Confessions of an Ex-Secret Service Agent: The Marty Venker Story
New York: D.I. Fine, c1988. First Printing. 24 cm, 298. More
New York: D.I. Fine, c1988. First Printing. 24 cm, 298. More
New York: Belmont Tower Books, Tower Publications, Inc., 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. paperback. [6], 704, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. William Lewis Safire (December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009) was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a long-time syndicated political columnist for The New York Times and wrote the "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine about popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics. Safire joined Nixon's campaign for the 1960 presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon's 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and for Spiro Agnew; he is known for having created Agnew's famous term, "nattering nabobs of negativism". He joined The New York Times as a political columnist in 1973. Soon after joining the Times, Safire learned that he had been the target of "national security" wiretaps authorized by Nixon, and, after observing that he had worked only on domestic matters, wrote with what he characterized as "restrained fury" that he had not worked for Nixon through a difficult decade "to have him—or some lizard-lidded paranoid acting without his approval—eavesdropping on my conversations". In 2006, Safire was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In 1978, Safire won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary on Bert Lance's alleged budgetary irregularities. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1972. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 29 cm, 128 pages. Profusely illustrated (many in color). Picture Index. Text by William Safire and art direction by Byron Schumaker. Eye On Nixon is not meant to be a photographic history of the Nixon Administration; nor is it an effort to show everything President Richard Nixon has done or everywhere he has been. Julie Nixon Eisenhower presents a vivid picture of her father as a man—doing his job as President, but more than that, being the kind of man she knew him to be—kind, thoughtful, shy, direct, humorous. There definitely is a sense of buoyancy, a feeling of hope, an assurance that "tomorrow will be better" that runs deep in my father's personality. It is this sense of joy of living and confidence that I have tried to capture through photographs. What my father calls "the life of a driving dream" is good for a person, it is good for a family, and I like to think it is good for a country. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1972. First Edition. First Printing. 128, illus. (some in color), picture index, DJ worn, soiled, and small edge tears/chips. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm xi, [3], 304, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Slight creasing to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author in French to Henri Tran Van Kha. Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004) was an American journalist, author and politician. He had served as the seventh White House Press Secretary for United States Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and as campaign manager for the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign. After leaving politics, Salinger became known for his work for ABC News, particularly for his coverage of the Iran Hostage Crisis and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Salinger worked on Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960, and became one of the leading figures in the campaign. In 1961, after JFK became President, he hired Salinger as his press secretary. When Kennedy became the first president to allow live television broadcasts of his news conferences, Salinger was said to have managed the press corps with "wit, enthusiasm and considerable disdain for detail," which made him a "celebrity in his own right." After the August 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait, ABC sent Salinger to the Middle East, where he obtained a transcript in Arabic of a conversation between Saddam Hussein and the US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie; the latter infamously told Saddam: "We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts," which was interpreted by some as giving Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait, which he did only days later. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm xi, [3], 304, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Slight creasing to DJ edges. Minor staining at bottom edge of rear cover and DJ near spine. Inscribed by the author to Elaine Jones. Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004) was an American journalist, author and politician. He had served as the seventh White House Press Secretary for United States Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and as campaign manager for the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign. After leaving politics, Salinger became known for his work for ABC News, particularly for his coverage of the Iran Hostage Crisis and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Salinger worked on Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960, and became one of the leading figures in the campaign. After JFK became President, he hired Salinger as his press secretary. When Kennedy became the first president to allow live television broadcasts of his news conferences, Salinger was said to have managed the press corps with "wit, enthusiasm and considerable disdain for detail," which made him a "celebrity." After the August 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait, ABC sent Salinger to the Middle East, where he obtained a transcript in Arabic of a conversation between Saddam Hussein and the US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie; the latter infamously told Saddam: "We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts," which was interpreted by some as giving Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait, which he did only days later. More
Paris: Editions Donoel, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 442, [6] pages. In French. Inscribed on title page by author. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004) was an American politician, author and journalist. He served as the White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and was campaign manager for the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign. He later became known for his work as an ABC News correspondent, particularly for his coverage of the Iran Hostage Crisis; the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; and his claims of a missile being the cause of the explosion of TWA flight 800. Salinger worked on Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960, and became one of the leading figures in the campaign. He was at times described as being part of Kennedy's Kitchen Cabinet of unofficial advisers. In 1961, after JFK became President, he hired Salinger as his press secretary. When Kennedy became the first president to allow live television broadcasts of his news conferences, Salinger was said to have managed the press corps with "wit, enthusiasm and considerable disdain for detail,"[3] which made him a "celebrity in his own right." He accompanied Kennedy to conferences with other world leaders, including the 1961 meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. When an aid to Khrushchev invited Salinger to Moscow, the president assented to his going. Kennedy, however, had to explain to the press corps why he was sending a young and inexperienced Salinger to the Soviet Union. