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Garden, City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 468 pages. A memoir from this controversial figure who is perhaps best known for his long running feud with Robert Oppenheimer. Includes some black and white images. A near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very good plus price clipped dust jacket with some small tears and other minor edge wear. Robert Downey Jr. just won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Strauss. Surprisingly uncommon.
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Men and Decisions
by STRAUSS, Lewis L.
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Men and Decisions
by Strauss, Lewis L. [Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Men and Decisions by Secretary Lewis L. Strauss, inscribed to American actor and decorated naval officer, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. Octavo, viii, [4], 468pp. Gray cloth, title stamped in gilt and black on spine. Lacking the first edition statement on copyright page. Light dust along top edge of text block, internally clean. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. on the front endpaper. In the publisher's dust jacket, $6.95 on front flap, light shelf wear, chip at top of spine, a very good example. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Douglas Fairbanks Jr., gifted artist - intrepid warrior - steadfast friend - from his "ship-mate" and admirer, who penned these pages - Lewis L. Strauss / Brandy Station Virginia / IV - 25- '63." Strauss met Lt. Commander Fairbanks while serving in the Office of the Undersecretary of the Navy, where Fairbanks "was a show-stopper, or more properly, a work-stopper."…
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