Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South
Baton Rouge, LA: LA State University Press, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 268, index. More
Baton Rouge, LA: LA State University Press, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 268, index. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [12], 704, [4] pages. Illustrations. Sources, Resources, Credits, and Notes on Structure. Annotated Bibliography. Index. John Egerton (June 14, 1935 — November 21, 2013) was an American journalist and author known for his writing on the Civil Rights Movement, Southern food, history of the South, and Southern culture. Egerton wrote or edited approximately twenty non-fiction books and one "contemporary fable". He also contributed chapters to numerous other volumes and wrote scores of articles in newspapers and magazines. Egerton was a participant and writer for many projects and conferences dealing with education, desegregation, civil rights, and the American South; particularly its food. Among his best-known books are "The Americanization of Dixie", "Generations: An American Family", "Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History", and "Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation before the Civil Rights Movement in the South". Egerton's Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He also wrote Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History and coedited Nashville: An American Self-Portrait, a look at his adopted city to in the 1960s. In June 2013, five months before his own death, Egerton spoke at the memorial service for preacher and civil rights activist Will D. Campbell. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 323, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Interesting long gift inscription on fep--does not appear to be associated with the author. Jonathan Eig (born April 26, 1964) is an American journalist and the author of four books. Eig is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, and he remains a contributing writer there. Eig has also written for The New York Times, Esquire, The New Republic, Men's Health, and other publications. Prior to working at the Wall Street Journal he worked as a feature writer for Chicago Magazine. Eig has taught writing at Columbia College Chicago and lectures at Northwestern. He has spoken to audiences on various topics in the United States, including as the keynote speaker at the 2005 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series at Mary Washington University. He has also traveled the country speaking to organizations raising money for the fight against Lou Gehrig’s Disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and was honored on the field at Yankee Stadium for his work in raising awareness of the disease. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.625 inches by 8.5 inches. x, [2], 372 pages. Footnotes. Index. The DJ has Spine scuff, wear and soiling and is price-clipped. Ink notation on the fep. A bold study of the New Deal from the viewpoint of Europe and American by the Goldwin Smith Professor of Government at Cornell University. Among the topics covered are Europe's Image of America, The Great Depression, Roosevelt, New Tools for the New State, Electricity and Freedom, The Supreme Court and the Constitution, The Meaning of Freedom and Equality, The New Landscape of American Society: Lights and Shadows, and Reflections on Tocqueville. Mario Einaudi was born in 1904 in one of the most influential family in Italy. His father, Luigi Einaudi, was one of Italy's great economic thinkers and became the second President of the Republic of Italy. After graduation from Turin with a dissertation on Edmund Burke, Einaudi spent two years at the London School of Economics, working with William Beveridge and Harold Laski. He worked for the Office of War Information and the Council on Foreign Relations and began to teach future Allied Military Government personnel about European government once a week at Cornell University. Three central tenets to Einaudi's work were: that the study of politics must be embedded in history; that Europe and the United States have much to teach each other about the practice of democratic politics; and that the classics of political theory must inform the study of contemporary democratic states. These themes were best embodied in his 1959 book, The Roosevelt Revolution. More
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 232, profusely illus. (some color), fr DJ flap price clipped, some pencil underlining, DJ slightly worn, soiled, & sticker residue. More
New York: William Morrow, 2013. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. x, [2], 292 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
New York, N.Y. HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 292 pages. Illustrations. DJ has price removed. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Father George Stuart with Best Wishes Peter Eisner May 2, 2013. Includes Prologue, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Excerpts from LaFarge's Encyclical, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also includes chapters on Nostalgia Confronts Reality; A "Crooked Cross''; The Imposition of the Reich; The Pope's Battle Plan; The Flying Cardinal; A Democratic Response; In the Heat of the Summer; the Pop's Discontent; Shame and Despair; A New Year and an End to Appeasement; Will There Be Time?; Change Overnight; and The New Regime. Peter Eisner, a veteran foreign correspondent, has been deputy foreign editor and Washington, D.C, political editor with the Washington Post, foreign editor and senior foreign correspondent of Newsday, and bureau chief and correspondent for AP in the US and Latin America. Eisner is the former managing director of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based watchdog organization. He is the author or coauthor of five previous books, including The Pope’s Last Crusade, The Italian Letter, and The Freedom Line,winner of the Christopher Award. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, 368 p. Endnotes. Index. More
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 355, illus., index, some creasing to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author (Elders). More
Place_Pub: New York: William Morrow and Co., 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 355, illus., index, some yellow highlighting to text. More
