Description
A first edition copy of Flawed Giant by Robert Dallek, from the personal library of President Lyndon Johnson’s Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara. Thick octavo, xiv, 754pp. Gray hardcover, blue cloth spine, title in silver gilt on spine. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. In publishers dust jacket, retail price on front flap, shelf wear and sales sticker on rear panel. Marked up in blue pen in sections referencing Johnson’s character and the Vietnam War. An interesting association copy.
Comments: From the personal library of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Provenance: The Robert McNamara Estate & Diane Byfield McNamara Book Collection (The Potomac Company, October 2019).
