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	O'CONNOR, HARVEY Empire of Oil, the [Signed] New York, NY, Monthly Review Press, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author. Association copy "To Emanuel Celler, defender of the public interest. --Harvey O'Connor, 1955" Book square and solid. Jacket shows heavy chipping and age-wear. Very presentable in a new Brodart protector. Very Good/Acceptable. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3310] Book number: 002329 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	DOLSEN, JIM Bucking the Ruling Class: Jim Dolsen's Story [Signed] Self-published, 1984. 2nd Revised Edition. Soft Cover. SIGNED by author on title page. Brand new condition. Very light shelf-wear. New . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 005410 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	EDWARDS, SEBASTIAN Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope New York, NY, Oxford University Press / World Bank, 1995. Paperback. Hi-lighting to first third. Text not obscurred. Binding square and solid. An affordable reference/student copy. Good . USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 \| £UK 8.75 \| JP¥ 1280] Book number: 012224 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	JOHN GUNTHER Troubled Midnight [Signed] New York, Harper & Brothers, 1945. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition, signed and inscribed by author, Presentation copy. "For Norman Armour, In friendship and admiration. John Gunther, NY 1945". Binding a bit stressed (but still solid), Black boards show some age-wear, spotting and scuffing. Presentation copy to Norman Vincent Armour. From the web: "Norman Armour was a career diplomat and Assistant Secretary of State, was born October 14, 1887 in Brighton, England to American parents. He received his B.A. from Princeton in 1909 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1913. Armour returned to Princeton to obtain an M.A. in 1915, whereupon he joined the State Department and was immediately posted to the U.S. Embassy in Paris. This was the first in a long series of assignments, placing Armour in the heart of revolutionary Russia (1916-1919), fascist Spain (1924), post-revolutionary Chile (1938), and Haiti during the withdrawal of American troops (1933). Among his other posts were: Tokyo, Rome, Uruguay, Argentina and Canada. Armour married Russian princess Myra Koudacheff in 1919, after he helped her to flee her homeland. (Armour himself crossed the border to Finland disguised as a Norwegian courier.) Through witnessing the upheavals and perpetual instability of Russia and other countries, Armour came to loathe rebellion and to esteem and promote the dependability of the American system. The Washington Post reported, "Unlike many emissaries, he represented his country, not the country to which he was posted and certainly not himself." For his considered approach, polished manner and patriotism, Armour earned promotions quickly, rising from 3rd Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Petrograd, to Ambassador to Chile, to Assistant Secretary of State (1947-48). He was reputed to be the "ideal" diplomat: straightforward, communicative, and aristocratically old-fashioned. As one paper explained upon Armour's retirement: "The need nowadays is for men who know this or that expertly..the wide-ranging knowledge which Mr. Armour acquired from his rich experience and which his natural gifts tempered into ripe judgements would not come amiss amid the seething and striving and self-centeredness of the specialists. Princeton awarded Armour the Woodrow Wilson Award in 1957. After retiring, he continued to advise the State Department and give lectures at Princeton and elsewhere. He died in 1982. Good/No Jacket. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 000825 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	HENRY, JAMES S. The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2003. Hardcover. SIGNED by author with his business card layed-in. Brand new condition. Very light shelf-wear. New/new. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 014093 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	HOWARD, MILTON (ED) Mainstream, Vol. 10 1957 (12 Issues Bound) New York, NY, Masses and Mainstream Inc. 1957. Hard Cover. 12 issues hardbound with cover. Issues attractive and clean. Bindings solid. Includes contributions from: W. E. B. DuBois, Howard Fast, Thomas McGrath, Boris Pasterneck, Lu Hsun. This is likely the first/only appearance of many of these pieces. Very Good . USD 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96.75 \| £UK 87.25 \| JP¥ 12797] Book number: 005399 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	HUMBOLDT, CHARLES (ED) Mainstream, Vol. 13 1960 (12 Issues Bound) New York, NY, Masses and Mainstream Inc. 1960. Hard Cover. 