Universities. While Morgenthau Emphasized The Centrality Of Power And "The National Interest" The Subtitle Of Politics Among Nations-"The Struggle For Power And Peace"-Indicates His Concern Not Only With The Struggle For Power But Also With The Ways In Which It Is Limited By Ethical And Legal Norms. In Addition To His Books Morgenthau Wrote Widely About International Politics And U.S. Foreign Policy For General-Circulation Publications Such As The New Leader Commentary Worldview The New York Review Of Books And The New Republic. He Knew And Corresponded With Many Of The Leading Intellectuals And Writers Of His Era Such As Reinhold Niebuhr George F. Kennan Carl Schmitt And Hannah Arendt.At One Point In The Early Cold War Morgenthau Was A Consultant To The U.S. Department Of State When Kennan Headed Its Policy Planning Staff As Well As A Second Time During The Kennedy And Johnson Administrations Until He Was Dismissed By Johnson When He Began To Publicly Criticize American Policy In Vietnam. For Most Of His Career However Morgenthau Was Esteemed As An Academic Interpreter Of U.S. Foreign Policy. University Of Chicago Press hardcover
1960rif. 509819Alfred A. Knopf 1960. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Good. AUTHOR'S ANNOTATED COPY. Hans Morgenthau's personal copy annotated in pencil to several pages with corrections for the Vintage paperback edition with onionskin copy of a typed note summarizing his new introductions for Purpose and In Defense of the National Interest. It reads 'The addition new introduction to THE PURPOSE OF AMERICAN POLITICS is primarily a reinterpretation of the present crisis in which American politics finds itself today. When the book was written the crisis seemed to be similar to preceding ones to be overcome by preceding measures. What we are actually witnessing is a crisis which appears to be different from preceding ones and which requires new more radical intervention.' The crises alluded to in this precis are named in his new introduction for the 1964 edition as domestic concerns: 'equality in freedom for the American Negro and the restoration of a meaningful economic and social order.' xi 3 3-359 viii 2. 12mo sewn binding in burgundy cloth gilt stamped spine lettering and blindstamped HJM monogram to front cover pale blue topstain deckled fore edge. Some wear to the edges fore tail corner bumped; DJ edgeworn and with a few short tears some loss to spine ends price clipped by the publisher and repriced with '$5.00' stamp. Hans Morgenthau was one of the foremost political theorists of the 20th century. He arrived in the US in 1937 as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany going on to a distinguished carreer with appointments and professorships at numberous prestigious institutions including Yale Harvard Columbia California and the University of Chicago. Morgenthau's outsize impact on the study of international relations in the West cannot be underestimated. His 'Political Realism' theory was immensely influential in American Politics notably gaining purchase in his consultancy for Truman Eisenhower and Kennedy as well as in his protege Henry Kissinger. Dubbing him 'the Pope of Realism' Stanley Hoffman writes 'If our discipline has any founding father it is Mortenthau.' William Scheuerman writes 'Morgenthau's intellectual agenda effectively dominated the scholarly study of international relations in the United States well into the 1970's. Not only did Morgenthau write two of postwar Realism's most influential books Politics Among Nations and In Defense of the National Interest but he penned about a dozen others as well as hundreds of scholarly articles on an astonishing range of topics. Unlike most academics Morgenthau also became a much sought-after public intellectual and his oftentimes pithy commentaries on foreign affairs appeared regularly in popular magazines and journals as well as newspapers like the New York Times from the 1950s onwards. In 'Purpose of American Politics he sets out to name the lack thereof--a general malaise in post-war politics wherein the goals of international intervention were disappearing in seemingly inverse proportion to the increase in the exertion of American power. The book provides an intellectual framework for his early and lonely dissnet on American involvement in Vietnam which would lead to his ostracization from the Kennedy White House in 1963. PROVENANCE: From Hans Morgenthau's daughter Susanna Morgenthau. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
rif. 72760E-197. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers New York 1945. Xiii 239 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities DJ is chipped at the crown of the DJ and at the top edge of the rear panel of the DJ. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This work written by Henry Morgenthau Jr. 1891-1967 while serving as the Secretary of the Treasury for President Franklin D. Roosevelt details his plan for the occupation of Germany after World War II. His proposal sought to eliminate the war-making potential of Germany for all time through territorial dismemberment and deindustrialization. The Morgenthau Plan guided the early German occupation but was scrapped in favor of the Marshall Plan. Historians believe that full-scale deindustrialization of Germany would have resulted in the starvation of 25 million German citizens. When word of this ominous plan leaked to Goebbels in the latter stages of WWII he exploited it to stiffen German resistance thus extending the war and adding to the American casualty count. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
