Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 302, bibliography, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 302, bibliography, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1956. 435, illus., references, bibliography, index, discoloration inside boards, boards scuffed. More
New York: Vantage Press, 1989. Hardcover. xix, [1], 197, [7] pages. Notes. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Irwin with best wishes and hope for a better world in human relations Elbert Dorian Gadsden December 30, 1991. Gives the legal history of racism deeply rooted in the law and the social culture if this country. Documents how in spite of these systemic barriers the African Americans made progress. E. Dorian Gadsden was born in Charleston, South Carolina during the era of racial segregation and discrimination by law. He became the first black Eagle Scout in the Coastal Carolina Council; and the Youth Council of the NAACP. He served two years in the seamen branch of the segregated navy during World War II. He graduated from Central State University and Howard University Law School. With a keen interest in Civil Rights, he moved to DC, and participated in the “March on Washington” in 1963. He was an attorney for the Department of Labor, a Hearing Examiner in the District of Columbia’s Department of Public Welfare and an Administrative Law Judge for the Social Security Administration. In 1973, he received a Special Recognition Award for outstanding service to the Washington Metropolitan Community. In 1989, he published Progress Against the Tide, a meticulously researched book detailing the operational effects of slavery, segregation and discrimination on African Americans in the United States. In 1995, he retired from the federal government and continued to lecture at several historically black colleges and universities, African-American history events and at the Federal Legal Institute in Washington, DC. More
Atlanta, GA: Camelot Publishing Company, 1968. First Edition. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 222 pages, Illus., index, front DJ flap price clipped, book somewhat cocked, DJ worn/soiled: edge tears/chips. Signed by the author. More
New York: Herzl Press, 1965. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 341 pages. DJ somewhat worn and soiled, some chips/small tears to DJ edges. Signed by the author. More
New York: Times Books; Henry Holt and Company, 2002. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 322, [1] p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xx, [2], 276, [2] p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1995. Hardcover. 160 pages. Figures. Notes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. More
New York: Knopf, 1994. Book Club? Edition. 22 cm, 216, Winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize. A small town West Virginia Afro-American goes on to head the Afro-American Studies Program at Harvard. A work that extends and deepends the sense of Afro-American history. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 349, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Black mark on bottom edge. DJ has slight wear and soiling, and bottom edge tear at spine repaired with tape from the inside. Timothy M. Gay is the award-winning author of "Savage Will: The Daring Escape of Americans Trapped Behind Nazi Lines". His previous World War II book, 2012's “Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigard, and Hal Boyle”, was nominated for a Pulitzer, a Bancroft, and an American Book Award. His second baseball history book, "Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson," won the 2010 Sporting News-Society for American Baseball Research Book of the Year. His first baseball volume, "Tris Speaker, The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend," was nominated for the baseball history community's two most prestigious prizes. His essays on politics and history have appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, and many other outlets. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. More
New York: Walker, [1970]. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 194, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, edges soiled, DJ worn and soiled. Introduction by Theodosius Dobzhansky. More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxi, 261 p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 224, [2] pages. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Some pencil marginal marks, underlining, and comments noted--some have been easily erased. Germond began his career in 1951 writing for the Evening News in Monroe, Michigan. In 1953, he moved to Gannett's Rochester Times-Union, and he was chief of Gannett's Washington bureau from 1969 until 1973. In 1974, he joined the Washington Star, becoming a syndicated columnist and national editor, and went on to the Baltimore Sun when the Washington Star folded. On television, Germond began appearing on Meet the Press in 1972 and The Today Show in 1980. He was a fixture on The McLaughlin Group from the show's inception 1982, acting as a "liberal voice" against conservative guests such as Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak. When The McLaughlin Group was parodied on Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s, Germond was portrayed by Chris Farley and John Goodman. Germond left the program in 1996, citing a decline in the show's discourse and frustration with John McLaughlin's heavy-handed moderation. He was later featured as a panelist on the PBS program Inside Washington. He authored several political books with Jules Witcover. Germond retired in 2000. More
New York: Warner Books, c1989. Third Printing. 24 cm, 478, index. Inscribed by the author, Jack Germond, a noted journalist and television commentator. More
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1989. First Edition. Second Printing. 24 cm, 423, illus., underlining and marginal comments in several places, DJ worn at edges and soiled. More