12 issues hardbound with cover. Issues attractive and clean. Bindings solid. Includes contributions from: Ernest Hemingway, Kenneth Tynan, Pa Chin, Arnold Zweig, Mikhail Lukonin,Ho Chi Minh. This is likely the first/only appearance of many of these pieces. Very Good . USD 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96.75 \| £UK 87.25 \| JP¥ 12797] Book number: 005400 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	MARCUS, GEORGE E. Cultural Producers in Perilous States: Editing Events, Documenting Change Univ of Chicago Pr, 1997. Paperback. Brand new condition. Very light shelf-wear. New . USD 14.95 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 012302 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	MCGOVERN, GEORGE The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time Simon & Schuster, 2001. 1. Hardcover. SIGNED by author on title page. Flat-signed (name only). First printing, full number run on CR page. Very Fine condition. Very light shelf-wear. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Fine/fine. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 013789 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	ORWELL, GEORGE The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume III: As I Please, 1943-1945 Secker & Warburg, 1968. Hardcover. Well-preserved ex-library with expected markings. Jacket spine very faintly sunned (with catalog sticker). Binding solid. Text unmarked. Very Good/very good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 014358 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SEGRE, DAN VITTORIO Memoirs of a Failed Diplomat Halban, 2005. Hardcover. 198 pp. Very Fine condition. Very light shelf-wear. Fine/fine. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1942] Book number: 013900 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SILLEN, SAMUEL (ED) Masses and Mainstream, Vol. 5 1952 (12 Issues Bound) New York, NY, Masses and Mainstream Inc. 1952. Hard Cover. 12 issues hardbound with cover. Issues attractive and clean. Bindings solid. Includes contributions from: Paul Robeson, W. E. B. DuBois, Rockwell Kent, Edward Strickland, Phillip Bonosky, Dalton Trumbo, This is likely the first/only appearance of many of these pieces. Very Good . USD 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96.75 \| £UK 87.25 \| JP¥ 12797] Book number: 005393 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SILLEN, SAMUEL (ED) Masses and Mainstream, Vol. 6 1953 (12 Issues Bound) New York, NY, Masses and Mainstream Inc. 1953. Hard Cover. 12 issues hardbound with cover. Issues attractive and clean. Bindings solid. Includes contributions from: W. E. B. DuBois, Howard Fast, Pablo Neruda, Louis Aragon, John Reed, Mulk Raj Anand This is likely the first/only appearance of many of these pieces. Very Good . USD 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96.75 \| £UK 87.25 \| JP¥ 12797] Book number: 005394 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SORRENTINO, FRANK M. Ideological Warfare: The F.B. I. 's Path Toward Power New York, New York, U.S.A. Associated Faculty Pr Inc, 1985. Hard Cover. Very Fine condition. Clean, square and unmarked. Very Fine/No Dust Jacket. USD 11.25 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 \| £UK 7 \| JP¥ 993] Book number: 006110 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SPITZER, ELIOT (ATTORNEY GENERAL) Tenant's Rights Guides Office of the Attorney General, 1998. Soft Cover. 28-page saddle stitched papmplet with forward letter by Spitzer. Very light age and reading-wear. Very Good . USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1942] Book number: 010993 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	STEPAN, NANCY LEYS The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America Cornell Univ Pr, 1996. Paperback. 210 pp. Clean, square and unmarked. Binding square and solid. Very light reading-wear. Fine . USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 750] Book number: 015093 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	STEWART, JON; KARLIN, BEN; JAVERBAUM, DAVID; BLOMQUIST, RICH America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Warner Books Inc, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, Stated First Printing. Very Fine condition. Very light reading-wear. Very Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 971] Book number: 012395 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	WHEELER, JOHN I'Ve Got News for You [Signed] New York, NY, Dutton, 1961. