The Truman Presidency: The History of a Triumphant Succession
New York: Macmillan, [1966]. Second Printing. 24 cm, 463, footnotes, notes on sources, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Macmillan, [1966]. Second Printing. 24 cm, 463, footnotes, notes on sources, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Macmillan, [1966]. First Printing. 24 cm, 463, footnotes, notes on sources, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears. More
Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, c1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 400, illus., source notes, index, ink notation on flyleaf, DJ soiled and worn: tears at DJ edges. More
Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, c1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 400, illus., source notes, index, some soiling to DJ, small tear in front DJ, small rough spot ins fr flylf. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. xviii, 683 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Endpaper maps. Bibliographical Note. Selected Bibliography. Chronology. Abbreviations. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Publisher's ephemera (press release, b/w photo of General Marshall, distribution slip addressed to Stewart Alsop, Washington Bureau of NEWSWEEK) laid in. The author was the Director of the George C. Marshall Research Foundation and Executive Director of the Marshall Library. Formerly, he was a Department of the Army historian. He earned a Bronze Star for front-line combat in the European Theater of Operations during WWII. He was subsequently an Operations Research analysts with the Johns Hopkins University. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 683, [3] pages. Endpaper maps. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliographical Note. Selected Bibliography. Chronology. Abbreviations. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Forrest Carlisle Pogue Jr. (September 17, 1912 – October 6, 1996) was an official United States Army historian during World War II. He was a proponent of oral history techniques, and collected many oral histories from the war under the direction of chief Army historian S. L. A. Marshall. Forrest Pogue was for many years the Executive Director of the George C. Marshall Foundation as well as Director of the Marshall Library located on the campus of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. He earned a Bronze Star for front-line combat in the European Theater of Operations during WWII. He was subsequently an Operations Research analysts with the Johns Hopkins University. In 1956, Pogue was hired by the George C. Marshall Foundation to write the official biography of George Marshall. From 1963 to 1987, he worked on the four volume biography, and read over 3.5 million pages of research material while completing his work on Marshall. A pioneer of oral-history techniques, Mr. Pogue captured on tape about 40 hours of interviews with Marshall and also recorded encounters with more than 300 people who had known him, many of them prominent figures themselves. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1950. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 364, illus., maps, index, usual library markings. More
New York: Hippocrene Books, c1988. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 188, DJ somewhat soiled, small tear in rear DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper, minor discoloration inside DJ at bottom spine. More
New York: Hippocrene Books, 1988. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 188 p. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. More
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2002. 374, wraps, notes, index. More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1946. 336, illus., color frontis illus., endpaper maps, index, pages slightly darkened, small pieces missing at spine. More
Place_Pub: Fowlerville, MI: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1991. 468, illus., appendix, index, small tears and some wear/creasing to DJ edges, DJ in plastic sleeve. Inscribed by the author. More
Place_Pub: Fowlerville, MI: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1991. 468, illus., appendix, index, DJ somewhat scuffed: small edge tears/creases. Foreword by Barry Goldwater. More
New York: St Martin's Press, 1964. Second Printing. 22 cm, 511, illus., maps, footnotes, glossary, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn. More
New York: A. A. Knopf, [1942], 1943. First Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 234, index, usual library markings, spine and boards faded, part of DJ cut off and pasted to front endpaper Includes extra numbered leaf 72 A. Early work by one of the giants of journalism, a long-time New York Times reporter. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Second Printing. 20 cm, 244, index, discoloration inside boards, boards scuffed, spine discolored. More
New York: The Dial Press, 1963. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 383 pages. DJ is price clipped. DJ has some wear and soiling. Previous owners name and a date on half-title. More
Leadership Development Foundation, 2013. Second Edition [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 10.25 inches by 10.5 inches. 535, [1] pages. Illustrations (most in color). DJ states: Inspirational Profiles of West Point Graduates who have shaped our world. This is a substantially revised work from the first edition. Dan Rice is the President of the Thayer Leader Development Group and a Principal of the Historic Thayer Hotel. He is an experienced senior executive with financial and marketing experience across multiple industries and has co-founded several entrepreneurial companies. He speaks regularly about leadership and national security issues and has appeared on FOX News, CNN, TODAY SHOW, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, FOX & Friends, and has been published in the Wall Street Journal and Small Wars Journal and is the Co-Author of “West Point Leadership: Profiles of Courage”, an award-winning leadership book. The book received three Silver Benjamin Franklin Awards by the Independent Book Publishers Association in May 2014. More
New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2012. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. [16], 558, [2] p. Illustrations, black & white. Notes. Index. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Book Club Edition. 291, illus., maps, endpaper maps, chronology, apps, bibliography, index, DJ worn along edges & sm tears, some foxing rear DJ. More
Place_Pub: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. 291, illus., maps, endpaper maps, chronology, apps, bibliography, index, DJ worn, scuffed, & soiled, small edge tears to DJ. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943. 323, illus., slight discoloration inside boards and flyleaves, DJ worn and stained: small tears, small pieces missing. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943. Hardcover. ciii, [4], 323, [1] pages. Illustrations. Some soiling inside hinges. Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Name in ink inside front board. Boards and spine scuffed, soiled, and worn. Carlos P. Romulo, one of the most decorated Filipinos of all time, told the story of the Filipino-American defense against Japanese invasion and aggression. Because he worked as both MacArthur's aide-de-camp and chief public relations officer, he was privy to what was occurring around the Philippines. The author was a Filipino editor, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and personal aide to General MacArthur. The War Department requested that certain statements be deleted. "The request came to late for the book to be reset. These deletions are indicated by heavy black lines". This printing is a rare example of specific military censorship during the Second World War. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1961. First Edition. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 342 pages. Illus., author's inscribed business card/gift plate pasted onto front flyleaf. Inscribed by the author. Carlos Peña Romulo, QSC PLH (14 January 1898 – 15 December 1985) was a Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, a general in the US Army and the Philippine Army, university president, President of the UN General Assembly, was eventually named one of the Philippines' National Artists in Literature, and was the recipient of many other honors and honorary degrees. His hometown is Camiling, Tarlac and he studied at the Camiling Central Elementary School during his basic education. More