Description
Octavo, xxiv, 759pp. Maroon hardcover, title in gilt on spine. Stated “first edition” with full number line on copyright page. Illustrated end papers. In publishers first edition dust jacket, $35.00 on front flap, fine condition. Signed and inscribed by author on title page: “To Ed – Who knows the power of history. Jon Meacham.” A flawless first edition, first printing, signed by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jon Meacham.
Comments: Jon Meacham won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his monumental work on Andrew Jackson titled American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Meacham was selected by the Bush Family as the official biographer of President George H.W. Bush, which became Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, published in 2015. He delivered the eulogy at the funeral of President Bush in 2018.
