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misgivings about Johnson’s reversal of his and Kennedy’s planned withdrawal from Vietnam. Nonetheless, McNamara faithfully executed Johnson’s orders and foreign policy, and Johnson awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1968. Jim Bishop’s book, based on eleven days of close observation by the journalist of the president, presents a typical day in his life and work. Bishop relates Johnson addressing the defence staff under McNamara: “Do anything and everything you can to help your country and Secretary Robert McNamara”, and telling them their work was tough but necessary, “Bob McNamara would be the happiest man in the world to be able to cut his spending by ten billions of dollars. Not so much to cut taxes but to be able to take that money and put it to work helping, let us say, poor children” (pp. 76–7). McNamara’s library was dispersed in 2019, following his death in 2009. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt and red. Spine lightly sunned, minor bumping and rubbing, contents without marking; a very good copy. £375 [146300] 77 MALCOLM, Sir John. The Life of Robert, Lord Clive: Collected from the Family Papers communicated by The Earl of Powis. London: John Murray, 1836 clive of india First edition of this important biography, the official life of Clive of India by Sir John Malcolm, another great Indian administrator, a work that has “never been adequately acknowledged as a landmark in the intellectual history of British India” (Harrington, p. 161); this copy presented in a lovely binding by one of the finest London binders of the period, Charles Hering. “By the time Malcolm wrote, no new material had appeared on Clive for more than forty years. The core of Malcolm’s work was to be the large collection of manuscripts kept by Clive’s son, the Earl of Powis” (ibid., p. 164). However, Malcolm died in 1833
before he had finished his work and the task of completion was passed to his old colleague in the Indian service, William Erskine. Its importance was sealed by Macaulay’s essay in the Edinburgh Review , “Lord Clive” (1840), nominally a review of Malcolm’s book. 3 volumes, octavo (220 × 132 mm). Contemporary dark green calf by Charles Hering (with his stamp at head of front free endpaper verso), spines richly gilt with dark red twin labels, sides with border of paired gilt fillets and corner rosettes, pretty scrolling foliate roll to board edges and turn-ins, primrose yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Clive by Edwards after Reynolds (actually by Nathaniel Dance, see erratum at end of vol. III), folding engraved map of India by J. and C. Walker. Neat presentation inscription on half-title in vol. I, “To my beloved Mercy from her affect[tiona]te Mother, Charlotte ?Malrahan, Novbr: 1836”. A little stripping to front cover of vol. I, a few other shallow scratches and abrasions, touch of foxing to frontispiece. A particularly attractive and conspicuously tall set. ¶ Jack Harrington, Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India , 2010. £1,650 [141273]
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