I Am America (and So Can You! )
Grand Central Publishing, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. x, 230 p. Illustrations. Index. More
Grand Central Publishing, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. x, 230 p. Illustrations. Index. More
New York: The New Press, 1999. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, 218 p. Illustrations. Endnotes. Index. More
New York: The New Press, 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 18, [2] pages. Endnotes. Index. Some yellow highlighting observed. In his role as national legal director, David Cole directs a program that includes approximately 1,400 state and federal lawsuits on a broad range of civil liberties issues. He manages 100 ACLU staff attorneys in New York headquarters, oversees the organization’s U.S. Supreme Court docket, and provides leadership to more than 200 staff attorneys who work in ACLU affiliate offices in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. Another 1,700 volunteer cooperating attorneys throughout the country are engaged in ACLU litigation. With an annual headquarters budget of $140 million and more than 1.5 million members, the ACLU is the nation’s largest and oldest civil liberties organization. Cole is on leave from Georgetown University, where he has taught constitutional law and criminal justice since 1990, and is the Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy. Cole writes regularly for The Nation, New York Review of Books, Washington Post, and many other periodicals. He is the author or editor of 10 books, several of which have won awards, including the Palmer Civil Liberties Prize, the American Book Award, and prizes from the American Political Science Association, the Boston Book Review, and the Jesuit Honor Society. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 451, [3] pages. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has Autographed Copy sticker on front. Minor edge soiling noted. Jonathan Coleman (born 1951) is an American author of literary nonfiction living in New York City. Jonathan Coleman worked as a book editor with Knopf and Simon & Schuster. In 1980, in a piece about publishing, he was profiled in Time magazine as one of the best editors in the field. In 1986, Coleman began teaching literary nonfiction writing at the University of Virginia through 1993. He lectures at universities throughout the country. Coleman's books have included Exit the Rainmaker (1989), the story of Jay Carsey, a college president who abruptly abandoned his marriage and career and disappeared, a book the Los Angeles Times Book Review called "A fascinating, symbolic statement of the American psyche"; At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder, and Betrayal, about the Franklin Bradshaw murder (which was hailed as "a masterwork of reporting" by the Washington Post Book World, won an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into a miniseries); and Long Way to Go: Black and White in America, which Library Journal called "A stunner....Coleman's narrative technique is superb...a brilliant book." In 2011, Coleman coauthored the autobiography of basketball legend Jerry West—West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life—which received critical acclaim and became a New York Times bestseller. The Los Angeles Times named it one of the best nonfiction books of 2011. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 387, [1] pages. Occasional footnotes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Name in ink on fep. The work is organized in the following sections: Black and White--Together, Rites of Passage, Culture and Anarchy, and A State of the Nation. Among the contributor are Norman Podhoretz, Kenneth B. Clark, Stokely Carmichael, Ralph Ellison, Bruno Betteheim, Jack Newfield, Philip Roth, Henry Steele Commager, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and William Styron! Peter Anthony Dale Collier (June 2, 1939 – November 1, 2019) was an American writer and publisher. He was the founding publisher of conservative Encounter Books in California and held that position from 1998 until he resigned in 2005. With David Horowitz, Collier wrote many books that made The New York Times Best Seller list and was described by the New York Times Book Review as "the premier biographer of American dynastic tragedy." His book Medal of Honor: Profiles of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty (2003) profiled living recipients of the Medal. Collier was teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966 when he became an editor at Ramparts magazine, the publication that was influential in transmitting New Left ideas into the mainstream. Collier wrote about the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement and other radical organizations for Ramparts. He and fellow Ramparts writer David Horowitz became disillusioned when the New Left turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the communist victors in Southeast Asia—the tiger cages and boat people in South Vietnam, the genocide in Cambodia. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First Edition. 534, lib bkplate, lib stamps, lib due slip, discolor ins bds, some foxing, bds scuffed, edges of spine worn, lib # on spine. More
New York: Dutton, 1964 [c1963]. First Edition. Second Printing. 22 cm, 383, illus., endpaper maps, usual library markings, boards worn and soiled, some page discoloration, especially edges and back pages The uprising in India of the Meerut 3rd Light Cavalry against the British in May 1857, its spread, and its bloody conclusion. More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1992. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 384, illus., index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, small edge tear to rear DJ, red "X" on front endpaper. More
New York: Warner Books, 2000. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 420 p. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Index. More
Cambridge, MA: Bull/Concerned Asian Scholar, 1976. 28 cm, 72, wraps, illus., annotated bibliography, some wear and soiling to covers. Special issue on Chinese Revolutionary Literature. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 410. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 376, footnotes, bibliography, index, ink note on front endpaper, DJ worn, soiled, small tears, and chips. More
Little Brown and Company, 2005. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 403, [2] p. More
