Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners
Hyattsville, MD: Quixote Center, 2002. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. 271 pages. Wraps, illus., notes, bibliography, index. Signed by the author. More
Hyattsville, MD: Quixote Center, 2002. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. 271 pages. Wraps, illus., notes, bibliography, index. Signed by the author. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 445, [3] pages. Illustrations. Author's Note. Footnotes. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by author on fep. DJ has wear, tears, soiling, and chips. Minor endpaper soiling. Minor edge soiling. William George Meany (August 16, 1894 – January 10, 1980) was an American labor union leader for 57 years. He was the key figure in the creation of the AFL-CIO and served as the AFL-CIO's first president, from 1955 to 1979. Meany, the son of a union plumber, became a plumber at a young age, as well. He became a full-time union official 12 years later. As an officer of the American Federation of Labor, he represented the AFL on the National War Labor Board during World War II. He served as president of the AFL from 1952 to 1955. He proposed its merger with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1952 and led the negotiations until the merger was completed in 1955. He then served as president of the merged AFL-CIO for the next 24 years. Meany had a reputation for integrity and consistent opposition to corruption in the labor movement, and strong anti-communism. He was the best known union leader in the United States in the mid-20th century. More
New York: Macmillan, 1964. Second Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm, 308 pages, index, DJ worn, soiled, small edge tears, and chips, pencil erasure on half-title. Professor Roche was a prolific author of books and articles. He was also a syndicated columnist, and once described his politics as "Social Democrat." He was a consultant to John F. Kennedy when Kennedy was a Senator and later when he was President. He was also a special adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968. In the 1950's he was active in the civil-rights movement. He was a cofounder of Americans for Democratic Action and served as its president from 1962 to 1965. In the 1960's, he also wrote speeches for Hubert H. Humphrey, beginning when Humphrey was a Senator and later Vice President. Professor Roche's governmental positions included service on the Eisenhower Commission on International Radio Broadcasting, the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, and, most recently, the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Professor Roche's best known academic work was "The Founding Fathers, a Reform Caucus in Action," which was printed by the American Political Science Review. Among his books were "Courts and Rights" (1961), "The Quest for the Dream: Civil Liberties in Modern America" (1963), "Shadow and Substance: Studies in the Theory and Structure of Politics" (1964), and "Sentenced to Life: Reflections on Politics, Education and Law" (1974). More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm, 308 pages, chapter notes, index, tear & creases in rear DJ, DJ in plastic sleeve, "signed" sticker on DJ spine. Signed by the author. A hopeful report on the significant development of human freedom in the United States over the preceding fifty years. Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, or disability; and individual rights such as privacy and the freedoms of thought, speech, religion, press, assembly, and movement. Civil and political rights form the original and main part of international human rights. They comprise the first portion of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (with economic, social, and cultural rights comprising the second portion). More
London: Thorsons [an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2000. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. xi, 287, [1] p. Illustrations. Index. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, c2001. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 79, wraps, footnotes, covers somewhat creased, worn, and soiled. Foreword by Leslie Gelb. More
New York: Warner Books, 2002. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 244 p. Illustrations (some in color). Roosevelt Family Tree. Bibliographical References. More
Washington DC: CATO Institute, 2014. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 237, [3] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads For Tony Flemming Rose 11/14/14. Pencil marks and underlining (erasable) noted in a number of places. Flemming Rose is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He previously served as foreign affairs editor and culture editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten. During his tenure as culture editor, Rose was principally responsible for the September 2005 publication of the cartoons that initiated the Muhammad cartoons controversy in early 2006. Since then, he has been an international advocate for freedom of speech. In 2016 he received the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty from the Cato Institute. He lives in Denmark and speaks widely in Europe and elsewhere. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 394 p. Selected Bibliography. More
New York: Random House, 1995. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. xxiv, 437, [2] pages. Glossary of Names. Selected Bibliography. Index. Name of previous owner present. Tina Rosenberg (born April 14, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American journalist and the author of three books. For one of them, The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (1995), she won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the National Book Award for Nonfiction. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Northwestern University. In 1987 she won a MacArthur Fellowship, which she used to move to South America. Her experiences there led to her first published book, Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America (1991). Rosenberg's work has appeared in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. She is a fellow at the World Policy Institute and an editorial writer for The New York Times who frequently writes for The New York Times Magazine. In 2013, she founded the Solutions Journalism Network with David Bornstein and Courtney Martin. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1979. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 230, DJ slightly worn and soiled. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 1994. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. iv, 19, [1] p.; 23 cm. Table. Endnotes. More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1986. First Grove Press edition [stated], first printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvii, 505 p. Map. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. More
