About Face: How I Stumbled Onto Japan's Social Revolution
New York: Kodansha International, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 342 pages. Notes, index. Signed by the author. More
New York: Kodansha International, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 342 pages. Notes, index. Signed by the author. More
New York: W. Morrow, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 304, Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Avon Books, 1995. 1st Avon Books Edition. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 392, wraps, notes, index, some wear to covers. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 24, wraps, library stamp on front cover, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: A. A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 318, illus., front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. 335, index, usual library markings, part of DJ cut off and pasted to fr endpaper, bds somewhat worn. Introduction by Eric Estorick. This is an important snapshot of New Zealand during the traumatic upheaval of the Second World War. More
New York: Columbia University Press, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 242, references, index, ink marks and underlining in several colors in several places. Studies of the East Asian Institute. More
Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1985. 28 cm, 144, wraps, covers somewhat worn and soiled, corner creased. More
New York: National Municipal League, 1998. 106, wraps, illus., pencil erasure on title page, sticker residue on front cover. More
n.p. National Council/Nat Front, 1951. 199, index, ink notation on front page. More
Washington, DC: National Democratic Inst. 1998. First? Edition. First? Printing. 14, wraps, very limited yellow highlighting. More
New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 371, illus., further reading, notes, slight damp discoloration to top of book, rear board, and rear DJ, text clear. More
Boston: News Group Boston, Inc., 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Newspaper. 96 pages. Illustrations. Folded in half. Some page browning. The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding area. It was founded in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States. It has been awarded eight Pulitzer Prizes in its history, including four for editorial writing and three for photography before it was converted to tabloid format in 1981. The Herald was named one of the "10 Newspapers That 'Do It Right'" in 2012 by Editor & Publisher. The Herald American converted to tabloid format in September 1981, but Hearst faced steep declines in circulation and advertising. The company announced it would close the Herald American—making Boston a one-newspaper town—on December 3, 1982. When the deadline came, Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch was negotiating to buy the paper and save it. He closed on the deal after 30 hours of talks with Hearst and newspaper unions—and five hours after Hearst had sent out notices to newsroom employees telling them they were terminated. The newspaper announced its own survival the next day with a full-page headline: "You Bet We're Alive!" Murdoch changed the paper's name back to the Boston Herald. The Herald continued to grow, expanding its coverage and increasing its circulation until 2001, when nearly all newspapers fell victim to declining circulations and revenue. This is an excellent source for what was known/understood at the time, recognizing that newspapers are the first draft of history. More
New York, N.Y. H. Wolff, 1963. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 333, [1] pages. Some DJ wear. Includes Foreword, Acknowledgments, Notes, Appendix: The Documentary Structure of Leviathan, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters on The Need for Leviathan; Drawing Leviathan's English Pattern; Drafting American Specifications; Operation Adjustments; Increasing Friction; Approach of Terror; Disintegration; Constructing the Confederate Leviathan; The Reason for Two Leviathans; Operation under Disadvantages; The Confederate Leviathan Collapses; A New Leviathan; and Perfecting Leviathan's New Design. An historical account of how & why the machinery of American Democracy, despite its expert design and specifications, broke down a century ago and made necessary some new blueprints [from the front of the dust jacket]. This new interpretation of American democracy by fills a real gap. Historians, Mr. Nichols points out, have a way of writing about events and personalities without concerning themselves with the underlying and the significant, the less obvious operations which are the reason for things. In American history, there has been the steady evolution, over a thousand years of English and American experience, of the American knack for maintaining self-government and liberty, the invention of the American mechanism, operated by the people themselves, for securing social order and attaining greatness. For the purpose of adjusting and eliminating the inevitable conflicts of will and interest, they have negotiated and recorded agreement, they have substituted legislation for bloodshed, and they have reached for the pen rather than for the sword. More
New York: Warner Books, 1980. First Printing. 341, map, endpaper maps, source notes, index, DJ soiled and some sticker residue. More
London: Johnson, 1967. American Edition [stated], 1968. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 160 p. 22 cm. Occasional footnotes. More
Brussels, Belgium: NATO Information Service, 1999. 27 cm, 51, wraps, illus., slight wear and soiling to covers. Text by Lawrence Kaplan and Helmut Schmidt. More
New York: An American Enterprise Institute/Simon & Schuster Publication, 1982. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 433, [2] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on fep. Inscription reads for Clare Booth Luce the heroine of our children (especially the two girls) and of their parents! Michael Novak Feb 26, 1983. Embossed seal of Ms. Luce on fep and following page. Michael John Novak Jr. (September 9, 1933 – February 17, 2017) was an American Roman Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. The author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, Novak is most widely known for his book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982). In 1993 Novak was honored with an honorary doctorate at Universidad Francisco Marroquín due to his commitment to the idea of liberty. In 1994 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which included a million-dollar purse awarded at Buckingham Palace. He wrote books and articles focused on capitalism, religion, and the politics of democratization. Novak served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1981 and 1982 and led the US delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1986. Additionally, Novak served on the board of directors of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a conservative anti-Communist faction of the Democratic Party, which sought to influence the party's policies in the same direction that the Committee on the Present Danger later did. Novak was George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. More
Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 153, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper, DJ worn and soiled: some tears, small pieces missing. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 84, footnotes, neat red underlining on several pages, some wear and soiling to DJ The author argues that the threat of Communist aggression and our proccupation with security have distorted our view and loosened our faith in individual freedom. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 84, footnotes, boards somewhat worn and soiled. The Godkin lectures at Harvard University, 1955. More
New York: Time Books, c1993. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 228, references, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. xxii, 233 p. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxii, 233, [1] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by author and dated on fep. Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947), known as P. J. O'Rourke, is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and a panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. He has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. He is the author of 20 books, including Holidays in Hell, a compilation of O'Rourke's articles as a free-lance foreign correspondent and All the Trouble in the World, an examination of current political concerns such as global warming and famine from a libertarian perspective. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 states: O'Rourke's original reporting, irreverent humor, and crackerjack writing makes for delectable reading. He never minces words or pulls his punches, whatever the subject. More