thad cochran (6 resultados)

xxiv, 112 pages. Paperback: H 21.5cm x L 14cm. Yellow paper covers, 2cm tear to surface paper near spine heel, faint creasing to rear cover's fore-edge corners. Interior pages are clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good copy. With Acknowledgements, Introduction by Thad Cochran, Foreword by Porter L. Fortune, Jr., "Preface: Why Study the Future" by Walter M. Mathews, "Appendix: Aphorisms About the Future" by Walter M. Mathews, and Notes on Contributors. PART I: VIEWS FROM HISTORY. "Modernization in the Deep South" by C. Thompson Wacaster, "The Ultimate Legacy" by William Winter, "The Future of Representative Government" by Vagn K. Hansen. PART II: INVENTING THE FUTURE. "Inventing the Future" by Mary Maury Harding, "Digging Up the Future" by Lucy C. Turnbull. PART III: SCENARIOS OF THE FUTURE. "'Everything That Rises Must Converge'" by Gerald Blessey, "Economic and Political Power" by Aaron E. Henry, "Which Way Mississippi?" by Gilbert E. Carmichael. PART IV: EDUCATION. "Coping with Semiliteracy in Mississippi Education" by Roger Johnson, Jr., "Will Liberal Arts Education Be Flourishing?" by Robert E. Bergmark, "Graduation Day: May 31, 1990" by Charles Granville Hamilton. ISBN 0878051473.

Condición: very good. 18, wraps, U.S. Senate Document No. 97-27.

No Binding. Condición: Fine. Condition: FINE. First Day Cover honoring Postal System, postmarked 1985. SIGNED by Thad Cochran, US Senator from Mississippi. SIGNED.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Binding Tight Pages Clean Light Edge Wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: near fine. First edition of Mother's Medicine by Nancy Moore Thurmond, inscribed by Senator Strom Thurmond to Senator Thad Cochran. Ilustrador. First Edition, First Printing. First edition of Mother's Medicine by Nancy Moore Thurmond, inscribed by Senator Strom Thurmond to Senator Thad Cochran. Octavo, 383pp. Orange hardcover, title in gilt on cream cloth spine. Stated "First Edition" with full number line on copyright page. Solid text block, lightly bumped on top edge, near fine. In the publisher's dust jacket, $9.95 retail price, light wear to edges of spine, a near fine example. Inscribed by Nancy and Strom Thurmond on the front free endpaper "To our friends Rose and Thad Cochran, distinguished U.S. Senator from Mississippi, With our best wishes. January 1979." Strom Thurmond (1902 - 2003) was the United States Senator from South Carolina from 1954 to 2003, making him one of the longest-serving senators in U.S. history. Originally a Democrat, he became known for his staunch segregationist views and ran as a Dixiecrat candidate for president in 1948, opposing civil rights legislation. In 1964, he switched to the Republican Party as the political landscape shifted, becoming a key conservative figure. Thurmond also holds the record for the longest filibuster in Senate history, speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He retired in 2003 at the age of 100 and passed away later that year. Signed.

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1970 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 146 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 146 Volume 41.