San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2000. First Edition. First Printing. 286, illus., index. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 237, [1] pages. DJ worn, torn, soiled, and chilled. Bookplate of Richard Allan Yaffe inside front board. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads: To Dick from Earl with best wishes. Hole you lke it, Dick. Regards to wife. E.C. Earl Conrad (17 December 1906 - 17 January 1986), birth name Cohen, was an American author who penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote was the autobiography of actor Errol Flynn, titled My Wicked, Wicked Ways. Conrad wished to be a writer from a young age, and his early experience included a stint at the Auburn Advertiser-Journal. He worked as a journalist for the newspaper PM in New York City, and other papers. As the Harlem Bureau Chief for The Chicago Defender, an African American title, he investigated lynchings in the south. This work brought him into contact with Haywood Patterson. In 1950, Conrad co-wrote Patterson's memoir, Scottsboro Boy, about his experience as one of the group of nine men accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. Some of his papers are in the local history collection of the Cayuga Community College in Auburn. Other papers are in the collection of the university of Oregon. His interests as a writer included biographies of show business personalities, such as his memoir of Errol Flynn and his biography of Dorothy Dandridge; and issues related to African Americans, such as his biographies of Harriet Tubman. His work on Jim Crow America is considered by some to be a civil rights classic. More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 376, footnotes, index, DJ somewhat worn & soiled: edge tears/chips, large piece missing at top of DJ spine. More
Jacksonville, FL: Inspire [An Adducent Imprint], 2018. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [1], ii. 230, [4] pages. Illustrations. Includes Discussion Questions for conversations on Racial Equity and Friendship. Inscribed by the author to an organization on the fep. Inscription reads To Nonprofit Montgomery, Thank you for being a part of the solution. Best, Tamara 5-3-19. Tamara Lucas Copeland recently retired after more than twelve years as president of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG). In that role, she was the organization’s major thought leader, helping to envision and implement work to meet the needs of the philanthropic sector and of the region. She developed the vision for and created WRAG’s nationally-acclaimed work on racial equity entitled Putting Racism on the Table. She came to WRAG with extensive experience in nonprofit management, policy and children’s issues having led Voices for America’s Children, the National Health & Education Consortium, and the Infant Mortality Initiative of Southern Governors’ Association and the Southern Legislative Conference as well as having been Congressman Bobby Scott’s (D-VA) Legislative Director. In 2017, she was appointed as the Visiting Nielsen Fellow at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy to explore the role of philanthropy in addressing racial equity in the DC region and co-teach a graduate seminar on philanthropy and racial justice (2018-2021). In 2018, her memoir, Daughters of the Dream: Eight Girls from Richmond who grew up in the Civil Rights Era was published by Inspire, an imprint of Adducent. More
Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1987. Third Printing stated. Trade paperback. xviii, 342 pages. Includes a new Forward by Herman Hattaway, Preface, Acknowledgments, Notes on Sources, Critical Bibliography, Bibliographic Update, and Index. Some edge soiling noted. This work was originally published in 1956. Eight years after President Harry S. Truman ordered an end to racial discrimination in the United States armed forces in 1948, Dudley Taylor Cornish, a thirty-year-old veteran of World War II, who had acquired a Ph.D. degree in history from the University of Colorado and begun his teaching career at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. He moved on to Pittsburg State University from which he retired and became a Professor Emeritus. More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. First? Edition. First? Printing. 559, illus., notes, bibliography, index. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 300 p. More
New York: W, W, Norton & Company, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 404 pages. Illustrations. Abbreviations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Margie Who has been such a heroic crusader for women--Best, Geoffrey Cowan Apr./2016. Geoffrey Cowan is an American lawyer, professor, author, and non-profit executive. He was a University Professor at the University of Southern California, where he held the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership and directed the Annenberg School's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. In 2010, Cowan was named president of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, a position he held until July 2016. In this role, Cowan was commissioned with the task of turning the 200-acre estate of Ambassador Walter Annenberg and his wife Leonore into "a venue for important retreats for top government officials and leaders in the fields of law, education, philanthropy, the arts, culture, science and medicine." Since Sunnylands reopened in 2012, Cowan has helped to arrange a series of meetings there. In 2013–14, President Barack Obama convened bilateral meetings at Sunnylands with President Xi Jinping of China and with King Abdullah II of Jordan. In 2016, President Obama hosted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at the site, where they released the Sunnylands Declaration. Prior to his time at Sunnylands, Cowan was appointed by President Bill Clinton as Director of Voice of America. Cowan also served as associate director of the United States Information Agency and as director of the International Broadcasting Bureau. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 76 pages. Bibliographical footnotes, DJ stained, worn, & edge tears, minor staining at top edge, some ink underlining/marginal marks. More
San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 240, illus., bibliography, index, usual library markings One of the titles in the Opposing Viewpoints Series. Presents opposing viewpoints on issues relating to civil liberties, including privacy, freedom of the press, and censorship. More
New York: Arno Press/The New York Times, 1969. Reprint edition [Stated], Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. [4], xxi,[3], iv, 111, [1] pages. Illustration. Notes. Binding has some wear and staining. No DJ present. This is one of The American Negro His History and Literature series. Introduction by Florence Freedman. Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American abolitionists who were born into slavery in Macon, Georgia. They escaped to the Northern United States in December 1848 by traveling by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Ellen crossed the boundaries of race, class and gender by passing as a white planter with William posing as her personal servant. Their escape was widely publicized, making them among the most famous fugitive slaves in the United States. Abolitionists featured them in public lectures to gain support in the struggle to end slavery. As prominent fugitives, they were threatened by slave catchers in Boston after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, so the Crafts emigrated to England. They lived there for nearly two decades and raised five children. The Crafts lectured publicly about their escape and opposed the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. In 1860 they published a written account of their escape titled Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. One of the most compelling of the many slave narratives published before the Civil War, their book reached wide audiences in the United Kingdom and the United States. After their return to the U.S. in 1868, the Crafts opened an agricultural school for freedmen's children in Georgia. They worked at the school and its farm until 1890. More