The Awkward Years: American Foreign Relations Under Garfield and Arthur. By David M. Pletcher. Published 1962 by the University of Missouri Press. Hardcover, no dj, index, 381 pp., 8vo. An analysis of American foreign relations during the 1880s during the Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. This was the decade that formed a bridge between the problems of the Civil War and Reconstruction and those of the tempestuous fin de siecle. Condition: Ex-Libris exterior and interior markings. Book is complete and intact, with solid binding. Interior pages are in very good condition. Cover is very good except for white spot on spine applied to block old library number.