brief authority excursions common man de stanton edwin (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. xii, 290p.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; China History Republic, 1912-1949. Thailand History. Thailand History 20th century. China History 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First British Edition. 290 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. First printed in the US by Harper & Brothers in 1956. "Author was born in 1901 and in 1921 was appointed to the American Legation in Peiping - although his actual diplomatic career began in 1923 when he was named Vice-Consul at Mukden. For the next eighteen years he held various posts in many parts of China, until December 1941 - while he was American Counsul at Shanghai - when the Japanese captured the city and he was interned for several months. Named Consul General at Vancouver in 1945, he left the next year to become Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, later American Ambassador to Thailand, a post he held until his retirement in 1953. He saw China and Manchuria in chaos under the warlords. He witnessed the growth of Chinese nationalism, and China's suffering as first the Japanese and then the Communists struggled for ascendency." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Tanning to endpapers. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. An important account of these pivotal years in China, as witnessed by an American diplomat. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Octavo, tan boards and rust cloth lettered in gilt; unclipped pictorial dust jacket, with a touch of edge-wear. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, inscribed: "To Phil Jessup, In appreciation of his wise guidance of our policies in Southeast Asia during [?] years, Ed Stanton," on the front endpaper. ---- The recipient Philip C. Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice and veteran U.S. diplomat, was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Jessup was a U.S. representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He also served as a U.S. ambassador at large from 1949 until his resignation in 1953. During that time, he was one of the closest advisers of then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After Jessup was maligned by Senator Joe McCarthy for purported communist "affinities," General Dwight D. Eisenhower heralded Jessup's "devotion to the principles of Americanism." McCarthy's charges kept Jessup from being reappointed to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1951 but President Harry S. Truman made him an alternate delegate the following year. In 1950 Edwin F. Stanton, the ambassador to Thailand, invited Ambassador Jessup to attend a crucial meeting with the Thai government. Stanton recalled Jessup's contribution in his "Brief Authority." A significant work with a stellar provenance. Inscribed by Author(s).