Mortal Splendor; The American Empire in Transition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95), a few scuffs on the spine. Quarter grey buckram with black paper on the boards, faded at the fore-edge. Square and firmly bound, one stain at the fore-edge, clean internally. Mead's history of "the rise of America's liberal world empire, its golden years from World War II until the mid 1960s, and its continuing decline since then.