What is Democracy?
New York: Dutton, 1955. First Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 191, illus., some wear and soiling to boards. Introduction by Dr. Grayson Kirk. More
New York: Dutton, 1955. First Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 191, illus., some wear and soiling to boards. Introduction by Dr. Grayson Kirk. More
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 233, [5] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: Jan 28/ 2008, To John Mandel--a student of Russia and Nabokov. Nina L. Khrushcheva [the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev]. Includes Acknowledgments, Note on Transliteration and Translations; List of Abbreviations; Chronology: Works by Vladimir Sirin and Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction: Nabokov and Us; and Prologue: Nabokov's Russian Return...and Retreat. Also contains chapters on Imagining Nabokov; On the Way to the Author; Poet, Genius, and Hero. Also contains Epilogue: Nabokov as the Pushkin of the Twenty-first Century, Envoi, Notes, and Select Bibliography. Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva (born 1964) is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York, USA, a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute, New York, USA, and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale UP, 2008) and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), and co-author of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019). The author wrote: I am in love with Vladimir Nabokov, Russian turned American author of Lolita, Pale Fire and Speak, Memory. I love him so much I went to Montreux, a resort town in Switzerland, to talk to his statue, to pay homage to this great traveler, a traveler so profound that much of his life he lived in a hotel. More
Middletown, DE: Serenity Point Press, 2019. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xvii. [1], 335, [7] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Endnotes. Signed by the author on the title page. Front cover curls up a bit. Author, international thought leader, and life-planning pioneer George Kinder has been at the forefront of the financial services industry for more than 35 years, spearheading a movement to put the lives that clients desire to live at the center of their financial plans. George has trained thousands of professionals globally in the field of financial life planning. He founded the Kinder Institute of Life Planning in 2003. His three books on money, The Seven Stages of Money Maturity, Lighting the Torch, and Life Planning for You, are considered foundational and essential works in the field of financial life planning. George’s client-centered and values-driven money-management philosophies challenge many assumptions in economics, our approaches to democracy. A graduate of Harvard University, George earned the Bronze Medal in Massachusetts on the National Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam in 1975. In 1994, he co-founded “The Nazrudin Project,” an influential think tank of national financial advisers dedicated to exploring the human and spiritual aspects of money and personal finance. In 2000, Investment Advisor Magazine awarded him its Portfolio Management Award, which is given to those who have “contributed significantly to the art and science of portfolio management.” George’s thought leadership extends beyond finance as reflected in his books on mindfulness and civilization. He has taught mindfulness for 35 years, now to a global community. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. Reprint. First Edition, fifth printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, 252 p. Note on Turkish Pronounciation. Maps. Index. More
New York, N.Y. Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 274 pages. Illustrations. Bookplate inside front board. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Inscription reads, For Bruce--Best regards, Stephen Kinzer. Contains black and white map of Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia opposite the table of contents, and a map at page 20. Includes Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and Index. Chapters include Introduction, Part One: For the People, in Spite of the People; Part Two: Our Name Has Not Been An Honored One; Part Three: Very Far Away; and Part Four: The Door is so Wide Open. Stephen Kinzer (born August 4, 1951) is an American author, journalist and academic. He is a former New York Times correspondent. During the 1980s, Kinzer covered revolutions and social upheaval in Central America, and wrote his first book, Bitter Fruit, about military coups and destabilization in Guatemala during the 1950s. In 1990, The New York Times appointed Kinzer to head its Berlin bureau, from which he covered Eastern and Central Europe as they emerged from Soviet bloc. Kinzer was The New York Times chief in the newly established bureau in Istanbul from 1996 to 2000. Upon returning to the United States, Kinzer became the newspaper's culture correspondent, based in Chicago, as well as teaching at Northwestern University. Kinzer then moved to Boston and taught journalism and United States foreign policy at Boston University. He has written several non-fiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, and the US overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present, as well as Rwanda's recovery from genocide. More