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author. Good condition. Light bumping. No jacket. Presentation copy "To my distinguished friend, Norman Armour, with best wishes, John Wheeler. Nov. 15, 1962. From the web: "Norman Armour was a career diplomat and Assistant Secretary of State, was born October 14, 1887 in Brighton, England to American parents. He received his B.A. from Princeton in 1909 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1913. Armour returned to Princeton to obtain an M.A. in 1915, whereupon he joined the State Department and was immediately posted to the U.S. Embassy in Paris. This was the first in a long series of assignments, placing Armour in the heart of revolutionary Russia (1916-1919), fascist Spain (1924), post-revolutionary Chile (1938), and Haiti during the withdrawal of American troops (1933). Among his other posts were: Tokyo, Rome, Uruguay, Argentina and Canada. Armour married Russian princess Myra Koudacheff in 1919, after he helped her to flee her homeland. (Armour himself crossed the border to Finland disguised as a Norwegian courier.) Through witnessing the upheavals and perpetual instability of Russia and other countries, Armour came to loathe rebellion and to esteem and promote the dependability of the American system. The Washington Post reported, "Unlike many emissaries, he represented his country, not the country to which he was posted and certainly not himself." For his considered approach, polished manner and patriotism, Armour earned promotions quickly, rising from 3rd Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Petrograd, to Ambassador to Chile, to Assistant Secretary of State (1947-48). He was reputed to be the "ideal" diplomat: straightforward, communicative, and aristocratically old-fashioned. As one paper explained upon Armour's retirement: "The need nowadays is for men who know this or that expertly..the wide-ranging knowledge which Mr. Armour acquired from his rich experience and which his natural gifts tempered into ripe judgements would not come amiss amid the seething and striving and self-centeredness of the specialists. Princeton awarded Armour the Woodrow Wilson Award in 1957. After retiring, he continued to advise the State Department and give lectures at Princeton and elsewhere. He died in 1982. Good/No Dust Jacket. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 001330 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	WOLF, CHARLES Markets or Governments: Choosing between Imperfect Alternatives a Rand Research Study Mit Pr, 1993. Paperback. Second Edition. Clean, square and unmarked. Very light shelf-wear. Fine . USD 11.80 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1041] Book number: 014971 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	YOUNG, MICHAEL The Rise of the Meritocracy Transaction Pub, 1994. Paperback. Clean, square and unmarked. Very light reading-wear. Fine . USD 14.35 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 \| £UK 8.75 \| JP¥ 1266] Book number: 014972 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.

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	O'CONNOR, HARVEY Empire of Oil, the [Signed] New York, NY, Monthly Review Press, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author. Association copy "To Emanuel Celler, defender of the public interest. --Harvey O'Connor, 1955" Book square and solid. Jacket shows heavy chipping and age-wear. Very presentable in a new Brodart protector. Very Good/Acceptable. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3310] Book number: 002329 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	DOLSEN, JIM Bucking the Ruling Class: Jim Dolsen's Story [Signed] Self-published, 1984. 2nd Revised Edition. Soft Cover. SIGNED by author on title page. Brand new condition. Very light shelf-wear. New . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 005410 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	EDWARDS, SEBASTIAN Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope New York, NY, Oxford University Press / World Bank, 1995. Paperback. Hi-lighting to first third. Text not obscurred. Binding square and solid. An affordable reference/student copy. Good . USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 \| £UK 8.75 \| JP¥ 1280] Book number: 012224 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	JOHN GUNTHER Troubled Midnight [Signed] New York, Harper & Brothers, 1945. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition, signed and inscribed by author, Presentation copy. "For Norman Armour, In friendship and admiration. John Gunther, NY 1945". Binding a bit stressed (but still solid), Black boards show some age-wear, spotting and scuffing. Presentation copy to Norman Vincent Armour. From the web: "Norman Armour was a career diplomat and Assistant Secretary of State, was born October 14, 1887 in Brighton, England to American parents. He received his B.A. from Princeton in 1909 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1913. Armour returned to Princeton to obtain an M.A. in 1915, whereupon he joined the State Department and was immediately posted to the U.S. Embassy in Paris. This was the first in a long series of assignments, placing Armour in the heart of revolutionary Russia (1916-1919), fascist Spain (1924), post-revolutionary Chile (1938), and Haiti during the withdrawal of American troops (1933). Among his other posts were: Tokyo, Rome, Uruguay, Argentina and Canada. Armour married Russian princess Myra Koudacheff in 1919, after he helped her to flee her homeland. (Armour