Fragile Glory: A Portrait of France and the French
New York: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 349, map, index. More
New York: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 349, map, index. More
New York, NY: Weinstein Books, 2008. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 307 p. Illustrations, black & white, Maps. Index. More
New York: Free Press, c1992. First Printing. 25 cm, 333, DJ torn at top spine, erasure residue on front endpaper, mark on top edge. More
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 380, [4] pages. Map. Appendix A-F. Bibliography. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Signed sentiment added in ink on Dedication page. Minor red edge stain. The author is a mission-driven professional with extraordinary ability to generate ideas, advance project goals, find solutions, contact and connect people, inspiring individuals to take action to achieve desired results. Requested and arranged private audiences with Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. She developed a pilot program that included building a website, creating curricula and academic guidelines for students and teachers to research a World War II veteran. American students studying in Florence, Italy participated in commemoration programs for Memorial Day and Veterans Day with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, U.S. Ambassador John R. Phillips and Brigadier General John Hort which resulted in the creation of a video of the two commemorations. More
New York: Times Books [Random House], 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. xviii, 810, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Very slight wear to DJ edges. Anthony Bianco is a senior writer at Business Week. He is the author of two books, The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune and the Empire of the Olympia & York and Rainmaker: The Saga of Jeff Beck, Wall Street's Mad Dog. He lives in New York City. The Reichmanns of Toronto were one of the ten wealthiest families in the world; they lost their wealth when Paul Reichmann risked everything on a property development project on London's East End which imploded, leading to the loss of ten billion dollars. The family straddled the disparate worlds of casino capitalism and Jewish fundamentalism. The commercial empire built by the Reichmanns was one of the greatest the world has ever seen. Their stunning rise and their tremendous fall is one of the great stories of our century, all the more astounding because they have been and remain ultra-Orthodox. Business Week reporter Anthony Bianco expertly balances the Reichmanns' business dealings with a penetrating look at the hidden world of ultra-Orthodoxy. He has obtained exclusive and unprecedented interviews with all of the major family members. Their story is both a thrilling business narrative and an engrossing investigation of the intersection of values, tradition, and commerce. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. First American Edition [stated], 1st Printing [stated]. Hardcover. vii, [1], 544, [4] pages. Illustrations. Index. Anna Bikont (born 17 July 1954) is a psychologist and writer associated with the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper since its inception in 1989. Anna Bikont got her MA in Psychology in the Warsaw University, and worked there until 1988. Between 1982 and 1989 She was an underground Solidarity activist; co-founder and editor of Tygodnik Mazowsze weekly, Poland's largest underground publication. She was a co-founder of Gazeta Wyborcza, where she still works today as senior journalist. Her book 'Le Crime et le Silence' won the European Book Prize in 2011. More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 216, [1] p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiii, 368 p. 25 cm. Occasional Footnotes. Illustrations, Portraits, Genealogical tables. Fold-out at back. Sources. Index. More
Washington, DC [?]: Jacqueline Mendels Birn, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 213, [3] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Selected Filmography. Inscribed by the author on the photograph page. Inscription reads February 2014 To Harry, With all my hopes for a better future for humanity. Jacqueline Birn. Jacqueline was born on April 23, 1935 in Paris, France. Jacqueline had a normal childhood before the outbreak of the war in 1939, but everything changed in May 1940 when Germany invaded France. In the early days of the invasion the bombardments often forced the family to don gas masks and seek shelter in the cellar of their apartment building. Shortly after the invasion they fled to Deux-Sèvres, but returned to Paris after the armistice was signed and Jacqueline and Manuela were able to attend the local public school that September. In July 1941, the Vichy government instituted a program of “Aryanization” and although her father was forced to sell his share of the business to his non-Jewish partner, he continued to work and would hide in a back room if someone came in. In June 1942 French Jews were ordered to wear the yellow Star of David and the following month 13,000 Jews were rounded up and sent to the Drancy transit camp where most were deported to Auschwitz. Most of the roundups took place in areas of Paris with a high concentration of foreign Jews, but the Mendels lived in a primarily Catholic, French neighborhood where they were one of only a few Jewish families and the authorities did not come for them. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xii, 259, [1] pages. Index. Publisher's ephemera laid in. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist, television news anchor and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990. He is the host of Wolf and The Situation Room. Blitzer also serves as the network's lead political anchor. Blitzer began his career in journalism in the early 1970s, in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. In 1973, he caught the eye of Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath, who hired Blitzer as a Washington correspondent for the English language Israeli newspaper. Blitzer remained with the Jerusalem Post until 1990, covering both American politics and developments in the Middle East. Fluent in Hebrew, Blitzer also published articles in several Hebrew-language newspapers. In the mid-1970s, Blitzer also worked for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the editor of their monthly publication, the Near East Report. More
