Bridging the Divide: My Life
New Burnswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xiii, 332 p. Illustrations. Index. More
New Burnswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xiii, 332 p. Illustrations. Index. More
New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1995. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 255, [1] pages. Endpaper map. A Note on Spelling. Glossary. Select Bibliography. Index. Signed with sentiment by the author on the fep. The inscription reads: "With best wishes Geraldine Brooks". An intimate portrait of the lives of modern Muslim women reveals how male pride and power have distorted the message of Islam to justify the subjugation of women and how a feminism of sorts has flowered in spite of repression. Geraldine Brooks AO (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was eligible for the prize by virtue of her American citizenship, and was the first Australian to win the prize. A native of Sydney, Geraldine attended Bethlehem College, a secondary school for girls, and the University of Sydney. Following graduation, she was a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and, after winning a Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, moved to the United States, completing a master's degree at New York City's Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. The following year, in the Southern France artisan village of Tourrettes-sur- Loup, she married American journalist Tony Horwitz and converted to Judaism. Brooks's first book, Nine Parts of Desire (1994), based on her experiences among Muslim women in the Middle East, was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages. More
New York, NY: William Morrow & Company, 1995. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xix, [1], 379, [1] p. Notes and Sources. Index. More
New York: Routledge, 2002. Advanced Uncorrected Proof--pre first printing. Trade paperback. vii, [1], 248, [4] pages. Footnotes. No Illustrations, Table of Contents, or Index in this Advanced Uncorrected Proof copy. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: To Rick, Thank you for the support! Howard Bryant. Howard Bryant (born November 25, 1968) is an American author, sports journalist, and broadcaster. He writes for ESPN and ESPN The Magazine, ESPN, and appears r on ESPN Radio. He is a panelist on The Sports Reporters and since 2006 a sports correspondent for Weekend Edition on National Public Radio. Bryant began his career in 1991 with the Oakland Tribune covering sports and technology, before moving to the San Jose Mercury News from 1995 to 2001. In San Jose, Bryant covered the telecommunications industry before returning to sports to cover the Oakland Athletics. He then reported for the Bergen Record, covering the New York Yankees, before joining the Boston Herald from 2002 to 2005. Bryant joined the Washington Post, where he covered the Washington Redskins from 2005 to 2007. He joined ESPN in August 2007. In 2002, Bryant published his first book, Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, which won the CASEY Award for the best baseball book of 2002 and was a finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research's Seymour Medal. In 2005, he published Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball, which was New York Times Notable Book of 2005. The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron was published in 2010, won the CASEY Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010. More
New York: Basic Books, 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 545, [7] pages. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Publisher's ephemera laid in. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Nick Bryant was born in Bristol, England, and works in Australia for the BBC as one of its most trusted and senior foreign correspondents. He is a regular contributor to several Australian magazines and newspapers, including The Australian, The Spectator, The Monthly and The Australian Literary Review. Nick studied history at Cambridge and has a doctorate in American politics from Oxford. Nick Bryant has recently been appointed as a BBC South Asia correspondent based in Delhi. Prior to this he was the BBC Washington correspondent from 1999. He joined the BBC news trainee scheme in 1994 after writing for the Independent, the Daily Mail and the Times newspapers. A year later Nick was a reporter on BBC Radio Five Live and reported from various countries on stories such as the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. More
New York: Putnam's, 1963. First? Edition. First? Printing. 251, DJ worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Introduction by Russell Kirk. More
New York, N.Y. Anchor Books, 2010. First Anchor Books Edition. Third printing stated. Trade paperback. xii, 363, [7] pages. Minor cover wear. Includes Bibliography, Notes, Index, and Acknowledgments. Part 1--Immigration; Rivers of Blood; The Immigrant Economy; Who Is Immigration For?; Fear Masquerading as Tolerance; Part 2--Islam; Ethnic Colonies; An Adversary Culture; Europe's Crisis of Faith; Rules for Sex; Part 3--The West; Tolerance and Impunity; Resistance and Jihad; Liberalism and Diversity; Survival and Culture. Christopher Caldwell (born 1962) is an American journalist and a former senior editor at The Weekly Standard, as well as a regular contributor to the Financial Times and Slate. He is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and contributing editor to the Claremont Review of Books. His writing also frequently appears in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times (where he is a contributing editor to the paper's magazine), and The Washington Post. He was also a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly and the New York Press and the assistant managing editor of The American Spectator’’. Caldwell's 2009 book Reflections on the Revolution In Europe deals with increased Muslim immigration to Europe. The Economist newspaper called it "an important book as well as a provocative one: the best statement to date ... on Islamic immigration in Europe." The Marxist historian Perry Anderson, called it "the most striking single book to have appeared, in any language, on immigration in Western Europe". Caldwell insists that he is "instinctively pro-immigration" and conscious of the media tendency to "sensationalize stories against Muslims" More
Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1965. 344, chapter notes, index, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ soiled and stained: small tears, small pieces missing. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Seventh Printing. 284, illus., index. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First Printing. Hardcover. 284, [4] pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some sticker residue. Signed on the title page by the author ("J. Carter"). Jimmy Carter's Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. Carter, a Democrat raised in rural Georgia, was a peanut farmer who served two terms as a Georgia State Senator, from 1963 to 1967, and one as the Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975. He was elected President in 1976, defeating incumbent President Gerald Ford in a relatively close election; the Electoral College margin of 57 votes was the closest at that time since 1916. His presidency has drawn medium-low responses from historians, with many considering him to have brought greater accomplishment with his post-presidency work. He set up the Carter Center in 1982 as his base for advancing human rights. He has also traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, observe elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. Additionally, Carter is a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity project. He has been the longest-retired president in American history since September 2012, when he surpassed Herbert Hoover. He is also the first president to mark the 40th anniversary of his election. More