Place_Pub: New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 357 pages. Notes, index. Signed by the author. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xix, 245 pages. illus., maps. 21 cm. Index. Signed by the author. Ben W. Gilbert (born February 10, 1918, died February 28, 2007) was a journalist, editor, activist, and author. Gilbert completed a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1939. Gilbert was a city hall reporter in St. Louis, Missouri, before finding work as a reporter with the Washington Post in 1941. where he rose through the ranks to city editor in 1945 and deputy managing editor in 1964. Gilbert was deeply concerned about issues such as racism, corruption, and poverty, focusing his editorial work on exposing these problems. His work on investigating corruption in the Washington, DC, police department led to a U.S. Senate investigation in the early 1950s, and in 1968 he urged greater coverage of the civil rights movement and race riots. Regarding the latter, Gilbert edited and helped to write Ten Blocks from the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968 (1968). He left the Washington Post as associate editor in 1970. For the next year, he was editor of the television news program Newsroom, the forerunner of Newshour with Jim Lehrer. He then worked in the Washington, DC, mayor's office as director of planning and management. This was a key role as control of the nation's capital transitioned from federal to local government for the first time. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Presumed first paperback edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xix, [1], 245, [5] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix I and II. Index. Ben W. Gilbert (born February 10, 1918, died February 28, 2007) was a journalist, editor, activist, and author. Gilbert completed a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1939. Gilbert was a city hall reporter in St. Louis, Missouri, before finding work as a reporter with the Washington Post in 1941. where he rose through the ranks to city editor in 1945 and deputy managing editor in 1964. Gilbert was deeply concerned about issues such as racism, corruption, and poverty, focusing his editorial work on exposing these problems. His work on investigating corruption in the Washington, DC, police department led to a U.S. Senate investigation in the early 1950s, and in 1968 he urged greater coverage of the civil rights movement and race riots. Regarding the latter, Gilbert edited and helped to write Ten Blocks from the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968 (1968). He left the Washington Post as associate editor in 1970. For the next year, he was editor of the television news program Newsroom, the forerunner of Newshour with Jim Lehrer. He then worked in the Washington, DC, mayor's office as director of planning and management. This was a key role as control of the nation's capital transitioned from federal to local government for the first time. More
Washington DC: The New Republic Book Company, Inc., 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 216, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Robeson Plays and Films, Index. Inscribed by author on fep. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Dorothy Butler Gilliam (born November 24, 1936) is an American journalist who was the first African-American female reporter at The Washington Post. Gilliam started her career at The Washington Post in October 1961 as a reporter on the City Desk. In 1979, she began writing a popular column for the Post, covering education, politics, and race; the column ran regularly in the Metro section for 19 years. In addition to her career at The Washington Post, she has been an activist dedicated to public service including her tenure as president of the National Association of Black Journalists from 1993 to 1995. In 2004, she held the position of J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellow at The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. The Washington Press Club awarded Gilliam its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. More
Washington, DC: Historical Society of Washington, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 26 cm,. 127, [1] page. Wraps. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Washington History is the only scholarly publication devoted exclusively to the history of our nation’s capital. Started in 1989, the magazine replaced the original Records of the Columbia Historical Society, printed since 1897. Washington History is filled with scholarly articles, reviews, and a rich array of images. It is written and edited by distinguished historians and journalists. Each year the Historical Society publishes two issues of Washington History. It is mailed to members as a benefit of membership in the Historical Society. Since its founding in 1894, the Historical Society has been publishing articles about the people and events in the city's past and present. In 1989 the publications shifted from the hardback Records of the Columbia Historic Society to a magazine format Washington History. More
London: The Macmillan Company, 1970. Second Printing. 562, illus., endppr maps, notes, apps, biblio, index, endpprs sl soiled & wrinkled, flylf sl soiled, bds sl scuffed & bubbled. More
New York: Metropolitan Books, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. 294, notes, index, ink notation on front endpaper. More
Chicago, IL: Nelson-Hall, 1982. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 355 p. Notes. References. Selected Bibliography. More
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1991. First edition. First edition stated. First printing stated. Hardcover. 288 p. Notes. Index. More
New York: Arcade Pub. c1991. First Edition. First Printing. 26 cm, 288, illus., slight soiling and sticker residue to DJ. More