1945rif. 054777NY: HARPER & BROTHERS. UNCLIPPED DJ NICE COLLECTABLE COPY. ALSO INCLUDED IS A BROADSIDE FROM THE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF WORLD EAR III PROMOTING THE BOOK. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1945. HARPER & BROTHERS hardcover
1945rif. 140941614New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1945. First Edition. First edition first printing. xiii iii 239 pp. fold-out map. Publisher's navy cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with typical toning to pages with age sticker wear to front free endpaper in Good original dust jacket with closed tear to head and long fore edge creasing along top of front panel small triangular chip to top of that panel as well small archival mending tissue repair to verso dampstaining visible from verso unclipped $2.00. Rare. The controversial plan for Germany post-WWII first announced by US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau in 1944 which called for the immediate total deindustrialization of the country with a focus on extracting reparations for its wrongdoings during the war as well as its forced political and economic decentralization and transformation into a pastoral society. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt OK'd it only to regret it when the plan was vigorously decried at home and abroad. The Marshall Plan was adopted instead under Truman and efforts to deindustrialize and decartelize the Germany economy were limited. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
rif. 509829Norton 1976. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Good. SIGNED and inscribed by Stoessinger to the book's dedicatee Hans J. Morgenthau. The printed dedication reads 'For Hans J. Morgenthau / Who Always Spoke / Truth to Power / With Deep Affection' which Stoessinger completes writing in a felt pen: ' / Always / from / John / July 1976.' PROVENANCE: From Morgenthau's daughter Susanna Morgenthau. First Printing. x 234pp. 12mo sewn binding in black spine cloth over gray paper over board gilt spine lettering. Showing evidence of Morgenthau's reading and handling with scuffed edges some bent pages and a few spots of foxing; DJ tips worn torn at rear head spine toned. Stoessinger was a longtime friend of Kissinger's and a fellow student at Harvard. He writes a sympathetic account of Kissinger's political career at the time of it's nadir in popular opinion following failures in Vietnam and the Middle East. 'This book is an effor to redress the balance' between 'uncritical idealization' and 'merciless attack' of Kissinger. Hans Morgenthau was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century and author of modern classics Scientific Man vs. Power Politics and Politics Among Nations which are credited as seminal works in the field of International Relations. Stoessinger quotes and references regularly in the book first as Kissinger's enormously influential teacher and mentor in 'Political Realism' and later as one of the most prominent and early critics of his Vietnam and Middle East policy. Stoessinger quotes Morgenthau as saying to him personally that 'he felt emotionally toward Kissinger as if he were a brother. Their common background as well as their common experience of tragedy provided a strong and lasting bond.' p. 37. Norton hardcover
1945rif. 070617New York: Harper & Brothers 1945. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good clean tight condition. Second edition. Edge worn jacket in mylar cover. Texts free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1972rif. 509818New American Library / W. W. Norton 1972. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/FINE. Hans Morgenthau's personal copy with publisher's packing slip to his New York address noting 'author's discount' for three copies. xxi 15412mo sewn binding in gray cloth text stamped in black and red. Hans Morgenthau was one of the foremost political theorists of the 20th century. He arrived in the US in 1937 as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany going on to a distinguished carreer with appointments and professorships at numberous prestigious institutions including Yale Harvard Columbia California and the University of Chicago. Morgenthau's outsize impact on the study of international relations in the West cannot be underestimated. His 'Political Realism' theory was immensely influential in American Politics notably gaining purchase in his consultancy for Truman Eisenhower and Kennedy as well as in his protege Henry Kissinger. Dubbing him 'the Pope of Realism' Stanley Hoffman writes 'If our discipline has any founding father it is Mortenthau.' William Scheuerman writes 'Morgenthau's intellectual agenda effectively dominated the scholarly study of international relations in the United States well into the 1970's. Not only did