Cloth; Fair; Cloth. Fair. First Edition. "Published April 1912" on copyright page. half title, 2pp. blank, frontice, "Mashke and Fetchke" w/tissue guard, title, ix-x Illustrations, (xi)-xv Introduction, (xvi) blan k, text (1)-364pp., + 1p. Acknowledgements, + 7pp Glossary. 17 photo illus. Orig. blue binding, rubbing and wear to extremities, title and Statue of Liberity in gilt.
A New York Times best-selling author and American historian. He had a brief career in the U.S. government's foreign policy, involving civil wars around the globe, from the former Yugoslavia to El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Cambodia, including helping to create the United Nations plan to end Cambodia's civil war. In 1991, he took up writing history full-time.