Washington, DC: Consumer News, Inc., 1981. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 23 cm. [12], vii, [1], 230, [2] pages. References. Front DJ flap price clipped. DJ has wear, soiling, scratches, tears and chips. Arthur E. Rowse was formerly on the staff of the Washington Post and the U.S. News and World Report. An examination of Ronald Reagan as campaigner and president finds misstatements of fact, secret deals, and a disregard for actual public opinion and policies that do not stand up to scrutiny. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Consumer News, c1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 230, appendices, references, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Consumer News, c1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 230, appendices, references, DJ somewhat discolored, small piece missing to rear DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxv, [3], 397, [7] pages. Introduction by Joshua Rubenstein. Footnotes. Illustrations. Chronology. List of Abbreviations. Annotated List of KGB Documents. Glossary of Names. Selected Bibliography. Index. Documents translated by Ella Shmulevich, Efrem Yankelevich, and Alla Zeide. This is one of The Annals of Communism Series. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world. Although he spent his career in physics in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons, overseeing the development of thermonuclear weapons, Sakharov also did fundamental work in understanding particle physics, magnetism, and physical cosmology. Sakharov is mostly known for his political activism for individual freedom, human rights, civil liberties and reforms in Russia, for which, he was deemed as a dissident and faced persecution from the Soviet establishment. In his memory, the Sakharov Prize is established by the European Parliament which is awarded annually for the people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms. Joshua Rubenstein is an American activist, writer and scholar of literature, dissent, and politics in the former Soviet Union. He won a National Jewish Book Award in Eastern European studies in 2002 for his book Stalin’s Secret Pogrom. Alexander Gribanov is a literary scholar and archivist. He was the literary editor of the Chronicle of Current Events in Moscow. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1973]. First Printing. 24 cm, 267, illus. Afterword by Ezra Rusinek. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 382, [6] pages. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Index. Foreword by Matthias Mahlmann. The Constitution was written to shape human behavior and affairs, and it does so by appealing to people's hearts, not only their minds. An interdisciplinary analysis sheds new light on the emotions that underlie constitutional law, with many cogent examples. András Sajó (born 25 March 1949) is a Hungarian legal academic and former European Court of Human Rights judge. Sajó was born in Budapest. He was the founding Dean of the Legal Studies department at the Central European University in Budapest. Later he chaired the Comparative Constitutional Law LL.M. program. Between 2001 and 2007, he served on the board of directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative of New York. Between February, 2008 and April, 2017 he served as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Hungary. He was the President of the First Section of the Court as well as the President of the Fourth Section. As a judge, he was cited in an independent NGO report which shows that he seated in three cases where the Open Society Justice Initiative was involved as a third party (Centro Europa 7 S.r.l. and Di Stefano v. Italy, Pauliukien and Pauliukas v. Lithuania and Ahmet Yldirim v. Turkey). After completing the term at the Court, Sajó returned to the CEU, where he currently is a University Professor. On 6 May 2020, Facebook appointed him to its content oversight board. More
New York: Khronika Press, 1975. 79, wraps, footnotes, small stains to rear cover. Text is in Russian. More
New York: Vantage Press, 1992. First Edition. 176, chapter notes, front flyleaf torn out, DJ slightly scuffed and soiled. More
South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1986. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xv, 264, [5] p. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. More
New York, NY: United Nations Publications, 1997. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xvii, [1]. 459, [1] pages. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches. Includes Introduction, Foreword, and Overview of Terms. Also includes information on The General Assembly of the United Nations, including treaties, conventions, protocols, agreements, declarations, proclamations, charters, and resolutions. In its unique universality, the United Nations possesses the trust and credibility essential to the process through which nations can agree on universal norms and standards. And it is the United Nations that can provide the legitimacy for the promotion and enforcement of these standards. This publication helped mark the United Nations 50 years of service to humanity. More
Chicago, IL: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1964. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xiii, 143 pages. 29 cm. Illustrations, Portraits. Index. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. More
Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, 322 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More