History in Your Hand - Fifty Years of the Manuscript Society

List of contents

Foreword by John D. Haskell
A Meeting in Chicago
Ford's Theatre and Other Capers
"History in Your Hand"
David and Goliath: The Lewis and Clark Case
Growing Pains
Expanding Horizons
The Winds of Change
"A Serengeti Watering Hole"
The Harding Papers
Triumph and Disaster
The Book
Some Challenges of the 1970s
A New Constitution
The Life Member
New Fields
The Society in the 1990s
Word Shadows of the Great
Appendix A: Presidents of the Manuscript Society
Appendix B: Manuscript Society Policy on Replevin
Appendix C: What Shall I Do With My Collection?
Recommended Reading
Index

About the author

JOHN M. TAYLOR is a past president of the Manuscript Society (1980-1982). From 1952 to 1987 he was employed by the U.S. Government, including four foreign postings with the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency. The author of seven books of biography and history, he is a frequent contributor to historical magazines and has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. His most recent book, Confederate Raider: Raphael Semmes of the Alabama, was a 1995 selection of the History Book Club.

Product details

• Authors: John Taylor, John M. Taylor
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.1997
• EAN: 9780275959180
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95918-0
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