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [A Marian Wood Book], 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 352 pages. Signed by the author on the fep. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Tim Sandlin (born 1950) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Born in Oklahoma, Sandlin spent his early summers in Wyoming while his father worked seasonally for Grand Teton National Park. Sandlin worked over 40 entry-level jobs including driving an ice cream truck, skinning elk, cooking in a Chinese restaurant, trail inventory for the Forest Service, caretaker of rental cabins, gardener for the Rockefellers, pizza parlor manager, belt buckle buffer, and multiple dishwashing jobs. Throughout this period he lived most of the year on public lands, first in a tent and later in a Cheyenne tipi. He has published 10 novels and a book of columns. Three of his books, Skipped Parts, Sorrow Floats, and Sex and Sunsets, have been produced as movies. His other novels include Western Swing, Rowdy in Paris, Honey Don’t, Lydia, The Fable of Bing, Social Blunders, Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty, and The Pyms, Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole. He has also written 11 screenplays for hire. Sex and Sunsets served as the basis for the screenplay of the 2013 Canadian film The Right Kind of Wrong. Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty and Rowdy in Paris are in pre-production for movies. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [A Marian Wood Book], 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 352 pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads 5.24/03 For Luke, Happy Birthday. Colin bought you this neat book Tim Sandlin. Minor red stain at bottom of the half-title page. Tim Sandlin (born 1950) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Born in Oklahoma, Sandlin spent his early summers in Wyoming while his father worked seasonally for Grand Teton National Park. Sandlin worked over 40 entry-level jobs including driving an ice cream truck, skinning elk, cooking in a Chinese restaurant, trail inventory for the Forest Service, caretaker of rental cabins, gardener for the Rockefellers, pizza parlor manager, belt buckle buffer, and multiple dishwashing jobs. Throughout this period he lived most of the year on public lands, first in a tent and later in a Cheyenne tipi. He has published 10 novels and a book of columns. Three of his books, Skipped Parts, Sorrow Floats, and Sex and Sunsets, have been produced as movies. His other novels include Western Swing, Rowdy in Paris, Honey Don’t, Lydia, The Fable of Bing, Social Blunders, Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty, and The Pyms, Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole. He has also written 11 screenplays for hire. Sex and Sunsets served as the basis for the screenplay of the 2013 Canadian film The Right Kind of Wrong. Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty and Rowdy in Paris are in pre-production for movies. More
Seattle, WA: Girl Friday Books, 2023. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [10], 268, [10 pages. Illustrations. The DJ has minor wear and soiling. For more than thirty years, Robin Schepper served at the highest levels of American politics and government. She worked on four presidential campaigns and in the Clinton White House, was staff director for the Senate Democratic Technology and Communications Committee under Senator Tom Daschle and served in the Obama White House as the first executive director of Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity initiative, Let’s Move! She has advised numerous non-profits and helped draft policy reports for the Bipartisan Policy Center. Intimate and captivating, Finding My Way follows an ambitious woman who reached the highest pinnacles of a political career while simultaneously fulfilling her own quest to heal from family trauma and discover her true identity. More
Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1989. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 309, bibliography, index, pencil erasure on half-title and title page. Inscribed by two authors (Frank & Renee Schick). More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. viii, [2], 581, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Inscribed by author on title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, a liberal blogger on the site's Thomas Jefferson Street blog and the Huffington Post, and the writer of a biweekly column for U.S. News. He is the youngest son of the late historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the youngest brother of Stephen Schlesinger. His first book, published in April 2008 is on the history of presidential speech writers and is called White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriter. He taught political reporting at Boston University's Washington Journalism Center. Schlesinger has worked at the Center for Public Integrity as a researcher, then at The Hill as a reporter and political editor, and a congressional correspondent, and as a Washington, DC reporter for The Boston Globe. He is currently managing editor for Opinion at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all of its opinion content, including the Thomas Jefferson Street blog. More
Durham, N.C. Duke Univ. School of Law, c1999. 27 cm, 204, wraps, few library markings, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Washington, DC: White House Historical Assoc, 1986. First Printing. 25 cm, 1224 total, 2-vol. set, illus., bibliography, notes, index, boards somewhat worn and soiled, some rippling at spine. More
Washington, DC: White House Historical Assoc, 1986. Second Printing. 25 cm, 1224 total, 2-vol. boxed set, illus., bibliography, notes, index. More
Washington DC: The American Institute of Architects Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 9.875 inches by 12.25 inches. xiv, [2]. 336 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Sources on the Architecture of the White House. Index. Published in association with The White House Historical Association. William Seale was an American historian and author whose primary interest was in historic architecture, particularly that of the White House, state capitols, and historic governors' mansions, who was "instrumental in preserving many historic structures across the country", including private homes. In 1983, he founded the scholarly journal White House History, which he edited until his death. Seale attended Duke University (MA 1964 and Ph.D. 1965). He taught for several years at Lamar University, the University of Houston, the University of South Carolina, and Columbia University. In 1965, he moved to Washington, D. C. From 1973 to 1974, Seale was curator of cultural history at the Smithsonian Institution. He then became an independent scholar, publishing many books and essays, and appearing on C-SPAN to discuss the history and preservation of significant American buildings. His restoration projects include the state capitols of Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and historical consultation on the capitols of Minnesota, Alaska, and New Jersey. Historic houses include the Gen. George C. Marshall House; Ten Chimneys, home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne; George Eastman House; Old Governor's Mansion (Milledgeville, Georgia); and many others over a period of 25 years. More
