Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
New York: Shapolsky Publishers, c1988. 24 cm, 480, illus., appendices, notes, sources, index, ink notation inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Shapolsky Publishers, c1988. 24 cm, 480, illus., appendices, notes, sources, index, ink notation inside front flyleaf. More
Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 144 pages. Illustrations. Timeline, Source Notes. Bibliography. Further Reading. Index. VICTORIA SHERROW, born 1953, is the author of For Appearance's Sake: The Historical Encyclopedia of Good Looks, Beauty, and Grooming (2001), Encyclopedia of Youth and War: Young People as Participants and Victims (1999), and Women and the Military: An Encyclopedia (1996), a 1996 RUSA Outstanding Reference Source award winner. More
New York: American Heritage, 1995. 112, wraps, illus. (some color), slight soiling to rear DJ Major emphasis on the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Warren Report. More
Boston, MA: Chapman & Grimes, 1939. 105, slight discoloration inside boards and flyleaves, slight scuffing to boards and spine. More
Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, [1967]. 25 cm, 266, DJ price clipped, some damp staining at top of book and DJ, text clean. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [3], 251, [1] pages. Notes. Additional Reading. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads April 27, 2007 For Eric Green with Regards---Sweig. In 1945, the U.S. was the founding impulse behind the cornerstones of the international community--the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and most of all, the United Nations. Untainted by colonialism or fascism, heroic in warfare and idealistic at home, the U.S. presented itself as a paragon to inspire a less noble and divided world. Sixty years later, that perception had almost completely been reversed. America had, in fact, quietly sowed the seeds of its own decline in the eyes of the world in its own backyard. Anti-Americanism flourished among America's closest allies beyond the Americas in a way, and to a depth, not seen before. As this reaches a crucial tipping point, Julia E. Sweig offers a masterly and incisive history of what went wrong, and a feisty and compelling prescription for how to sort it out. Anti-Americanism, now a global phenomenon, was road tested in South America when most of the rest of the world was too distracted to notice or care. There, under the guise of anti-communism, we sponsored dictatorships, turned a blind eye to killing squads, and tolerated the subversion of democracy. Almost nobody knew,, so it didn't really matter, right? Wrong on two counts. First, South America remembered. And second, encouraged by our success, we convinced ourselves that almost nobody knew, so it didn't really matter, right? More
New York: William Morrow & Company, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 703, endpaper maps, notes, chapter notes, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped, edges soiled. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 703 pages, endpaper maps, notes, chapter notes, bibliography, index, Frontis illustration. Some wear, tears, chips, soiling and creasing to DJ. Signed by the author on half-title page. Fep corner creased, small corner creases on other pages. Tadeusz Witold Szulc (July 25, 1926 – May 21, 2001) was an author and foreign correspondent for The New York Times from 1953 to 1972. Szulc is credited with breaking the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Szulc was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1940 he emigrated from Poland to join his family. In 1945 he went to work as a reporter for the Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro. In 1968 he was a reporter in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet invasion to quell the Prague Spring. In 1947 he moved to New York City, and in 1954 he became an American citizen. From 1953 to 1972 Szulc was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. On April 6, 1961, nine days before the CIA-supported Bay of Pigs invasion, Szulc wrote a Times article stating that an invasion of Cuba was "imminent." President Kennedy became aware of the article and personally telephoned the Times' publisher to demand that the story be reduced in prominence and detail. His interest in Cuba continue over time, with the publication of an in-depth biography of Fidel Castro. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1961. Limited Edition, number 944 of 500. Wraps. x, 657, [1] pages. Wraps. Fold-out maps. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Name in ink on title page. Covers soiled. Copy #944 of 500 copies (Clearly it was reprinted after the first 500 and the copy numbers reflected the actual number produced. Believed to be 1000. Prepared under contract with the Department of the Army. This book covers the sociological, political, economic, and military background information essential for planning for psychological operations and unconventional warfare. Very scarce. Project Camelot was a counterinsurgency study begun by the United States Army in 1964. The project was executed by the Special Operations Research Office (SORO) at American University, which assembled an eclectic team of psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and other intellectuals to analyze the society and culture of numerous target countries, especially in Latin America. The goal of the project was to enhance the Army's ability to predict and influence social developments in foreign countries. This motive was described by an internal memo on December 5, 1964: "If the U.S. Army is to perform effectively its part in the U.S. mission of counterinsurgency it must recognize that insurgency represents a breakdown of social order and that the social processes involved must be understood." Controversy arose around Project Camelot when professors in South America discovered its military funding and criticized its motives as imperialistic. The Department of Defense ostensibly canceled Project Camelot on July 8, 1965, but continued the same research more discreetly. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1974. First Edition. 317, illus., endpaper maps, appendices, DJ somewhat soiled: some wear and small tears to top and bottom edges. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1974. Book Club Edition. 317, illus., endpaper maps, appendices, bibliography, DJ somewhat soiled: some wear & small tears/chips to top and bottom edges The luxury liner St. Louis was one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War II erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews, some of whom had already been in concentration camps, who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. When Cuba refused to accept them, they were eventually returned to Europe, where most of them died in concentration camps. More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1975. First Paperbk Edition. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 320, wraps, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, binding cracked at p.174, covers somewhat soiled, small chip at bottom of spine ink name inside front flyleaf. The luxury liner St. Louis was one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War II erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews, some of whom had already been in concentration camps, who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. When Cuba refused to accept them, they were eventually returned to Europe, where most of them died in concentration camps. More
Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, 211, [5] pages. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index. DJ has edge wear, tears, chips, and soiling. With the oversupply of oil on world markets and the fall in international oil prices from $32-41 per barrel in 1980 to mid-1989 levels of $15-20 per barrel, the international energy crisis that followed the 1973 Arab-Israeli war appears to have passed. The world has shifted from devising strategies of crisis management to strategies—albeit rapidly fading—for avoiding similar crises in the future. Such were the lessons learned from the sustained energy crisis of the 1970s, which severely affected both the industrialized and developing countries for almost a decade. In the aftermath of the oil shocks of the 1970s, the world nexus among energy, economy, and security is indisputable. The oil crisis elicited a stream of scholarship addressing the implications, with attention focused on the United States and its OECD allies. To the extent that Lesser Developed Countries and newly industrializing nations were examined, they usually appeared in aggregate data rather than as case studies. The chapters have reviewed a unique conglomeration of such nations: India, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and South Africa. More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1970. 171, index, red ink underlining & notes throughout, small stains in top margins of a few pgs, DJ edges worn & small tears, DJ soiled. More
New York: A. A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 125, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2005. First? Edition. First? Printing. 291, wraps, references, figure, tables, covers slightly worn and soiled. More
Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1980. Revised Edition. 27 cm, 222, wraps, fold-out maps, ink notation on cover. More
Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2001. 28 cm, 94, wraps, illus. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1983. 24 cm, 1729, v.4 only, footnotes, index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1962. 627, v.7 of 7 only, index, some discolor ins hinges, some foxing to fore-edge, bds & spine somewhat faded, ink name ins fr flyleaf. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, 1986. 78, wraps, Illus. (some in color), maps, notes, recommended readings. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1996. 24 cm, 913, vol. 12 only, sources, footnotes, index, slight wear to board corners. Department of State Publication 10318. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1994. 24 cm, 118, wraps. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1994. 24 cm, 122, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1994. 24 cm, 122, wraps, table, appendix, minor soiling to front cover. More