Thomas finletter (24 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1958. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. 208pp Minor shelf wear. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. CLEAN COVER AND CONTENT PAGES. New protective mylar applied to dust jacket before shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1958. Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition: Very good. Jacket condition: Good +. Great souvenir copy: Former owner's stamp," Assembly of Captive European Nations. New York City, U. S. A." (CK).…

Zustand: Good. 1958. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. 208pp Minor shelf wear. Not a first edition copy. . . .

This diplomat and official managed to get the U.S. air power tripled in 1948 under Truman; secretary of the Air Force during the Korean War (1950-53). Handsome signature in blue ballpoint, heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p., 1970 September 2. Fine. With original envelope.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Third Printing [stated]. vii, [5], 208, [2] pages Footnotes. Index. Mailing label inside front cover and fep. Pencil underlining on several pages. No dust jacket. Some endpaper and edge discoloration. Published for the Council on Foreign Relations. Thomas Knight Finletter (November 11, 1893- April 24, 1980) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman. Finletter practiced law in New York until he began his government service in 1941, as a special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull on international economic affairs. In 1943, he was appointed executive director and later deputy director of the Office of Foreign Economic Coordinator (OFEC). He was in charge of planning economic activities related to liberated areas and was in control of matters of foreign exchange and matters relating to the operations of the Alien Property Custodian. In 1945, Finletter acted as consultant at the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco. He returned to public service in 1947, when President Truman established a five-man commission that inquired into all phases of aviation and national air policy. This commission was sometimes known as "The Finletter Commission". Finletter served as chairman of the Air Policy Commission which, on January 1, 1948, sent to the president the report entitled "Survival in the Air Age." President Truman appointed Finletter as the second Secretary of the Air Force succeeding Stuart Symington on April 24, 1950, in which office he served until January 20, 1953. President John F. Kennedy appointed Finletter to be the Ambassador to NATO in 1961. He served in that office until 1965. In this book--an elaboration of lectures given at the Council on Foreign Relations in the autumn of 1957--the former Secretary of the Air Force sketches the changes in the complex of international affairs in the last several years, and then discusses the terms of a new policy to meet the new conditions of Soviet power, European uncertainty and Asian unrest. While stressing the need to maintain our deterrent capabilities, the chief emphasis is upon a "forward strategy" in the areas of politics, economics and world opinion.…

Hardcover. Thin Octavo, xii, 30 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in the publisher's green cloth with black lettering to the front. Boards have mild wear including faint sunning and tiny bumps to the corners. Text block has slight age toning to the edges. Deckled fore edge. Minimal marginalia interiorly. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column M, ND-M. 1384441. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. 185, [3] pages. Occasional footnotes. DJ has some soiling, wear and small tears to dust jacket. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Includes Forward, Part One: Early Moves for a New U.S. Foreign Policy after World War II; Part Two: Failure in Asia; and Part Three: The Future. As Special Assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull in the closing days of World War II; as Chairman of the President's Air Policy Commission in 1947; as Secretary of the Air Force during the Korean war; and as U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1961-1965, Thomas K. Finletter has been intimately involved in the efforts (successful up to a point) to change the United States position from historical isolation to responsible membership in the world community. Mr. Finletter examines in detail the disastrous American policy in Southeast Asia and particularly Vietnam, which has seriously hurt our hopes of finding a proper substitute for abandoned isolation. Finally he appraises the prospects for avoiding a return to isolation and for checking the downward course which seems to threaten us and to spell failure for our ambitions for an orderly world oriented toward control of the terrible weapons of modern war and toward a world free of the great wars which have plagued mankind all through history. Finletter's government career began in 1941 with a three-year assignment as a special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. His responsibilities included planning economic activities in areas liberated by the Allies during World War II, controlling foreign exchange, and overseeing the operations of the Alien Property Custodian. In May 1945 he became a consultant to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, held in San Francisco, California. At that time he moved into the postwar international sphere with his association with the United World Federalists. His most notable public service prior to becoming air secretary occurred between 1947 and 1948 when he chaired the President Harry S Truman's Air Policy Commission. The commission's findings, titled Survival in the Air Age-but commonly called the Finletter Report-cautioned that an understrength Air Force would be unable to defend the United States against atomic attack. It urged that service capability be restored as soon as possible with the help of a viable aircraft industry, and it endorsed a seventy-group Air Force of 6,869 first-line aircraft, backed by a twenty-seven-group Air National Guard and an adequately equipped thirty-four-group Air Reserve. After the commission disbanded, Finletter headed the Economic Cooperation Administration's special mission to the United Kingdom until 1949. The mission was charged with managing Marshall Plan aid there. President Truman selected him to succeed Stuart Symington as Secretary of the Air Force in April 1950, primarily because of his excellent work on the Air Policy Commission. While Finletter concentrated on the larger issues of nuclear strategy and U.S. relations with member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the power vacuum within the national military establishment that had existed when James Forrestal was secretary of defense began to diminish as authority became centralized within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The individual services lost their executive branch status and were redesignated as military departments within the Department of Defense. In addition, the service secretaries lost their membership on the National Security Council, where they previously had sat as equals to the secretary of defense. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition without jacket on green cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

