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[Book #85221] Becton: Autobiography of a Soldier and Public Servant. Julius W. Becton, Jr

Becton: Autobiography of a Soldier and Public Servant

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Foreword by Louis Thornton Becton. Illustrations. Appendixes. Chronology. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Notes. Index. Inscribed on the half-title page by the author. Inscription reads Dr. Ramsey--many thanks for all that you have done for me, the Army, and the country. Continued good fortune. God Bless Julius. Foreword has an inscription signed by Louise Becton which reads: Thanks for being such a great doc!! It means a lot to know your really care! Louise Becton. RARE with dual inscriptions! DJ has slight wear, soiling and sticker residue. Julius Wesley Becton Jr. (born June 29, 1926) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and education administrator. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in July 1944, graduated infantry Officer Candidate School in 1945, and served with 93rd Infantry Division. He separated from the Army in 1946, but returned to service after President Harry S. Truman's executive order to integrate the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948. He graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the National War College. In his mid-60s, Becton began a new career as an education administrator. From 1989 to 1994, Becton was the fifth president of Prairie View A&M University (his alma mater). President Becton was the first graduate of Prairie View A&M University to attain flag rank in the military. In 1996, he became the Superintendent of the Washington, D.C. public school system. More

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[Book #77339] Presidents of War. Michael Beschloss

Presidents of War

New York: Crown, 2018. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 739, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Source Notes. Index. Michael Richard Beschloss (born November 30, 1955) is an American historian specializing in the United States presidency. He is the author of nine books, the most recent of which, Presidents of War, was published by Crown/Penguin Random House in 2018. Beschloss has been a frequent commentator on the PBS NewsHour and is the NBC News Presidential Historian. He is a trustee of the White House Historical Association and the National Archives Foundation and he also sits on the board of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Michael Beschloss was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State’s highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2004 in the area of Communications and Education. More

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[Book #81897] Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance. Richard K. Betts

Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance

Washington, D.C. The Brookings Institution, 1987. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 240, [2] pages. Footnotes. Cover has some wear and a corner is creased. Minor page soiling noted. Includes Foreword, Contains chapters on Risks, Threats, and Rationales; Lower-Risk Cases; Higher-Risk Cases; Brinks and Balances: Interests, Vulnerability, Resolve; Parity: Change, Continuity, Confusion; and Is There a Future for Nuclear Coercion?. Also contains an Index. The author suggests that U.S. presidents were neither consciously bluffing when they made nuclear threats, not prepared to face the consequences if their threats failed. The author also challenges the myth that the 1950's was a golden age of low vulnerability for the United States, and details how nuclear parity has, and has not, altered conditions that gave rise to nuclear blackmail in the past. Richard Kevin Betts (born August 15, 1947) is the Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science, the director of the International Security Policy Program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and former director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies,. He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution until 1990. A former staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the National Security Council. Betts has been an occasional consultant to the National Intelligence Council and Central Intelligence Agency. His writings have earned five prizes, including the Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in political science. More

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[Book #77246] Check Six: A Fighter Pilot Looks Back. Frederick C. Blesse

Check Six: A Fighter Pilot Looks Back

Mesa, AZ: Champlin Fighter Museum Press, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [10], 178, [4] pages. Illustrations. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Signed by the author Boots Blesse (Fighter Ace) on fep with the additional signatures believed to be of Johnnie Johnson (the RAF Fighter Ace), Danny Browne (the American Fighter Ace who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force), von Lipsey (Marine Corps fighter pilot and Top Gun graduate), Walker M. Mahurin (Bud Mahurin--Fighter Ace) and Gabby Gabreski (Fighter Ace). A unique "aces full" collection of autographs. Frederick Corbin "Boots" Blesse (August 22, 1921 – October 31, 2012) was a United States Air Force major general and flying ace. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1945. He flew two combat tours during the Korean War, completing 67 missions in P-51s, 35 missions in F-80s and 121 missions in F-86s. During the second tour in F-86s, he was officially credited with shooting down nine MiG-15s and one La-9. At the time of his return to the United States in October 1952, he was America's leading jet ace. More

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[Book #83401] The General vs. the President; MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of...

The General vs. the President; MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

New York: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition [stated], Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 437, [1] pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Prologue, Part One: Two Roads Up the Mountain, Part Two: Test of Nerve; Part Three: An Entirely New War; Part Four: The General vs. the President; and Part Five: Fade Away. Sources. Notes. Index. Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He has authored 30 books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. In his first year after completing his doctorate, Brands worked as an oral historian at the University of Texas School of Law. The year following he taught at Vanderbilt University. In 1987 he took a position at Texas A&M University, where he remained for the next seventeen years. In 2005, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was formerly the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and Professor of Government and now holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History. In addition to his works on US history, Brands has works on the economic development of the United States and biographies of key leaders in corporate America. His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. He has appeared in the documentaries The Presidents (2005), 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (2006), America: The Story of Us (2010), The Men Who Built America (2012), The World Wars (2014), and The Eighties (2016). More

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[Book #82874] Defence in the Nuclear Age; An Introduction for Canadians. E. L. M. Burns

Defence in the Nuclear Age; An Introduction for Canadians

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1976. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [1], 133, [1] pages. Foreword, Abbreviations. Tabular Information. Suggested Reading. Bibliography. Index. DJ has wear, tears, and chips. Has chapters on: What is Security? What is Strategy; Strategy and Technology in World War I; Strategy and Technology in World War II; NATO, the Warsaw Pact and Korea; Nuclear Strategies: American and Soviet; Limited War; Peacekeeping: A Canadian Specialty?. Civil Violence and Foreign Intervention; Arms Control and Disarmament; and Canada's Defence Policy. Lieutenant General Eedson Louis Millard "Tommy" Burns, CC, DSO, OBE, MC, CD (June 17, 1897 – September 13, 1985) was a senior officer of the Canadian Army and a diplomat. During WWII Burns successively commanded the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division, the 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division (January 1944 to March 1944), and then I Canadian Corps (March 1944 until November 1944). He played a critical role in the Middle East peace process from 1954 to 1959. He was instrumental in developing UN peacekeeping. As Chief of Staff in 1954, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) was designed to maintain the General Armistice Agreements until permanent peace could be formulated. Burns served as a Chief of Staff of the Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine (1954–56). He led UNEF as Force Commander from November 1956 to December 1959. He was Canada's principal disarmament negotiator from 1960–68. He wrote "Between Arab and Israeli"; "General Mud: Memoirs of Two World Wars" and "Defense in the Nuclear Age" More

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