Morgenthau write two of postwar Realism's most influential books Politics Among Nations and In Defense of the National Interest but he penned about a dozen others as well as hundreds of scholarly articles on an astonishing range of topics. Unlike most academics Morgenthau also became a much sought-after public intellectual and his oftentimes pithy commentaries on foreign affairs appeared regularly in popular magazines and journals as well as newspapers like the New York Times from the 1950s onwards. Here in 'Science: Servant or Master' Morgenthau returns to themes explored in his first American book published 25 years prior: the philosophy of science and the role of scientific/technological thinking in modern society. PROVENANCE: From Hans Morgenthau's daughter Susanna Morgenthau. New American Library / W. W. Norton hardcover
1925rif. 510267Duncker & Humboldt 1925. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD. Personal copy of political theorist Hans Morgenthau with his neat marginal pencilling and newsprint placemarkers. 8vo half black cloth over green marbled boards gilt stamped spine lettering and printer's device to front cover. With publisher's original plain brown dust jacket quite brittle and tattered; original plain slipcase present in a tattered state as well. Provenance: From Hans Morgenthau's daughter Susanna Morgenthau. The penciling matches that of the dozens of other books we have cataloged from his library. The Catholic jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt was one of the most influential political thinkers of the 20th Century in no small part for his role in establishing the ideological underpinnings of the Third Reich. He was unavoidably a key interlocutor for all German political scholars of the Weimar Era including Hans Morgenthau who would go on to become one of the most influential political thinkers of the 20th century in his own right from a much different but related vantage point.William Scheuerman writes 'the young Hans Morgenthau was involved in an intense 'hidden dialogue' with Carl Schmitt twentieth-century Germany’s most significant right-wing authoritarian political thinker.' 'Although committed to a sociologically minded analysis of international law shaped by left-wing Weimar legal thought the young Morgenthau turned early on to the work of the right-wing authoritarian thinker Carl Schmitt in order to develop his realistic or sociological approach. Morgenthau's precocious fascination with Schmitt though at first glance surprising is by no means difficult to fathom. Other members of the Sinzheimer School - including Ernst Frankel and Franz Neumann - similarly pursued a close and at times surprisingly sympathetic examination of Schmitt's work during the 1930s. Like Morgenthau they vociferously criticized his extreme right-wing political preferences while acknowledging that Schmitt offered the outlines of a realistic i.e. power-oriented vision of politics too often missing from mainstream jurisprudence and legal positivism. Morgenthau's early writings highlighted deep flaws in Schmitt's thinking not only denouncing his political choices but ultimately describing his theory as fundamentally unsound. Yet he credited Schmitt with acknowledging the need for precisely that realistic account of power relations in the international arena which legal orthodoxy had failed to deliver. Like Morgenthau Schmitt had long been skeptical of mainstream international law which he analogously interpreted as veiling the brutal realities of inequality at the international level. Morgenthau initially appears to have identified Schmitt's theory despite its weaknesses and troublesome political orientation as a potentially useful source of insights for his own alternative theory of international law. Morgenthau's first mention of Schmitt in 1929 . offered a critical response to a widely read 1927 essay by Schmitt in which the right-wing theorist had defined the political as constituting a fundamentally distinct and independent sphere of activity existing alongside alternative modes of human activity. In Schmitt's initial formulation morality concerned the problem of good and bad aesthetics was occupied with the distinction between beautiful and ugly economics was preoccupied with profitability and unprofitability whereas only politics concerned the contrast between what Schmitt famously described as friend and foe. The young Morgenthau astutely diagnosed the Achilles' heel of this position: Schmitt's exposition misleadingly implied that political activity was limited to a pre-given set of objects or concerns thereby obscuring the possibility that any conceivable sphere of activity could take on political qualities. In its stead Morgenthau proposed that politics be described as 'a characteristic quality or coloration which any substance can take on' IRWG 67. The distinctive attribute of political activity was captured best by focusing on the degree of intensity of the conflict at hand. Although drawing their substantive concerns from any of a host of moral aesthetic and economic arenas of human activity identifiably political concerns were those in which a high degree of intensity of conflict had surfaced IRWG 69. Even though he admitted