Secret Trials and Executions: Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 77, wraps, notes, ink mark on half-title. More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 77, wraps, notes, ink mark on half-title. More
New York: Vintage International [Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc.], 2001. First Vintage International Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [8], 311, [1] pages. Author's Note. Autographed copy sticker on front cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Minor page warping at the back but no damp signs/staining. With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil's Ghost is a fictional work set during this political time and historical moment. And while there existed organizations similar to those in this story, and similar events took place, the characters and incidents in the novel are invented. Today the war in Sri Lanka continues in a different form. Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the modern world by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past--a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder--Michael Ondaatje's most powerful novel yet. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1989. Book Club Edition. 334, notes, index Mexico is the United States's number-three trading partner and number-one source of illegal drugs. Four million U.S. tourists visit Mexico every year but rarely do they see the destitute, poverty-stricken masses of people. The story of a country in crisis--poverty, class tensions, political corruption--as told through stories of individuals. More
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2013. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. x, 56, [2] p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Endnotes. This is one of the Letort Papers. More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. [10], 385, [3] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. This is one of The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature, a limited edition collection is published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain, theretofore an unpopular cause. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights. Moncure Daniel Conway's crowning achievement was his biography of fellow transatlantic radical Thomas Paine (1892). In that year Dickinson College awarded him an honorary doctorate of humane letters. Common Sense was a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arguments to encourage people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at meeting places. It had the largest sale and circulation, proportionately, of any book published in American history. More
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xx, 348 p. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Notes. Index. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 336 pages. Notes. Index. Minor edge soiling. A behind-the-scenes look at how government seduces the free press into abandoning hard investigation and insight. Former Associated Press and Newsweek reporter Parry calls on the public, press, and Congress to reassume their bipartisan responsibility to challenge Conventional Wisdom and uncover the truth. Robert Earle Parry (June 24, 1949 – January 27, 2018) was an American investigative journalist. He was known for his role in covering the Iran–Contra affair for the Associated Press (AP) and Newsweek, including breaking the Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare (CIA manual provided to the Nicaraguan contras) and the CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking in the U.S. scandal in 1985. He was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 and the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 2015. Parry was the editor of Consortium News from 1995 until his death in 2018. In June 2017, Parry was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. More
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 288, [4] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations (some in color). Tabular Data. Signed and dated by the author on the fep. Lisa C. Paul was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in 1962. She first traveled to the Soviet Union in 1982 as part of a Soviet Studies semester during her sophomore year in college. A year later, she returned to Moscow to work as a nanny for an American family. She lived there from 1983 to 1985. Lisa graduated with a major in Russian Area Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1986, and then she moved to Washington, D.C., to work on a landmark conference on U.S.-Soviet relations. She later worked for the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations. She then attended Marquette University Law School. Lisa is currently a civil litigation attorney in Milwaukee. Inna Ilyinichna Meiman-Kitrossky (16 October 1932 – 9 February 1987), was a refusenik, a member of a group of refuseniks-cancer patients, and an author of textbooks for the English language. In 1979, she applied for an exit visa for the first time, but she was refused. In 1981, she married the refusenik and activist for human rights, Naum Meiman. She started to teach Russian to foreigners, including the personnel of the US embassy. The Meimans were under surveillance by the KGB. A young American student Lisa Paul, who was very impressed by Inna, held a 25-day hunger strike to bring attention to her case. In 1987, at the inception of Perestroika, she was finally allowed to leave. Inna Meiman arrived in the US, but died in February 1987. 25 years later, Paul published a book of memoirs about Inna Meiman. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1971. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 360, biographical notes, index of names, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, & chipped, pp. 323/4 creased. More
Place_Pub: New York: PEN American Center, 1980. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 55, wraps, bibliography, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: George Braziller, 1971. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxv, 388 p. Notes. Notes on Contributors. Index. More
Place_Pub: New York: Sentinel, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. 292, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
Pittsburgh, PA: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, c1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 303, illus., maps, damp stain inside DJ (slight impact on board), some wear and soiling to DJ. More
Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College, 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. viii, 51, [1] p. Endnotes. This is one of the Letort Papers. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 1994. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 359 p. 23 cm. Maps. Endnotes. More
New York: Human Rights Watch, c2002. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 133, wraps, references. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. First edition. First edition [stated]. Hardcover. Text in English, Russian. xvii, [1], 429, [1] p. Notes. Index. Dot on bottom edge. Stamp inside front cover. More
New York, NY: Crown Publishing, 2008. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. viii, [2], 246 p. Notes. Further Reading. Index. More
New York, NY: Crown Publishing, 2008. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. viii, [2], 246 pages. Notes. Further Reading. Index. Inscribed by author on title page. John David Podesta (born January 8, 1949) was the fourth and final White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton, from 1998 until 2001. He is the former president and now Chair and Counselor of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., and is also a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Podesta was a co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project. Podesta worked as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice's Honors Program in the Land and Natural Resources Division (1976 1977), and as a Special Assistant to the Director of ACTION, the Federal volunteer agency (1978 1979). His political career began in 1972, when he worked for George McGovern's presidential campaign. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1984. First Printing. 24 cm, 357, map, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
London: Allen Lane, 2008. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. xvi, 622, [2] pages. Illustrations. Chronology. Notes. List of Interviews. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Ashok, with hope. Samantha Power. Samantha Jane Power (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish-American academic, diplomat and government official who is currently serving as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. She previously served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. Power began her career as a war correspondent covering the Yugoslav Wars before embarking on an academic career. Power joined the Obama State Department transition team in November 2008. She served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Council from January 2009 to February 2013. In 2012, Obama chose her to chair the Atrocities Prevention Board. As U.N. ambassador, Power's office focused on such issues as United Nations reform, women's rights, religious freedom and religious minorities, refugees, human trafficking, human rights, and democracy, including in the Middle East and North Africa, Sudan, and Myanmar. She is considered to have been a key figure in the Obama administration in persuading the president to intervene militarily in Libya. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, a study of the U.S. foreign policy response to genocide. She has also been awarded the 2015 Barnard Medal of Distinction and the 2016 Henry A. Kissinger Prize. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. 429, illus., notes, index. More
New York, N.Y. Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 2005. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 421, [1] pages. Signed first edition sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author on the front free end paper. Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a Visiting Professor of Literature at Bard College, and was formerly president of PEN American Center. Prose graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. She received the PEN Translation Prize in 1988 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991. Prose's novel The Glorious Ones has been adapted into a musical with the same title by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. In March 2007, Prose was chosen to succeed American writer Ron Chernow beginning in April to serve a one-year term as president of PEN American Center, a New York City-based literary society of writers, editors and translators that works to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship. Her novel, Blue Angel, a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. One of her novels, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Prose received the Rome Prize in 2006. In 2010, Prose received the Washington University International Humanities Medal. The medal, awarded biennially and accompanied by a cash prize of $25,000, is given to honor a person whose humanistic endeavors in scholarship, journalism, literature, or the arts have made a difference in the world. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1998. Wraps. iv, 44 p. : ill.; 23 cm. Endnotes. More
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, c1998. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 250, illus., clip impression on pp. 133-4, minor edge and rear endpaper soiling. Inscribed by the author. More