Henry l bretton (32 resultados)

Condición: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condición: Fair. 1973 paperback. Shelf wear/staining to covers and edges. May have a few loose pages. Pages are tanned, but unmarked. May have evidence of sticker removal.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. item is in shrink wrap, but there is an area with a stain on the back cover where something spilled on the book (coffee?).

Condición: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dust Jacket. 199 pages. Ex-university library marks, light staining and sunning to the covers; faintly toned pages; a sound binding. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 219229.

Hardcover. Condición: UsedGood. Hardcover; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; reference number affixed to spine; fading and edge wear to exterior; cover cloth wearing at corners; otherwise in good condition with clean text and tight binding.

Condición: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condición: UsedGood. Paperback; fading and edge wear to exterior; otherwise in good condition wi th clean text, firm binding.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 199p, with 2 maps, a VG hbk.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. A Good copy in yellow cloth, in an edge-worn Good dust jacket with a tear at the top edge of the front panel. Scattered underlining and marginalia. Gift inscription from UNC history professor Carl Pegg to a student. A sound reading copy, and not ex-library. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1953. Hardcover, 199 pp. Very good with a bump to one corner at foot. Dust jacket has small chips and edge wear. Jacket is in a new mylar sleeve. Signed & inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. See photos. Inscribed by Author.…

ex lib, minimal markings, 208pp, VG+(v sl gum stains to boards) d/w VG+(in plastic, rear flap cut & attached fep).

Soft Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition Reprint. Previous owner's name to half title. Spine very faded.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1966. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (one small edge chip / spine label removed). The jacket is protected by a removable Gaylord clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped ($5.95). Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently never read. This copy was formerly in the library of the American Embassy, Jidda, Saudi Arabia (ink stamped on front free endpaper). There is a pocket at the rear with a card indicating the book was never checked out. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 232pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Condición: Very Good. Clothbound hardback book in good to very good condition; may have some light shelfwear and/or sunning or foxing. Dustjacket in good to very good condition, may have some minor nicks or sunning.

Condición: New.

Condición: Very Good. Clothbound hardback book in good to very good condition; may have some light shelfwear and/or sunning or foxing. Dustjacket in good to very good condition, may have some minor nicks or sunning.

Softcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. xxxiii, 418 p.

hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. New York. 1966. Frederick A. Praeger. 1st Edition. Bookplate on Front Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 232 pages. hardcover. keywords: Africa Ghana History Biography. DESCRIPTION - A study of personal rule in Africa' a sound appraisal of the man himself and his politicsIn December, 1965, an editorial in The Spark - the ideological organ of Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party - proclaimed: 'The charismatic personality of President Nkrumah is one of the props on which the new nation of Ghana is built. It is the most practical way of providing the new ship of state with a stable keel.' Barely two months later, in the early hours of February 24, 1966, the vaunted 'one-party state' had evaporated, leaving practically no trace. With Nkrumah in exile and the military in control, the people danced, demonstrated, and paraded in the streets. What were the reasons for the fall of this once all-powerful leader? And perhaps even more important, what did it indicate about the whole concept of 'personal rule'? Kwame Nkrumah held power in Ghana from 1951 until the coup that overthrew him. During much of that time, the author of this provocative study notes, he was the supreme - and virtually unchallenged - political 'boss,' the center of the political 'machine.' His dictum was a simple one: 'Seek ye first the political kingdom and all other things will be added unto you.' He held sway over every sphere of government and administration; and there remained only the surface vestiges of democracy - in deference to African public opinion. As a frequent visitor to Ghana during Nkrumah's years as head of government - and especially during an extended stay there in 1964 - 65 - Henry Bretton had an opportunity to view at first hand the Ghanaian leader's accession to power, his methods for consolidating it, and the factors that led to his overthrow. In THE RISE AND FALL OF KWAME NKRUMAH, he examines the operational aspects of the government and the nature and role of the sole political party and of ideology within Ghana. Above all, he appraises Nkrumah himself - 'a moderately capable, highly volatile and energetic, somewhat professional, somewhat amateurish leader.' 'Yet,' Mr. Bretton writes, 'like Stalin, Nkrumah cannot be denied some credit for achievement. When he left the Ghanaian scene as ruler, the landscape was dotted with an impressive array of 'monuments' to his vision, personal drive, initiative, and ambition, and to his dedication to the cause of liberating Africa from the shackles of colonialism.' There was the Volta River project at Akosombo, with its vast potential for industrial, commercial, and transportation uses; there was the money spent on education and on hospital beds, on miles of new roads, and on the installation of telephone lines. Unfortunately, what became immediately apparent on closer investigation was not what had been accomplished, but what might have been, considering Ghana's potential in human and material resources. For there were the other monuments - to Nkrumah's 'frivolity and lack of sound judgment, to his overbearing arrogance, and to his vanity, false pride, and social ignorance': a national debt fifteen times its size five years earlier, an industrialization program that was grinding to a halt, almost intolerable taxation, a cost of living that had risen 30 per cent in a year, and an unemployment situation that was becoming desperate. These, too, were the fruits of Nkrumah's 'personal rule.' 'For a variety of reasons,' Mr. Bretton notes, 'personal rule prefers to be called by another name.' In this perceptive assessment of the road Kwame Nkrumah followed - a road that led from personal rule to undisputed leadership to despotism - Mr. Bretton provides a classic case history of why personal rule 'is corrupt and why it corrupts.' THE AUTHOR: Henry L. Bretton is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He has traveled extensively in West and East Africa, and was V.…

Unknown Binding. Condición: Very Good. paperback, 402 pages, VERY GOOD.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by Author, DJ chipped and has small tears in mylar protector, bindings tight. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1953 Hardcover edition. Ex-Library. Text is clean, Binding is strong. Dustjacket flaps are glued inside front cover. Yellow cloth cover, a small dent in both upper edges, lightly soiled.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. The spine is cracked and some of the sections are loose, otherwise complete.

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Condición: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

hardcover. Condición: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condición: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.