the difficulty of determining at what specific juncture a particular conflict had become intense and thus authentically political Morgenthau insisted that his alternative model of intensity offered a superior way of capturing the distinctive traits of political life. In his view politics was never an either/or state of affairs but always a matter of degree necessarily depending on how intense - and potentially violent - a conflict had become. Schmitt apparently agreed. As Morgenthau noted in his 1978 autobiographical reflections Schmitt subsequently 'changed the second 1932 edition of the Concept of the Political in the light of the new propositions of my thesis without lifting the veil of anonymity from their author.'47 In fact Schmitt's 1932 study dropped the misleading imagery of politics as a distinct or separate sphere instead following Morgenthau's conceptualization of politics as concerning conflicts characterized by intense enmity. Yet Schmitt never bothered to acknowledge his debts to the young left-leaning Jewish Morgenthau. For a politically upwardly mobile right-wing thinker busy cultivating influence with Germany's rising authoritarian political groupings such an admission would have been incon-venient. In his 1978 comments Morgenthau went so far as to accuse Schmitt of having engaged in mean-spirited plagiarism. He recounted a humiliating 1929 meeting with Schmitt in which Morgenthau hoped to discuss their shared interest in the political only to encounter a calculating mean-spirited careerist: 'when I walked down the stairs from Schmitt's apartment I stopped on the landing between his and the next floor and said to myself: 'Now I have met the most evil man alive.' Schmitt's subsequent kowtowing to the Nazis apparently did not take Morgenthau by surprise.' Morgenthau: Key Contemporary Thinkers 32-34. Duncker & Humboldt hardcover
1926rif. 187504New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped price remains. Open tearing along panel edges.; Personalized by author on FEP.; Signed by Author. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1922rif. 178738Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1922. First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To my friend John D. Whiting who helped me to understand & enjoy my visits to Machpelah and Mt Gerizim - both of which were outstanding events in our sojourn in Palestine October 15/29 Henry Morgenthau". Whiting 1882-1951 was the leader of the American Colony in Jerusalem a Christian utopian community. Henry Morgenthau Sr. served as US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916 during which he became one of the most prominent critics of the Armenian Genocide. He resigned in protest and returned to America to raise public awareness and funds for Armenian relief. His memoir charts his emigration from Germany to New York as a Jewish child his rise in business and politics and his experience as ambassador. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Portrait of Morgenthau mounted to the front pastedown later notation to front free endpaper. Extremities and inner hinges neatly repaired spine sunned. A good copy. hardcover
1968rif. 509830William Morrow & Co 1968. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. SIGNED and inscribed by the editor Richard Kostelanetz to contributor Hans Morgenthau: 'd. Sept. 1968 / For Hans Morgenthau / Who brought a European intelligence perhaps conservative to radical American problems / with much appreciation and best wishes / signed Richard Kostalenetz.' xli 436pp. Sewn binding in black spine cloth over green paper-over-boards with white orange and green spine lettering. Very clean fresh copy with just a bit of wear to spine head; DJ tips with some trivial rubbing and 1mm tear to rear head at the flap crease. Kostelanetz is a poet artist and critic with a prolific publishing history beginning with numerous edited collections early in his career--this one being his fourth compiled at the age of 28. He contributes a lengthy introduction with an optimistic and fairly utopian outlook on the promise of new technology and informed planning for the betterment of society. The choice of Morgenthau is a somewhat surprising one: as the inscription hints the question of his essential conservatism remains debated today. While his insistence on the tragic character of human nature led him to distrust many progressive projects he was also consistently critical of reactionary which sought only 'stability' as a goal. Morgenthau enjoyed some temporary status among radicals in the 60's due to his early criticism of US Vietnam Policy with which his essay for the present volume deals. Political scholar Jennifer See writes '"Morgenthau in fact played an important role in opening public space for opposition to the Vietnam War. He was one of the first to perceive the dangers the United States faced; to expose the fallacies of applying Cold War assumptions to Southeast Asia's revolutionary anticolonial realities; and most importantly to express his views publicly. In light of recent scholarship on the war some may find his predictions prophetic." "Prophet Without Honor: Hans Morgenthau and the War in Vietnam 1955-1965". William Morrow & Co hardcover