New York: Pageant Press, 1954, 1955. Second Edition. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 234 pages. Some wear and soiling to DJ. Foreword by H. Ezra Eberhardt. More
New York: Weatherhill, 1985. First Eng Lang Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 220, slight wear and soiling to DJ, slight edge soiling. More
Fort Lesllie J. McNair, Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1992. First edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xv, 198 p.; 23 cm. Map. Illustration. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
Chicago: The University Of Chicago Press, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 582, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear, small edge tear, and soiling. Louise (Lucy) W. Knight is an author, lecturer, and historian. She has written two biographies of Jane Addams. In 2005 she published CITIZEN: JANE ADDAMS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, about Addams's formative years. The second book, the first full life biography of Addams in 37 years is JANE ADDAMS: SPIRIT IN ACTION. Shifting her focus to the antebellum period, she is currently working on a book about the radical abolitionist-feminists, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, titled American Sisters: Sarah and Angelina Grimké and the Fight for Human Rights. Knight's writing have been published in the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation website, CNN, and the Chicago Tribune. She lectures often at universities, historical societies. and academic conferences. She has appeared on public television, C-Span Book TV, and various radio stations. In her lectures, booktalks, and other writings, she explores the connections between early and current progressive civic action. She is a long-time Visiting Scholar in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Northwestern University, currently serves in the board of Biographers International Organization (BIO) and is a former president of the Frances Willard Historical Association, which manages the historical site, Frances Willard's home, in Evanston, Illinois. More
Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2004. 308, footnotes, index, minor scratching and scuffing to rear DJ. More
New York: W. W. Norton, [1972]. First Printing. 22 cm, 315, appendices, reading list, index, usual library markings, board edges worn, DJ in plastic sleeve, 2nd rear flyleaf creased small stains on a few pages. Collection of essays by contemporary scholars, dealing with human rights in classical Jewish thought. More
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1959, c1957. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 239, bibliography, references, DJ worn, torn, soiled, frayed, and chipped. The Leo M. Franklin lectures in human relations 1954-55. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, [1996]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 77, wraps. More
New York: The New Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.625 inches by 8.5 inches. xvi, 184, [6] pages. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author with a sentiment on the fep--reads To liberals everywhere--you are not alone! Justin Krebs. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Justin Krebs is a political and cultural writer, entrepreneur and organizer. He is the author of 538 Ways to Live, Work and Play Like a Liberal, a book that launched a 65-city tour, and he is a regular contributor to It's A Free Country, the politics website of WNYC, New York's Public Radio. Justin is a founder and National Director of Living Liberally, an organization that creates social communities around progressive politics across the country, including Laughing Liberally comedy shows, Screening Liberally film series, Drinking Liberally happy hours and many more programs. Justin has developed creative campaigns with progressive allies including environmental advocates, labor unions, immigration activists, civil rights groups and good-government campaigns. He is a former Senior Fellow at the New Organizing Institute in Washington, DC, and a former Activist Fellow with CREDO Action in San Francisco. Past experiences also include writing a history of New York City's playgrounds, producing a civic engagement tour that turned into an award-winning PBS documentary and working for then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Justin is a graduate of Harvard University. He serves on the Board of Directors of Get In The Game, a non-partisan voter registration organization. More