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Zustand: good. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 208, footnotes, index, bookplate removed (leaving residue), pencil erasure on front endpaper. A contemporary view of military and foreign policy challenges to the United States in the 1950's.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 151 pages. 7.99x5.25x0.32 inches. In Stock.

FINLETTER, Thomas K. INTERIM REPORT: ON THE SEARCH FOR A SUBSTITUTE FOR ISOLATION. NY: W.W. Norton and Co., [1968]. 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Finletter on the front endpaper, to radio talkshow host Caspar Citron: "To my good friend Caspar Citron with my warm regards, Thomas K. Finletter." Near fine; moderate wear (some rubing & few tears, price-clipped) d/j. $50.00.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis title is part of UC Press s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist d.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original mid blue cloth covers, red title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 184 printed pages of text. Red ink mark to the back cover, light dust marking to the closed page edges and In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'To Harold Butler, With kind regards Tom Finletter, March 12th 1945.' Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [History]. …

Zustand: New. pp. 151.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 418 pages. 8.58x5.67x1.34 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 151 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 24 cm ix, [1], 166, [4] pages. Wraps. Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Fold-out charts. Cover has some wear, soiling, and the top of the spine is torn/chipped. Thomas Knight Finletter (November 11, 1893 - April 24, 1980), was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman. In World War I, he served with the 312th Field Artillery advancing to the rank of captain. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1920 and the New York Bar in 1921. Finletter practiced law in New York until he began his government service in 1941, as a special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull on international economic affairs. In 1943, he was appointed executive director and later deputy director of the Office of Foreign Economic Coordinator (OFEC). In this post, he was in charge of planning economic activities related to liberated areas and was in control of matters of foreign exchange and matters relating to the operations of the Alien Property Custodian. In 1945, Finletter acted as consultant at the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco. He returned to public service July 18, 1947, when President Harry S. Truman established a temporary, five-man commission that inquired into all phases of aviation and drafted the national air policy report. This commission was sometimes known as "The Finletter Commission". Finletter served as chairman of the Air Policy Commission which, on January 1, 1948, sent to the president the report entitled "Survival in the Air Age." After the war Finletter headed a task force (the Air Policy Commission) on the future of U.S. air power. Finletter was the principal author of the commission's influential 1948 report, "Survival in the Air Age," which led to the rapid expansion of the U.S. Air Force. The report warned that the Soviet Union would reach air parity with the United States by 1952 and advocated improving military preparedness by increasing the budget of the Air Force and the number of military aircraft in the U.S. fleet . Subsequently, the Air Force tripled in size. During the early years of the Cold War, American business was unusually united in its suspicion of vastly increased military spending, especially if it risked a budget deficit. An important exception was the aircraft industry, which unlike most other sectors had trouble finding adequate civilian demand after World War II reconversion. Facing mounting losses and in many cases the real risk of firm failure, representatives of firms manufacturing airframes and engines sought government assistance. This came in the form of the President's Air Policy Commission of 1947-8, whose report recommended substantial emergency military appropriations to ensure the survival of the industry. These recommendations, in turn, were easily passed through Congress, resulting in the most significant extension of military-industrial activity until the Korean War and cementing the outsized role of the newly formed Air Force in the new political economy of defense procurement. The Air Policy Commission (also known, for its chair, as the Finletter Commission) was a historically pivotal instance of business leadership cooperation. There were at least two dimensions of this cooperation. First, work of the Commission helped forge a new pattern of competitive collaboration between business and the state, in which government outlays would provide liquidity and solvency to an industry deemed essential to the national interest. The industry would remain private, rather being nationalized, and competition between multiple capitalist firms, rather than a single consolidated entity, would remain the ideal. Second, the Commission mobilized a notable degree of cooperation between different firms, who converged on a desired remedy.…