1972rif. 509821Alfred A. Knopf 1972. Fifth Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. Hans Mogrenthau's personal author's copy acquired directly from his daughter Susanna Morgenthau. With a random note written on his 'University of Chicago Center for the Study of American Foreign Policy' stationary. xxv 8 4-617 xx pp. 8vo perfectbound in blue cloth with gilt stamped spine and blindstamped 'HJM' monogram to front cover. Paper tanned as usual with this edition a few pages bent at the fore top corner tail edge with what appears to be some light paint overspray otherwise entirely clean and sound; DJ spine lettering sunned tips a bit worn with some loss to the spine tail same paint overspray to tail and fore edges. Hans Morgenthau was one of the foremost political theorists of the 20th century. He arrived in the US in 1937 as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany going on to a distinguished carreer with appointments and professorships at numberous prestigious institutions including Yale Harvard Columbia California and the University of Chicago. Morgenthau's outsize impact on the study of international relations in the West cannot be underestimated. His 'Political Realism' theory was immensely influential in American Politics notably gaining purchase in his consultancy for Truman Eisenhower and Kennedy as well as in his protege Henry Kissinger. Dubbing him 'the Pope of Realism' Stanley Hoffman writes 'If our discipline has any founding father it is Mortenthau.' William Scheuerman writes 'Morgenthau's intellectual agenda effectively dominated the scholarly study of international relations in the United States well into the 1970's. Not only did Morgenthau write two of postwar Realism's most influential books Politics Among Nations and In Defense of the National Interest but he penned about a dozen others as well as hundreds of scholarly articles on an astonishing range of topics. Unlike most academics Morgenthau also became a much sought-after public intellectual and his oftentimes pithy commentaries on foreign affairs appeared regularly in popular magazines and journals as well as newspapers like the New York Times from the 1950s onwards. 'His massive textbook Politics Among Nations first published in 1948 remains the most systematic attempt to employ 'realist' principles in constructing and empirical theory of international politics.' Giffiths Fifty Key Thinkers. Arguably it is one of the most influential books in 20th Century American Politics for its role in the formation of multiple generations of Poly-Sci students: 'Upon publication in September 1948 the treatise was promptly adopted as a textbook for foreign policy and international relations courses at Columbia Harvard Princeton and Yale. Ninety colleges throughout the United States would follow suit within seven months. By 1955 40000 copies had been sold in the United States alone and by 1968 sales would reach 160000.' Christoph Frei 'Politics Among Nations: Revisiting a Classic' in Ethics and International Affairs PROVENANCE: From Hans Morgenthau's daughter Susanna Morgenthau. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1945rif. 58191ABNew York, Harper & Brothers. 1945. 8°. XIII, 239 S. mit 4 Seiten Faksimiletyposkript und einer gefalteten Karte. Originalleinwand mit Schutzumschlag.
1971rif. 509842Random House 1971. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Good. SIGNED by co-author Marcus Raskin and inscribed to political philosopher Hans Morgenthau: 'For Hans With love and respect for who you are what you've done and what you will do. Signed Marc Raskin / Sept. 1971.' x 2 374pp. Sewn binding in black cloth over boards. Silver gilt-titled spine and blindstamped title to front cover. Marcus Raskin's signature and inscription to FFEP. DJ sunned at spine and edges. Small tears along DJ edges. Small crack in DJ spine not impacting integrity of DJ. Smudge to top edge of pages. Otherwise pages and covers clean and unmarked. Raskin was the author of many books and the founder of the progressive thinktank Institute for Policy Studies. Washington Plans an Aggressive War--written at the height of the conflict in Vietnam--'is a view of what happened in the Vietnam war why it happened and what steps need to be taken to prevent it from happening again . the war was no accident ; it was not the result of incalculable errors but was rather the consequence of calculable plans and decisions to proceed with them.' In laying out their case the authors make extensive use of 'The Pentagon Papers' -- Raskin was one of the first recipients of copies from Daniel Ellsberg of the 7000-page top-secret history of US involvement in Vietnam. His heartfelt inscription to Hans Morgenthau makes for a very special association. Following his landmark works Scientific Man vs. Power Politics and Politics among Nations Morgenthau had become one of the most prominent political theorists in America. He was sought out as an advisor by the Kennedy administration but his outspoken criticism of US policy in Vietnam led to his ouster by LBJ. He continued as one of the most prominent critics throughout the duration of the war. PROVENANCE: From Hans Morgenthau's daughter Susanna Morgenthau. Random House hardcover
