Author: WATTENBERG, Ben J.
Title: The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators and Ideas About the Surge of America in the 1990s
Description: New York, The Free Press, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 418pp. Tables. Fine/fine. Pristine, tight and bright first edition -- boldly inscribed and signed in black fineline on front flyleaf: "For Bob Malott / --- a shaper of this first / universal nation --- / With high regard, and many / thanks for your help to AEI / over the years, / Ben Wattenberg / AEI / 11/90." Wattenberg (1933-2015) was an influential but nonpartisan neoconservative political commentator and author. Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago civic/business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist. Wattenberg and Malott were both affiliated with the right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute -- the "AEI" of his inscription. Copy of "Forbes" magaziine review of this title laid in. .

Keywords: Americana


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