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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 486 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. listed 11/05/2019 ex library copy
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0809046814. B & W Photographs and Reproductions; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 496 pages; 2012 Hill and Wang HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and fresh in sharp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $35 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Illustrated with b&w photos and reproductions. Feels and appears generally unread and about as new. NF/NF.
Edition:
First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
Hill and Wang
Published:
2012
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15888408627
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Very good in Very good jacket. viii, 486 pages. Includes Notes, Illustrations. Selected Bibliography, Acknowledgments, Index, Photographs, and Epilogue. Guy Gugliotta spent 16 years with The Washington Post as a science reporter and political and domestic policy correspondent. He began his career at U.P.I. and The Miami Herald covering wars, crises, and policy issues in Latin America and elsewhere around the world. For the last few years he has had a successful career as a freelance science journalist writing for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, Wired, and other publications. He is co-author of Kings of Cocaine (on the Medellin Cartel) and author of Freedom's Cap (history of the construction of the U.S. Capitol in the years leading up to the Civil War). Award-winning journalist Guy Gugliotta recounts the history and broader meaning of the U.S. Capitol Building through the lives of the three men most responsible for its construction. The building's scale and magnificence is owed to Jefferson Davis, who remained the Capitol's staunchest advocate up until the week he left Washington to become president of the Confederacy. Davis's protégé and the Capitol's lead engineer, Captain Montgomery C. Meigs, became quartermaster general of the Union Army and never forgave Davis for his betrayal of the nation. The Capitol's brilliant architect and Meigs's longtime rival, Thomas U. Walter, defended slavery at the beginning of the war, but eventually turned fiercely against the South.
Edition:
First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
Hill and Wang
Published:
2012
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17410661347
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Carla Robbins (Author photograph) Very good in Very good jacket. viii, 486 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Anne Marie--A great friend. Guy B. Gugliotta. This work was inscribed to Anne Marie O'Keefe, PhD and JD who was with Morgan State University at the time (her business card was laid in the book). Dr. O'Keefe is a registered Federal lobbyist and a clinical psychologist and an attorney with more than 35 years of experience in persuasive communication for health. Since 2006, Dr. O'Keefe has been a tenured professor on the graduate faculty in the School of Community Health and Policy at Morgan State University. Guy Gugliotta began his career at U.P.I. and The Miami Herald covering wars, crises, and policy issues in Latin America and elsewhere around the world. He covered Congress during a sixteen-year career as a national reporter for The Washington Post and since then has been a freelance writer. He has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, Discover, and Smithsonian. He is the co-author of Kings of Cocaine. The modern United States Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and design. From its 9-million-pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the President's Room and the Senate corridors, the Capitol is one of the most renowned buildings in the world. But the history of the U.S. Capitol is also the history of America's most tumultuous years. As the new Capitol rose above Washington's skyline, battles over slavery and secession ripped the country apart. Ground was broken just months after Congress adopted the compromise of 1850, which was supposed to settle the "slavery question" for all time. The statue Freedom was placed atop the Capitol's new dome in 1863, five months after the Battle of Gettysburg. In Freedom's Cap, the award-winning journalist Guy Gugliotta recounts the history and broader meaning of the Capitol building through the lives of the three men most responsible for its construction. We owe the building's scale and magnificence to none other than Jefferson Davis, who remained the Capitol's staunchest advocate up until the week he left Washington to become president of the Confederacy. Davis's protégé and the Capitol's lead engineer, Captain Montgomery C. Meigs, became quartermaster general of the Union Army and never forgave Davis for his betrayal of the nation. The Capitol's brilliant architect and Meigs's longtime rival, Thomas U. Walter, defended slavery at the beginning of the war but eventually turned fiercely against the South. In impeccable detail, Gugliotta captures the clash of personalities behind the building of the Capitol and the unique engineering, architectural, design, and political challenges the three men collectively overcame to create the iconic seat of American government.