Buy this book on-line NUNNERLEY**, DAVID: : President Kennedy & Britain. **LONDON.BODLEY HEAD,1972. ISBN 0370013956.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG++/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,navy blue background to front panel of dw/dj also with white-lettered author name and mixed pale blue,white and red lettered title; a slighlty sunned/faded red spine/backstrip with faded capitalised black(?)/grey lettered author name and all white-lettered title and publisher's black lettered name to foot of same, rear panel of dw/dj with subject's contemporary b/w portrait photograph.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with minimal,faint,sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - text body near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - would appear unread, other than my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original pale blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xiipp+1-242pp [paginated] includes author's Foreword,list of Persons interviewed and Office Held (where pertinent),17 chapters,no illustrations/photographs,an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,aContents list/table with a dedication to its reverse,an Indesx separator page,and at the rear,2pp blanks.See also,my book ID rja1110623 for another similar copy of this same title.
As Britain prepared,1972,to take her place within the EEC while United States turns it attention increasingly towards ASIA,the book looks back on the 'special relationship' of Britain and the US under CHURCHILL and ROOSEVELT as a thing of the past.It had its last lease of life,so argues the author,under MACMILLAN and KENNEDY,two men totally unlike in age and
temperament but with a curious mutual sympathy and respect.The present book takes a look at the Anglo-American relationship during the Kennedy/ Macmillan era seeking to analyse what it meant to each side.Discussed in the context of the main crisises of the time,notably the BERLIN crisis of 1961,the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,the CUBAN missile crisis,the difference between the two countries over decolonisation,EAST-WEST detente and the independent deterrent:of special importance is the SKYBOLT crisis and the NASSAU Conference,for never was the 'special relationship' subjected to a severer strain than here.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG++/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,navy blue background to front panel of dw/dj also with white-lettered author name and mixed pale blue,white and red lettered title; a slighlty sunned/faded red spine/backstrip with faded capitalised black(?)/grey lettered author name and all white-lettered title and publisher's black lettered name to foot of same, rear panel of dw/dj with subject's contemporary b/w portrait photograph.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present,but some inevitable age-acquired chipping+rubbing to both head+foot of spine and dw/dj's corner tips.Top edges with minimal,faint,sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - text body near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - would appear unread,other than my own collation. Publisher's bright crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original pale blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xiipp+1-242pp [paginated] includes author's Foreword,list of Persons interviewed and Office Held (where pertinent),17 chapters,no illustrations/ photographs,an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a Contents list/table with a dedication to its reverse,an Index separator page,and at the rear,2pp blanks.See also,my book ID rja639 for another similar copy of this same title.
As Britain prepared,1972,to take her place within the EEC while United States turns it attention increasingly towards ASIA,the book looks back on the 'special relationship' of Britain and the US under CHURCHILL and ROOSEVELT as a thing of the past.It had its last lease of life,so argues the author,under MACMILLAN and KENNEDY,two men totally unlike in age and temperament but with a curious mutual sympathy and respect.
The present book takes a look at the Anglo-American relationship during the Kennedy/ Macmillan era seeking to analyse what it meant to each side.Discussed in the context of the main crisises of the time,notably the BERLIN crisis of 1961,the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,the CUBAN missile crisis,the difference between the two countries over decolonisation,EAST-WEST detente and the independent deterrent: of special importance is the SKYBOLT crisis and the NASSAU Conference,for never was the 'special relationship' subjected to a severer strain than here.
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