Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. Paperback edition, presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xii, 369, [3] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index. Inscribed by author on half-title page. Frontis. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The author is a professor of history. He specialized in nineteenth-century baseball. Edward James Delahanty (October 30, 1867 – July 2, 1903), nicknamed "Big Ed", was a Major League Baseball player from 1888 to 1903 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Infants and Washington Senators. He was known as one of the game's early power hitters, and while primarily a left fielder during his career, he also played as an infielder. Delahanty won a batting title, batted over .400 three times, and has the fifth-highest batting average in MLB history. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945. He died falling into Niagara Falls or the Niagara River after being kicked off of a train while intoxicated. His biographer argues that: Baseball for Irish kids was a shortcut to the American dream and to self-indulgent glory and fortune. By the mid-1880s these young Irish men dominated the sport and popularized a style of play that was termed heady, daring, and spontaneous.... [Delahanty] personified the flamboyant, exciting spectator-favorite, the Casey-at-the-bat, Irish slugger. More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xvi, [2], 219, [3] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Chronology. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Black mark on top edge. Foreword by Strobe Talbott. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971) was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. This volume covers the Stalin era, foreign relations, and other affairs too sensitive for the earlier volumes. More

Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Pub. c1996. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 340, illus., references, index, some sticker residue and slight soiling to DJ. Foreword by Lynda L. Crist. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, 432 p. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More

Place_Pub: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. 243, footnotes, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More

New York: Pegasus Books, 2019. First Pegasus Books Cloth Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxvii, [1],276 pages. Endnotes. Index. Rare autographed/inscribed copy. Inscribed by the principal author on the title page. The inscription reads To Steve & Sue, with admiration from your client, the author Jerrold M Post, MD. Jerrold Morton Post (February 8, 1934 – November 22, 2020) was an American psychiatrist and author. He was an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) and the founder of the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior. Post created a number of "psychobiographies" on notable individuals during his tenure at the C.I.A. and is credited in some sources as inventing the field of political psychology. In 1965, Post was preparing to accept a position at Harvard's McLean Hospital, when, through an acquaintance, he was recruited by the C.I.A., where he began developing psychological profiles of world leaders. After a career of 21 years at the C.I.A.,[2] in 1986, Post left to found a program of political psychology at George Washington University. In 1979, Post won the Intelligence Medal of Merit. In 1980, he won the Studies in Intelligence Award. In 2002, he received the Nevitt Sanford Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Political Psychology. He was a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Stephanie R. Doucette was the Director of Research as Political Psychology Associates, Ltd. She has conducted research on the psychology of political leaders with Dr. Post, and has co-authored scholarly work with Dr. Post on the subject published by the Oxford University Press and elsewhere. More

New York: Scribner, c1988. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 468 pages. Illus., endpaper maps, index. Presentation copy signed by both authors.Jerry Schecter headed the Time-Life Bureau in Moscow. More

Place_Pub: Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. 270, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index, ink marks on last page & rear DJ flap, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears/chips. More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 509, [1] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. Foreword by Robert Conquest. Lieutenant General Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov (July 7, 1907 – September 26, 1996) was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. He became involved in several famous episodes, including the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940, the Soviet espionage program which obtained information about the atomic bomb from the Manhattan Project, and Operation Scherhorn, a Soviet deception operation against the Germans in 1944. His autobiography, Special Tasks, published in 1994, made him well known outside the USSR, and provided a detailed look at Soviet intelligence and Soviet internal politics during his years at the top. More