himself crossed the border to Finland disguised as a Norwegian courier.) Through witnessing the upheavals and perpetual instability of Russia and other countries, Armour came to loathe rebellion and to esteem and promote the dependability of the American system. The Washington Post reported, "Unlike many emissaries, he represented his country, not the country to which he was posted and certainly not himself." For his considered approach, polished manner and patriotism, Armour earned promotions quickly, rising from 3rd Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Petrograd, to Ambassador to Chile, to Assistant Secretary of State (1947-48). He was reputed to be the "ideal" diplomat: straightforward, communicative, and aristocratically old-fashioned. As one paper explained upon Armour's retirement: "The need nowadays is for men who know this or that expertly..the wide-ranging knowledge which Mr. Armour acquired from his rich experience and which his natural gifts tempered into ripe judgements would not come amiss amid the seething and striving and self-centeredness of the specialists. Princeton awarded Armour the Woodrow Wilson Award in 1957. After retiring, he continued to advise the State Department and give lectures at Princeton and elsewhere. He died in 1982. Good/No Jacket. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 000825 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	HENRY, JAMES S. The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2003. Hardcover. SIGNED by author with his business card layed-in. Brand new condition. Very light shelf-wear. New/new. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 014093 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	HOWARD, MILTON (ED) Mainstream, Vol. 10 1957 (12 Issues Bound) New York, NY, Masses and Mainstream Inc. 1957. Hard Cover. 12 issues hardbound with cover. Issues attractive and clean. Bindings solid. Includes contributions from: W. E. B. DuBois, Howard Fast, Thomas McGrath, Boris Pasterneck, Lu Hsun. This is likely the first/only appearance of many of these pieces. Very Good . USD 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96.75 \| £UK 87.25 \| JP¥ 12797] Book number: 005399 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	HUMBOLDT, CHARLES (ED) Mainstream, Vol. 13 1960 (12 Issues Bound) New York, NY, Masses and Mainstream Inc. 1960. Hard Cover. 12 issues hardbound with cover. Issues attractive and clean. Bindings solid. Includes contributions from: Ernest Hemingway, Kenneth Tynan, Pa Chin, Arnold Zweig, Mikhail Lukonin,Ho Chi Minh. This is likely the first/only appearance of many of these pieces. Very Good . USD 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96.75 \| £UK 87.25 \| JP¥ 12797] Book number: 005400 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	MARCUS, GEORGE E. Cultural Producers in Perilous States: Editing Events, Documenting Change Univ of Chicago Pr, 1997. Paperback. Brand new condition. Very light shelf-wear. New . USD 14.95 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 012302 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	MCGOVERN, GEORGE The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time Simon & Schuster, 2001. 1. Hardcover. SIGNED by author on title page. Flat-signed (name only). First printing, full number run on CR page. Very Fine condition. Very light shelf-wear. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Fine/fine. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 013789 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	ORWELL, GEORGE The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume III: As I Please, 1943-1945 Secker & Warburg, 1968. Hardcover. Well-preserved ex-library with expected markings. Jacket spine very faintly sunned (with catalog sticker). Binding solid. Text unmarked. Very Good/very good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 014358 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SEGRE, DAN VITTORIO Memoirs of a Failed Diplomat Halban, 2005. Hardcover. 198 pp. Very Fine condition. Very light shelf-wear. Fine/fine. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1942] Book number: 013900 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SILLEN, SAMUEL (ED) Masses and Mainstream, Vol. 5 1952 (12 Issues Bound) New York, NY, Masses and Mainstream Inc. 1952. Hard Cover. 12 issues hardbound with cover. Issues attractive and clean. Bindings solid. Includes contributions from: Paul Robeson, W. E. B. DuBois, Rockwell Kent, Edward Strickland, Phillip Bonosky, Dalton Trumbo, This is likely the first/only appearance of many of these pieces. Very Good . USD 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96.75 \| £UK 87.25 \| JP¥ 12797] Book number: 005393 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SILLEN, SAMUEL (ED) Masses and Mainstream, Vol. 6 1953 (12 Issues Bound) New York, NY, Masses and Mainstream Inc. 1953. Hard Cover. 