New York: Times Books, c1992. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 223, illus., ink notation on front endpaper, dings to rear DJ. More
New York: Times Books, 1992. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 25 c. xxv, [1], 223, [7] pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. Signed by the author, Jimmy Carter, on the title page. James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician, philanthropist, and former farmer who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Since leaving the presidency, Carter has remained active in the private sector; in 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Carter Center. In 1982, Carter established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights. He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. Carter is considered a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity charity. He has written over 30 books ranging from political memoirs to poetry while continuing to actively comment on ongoing American and global affairs, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The earliest-serving of the five living U.S. presidents, Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95. More
Asheville, NC: FBC Inc., 1998. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 300 pages. Map, slight sticker residue on DJ. Signed by the author. More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 320, [2] pages. Notes. Index. In this work the author compares the evolving matrix of race and class relations in two societies that were widely regarded at the time as being the most pervasively racist in the world. The author was particularly interested in the origins of the system and ideology called segregation, which emerged in the American South after about 1890 and in South Africa around the time of the Union in 1910. One of the characteristics of segregation was that to some degree there was accommodation to and tacit acceptance on the part of those whom segregation was designed to control. More
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 344 p. Illustrations. Notes. Archival and Manuscript Sources. Bibliographical Essay. Index. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 438, illus., maps, footnotes, DJ worn and soiled. More
Place_Pub: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. Second Paperback Printing. Wraps. 245 pages. Wraps, author's note, covers somewhat worn and soiled. Signed by the author. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition. 144, illus., rough spot ins fr flylf, tape stains ins fr bd, lib stamps ins fr & r flylf, rough spot on DJ spine, some wear to DJ. More
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015. Later printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.125 inches by 7.5 inches. [12], 152, [12] pages. Illustrations. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Daniel Telson T. Coates 9/8/15. Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates (born September 30, 1975) is an American author, journalist, and activist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy. Coates has worked for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, and Time. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, O, and other publications. He has published three non-fiction books: The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has also written a Black Panther series and a Captain America series for Marvel Comics. His first novel, The Water Dancer, was published in 2019. In 2015 he received a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Coates said that one of the origins of the book was the death of a college friend, Prince Carmen Jones Jr., who was shot by police in a case of mistaken identity. One of the themes of the book was what physically affected African-American lives, such as their bodies being enslaved, violence that came from slavery, and various forms of institutional racism. The book was ranked 7th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. More
New York: Franklin Watts, c1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 191, illus., some wear to DJ edges, small tear in rear DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. vi, 449, [7] pages. Frontis illustration. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by Nadine on title page. Nadine Cohodas is the author of several books, most recently Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington, which received an award for Excellence in Research in Recorded Jazz Music from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Hardcover. 25 cm, 574, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Bookplate. Signed by the author. Minor moisture staining inside top DJ edge, minor bleeding of board color onto DJ. Derived from a Kirkus Review: Vivid, balanced account of the political evolution of the legendary segregationist who retained his Senate seat for nearly four decades and become a distinguished Washington institution. Born in 1902, Thurmond grew up in a conservative, racially segregated social milieu and a solidly Democratic political culture. Cohodas presents Thurmond as a decent but conformist and ambitious product of this environment who, elected governor of South Carolina in 1946, took some progressive steps but fought attempts to change his state's ``custom and tradition'' of racial segregation. Thurmond opposed civil-rights so much that, in 1948, he led fellow ``Dixiecrats'' out of the Democratic Party to run a third-party campaign for President. In 1954, Thurmond began his long career as a senator from South Carolina, achieving an enduring reputation who once conducted a 24-hour filibuster against civil-rights legislation. Cohodas argues persuasively that Thurmond's principal political achievement has been to transform the ``solid South'' from a Democratic to a Republican stronghold. , Cohodas shows that his conservatism mellowed as American society changed. The author closes with the striking actions of Thurmond helping, as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Clarence Thomas onto the Supreme Court. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1993. First Printing. 25 cm, 574, illus., notes, bibliography, index, some soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1944. First? Edition. First? Printing. 466, illus., footnotes, bibliography, index, black marks on bottom edge, boards somewhat worn and soiled, some endpaper soiling. 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