Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. 1st Touchstone Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 392, wraps, illus., pencil erasure residue on front endpaper, some wear to covers. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. 1st Touchstone Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 392, wraps, illus., pencil erasure residue on front endpaper, some wear to covers. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 23 cm. [6], 281, [1] pages. Illustrations. The author was a young Mennonite who went to Vietnam to help people in need. Caught up in the war, he was accused of being a North Vietnam spy and a CIA agent. The journal overflows with the stories of people who have sojourned in hell: soldiers and farmers, heroes and victims, teachers and torturers, the doers and the done-to. What emerges is a collective portrait of a modest, inventive, tenacious people who braved three decades of fire-storm. The author spent a total of five years in Vietnam. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, x, [6], 468, [4] pages. illus., Map. Bibliography. Index. Some wear and soiling to DJ, DJ flap creased. Name in ink on fep. Some edge soiling. The Cuban Revolution (1959) was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. The revolution began in July 1953, and continued sporadically until the rebels finally ousted Batista on 1 January 1959, replacing his government with a revolutionary socialist state. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along communist lines, becoming the Communist Party in October 1965. The Cuban Revolution had powerful domestic and international repercussions. In particular, it reshaped Cuba's relationship with the United States. Efforts to improve diplomatic relations have gained momentum in recent years. In the immediate aftermath of the revolution, Castro's government began a program of nationalization and political consolidation that transformed Cuba's economy and civil society. The revolution also heralded an era of Cuban intervention in foreign military conflicts, including the Angolan Civil War and the Nicaraguan Revolution. More
New York: Scribner, [1975]. First Printing. 24 cm, 468, illus., some wear and soiling to DJ, DJ flap creased, small edge tears to pp. 457-460, pencil erasure to front endpaper. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Second Printing. 728, wraps, illus., note on sources, notes, index, corners of front cover and a few pages creased These exceptionally well-edited tapes of the Cuban missile crisis place the conversations in context and provide a thorough account of the operations of the CIA and other agencies at the height of the Cold War. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. First Edition. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 468 pages, Notes on Sources. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Jane Meredith Mayer[2] (born 1955) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995. In recent years, she has written for that publication regarding: money in politics; government prosecution of whistleblowers; the United States Predator drone program; Donald Trump's ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz; and Trump's financial backer, Robert Mercer. Doyle McManus (born approximately 1952) is an American journalist, columnist (for the Los Angeles Times),[2][3] who appears often on Public Broadcasting Service's Washington Week. He joined the L.A. Times in 1978, reporting from Los Angeles, the Middle East, Central America, New York. He transferred to the Times's Washington, D.C., bureau in 1983, where he covered the U.S. State Department, and White House. More
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1984. Wraps. 191, [1] pages. Occasional footnotes. More
Washington DC: History Staff, Central Intelligence Agency, October 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Oversized book, measuring 10-3/4 inches by 8-1/2 inches. Includes Foreword, Preface, Persons Mentioned, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Part I: Prelude to Crisis; Part II: Crisis, 16-28 October 1962; Part III: The Aftermath. The collection in this volume includes many of the CIA's most important documents on the Cuban missile crisis. To the degree possible, the documents in this volume are organized according to the date of subject matter. In general, support documents follow documents that summarize a sequence of events. All of the documents have been subject to declassification review, and portions of some have been deleted for security reasons. Much has been written on the missile crisis during the years that have passed since those 13 days in October, but the unavailability of classified material has left many questions unanswered. More
New York: Encounter Books, 2008. First edition [stated]. Hardcover. 352 p. Notes. Index. More
Markham, VA: History Is a Hoot, Inc., 1999. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. 108, [4] p. Illustrations. Index. More
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972. 240, boards and spine somewhat scuffed, some wear to edges of boards and spine. More
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972. 240, ink notation inside front flyleaf, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn & soiled: small edge tears/chips. More
Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books Inc., 1974. Second Thus Printing. Pocket paperbk, 240, wraps, covers somewhat soiled and small creases, sticker residue on front cover. More
Place_Pub: New York: Scribner's, c1988. First Printing. 25 cm, 310, illus., appendices, bibliography, index. Inscribed by the author, who was formerly U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1988. First Printing. 25 cm, 310, illus., appendices, bibliography, index, damp stains in margins of several pgs (no pgs stuck), ink & green ink underlining. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxviii, [2], 155, [5] pages. Notes. Author's Note. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. The military uses of parapsychology. The author served in the U.S. Navy for five years. He then joined Jack Anderson's investigative reporting staff in 1979. His scoops included a prediction of Israel's attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor, published ten months before it happened, and the revelation of the PLO/s role in the American hostage crisis with Iran. He has been a correspondent for The Economist of London's Foreign Report. More
