Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1975. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 422, illus. More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxv, [3], 322, [2] pages. Acknowledgments. Illustrations. Cast of Characters. Timeline of Events. Notes. Bibliography Index. Paul Richter covered the State Department and foreign policy for the Los Angeles Times out of its Washington, DC, bureau. He previously covered the Pentagon, the White House and, from New York City, the financial industry. He was raised in Minneapolis and Washington, DC, and graduated from Clark University. The author, a veteran diplomatic correspondent, shows how an inner circle of American career ambassadors (Ryan Crocker, Robert Ford, Anne Patterson, and Chris Stevens) has served as an essential line of national defense in the greater Middle East. These ambassadors ended their service at a time when the diplomatic corps was being downsized and marginalized. More

New York: Nation Books, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 312 pages. Glossary. Maps. Notes. Index. Foreword by Seymour Hersh. Inscribed by author on title-page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. William Scott Ritter Jr. (born July 15, 1961) was a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later a critic of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter stated that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, becoming "the loudest and most credible skeptic of the Bush administration’s contention that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction." He received harsh criticism from the political establishment but became a popular antiwar figure and occasional talk show commentator as a result of his stance, later proven to be correct. In 2001 Ritter on two occasions was detained and later arrested on charges of soliciting minors for sex on the Internet that were both dismissed. He was arrested on similar charges in 2010 that led to a conviction and sentence of one and a half to five and a half years. In February 2005, writing on Al Jazeera's website, Ritter wrote that the "Iraqi resistance" is a "genuine grassroots national liberation movement," and "History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilize and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government." On December 20, 2005, in a debate with Christopher Hitchens at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY, Ritter said that he would "prefer to be an Iraqi under Saddam than an Iraqi under a brutal American occupation." More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 500 pages. Maps, index, some soiling and small tears to DJ. Presentation copy inscribed by the author's widow. More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 500 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Index . Small tears and chips to DJ edges. Some soiling to DJ. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. Includes ephemera about a book signing by Archie Roosevelt. More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 306 pages. Notes, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. Signed by the author on p. vi. More

Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, c1993. First Printing. 23 cm, 116, wraps. More

Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, [1948]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 230, endpaper maps, bibliography, index, ink name on title page, DJ somewhat soiled/worn: small edge tears/chips. More

Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1994. Reprint Edition. 23 cm, 434, wraps, illus., maps, chronology, bibliography, glossary, index, some pencil marks to text. More

New York: Carol Pub. Group, c1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 246, illus., map, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted inside boards. More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown, [1964]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 298, illus., maps, index, DJ torn and taped in front. Foreword by Justice William O. Douglas. More

New York: Free Press, c1991. First Printing. 25 cm, 237, front DJ flap price clipped, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper. More

New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 223, illus., appendices, index, DJ flaps taped inside boards, some soiling & sticker residue to DJ, slight wear to spine edges. More