Brinkley's Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. 204, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. 204, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: A. A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. 25 cm, 273, illus., address sticker inside front board, ink notation inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 512 pages. Bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn and quite soiled. Signed by the author. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1980. First Printing. 24 cm, 512 pages. Bibliography, index,. DJ somewhat soiled/creased, ink name on 2nd fr flylf. Signed by the author. More
New York: Harper & Row, [1972]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 280, some soiling and edge wear to DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. 176, illus., index, front DJ flap creased, some soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author (Bruce). More
New York: Macmillan, 1975. Third Printing. 24 cm, 343, illus., index, front DJ flap creased, DJ somewhat soiled: small edge tears/chips. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975. First Edition. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm, v, [3], 343, [1] pages. Illus., index. Signed by Traphes Bryand and Inscribed by the co-author (Leighton). DJ has some wear, soiling, chip, and edge wear. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Inscribed to Emma Trenchi. This may by the same Emma Trenchi, 83, of Falls Church, Virginia, who's death in 2005 was noted in the Bulletin of the 1818 Society. Ms. Trenchi retired from the World Bank in 1985. Ms. Leighton wrote more than 30 books and countless articles on subjects such as the White House chef during the Eisenhower years, Jacqueline Kennedy's dressmaker and personal secretary, the man who ran the Senate restaurant, the man who worked as the House of Representatives doorkeeper for 42 years (William "Fishbait" Miller) and the dogs who have occupied the White House. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. Second Printing. Hardcover. 242 pages. Illus., DJ soiled, tear in rear DJ. Signed by the author. More
New York: Putnam, [1970]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 447, index, DJ worn and soiled, tears to DJ edges. More
New York: Putnam, [1970]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 447, index, pencil erasure and paperclip impression on fr endpaper, slight edge soiling, DJ worn, soiled, and some edge chipping. More
Harrisonburg, VA: RR Donnelley & Sons Company, c1998. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 100 pages. Illus. Inscribed by the author to Senator Sam Brownback. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1981. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 474 pages. Illus., index. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1981. First Printing. 24 cm, 474, illus. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 338 pages. Index, minor wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 338, index, errata slip laid in, DJ somewhat soiled and creased: small edge tears/chips. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. 25 cm, 398, illus., source notes, index. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. First Printing. 25 cm, 398, illus., references, index, ink notation and pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. First Printing. 25 cm, 398, wraps, illus., references, index, gift inscription inside front flyleaf (not from author), tear at inside hinge front flyleaf A personal memoir by President Johnson's top domestic adviser. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 398 pages. Illus., source notes, index, slight wear/creasing to DJ edges, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2004. Second Printing. Hardcover. 539 pages. Illus., notes, index, minor wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. Inside Joseph Califano's public and private life as he worked in the power centers of three Domocratic administrations (Robert McNamara's Pentagon under John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson's White House, and Jimmy Carter's Cabinet as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare). Califano also discusses his struggle to be a committed Catholic in America,and his work at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2004. First Edition. First Printing. 539, illus., notes, index, minor wear and soiling to DJ, slight soiling top edge. Inscribed by the author. More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. 177, notes, bibliography, index, some wear, soiling, and tears/chips to DJ. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Fifteenth Printing. Trade paperback. 882, wraps, illus., maps, bibliography, notes, index, small crease to lower corner rear coverThis first volume of Caro's biography traces Johnson from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the U.S. Senate. Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president. He has been described as "the most influential biographer of the last century." For his biographies, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that "best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist"), three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Mencken Award for Best Book, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D. B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal. More
New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 231 pages. Small tear at top front DJ, some wear and soiling to DJ. Foreword by Erma Bombeck. Signed by the author. More