New York: Random House, 2015. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxiv, [2], 836, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Author's Note. Illustrations (some in color). Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. . DJ has slight wear and soiling. Signed by the author on the title page Jon Ellis Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a contributing editor to Time magazine and editor-at-large of WNET, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Meacham also wrote Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (2012). Additionally, he is currently a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. More
New York: Random House, 2015. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxiv, [2], 836, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Author's Note. Illustrations (some in color). Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Jon Ellis Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a contributing editor to Time magazine and editor-at-large of WNET, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Meacham also wrote Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (2012). Additionally, he is currently a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Selected by the Bush family to be the official biographer for George H. W. Bush, Meacham's book, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, was published in 2015. He gave eulogies for both President Bush and Barbara Bush when they died in 2018. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. 214, glossary, bibliography and notes, index, few library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to bds, rear lib pocket removed. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. vii, [1], 214, [2] pages. Translator's Note on Russian Spelling. Glossary. Documents Section. Bibliography and Notes, Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. DJ front flap clipped at bottom. Stamp on fep. Pencil writing on fep. Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (born 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev. Zhores Medvedev is famous for exposing the Kyshtym nuclear disaster, which occurred at Mayak near Kyshtym, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Urals in 1957. He published the book The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals in 1979 (W.W. Norton, New York). Medvedev was an early victim of official attempts to stifle opposition by detaining dissidents in mental institutions. In London, Medvedev continued to edit the samizdat journal XX Century jointly with his brother Roy. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. 201, illus., appendix, chronology, notes, bibliography, index, rear DJ somewhat soiled and small tears. More
Washington DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2005. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxvii, [1], 547, [1] pages. Cast of Characters. Illustrations. Notes. Annotated and Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Joan Mellen is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is the author of twenty-four books, ranging from film criticism to fiction, sports, true crime, Latin American studies and biography. Her early work was about the cinema. Her “Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film” published in 1974, was a landmark work in feminist studies. Larry McMurtry pronounced it “brilliant” in his “Washington Post” review. Her study of the image of women in film was followed by the companion study, “Big Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Cinema.” Her book about “The Battle of Algiers,” written in 1972, has been quoted widely in connection with the events of 9/11. In 1972, she was awarded a prize by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper organization in Japan. This led her to write five books about Japan, including “The Waves at Genji’s Door: Japan through Its Cinema,” 1976. Her 1981 novel, “Natural Tendencies,” is set in Japan. More recently, she has written two books about Japanese film for the British Film Institute, “Seven Samurai” (2002) and “In the Realm of the Senses” (2004). She is also a biographer. Both “Kay Boyle: Author of Herself” (1994) and “Hellman and Hammett” (1996) were “New York Times” Notable Books of the year. “Hellman and Hammett” was also a finalist for the “Los Angeles Times” book prize. More
New York: PublicAffairs, May 2019. First Edition [Stated]. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 238, [10] pages. Author's Note. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Signed by co-author Jonna Mendez on the title page. Jonna Mendez (née Hiestand; born 1945) is an American former technical operations officer, photo operations officer, and chief of disguise for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In the CIA, Mendez lived under cover and served tours of duty in Europe, the Far East, the Subcontinent, and at CIA Headquarters. In the 1970's, she joined the Office of Technical Service and worked overseas with a specialty in clandestine photography. She was assigned to Denied Area Operations for disguise in 1986. This took her to the most difficult and hostile operating areas in the world where she and her colleagues matched wits with the overwhelming forces of the KGB in Moscow, the Stasi in East Germany and the Cuban DGI. During her tenure as Chief of Disguise, she met with President George H. W. Bush in a mask disguise, which she removed in the meeting to demonstrate the effectiveness of the art of disguise. After retiring from the CIA in 1993, Mendez and her husband served on the board of directors for the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. They were both involved in the museum planning and design. Antonio Joseph Mendez (November 15, 1940 – January 19, 2019) was an American technical operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who specialized in support of clandestine and covert CIA operations. He wrote four memoirs about his CIA experiences. He was not alive when this work was published, so the only author signature possible was that of Jonna Mendez. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 2000. 1st Perennial Edition. Fifth Printing. 351, wraps, illus., glossary, some wear and creasing to covers, text slightly darkenedThe tricks and techniques behind the ingenious disguises created for hundreds of people during the Cold War. Mendez earned the CIA's Intelligence Star for his role in engineering the escape of six Americans from Iran in 1980. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1999. First Edition. Fourth Printing. 351, illus., glossary, slight wear to DJ edges. More