New York: Holmes *& Meier Publishers, Inc., 1992. Fourth Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xvi, 255, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Select Bibliography. A Note from the Photographer. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed on half-title by Rabbi Malka Drucker. Prologue by Cynthia Ozick. Afterword by Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis. Cover has sticker that says "Now a Showtime Original Picture". Gay Block (born 1942) is a fine art portrait photographer. Her work is shown in books, and is collected by the Museum of Modern Art, and other major museums. Block collaborated with Rabbi Malka Drucker, and created Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, both a book and traveling exhibit. Block and Drucker traveled to eleven countries and photographed over 100 Christians who had helped rescue Jews during the Holocaust. The exhibit has been seen in over fifty venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, in 1992. Block's full color portraits accompany each narrative. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Inc., 2001. First Harvest Edition. Wraps. wraps, 362 pages, book slightly cocked, slight soiling to covers. This edition has been updated with a new Afterword. More
London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xxvi, 422 pages. Illustrations. Inscribed on the half title page. Inscription reads To Steven, with compliments from Aunt Leva with Love. Alex. Blumstein Washington DC, June/14/03. Includes List of Illustrations; Preface by Antony Polonsky; Introduction, and Afterwood. Also contains List of Illustrations; The Library of Holocaust Testimonies; Preface; Introduction; The Family; The Refugees; Nadia and Tante Thea; Before the Storm; Invasion; The Germans; My Brother Tolo; Tolo's Story; Still Free in the City; Ghetto II; Our Life in the Ghetto; The Gestapo Takes Over; Ghetto I; Escape; Staniewicze; Fathers Story; All Together; The First Spring; The First Summer; Hillel; Winter 1944; Spring 1944; The Red Army; Return to Grodno; Aunt Ada's Story; My New Life in Grodno; Lodz; Victory; May 1945 Holiday; 1946; 31 France; and Afterword. Also contains List of Illustrations between pages 230 and 231; The Library of Holocaust Testimonies; Preface; Introduction; The Family; The Refugees; Nadia and TanteThea; Before the Storm; Invasion; The Germans; My Brother Tolo; Tolo's Story; Still Free in the City; Ghetto II; Our Life in the Ghetto; The Gestapo Takes Over; Ghetto 1; Escape; Staniewicze; Father's Story; All Together; The First Spring; The First Summer: Hillel; Winter 1944; Spring 1944; The Red Army; Return to Grodno; Aunt Ada's Story; My New Life in Grodno; Lodz; Victory; My 1945 Holiday; 1946; France; and Afterword. Section on The Library of Holocaust Testimonies by Sir Martin Gilbert. More
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, c1993. First Printing. 23 cm, 148, maps, erasure residue inside front endpaper. More
New York: Shapolsky Publishers, Inc., 1991. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. vii, [1], 274 p. Bibliography. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1997. First Printing. More
New York: Viking, 1992. First Printing. 24 cm, 539, illus., black mark at bottom edge. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982, c1981. 24 cm, 462, illus. with 12 pages of plates, bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears. More
New York, N.Y. Crown Publishers, 2011. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [3], 402 pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: June 2011, To Fred--Good Wishes. Frank Brady. Includes Author's Note; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; and Index. Chapters cover Loneliness to Passion; Childhood Obsession; Out of the Head of Zeus; The American Wunderkind; The Cold War Gladiator; The New Fischer; Einstein's Theory; Legends Clash; The Candidate; The Champion; The Wilderness Years; Fischer-Spassky Redux; Crossing Borders; Arrest and Rescue; and Living and Dying in Iceland. Frank Brady (born March 15, 1934), is an American writer, editor, biographer and educator. Chairman of the Department of Mass Communications, Journalism, Television and Film at St. John's University, New York, he is founding editor of Chess Life magazine. He is professor of communication arts and journalism at that university. He has also been an adjunct professor of journalism for the past 25 years at Barnard College of Columbia University. He has a B.S., SUNY; MFA, Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University. In 1960, Brady was the founding editor of Chess Life as a magazine. He was later editor of Chessworld Magazine and he still later worked as an editor for Ralph Ginzburg and Hugh Hefner. He is an International Arbiter, recognized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, and has directed many major chess tournaments. He was secretary of the United States Chess Federation 2003–2005. He served as arbiter of international chess tournaments in 2001 and 2004 in New York. More
New York: World Federation of Hungarian Jews, 1973. Hardcover. xi, 324p.; 24 cm. Occasional footnotes. Notes. Glossary. More
Warsaw: Wiez, 1998. 366, wraps, illus., footnotes, index, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Henry Schuman, c1953. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 200, footnotes, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Justice William O. Douglas. More
New York: Random House, c1993. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 355, illus. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxiv, 613, [1] p. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography: Notes and Sources. Index. More