The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. 636, illus., maps, endpaper map, appendices, index, boards somewhat stained. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. 636, illus., maps, endpaper map, appendices, index, boards somewhat stained. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. 636, illus., maps, endpaper map, appendices, index, DJ somewhat scuffed and soiled, top edge of rear DJ worn. More
Place_Pub: London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. 630, illus., maps, appendices, index, tears, chips, & creases to DJ edges, rear DJ flap creased, small rough spot ins front flyleaf. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 636 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Front endpaper illustrations. Rear endpaper map. Appendices. Index. Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by the initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a United States Representative and as the Majority Leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people who have served in all four federal elected positions. Johnson is ranked favorably by many historians because of his domestic policies and the passage of many major laws that affected civil rights, gun control, wilderness preservation, and Social Security, although he also drew substantial criticism for his escalation of the Vietnam War. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 636 pages. DJ has some peeling. Monagramed bookplate signed in ink by both Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson on the half title page; such dual signatures are rare. Illustrations. Maps. Front endpaper illustrations. Rear endpaper map. Appendices. Index. Name of previous owner on back of the half- title page. DJ has some wear, soiling, and peeing of the glassine layer. Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by the initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a United States Representative and as the Majority Leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people who have served in all four federal elected positions. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First Edition. 270, notes, index, some edge wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Cowles Book Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. vii, [3], 278 pages. Illustrations. Index. Some wear and small tears to DJ edges. Minor page soiling noted. Samuel Houston Johnson (January 31, 1914 – December 11, 1978) was an American businessman. He was the younger brother of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Sam Houston Johnson was administrative aide, troubleshooter, sounding board, and general counsel for his older brother. He was part of a network of supporters his brother used to maintain awareness of and control over political activities in Texas. When Lyndon Johnson was appointed Director of the National Youth Administration in Texas in the 1930s, Sam Houston Johnson replaced him as chief aide to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg. Sam Houston Johnson later worked for the National Youth Administration in Texas. He also worked for the Federal Land Bank in Houston, and reported to his brother on its activities. During World War II, Sam Johnson worked on the staff of the War Production Board. In addition, he was employed as a member of his brother's Senate staff, and worked on Lyndon Johnson's campaigns. Besides working for and with his brother, Sam Houston Johnson also worked as an insurance executive and as the Mexico representative of a Texas international trucking company. In 1970 Johnson wrote a memoir, My Brother Lyndon, which praised his brother in most respects, but was critical in others. At the time, Sam Houston Johnson indicated that he was estranged from his brother, but said his book was not the cause. The two reconciled before Lyndon Johnson's death. More
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., 2000. First Printing. 260. More
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., 2000. First Printing. 260, price inked over on DJ. Foreword by Jimmy Carter. More
New York: Dial Press, 1967. Second Printing. 21 cm, 465, maps, footnotes, index, pencil erasure on endpapers, some page discoloration. More
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 306, illus., DJ somewht worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1992. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 352 pages. Illus. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1992. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 352 pages. Illus., index. Presentation copy inscribed to Jim Bohannon, radio talk show personality, and signed by the author. More
Place_Pub: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. 336, endpaper maps, index, usual library markings, small tears/chips to DJ edges, library sticker taped to spine. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1971. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 336 pages. Index. DJ is price clipped with some wear and soiling. Bookplate of previous owner facing and inscription by Kalb on half-title page. Inscription reads: For Paul Weinstein With best wishes Marvin Kalb. {This is believed to be the Paul A. Weinstein, who was a University of Maryland professor who served as an adviser to Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel. The authors place the Vietnam War in the perspective of 200 years of history, and reveal new information on the roles played by such leaders as Dean Rusk, Maxwell Taylor, and Dean Acheson. Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. He was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter for CBS News and NBC News. Kalb was the last newsman recruited by Edward R. Murrow to join CBS News. His work at CBS landed him on Richard Nixon's "enemies list". At NBC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent and host of Meet the Press. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brother Bernard worked alongside him. Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books (Eastern Exposure, Dragon in the Kremlin, The Volga, Roots of Involvement, Kissinger, Campaign ’88, The Nixon Memo and One Scandalous Story). His book Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy, was published by the Brookings Institution Press in 2018. His latest book is 'Assignment Russia'. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 336 pages. Index. The DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by both authors on half-title page. Inscription reads: For Dick Valeriani-colleague and friend. Elie Abel/Marvin Kalb. RARE, probably unique item. A "trifecta" of three of the outstanding journalists of the late 20th Century together in one book with two autographs and an association. Some marginal markings in Valeriani's own hand noted! The authors place the Vietnam War in the perspective of 200 years of history, and reveal new information on the roles played by such leaders as Dean Rusk, Maxwell Taylor, and Dean Acheson. Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. He was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter for CBS News and NBC News. Kalb was the last newsman recruited by Edward R. Murrow to join CBS News. His work at CBS landed him on Richard Nixon's "enemies list". At NBC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent and host of Meet the Press. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brother Bernard worked alongside him. Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books (Eastern Exposure, Dragon in the Kremlin, Roots of Involvement, Kissinger, Campaign ’88, The Nixon Memo and One Scandalous Story). His book Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy. His latest book is 'Assignment Russia'. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, c1990. First Printing. 25 cm, 499, illus., DJ slightly soiled and some wear at edges. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1983. Book Club Edition. 750, illus., maps, chronology, notes on sources, index, front DJ flap price clipped, small tears/chips to DJ edges. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1984. First Paperbk Edition. 752 pages. Illus., maps, chronology, notes on sources, index, some wear/creasing to cover edges, text somewhat darkened. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1983. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 750, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Chronology. Cast of Principal Characters, Notes on Sources. Index. Gift inscription not from author on fep. Embossed stamp of previous owner on fep. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Stanley Abram Karnow (February 4, 1925 – January 27, 2013) was an American journalist and historian. He is best known for his writings on the Vietnam War. After serving with the United States Army Air Forces in the China Burma India Theater during World War II, he graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in 1947; in 1947 and 1948 he attended the Sorbonne, and from 1948 to 1949 the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He then began his career in journalism as Time correspondent in Paris in 1950. After covering Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (where he was North Africa bureau chief in 1958-59), he went to Asia, where he spent the most influential part of his career. He was chief correspondent for the 13-hour Vietnam: A Television series, which premiered on PBS in 1983; it won six Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a George Polk Award and a DuPont-Columbia Award. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. First Printing. 25 cm, 300, footnotes, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Putnam, [1967]. 22 cm, 223, decorated binding. Inscribed by the author. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, [1974]. First Edition. 25 cm, 432, index, front DJ flap price clipped, some wear and soiling to DJ, some soiling to edges. More
New York: Arno Press Inc., 1981. Special Book Club Edition. Wraps. 248 pages. Illustrations. Map. Cover has some wear and soiling. Introduction by Drew Middleton. This Military Book Club edition was specially updated. Text and photographs trace the conflict and American involvement in Vietnam as reported by the New York Times. Over 175 front pages from The New York Times together with hundreds of photographs, tracing the involvement of the United States in Southeast Asia. The coverage includes some early news of Indo-China; the earliest headline is from 1950. Drew Middleton covered World War II and postwar Europe for The New York Times and later served as the newspaper's military correspondent. Moving from sports writing to combat reporting at the outset of World War II, Mr. Middleton spent nearly half a century chronicling what he called ''the huge, changing, kaleidoscopic world of international affairs.'' He covered Allied forces in North Africa and on several European fronts, reported on peace conferences and war-crimes tribunals at the end of the conflict, and followed postwar diplomacy from both sides of a divided Europe and at the United Nations. He then returned to coverage of military affairs and was noted for his analyses of fighting in the Middle East and the Falkland Islands. Often, to provide the underpinning for his columns, he went to the scene of the action, and he dug hard for fresh information. Arriving in Saigon one afternoon during the Vietnam war, for example, he walked into a short-handed Times bureau and offered to take on the humblest of chores, writing the routine story based on the daily American communique. More
New York: Arno Press Inc., 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, 248 pages. Illustrations. Map. DJ has some wear and soiling. Introduction by Drew Middleton. Text and photographs trace the conflict and American involvement in Vietnam as reported by the New York Times. Over 175 front pages from The New York Times together with hundreds of photographs, tracing the involvement of the United States in Southeast Asia. The coverage includes some early news of Indo-China; the earliest headline is from 1950. Drew Middleton covered World War II and postwar Europe for The New York Times and later served as the newspaper's military correspondent. Moving from sports writing to combat reporting at the outset of World War II, Mr. Middleton spent nearly half a century chronicling what he called ''the huge, changing, kaleidoscopic world of international affairs.'' He covered Allied forces in North Africa and on several European fronts, reported on peace conferences and war-crimes tribunals at the end of the conflict, and followed postwar diplomacy from both sides of a divided Europe and at the United Nations. He then returned to coverage of military affairs and was noted for his analyses of fighting in the Middle East and the Falkland Islands. Often, to provide the underpinning for his columns, he went to the scene of the action, and he dug hard for fresh information. Arriving in Saigon one afternoon during the Vietnam war, for example, he walked into a short-handed Times bureau and offered to take on the humblest of chores, writing the routine story based on the daily American communique. More