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New York, NY: HarperCollins / Zondervan, 1991 HarperCollins / Zondervan, New York. 1991. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); light bumping to head and tail; slight rubbing to panels. Blue boards with dark blue cloth overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 446 pp 8vo. This book is about Oliver North's life; his childhood, his Vietnam service; the Iran-Contra matter; and the inside stories behind the headlines. Mostly is his story of the controversy called the Iran-Contra deal and why he did it, how William Casey, Ronald REagan, Bud McFarlane, John Poindexter, and George Bush were involved, and an astonishing look at how Washington's wheels of power turn.

Harpercollins, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. ***Please Read*** Signed Copy - No marks on text - My shelf location - 56-e-7*

New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xvi, [2], 446 pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. Rear flyleaf creased. Signed by the author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator and television host, military historian, New York Times best-selling author, and former United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel. He was convicted in the Iran-Contra affair of the late 1980s but his convictions were vacated and reversed, and all charges against him dismissed in 1991. North is primarily remembered for his term as a National Security Council staff member during the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s. The scandal involved the illegal sale of weapons to Iran to encourage the release of U.S. hostages then held in Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan, which was to divert proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua, which had been specifically prohibited under the Boland Amendment. From 2001 to 2016, North hosted War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel. The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. The scandal began as an operation to free seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by Hezbollah, a paramilitary group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. It was planned that Israel would ship weapons to Iran, and then the United States would resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment. Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista, or Contras, in Nicaragua. After the weapon sales were revealed in November 1986, Reagan appeared on national television and stated that the weapons transfers had indeed occurred, but that the United States did not trade arms for hostages. On March 4, 1987, Reagan in a nationally televised address, taking full responsibility, and saying that "what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages"

New York: Harpercollins/Zondervan, 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light shelfwear on spine crown. ; Half title page inscribed by Oliver North. Also contains seperate promotional page signed by Oliver North; 446 pages; Signed by Author.