Power and the Presidency
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Printing. 339, illus., bibliography, index, top corner front DJ flap torn off, small edge tears and crease to rear DJ flap, rear DJ scratched. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Printing. 339, illus., bibliography, index, top corner front DJ flap torn off, small edge tears and crease to rear DJ flap, rear DJ scratched. More
New York: Crown Publishers, c1976. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 338, front DJ flap price clipped, some soiling and edge wear to DJ, DJ pasted to boards, endpapers discolored, sm stain to title pg. More
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, c1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 332. More
New York: Pegasus, 1968. Second Printing. 157, illus., notes, bibliography, index. More
Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1987. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 448, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1983. First Printing. 24 cm, 617, minor mosture marks to front flyleaf, edges soiled, small tear to top of front DJ flap. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1983. First Printing. 24 cm, 617, appendix, notes and sources, bibliography, index, slight foxing to fore-edge, some wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1983. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 617 pages, appendix, notes and sources, bibliography, index. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1983. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 617 pages. Notes and sources, bibliography, index. Signed and dated by the author. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 514 pages Illustrations (46 pages of plates). Notes and Sources. Bibliography, Index. DJ somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Ronnie Dugger (born 1931) is an American progressive journalist. Dugger attended the University of Texas and was editor of The Daily Texan 1950–1951. He was the founding editor of The Texas Observer from 1954 to 1961. Later he served as the Observer's publisher, spending more than 40 years with the political newsmagazine. Dugger has published hundreds of articles in Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Progressive and other periodicals. In 2011 Dugger won the George Polk Award in recognition of his lifelong achievements in journalism. The following year he was dubbed the "godfather of progressive journalism in Texas" in an in-depth feature published in the Austin American-Statesman by Brad Buchholz. In 1996, Ronnie Dugger also co-founded The Alliance for Democracy, a national grassroots populist organization. Dugger and his friends decided to build The Texas Observer into an independent liberal weekly paper. From the first "I sought to practice journalism according to three basic standards, accuracy, fairness instead of 'objectivity,' and moral seriousness.." He went on to mentor and influence progressive Texas journalists Willie Morris, Molly Ivins, Billy Lee Brammer, Lawrence Goodwyn, Kaye Northcott, and Jim Hightower. More
Warner Books, 1986. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. vii, [3], 338, [4] p. Index. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 24 cm, 245 pages. Illus. with photographs by Patty Still, slight soiling to DJ, red mark at top edge. Signed by the photographer (Still). More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1977. First Printing. 22 cm, 492, illus., some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1977. First Printing. 22 cm, 492, illus., notes, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, torn, and soiled. More
New York: Bantam Books, 2000. First Edition. First Printing. 343 The authors of this book met on paper in the late 1960s, when she was the editor of a high school newspaper in Mississippi and he was the editor of a high school paper on Long Island. Out of the blue, he wrote her a smart- alecky letter, deriding the south, and she fired back, beginning a long exchange that touched on everything from religion to race to sex, and that led to their meeting in person and to becoming lifelong friends. More
Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Cen, 1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 181, Foreword by former Attorney General Griffin B. Bell. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 463 p. Notes. Bibliographic Note. Index. More
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [4], 76 pages. Illustrations. Some cover wear. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted and imprisoned of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. Sentenced to 99 years in prison for King's murder. Ray served 29 years of his sentence and died from hepatitis in 1998 while in prison. More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. first Edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [3], 180, [4], Illustrations. Inscribed on half-title. A Glossary of Mentors and Significant Others. Works Cited. Throughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this century's most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggles. In this stirring, heartfelt memoir she pays tribute to the extraordinary mentors who helped light her way including Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and William Sloane Coffin. She celebrates the lives of her parents and the great Black Women of Bennetsville, South Carolina- Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate-who gave her love and guidance in her youth, as well as the many teachers and figures who inspired her education at Spellman College and empowered her early as an activist in the 1960's. Illustrated with many of the author's personal photographs, Lanterns also includes a "Parents' Pledge" and "Twenty-Five More Lessons for Life" to guide, protect, and love our children every day so that they will become, in Edelman's moving vision, the healing agents for national transformation. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 22 pages. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Peter Benjamin Edelman (born January 9, 1938) is an American lawyer, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law. He worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and for the Clinton administration, where he resigned to protest Bill Clinton's signing the welfare reform legislation. Edelman was one of the founders and president of the board of the New Israel Fund. Edelman worked as a legislative assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy, from 1964 to 1968, accompanying Kennedy to his meeting with labor leader Cesar Chavez. Edelman also met his wife while touring impoverished areas of Mississippi with Kennedy to prepare for reauthorization of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Following Kennedy's assassination, Edelman spent brief period working as deputy director for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights. More
Berkeley, CA: Interstellar Media, [c1988]. First Printing. 24 cm, 274, illus., index. More
Berkeley, CA: Interstellar Media, [c1988]. First Printing. 24 cm, 274, illus., index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Claude Pepper. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2000. First edition. First printing stated. Hardcover. xxix, 338 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Paragon House, c1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 24 cm. xv, [1], 364, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Lee Edwards (born 1932) is an American distinguished fellow in conservative thought at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. A historian of the conservative movement in America, he is the author or editor of 25 books, including biographies of President Ronald Reagan, Senator Barry Goldwater, Attorney General Edwin Meese III and William F. Buckley Jr. He is currently the Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Edwards has written biographies of Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Edwin Meese III and Goldwater, as well as a number of other books, which include The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America, The Power of Ideas, a retrospective on the first 25 years of the Heritage Foundation, and a history of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He was the initial editor of the Conservative Digest in 1975, and has been a senior editor for The World & I. Walter Judd was a Minnesota congressman who was instrumental in the formation of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Voice of America, the Marshall Plan, and NATO. More
Washington DC: National Education Association, 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 9.75 inches. xi, [3], 360 pages. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Notes. Index. The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union and professional interest group in the United States. It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers. The NEA has over 2.9 million members and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. The stated mission of the NEA is "to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world." While the NEA has a stated position of "non-partisan", it almost exclusively supports the Democratic Party. The NEA lobbies the United States Congress and federal agencies and is active in the nominating process for Democratic candidates. More