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 355 pages. Illus., index, slight creasing to DJ edges. Signed and dated by the author (Elders). More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 320, bibliography, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ, slight edge soiling. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 320, bibliography, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 320 pages, illus., bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped, slight wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 320 pages. Source notes, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More
New York: Newsweek, 1961. wraps. 98 p. Includes illustrations. More
New York: Random House, 1952. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 439, [1] pages. No dust jacket present. Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. Bookplate. Front board weak and restrengthened with glue. Cover is worn and soiled and spine frayed. Cover decoration. Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). The New York Times dubbed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus." A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death. Ellison's outsider position at Tuskegee "sharpened his satirical lens," critic Hilton Als believes: "Standing apart from the university's air of sanctimonious Negritude enabled him to write about it." In passages of Invisible Man, "he looks back with scorn and despair on the snivelling ethos that ruled at Tuskegee." He met Langston Hughes, "Harlem's unofficial diplomat" of the Depression era, and one—as one of the country's celebrity black authors—who could live from his writing. Hughes introduced him to the black literary establishment with Communist sympathies. Published in 1952, Invisible Man explores the theme of a person's search for their identity and place in society, as seen from the perspective of the first-person narrator, an unnamed African American man, first in the Deep South and then in the New York City of the 1930s. More
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1964. presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [6], 32, [2] pages. Occasional footnotes. Minor page discoloration. Cover has slight wear and soiling. These are Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. Poems from his books display a mastery of formal verse with a modern sensibility that viewed such topics as automobiles, house flies, and drug stores as worthy of attention. In 1963, the poet/critic Randall Jarrell praised Shapiro's work. In his later work, he experimented with more open forms, beginning with The Bourgeois Poet (1964) and continuing with White-Haired Lover (1968). His interest in formal verse and prosody led to his writing multiple books on the subject including the long poem Essay on Rime (1945), A Bibliography of Modern Prosody (1948), and A Prosody Handbook (with Robert Beum, 1965; reissued 2006). His Selected Poems appeared in 1968. Shapiro also published one novel, Edsel (1971) and a three-part autobiography simply titled, "Poet" (1988–1990). Shapiro edited the prestigious magazine, Poetry for several years, and he was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he edited Prairie Schooner, and at the University of California, Davis, from which he retired in the mid-1980s. Scarce Ellison item! More
Carlisle, MO: Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 1997. First Edition. First Printing. 16, wraps, not bound. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. 474, notes, references, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 329, [1] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library with usual library markings. Some pencil erasures noted. Some corners creased. Raymond Arthur Esthus, professor of history at Newcomb College, Tulane University. He was a graduate of Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Fla. and received a Ph.D. from Duke University. He taught at Brevard College, Brevard, N.C. and University of Houston before coming to Tulane, where he was professor of Far Eastern and American Diplomatic History. He was elected and served as national president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and was founder of Tulane's Asian Studies Program. He was the author of four books and numerous articles on the Far East, especially Japan. He served as its acting dean and chaired the Newcomb Centennial Committee. He retired in 1995, having taught at Newcomb for thirty-eight years. He served in the U.S. Army in WWII in the medical corps. More
Jackson, MS: University Press of MS, c1993. Second Printing. 24 cm, 357, very slightly cocked, erasure residue on front endpaper. Foreword by Terry Sanford. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm, 382, [2] pages. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Black mark on bottom edge . Jackie Robinson's extraordinary courage, his dignity, and his feats on the field as the first African-American to play on a major league team made him not only a great sports legend but a genuine American hero. In this moving portrait, Falkner explores the lifelong influences on Robinson, the pressures he had to bear, and the contributions he made to the cause of integration. From Robinson's famous battle with the army over segregation to his rigidly maintained restraint in the face of ugly prejudice and life-threatening hostility from baseball fans and players alike, to his post-baseball efforts to help African-Americans establish an economic base within mainstream America, Falkner illuminates Robinson's determination to make a lasting difference in American society. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. First Printing. 296, notes, some page corners creased, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and creased. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [8], 296 pages. Notes. Slight wear to DJ . Signed by the author. James Mackenzie Fallows (born August 2, 1949) is an American writer and journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job. Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and holds the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of eleven books, including National Defense, for which he received the 1983 National Book Award, Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009), China Airborne (2012), and Our Towns (2018). More