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Book. Octavo; First printing; VG-; Paperback; Spine, orange with white print; Cover has slight edgewear, slight smudges on rear, else clean and bright; Text block has vendor label inside front cover, else clean and tight; xix, 279 pages, illustrated (b&w). 1338708. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Good. xix, [1], 279, [5] pages. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Previous owner's mailing label on fep and on half-title page. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. The contents include: The Nature of Political War, Antiquity, The Reformation, The Napoleonic Era, World War I, Marxism-Leninism, The Nazis, Britain and America in World War II, The Cold War, and Today and the Future. During the Cold War, Smith was an editor of Problems of Communism, a publication of the U.S. Information Agency about conditions in the Soviet bloc. He later did contract work for the CIA. He held degrees from Georgetown and Harvard. This important work emphasizes the role of political competition as a form of conflict resolution. It discusses the historical antecedents of our modern international political rhetoric with specific applications to the US-Soviet relationship...In it there is a highly useful discussion of political discourse as a form of political "warfare. : The recent developments within the Soviet Union under the aggressive leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev are also placed in a proper and intelligent perspective for the reader.