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. ix, [1],166, [4] pages. Fold-out charts. Illustrations. Map. Appendices, Ink mark on title page. Thomas Knight Finletter (November 11, 1893 - April 24, 1980), was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman. In 1941, Finletter was a special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull on international economic affairs. In 1943, he was appointed to a leadership position in the Office of Foreign Economic Coordinator. He returned to public service July 18, 1947, when President Harry S. Truman established a temporary, five-man commission that inquired into all phases of aviation and drafted the national air policy report. This commission was sometimes known as "The Finletter Commission". Finletter served as chairman of the Air Policy Commission which, on January 1, 1948, sent to the president the report entitled "Survival in the Air Age." President Truman appointed Finletter as the second Secretary of the Air Force succeeding Stuart Symington on April 24, 1950, and served until January 20, 1953. "The Air Policy Commission should study, among other pertinent aspects of the problem, such questions as the current and future needs of American aviation, including commercial air transportation and the utilization of aircraft by the armed services; the nature, type, and extent of aircraft and air transportation industries that are desirable or essential to our national security and welfare; methods of encouraging needed developments in the aviation and air transportation industry; and improved organization and procedures of government that will assist it in handling aviation matters efficiently and in the public interest"--President's letter appointing the Commission, page v.…

Two pages, sm. folio, good condition. Text; "As I said to you the other day at the Ackermans, I do not think that 'The Economist's' figures contradict what we said in Spain. [.]" He goes on to compare taxes per capita in the States and UK, giving figures for total tax, population, and tax per person (about $100 les per person in the UK). He continues, "I agree however that per capita figures are by no means the only criterion because of the great national income per person in the United States[.]" He then quotes 'The Economist' giving percentages of the tax burden.…

Washington, For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office, January 13, 1948. 8vo. Original printed wrappers; pp. ix, 166, a few charts and diagrams in the text, one large folding organigram; a little rubbing to upper hinge, title with tiny portion of corner missing and a little marginal offsetting, otherwise internally good and clean.First edition. The American lawyer, politician and diplomat Thomas Knight Finletter was asked in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman to establish a temporary, five-man commission that inquired into all phases of aviation and drafted the national air policy report. This commission was known as 'The Finletter Commission'. Finletter served as chairman of the Air Policy Commission which, on January 1, 1948, sent to the president the report entitled Survival in the Air Age; it was actually released on January 13, the 3 being supplied by hand in the space the printer left after the 1 in the date of the imprint. Together with: A printed in-house publication titled Summary of the Report of the President's Air Policy Commission with the printed line on the front cover reading Not for Release before 6 P. M. (E.S.T.) January 13, 1948, with a slip printed in red pasted onto front cover Hold for Release . Please guard against premature publication or radio announcement.Together with: Carbon-copied foolscap sheet containing the text of President Truman's public statement announcing the release of the booklet, pointing out the importance of planning and regulating 'our air establishment, military and civil'.…