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2007. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xviii, [4], 308 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Notes. Index. Inscribed and dated by both authors on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: To Jeri and Al, whose insight, judgment, & friendship we value highly. Best wishes always, Bob & Kathleen, 4 Sept. 2007. Foreword by Desmond Tutu. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, and Some Notes on the Text, Notes; and Index. Chapters cover The Coup: Burundi's Army Kills Its President; Burundi's Tortured History, Its Champion of Democracy, and Its Legacy of Assassination; From Washington to Burundi; The Embassy and the Countryside: Massacres Explored; Government at a Standstill; Christmas in Bujumbura: Grenades, Gunfire, and Curfew; Quiet Heroes; No White Hats fro the Rwandan Patriotic Army; Telling the Truth Draws Threats of Assassination; Democracy Eaten Away: The Crocodile Is Never Satisfied; The Standoff; A Life of Contrast; The Convent and the Camp; Burundi at War and at Peace, and From the Sky; The Dark Curtain; A family Divided; Gasorwe: Hundreds Massacred and a Reporter Murdered; Vortex of Violence; Ambushed on a Mountain Road; Interlude: Three Missionaries; Epiphany: Going Home; Conclusion. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition. First? Printing. 391, some wear and soiling to DJ, small tears/chips to DJ edges. More
Washington DC: Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xxxv, [1], 151, [1] pages. Footnotes. Tables. About the Authors. Ink marks to text noted. Among the topics covered are: Politics, Democracy, National Integration, National Identity, Corruption, Rule of Law, Economic Reforms, Energy Security, European Union, European Integration, and Transatlantic Integration. Among the authors represented are: Serbiy Kudelia, Olexiy Haran, Bohdan Vitvitsky, Marcin Swiecicki, Frank Umbach, Peter Balazs, and F. Stephen Larrabee. Taras Kuzio (born 1958) is a British academic and expert in Ukrainian political, economic and security affairs. As part of the CIA QRPLUMB Project, in 1986, Kuzio began compiling and translating information on current events in Soviet Ukraine and provided this information to the media through the Ukraine Press Agency (UPA) in Great Britain. In 1992-1993, Taras Kuzio worked as a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. From 1995-1998 he was a senior research fellow with the Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Birmingham in England where he completed his Ph.D. on nation and state building in Ukraine. Daniel S. Hamilton is at the Brookings Institution?s Center on the United States and Europe, president of the Transatlantic Leadership Network, and co-leads ?The United States, Europe, and World Order? postdoctoral program at Johns Hopkins University?s School of Advanced International Studies, where he has was the Richard von Weizsäcker Professor (2003-12), the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor (2013-20), and a fellow in the Foreign Policy Institute. More
New York: Congdon & Weed, c1984. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 435, endpaper maps, index, DJ stained, DJ spine edges worn and small loss of material at base of DJ spine. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Horizon Press, 1959. First? Edition. First? Printing. 155 pages Footnotes, usual library markings, some pencil markings to text, DJ worn, soiled, sm tears/chips. Autographed by Henry Steele Commager. More
New York, N.Y. Philosophical Library, Inc., 1952. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xviii, 433, [1] pages. Endpaper maps. DJ has chips and tears. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: For Ella and Don--Connoseurs and creators of civilization through the written word and the brave, good deed. Corliss Lamont, 1953. The book includes an Introduction, Preface, and chapters on Soviet Domestic Policy and Achievements, and American-Soviet Relations. Also contains Charts of Government Structure of the U.S.S.R., and Government Structure of a Union Republic, as well as Notes and an Index. Corliss Lamont (March 28, 1902 – April 26, 1995) was an American socialist philosopher and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. As a part of his political activities he was the Chairman of National Council of American-Soviet Friendship starting from the early 1940s. Lamont became a philanthropist. He funded the collection and preservation of manuscripts of American philosophers, particularly George Santayana, as well as Rockwell Kent and John Masefield. He became a substantial donor to both Harvard and Columbia, endowing the latter's "Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties." Lamont was a prolific author. He wrote, co-wrote, edited, or co-edited more than two dozen books and dozens of pamphlets, and wrote thousands of letters to newspapers, magazines, and journals on significant social issues during his lifelong campaign for peace and civil rights. More
Washington, DC: Washington Institute Press, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. 592, maps, footnotes, index. This book was removed from the original shrinkwrap for cataloguing. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1971]. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 333, frontis illus., figures, footnotes, biblio, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and crinkled, pencil erasure fr endppr. More
Glencoe, Ill. The Free Press of Glencoe, 1961. Second Printing. Hardcover. 374 pages. Illus., index. Name of previous owner present. DJ worn, soiled, edge tears/chips. More
New York: North Point Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 205. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. First Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 359 pages. Ink notation inside front board. Signed by the author. More