Tampa, FL: A Presidential Christmas Corporation, 1998. Reprint. Third printing. Hardcover. Inscribed on half-title. Selected Tree-Lighting Speeches by the Presidents; Sources. More
New York: HarperOne {An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2023. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 244, [4] pages. Signed first edition sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author on a special fep signature page. Ari Michael Shapiro (born September 30, 1978) is an American radio journalist. In September 2015, Shapiro became one of four rotating hosts on National Public Radio's flagship drive-time program All Things Considered. He previously served as White House correspondent and international correspondent based in London for NPR. Shapiro began his NPR career as an intern to legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg in January 2001. Following that assignment, he worked as an editorial assistant and an assistant editor on Morning Edition. After working as a regional reporter for NPR in Atlanta and Miami and five years as NPR's Justice Correspondent, Shapiro began covering the White House in 2010. In 2014, he became NPR's correspondent in London. On July 9, 2015, NPR announced that Shapiro and Kelly McEvers would join Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel as hosts of NPR's All Things Considered program. In June 2020, NPR announced Shapiro would co-host a new daily podcast titled Consider This. Shapiro's work has been recognized with journalism awards, including the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, a laurel from the Columbia Journalism Review, the American Judges Association's American Gavel Award, and he was named Journalist of the Year in 2023 by NLGJA. Shapiro was the first NPR reporter to be promoted to correspondent before age 30. More
[New York]: Farrar, Straus, [1964]. First Printing. 28 cm, 159, profusely illus., DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ somewhat worn, book somewhat worn especially at edges. More
New York: TV Books Inc., 1999. First? Edition. First? Printing. 176, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [A Bulfinch Press Book], 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vi, 186 pages. Illustrations (some with color). Index. Photo Credits. Approximately 8.25 and 11.25 inches. Inscribed by Sidey on half-title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Hugh Sidey (September 3, 1927 – November 21, 2005) was an American journalist who worked for Life magazine starting in 1955, then moved on to Time magazine in 1957. He covered several Presidents, from Eisenhower to Clinton, and was author of the book Time Hugh Sidey's Profiles of the Presidents. He also hosted the PBS series The American Presidents. Sidey served as president of the board of directors of the White House Historical Association from 1998 to 2001, during the White House's bicentenary celebration. Former president George H. W. Bush delivered a eulogy at Sidey's funeral. Inscribed to Nicholas Christopher, believed to be the Nicholas Christopher (born 1951) who is an American novelist, poet and critic, the author of sixteen books: six novels, eight volumes of poetry, a critical study of film noir, and a novel for children. Christopher graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in English Literature. After traveling extensively abroad, he returned to New York and began publishing his work. He taught at New York University and Yale before receiving an appointment as a professor on the permanent faculty of the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University. From the 1970s, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. More
New York: F. Fell, 1964. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 275, illus., some wear and soiling to DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 394, [6] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Notes on Sources. Appendix (transcripts and opinions). Index. Ex-library with usual librariy markings. Rough spot & library stamps inside the rightr flyleaf. DJ in plastic sleeve, John Joseph Sirica (March 19, 1904 – August 14, 1992) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where he became famous for his role in the trials stemming from the Watergate scandal. Sirica fought as a boxer in Washington and Miami in the 1920s and 1930s. He was torn between a career as a boxer and the career in law that he followed after earning a law degree and passing the bar. Boxing champion Jack Dempsey became a close friend. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1930 to 1934. Sirica was nominated by President Eisenhower on February 25, 1957, to the District Court for the District of Columbia. He received his commission on March 28, 1957. He served as Chief Judge and a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1971 to 1974. He assumed senior status on October 31, 1977. His service ended on his death on August 14, 1992. Notably, he ruled the law banning Navy women from ships to be unconstitutional in the case Owens v. Brown. More
New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1979. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 394, [6] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Notes on Sources. Appendix (transcripts and opinions). Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author. on the fep. Inscription reads For Ellen and Simon Atlas--John J. Sirica. Copies signed by Judge Sirica are at least very uncommon if not rare. Years ago the Judge's daughter contacted us about a signed copy and wanted to know to whom it was signed, because these were not intended to get into the rare book market. Recipients pass away and heirs dispose of their property. John Joseph Sirica (March 19, 1904 – August 14, 1992) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where he became famous for his role in the trials stemming from the Watergate scandal. Sirica fought as a boxer in Washington and Miami in the 1920s and 1930s. He was torn between a career as a boxer and the career in law that he followed after earning a law degree and passing the bar. Boxing champion Jack Dempsey became a close friend. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1930 to 1934. Sirica was nominated by President Eisenhower on February 25, 1957, to the District Court for the District of Columbia. He received his commission on March 28, 1957. He served as Chief Judge and a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1971 to 1974. He assumed senior status on October 31, 1977. His service ended on his death on August 14, 1992. Notably, he ruled the law banning Navy women from ships to be unconstitutional in the case Owens v. Brown. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, [1962]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 285, DJ worn and soiled, stamp inside boards, pencil erasure on front endpaper, some soiling to endpapers. More