12 issues hardbound with cover. Issues attractive and clean. Bindings solid. Includes contributions from: W. E. B. DuBois, Howard Fast, Pablo Neruda, Louis Aragon, John Reed, Mulk Raj Anand This is likely the first/only appearance of many of these pieces. Very Good . USD 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96.75 \| £UK 87.25 \| JP¥ 12797] Book number: 005394 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SORRENTINO, FRANK M. Ideological Warfare: The F.B. I. 's Path Toward Power New York, New York, U.S.A. Associated Faculty Pr Inc, 1985. Hard Cover. Very Fine condition. Clean, square and unmarked. Very Fine/No Dust Jacket. USD 11.25 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 \| £UK 7 \| JP¥ 993] Book number: 006110 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	SPITZER, ELIOT (ATTORNEY GENERAL) Tenant's Rights Guides Office of the Attorney General, 1998. Soft Cover. 28-page saddle stitched papmplet with forward letter by Spitzer. Very light age and reading-wear. Very Good . USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1942] Book number: 010993 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	STEPAN, NANCY LEYS The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America Cornell Univ Pr, 1996. Paperback. 210 pp. Clean, square and unmarked. Binding square and solid. Very light reading-wear. Fine . USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 750] Book number: 015093 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	STEWART, JON; KARLIN, BEN; JAVERBAUM, DAVID; BLOMQUIST, RICH America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Warner Books Inc, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, Stated First Printing. Very Fine condition. Very light reading-wear. Very Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 971] Book number: 012395 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	WHEELER, JOHN I'Ve Got News for You [Signed] New York, NY, Dutton, 1961. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author. Good condition. Light bumping. No jacket. Presentation copy "To my distinguished friend, Norman Armour, with best wishes, John Wheeler. Nov. 15, 1962. From the web: "Norman Armour was a career diplomat and Assistant Secretary of State, was born October 14, 1887 in Brighton, England to American parents. He received his B.A. from Princeton in 1909 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1913. Armour returned to Princeton to obtain an M.A. in 1915, whereupon he joined the State Department and was immediately posted to the U.S. Embassy in Paris. This was the first in a long series of assignments, placing Armour in the heart of revolutionary Russia (1916-1919), fascist Spain (1924), post-revolutionary Chile (1938), and Haiti during the withdrawal of American troops (1933). Among his other posts were: Tokyo, Rome, Uruguay, Argentina and Canada. Armour married Russian princess Myra Koudacheff in 1919, after he helped her to flee her homeland. (Armour himself crossed the border to Finland disguised as a Norwegian courier.) Through witnessing the upheavals and perpetual instability of Russia and other countries, Armour came to loathe rebellion and to esteem and promote the dependability of the American system. The Washington Post reported, "Unlike many emissaries, he represented his country, not the country to which he was posted and certainly not himself." For his considered approach, polished manner and patriotism, Armour earned promotions quickly, rising from 3rd Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Petrograd, to Ambassador to Chile, to Assistant Secretary of State (1947-48). He was reputed to be the "ideal" diplomat: straightforward, communicative, and aristocratically old-fashioned. As one paper explained upon Armour's retirement: "The need nowadays is for men who know this or that expertly..the wide-ranging knowledge which Mr. Armour acquired from his rich experience and which his natural gifts tempered into ripe judgements would not come amiss amid the seething and striving and self-centeredness of the specialists. Princeton awarded Armour the Woodrow Wilson Award in 1957. After retiring, he continued to advise the State Department and give lectures at Princeton and elsewhere. He died in 1982. Good/No Dust Jacket. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 001330 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	WOLF, CHARLES Markets or Governments: Choosing between Imperfect Alternatives a Rand Research Study Mit Pr, 1993. Paperback. Second Edition. Clean, square and unmarked. Very light shelf-wear. Fine . USD 11.80 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1041] Book number: 014971 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	YOUNG, MICHAEL The Rise of the Meritocracy Transaction Pub, 1994. Paperback. Clean, square and unmarked. Very light reading-wear. Fine . USD 14.35 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 \| £UK 8.75 \| JP¥ 1266] Book number: 014972 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.