New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Date: 1971. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. [12], 448 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips and soiling. Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 - March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service. He was a leading exponent of business history and oral history. As a journalist, Nevins covered the campaigns of Al Smith. After the 1928 Presidential Campaign which he covered for Walter Lippmann, Nevins grew dismayed at what he perceived as intolerance and provincialism, religious bigotry and racial prejudice in the American South, which as a historian he contrasted to religious freedom and separation of church and state that the same region had brought to the new nation in the revolutionary era. In 1928, Nevins joined the history faculty of Columbia University, where he remained for three decades until his mandatory retirement in 1958. During World War II, Professor Nevins taught (as Harmsworth Professor of American History) at Oxford University from 1940 to 1941. Nevins served as special representative of the Office of War Information in Australia and New Zealand in 1943-1944, and in 1945-1946 worked in London as chief public affairs officer at the American ...

New York Scribner 1971 Hardcover Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Toning to pages, flaps, and rear panels. Scuffing to panels. Peeling to upper front panels.; 9 X 6 X 1.70 inches; 448 pages.

ISBN10: 0684104296, ISBN13: 9780684104294, [publisher: New York, Scribner] Hardcover First Edition Fine cloth copies both in near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dws, now mylar-sleeved. Remains a particularly and surprisingly well-preserved set; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 1 pages; Map and portrait illustrated. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.s. 2 Kg.
[Galway, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1971]
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New York, Scribner, Date: 1971. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copies both in near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dws, now mylar-sleeved. Remains a particularly and surprisingly well-preserved set; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 1 pages; Map and portrait illustrated. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.s. 1971. New York, Scribner ISBN 0684104296 9780684104294 [IE]

ISBN10: 0684104296, ISBN13: 9780684104294, [publisher: Scribner] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. 1.6
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1971]