American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions
New York: The Free Press, 2002. First Printing. 240, illus., notes, index. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: The Free Press, 2002. First Printing. 240, illus., notes, index. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: The Free Press, 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. 240 pages. Illus., notes, index. Signed by the author. More
New York: Random House, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 300, [6] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Appendix A-G. Notes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Ink note inside the back cover. No dust jacket present. James Norman Mattis (born September 8, 1950) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 26th US secretary of defense from 2017 to 2019. During his 44 years in the Marine Corps, he commanded forces in the Persian Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War. A career Marine, he gained a reputation among his peers for intellectualism and eventually advanced to the rank of general. From 2007 to 2010, he commanded the United States Joint Forces Command and concurrently served as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. He was commander of United States Central Command from 2010 to 2013. Mattis was nominated as secretary of defense by president-elect Donald Trump, and confirmed by the Senate on January 20, 2017. As secretary of defense, Mattis affirmed the United States' commitment to defending longtime ally South Korea in the wake of the 2017 North Korea crisis. Mattis occasionally voiced his disagreement with certain Trump administration policies such as the withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, withdrawals of troops from Syria and Afghanistan, and budget cuts hampering the ability to monitor the impacts of climate change. On December 20, 2018, Mattis announced his resignation effective the end of February 2019; after Mattis's resignation. generated significant media coverage. More
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press [Thomas Dunne Books], 2007. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. viii, [2], 406 pages. Illustrations. Index. Inscribed by author on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "Terence Richard "Terry" McAuliffe (born February 9, 1957) is an American businessman, Democratic politician and the 72nd Governor of Virginia. He previously served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, and was chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. His first run for office was in the 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, when he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination. In the 2013 gubernatorial election, he won the Democratic primary unopposed. McAuliffe defeated Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Libertarian Robert Sarvis, in the general election, with 48% of the vote. He assumed his gubernatorial duties on January 11, 2014. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 274, [2] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Author's Note. Index. Andrew George McCabe (born March 18, 1968) is an American attorney who served as the Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from February 2016 to March 2018 and as the acting Director of the FBI from May 9, 2017, to August 2, 2017. McCabe joined the FBI as a special agent in 1996 and served with the bureau's SWAT team. He became a supervisory special agent in 2003 and held management positions of increasing responsibility until he was appointed deputy director of the FBI in February 2016. McCabe became the acting Director of the FBI following James Comey's dismissal by then President Donald Trump, and served in that position until Trump's appointment of Christopher A. Wray. McCabe later departed from the FBI on poor terms with Trump. Attorney General Sessions announced that he based his decision on reports from the DOJ Inspector General and the FBI's disciplinary office saying that McCabe had improperly authorized releases of information to The Wall Street Journal about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation and had misled agents who questioned him about it on four occasions, three of which were under oath. After leaving the Trump administration, McCabe has been a contributor at CNN since 2019. More
Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 476, [4] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Alex Albert, all best Chas McCarry. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Charles McCarry (June 14, 1930 – February 26, 2019) was an American writer, primarily of spy fiction, and a former undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency. McCarry was born in Pittsfield, and lived in Virginia. McCarry began his writing career in the United States Army as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes. He served from 1948 to 1951 and achieved the rank of sergeant. He received initial training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was stationed in Germany for almost two years and at Camp Pickett, Virginia for about a year. After his army service, he was a speechwriter in the early Administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1958, at the invitation of Cord Meyer, he accepted a post with the CIA, for whom he traveled the globe as a deep cover operative. He took a leave of absence to work for the 1960 Nixon campaign, writing for vice-presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge. He left the CIA for the last time in 1967, becoming a writer of spy novels. McCarry was also an editor-at-large for National Geographic and contributed pieces to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Saturday Evening Post, and other national publications. More
London: Bantam Press, 1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 524, illus. (some color), front DJ flap price clipped, some page discoloration The combined story of two people separated when John McCarthy was kidnappedin Beirut; he spent the next five years as a hostage. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2008. Third Printing. Hardcover. xiv, 341, [1] p. Illustrations. Index. More
Oak Ridge, TN: BWXT Y-12, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Magazine. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 28 pages plus covers. Illustrations (many in color). This was intended to be a quarterly publication by BWXT Y-12, LLC, the managing and operating contractor of the Y-12 National Security Complex. The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. It is considered the birthplace of the fissile material used in the atomic bomb. In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components and related defense purposes. More
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2009. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. viii, 65, [3] p. Endnotes. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1982. First Printing. 24 cm, 297, illus., DJ worn, soiled, and small tear, corner bumped. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. ix, 176 pages, [1] p. Index. Dust jacket slightly worn: sticker residue, soiling, and slight edge wear. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First edition. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. ix, [3], 176, [4] pages. Contains In Conclusion, Acknowledgments, Index. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. The inscription reads: For Michael Spire--all the best G McGovern. George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian, author, U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 presidential election. McGovern grew up in South Dakota. In World War II he was a B-24 pilot who flew 35 missions. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. As a senator, McGovern was an example of modern American liberalism. He was most known for his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War. Liberalism is the oldest and most enduring American tradition, a philosophy and way of life inherited from the Founding Fathers. This is the central idea of "The Essential America" More
Place_Pub: New York: William Morrow, 2007. First Edition. First Printing. 316, illus., scratches on front DJ. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1966]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 399, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, edges soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper, boards soiled. More
New York: Dutton, c1998. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 293 pages. Illus. Signed by the author. More
New York: Dutton, c1998. First Printing. 24 cm, 293, illus. More
Bloomington, IN: IUniverse LLC, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xiv, [1], 320, [4] pages. Illustrations. Inscribed and dated by author on title page. The author has worked as a media trainer and has written, directed and produced three motion pictures and his Bench to Bedside TV series has earned eight Emmy nominations. It begins with a bang. A sniper's bullet kills a biomedical researcher - the seventh in a row - in Reno. The researcher's death triggers a long-awaited international bio-warfare plot. Russian organized crime, with the help of a Syrian government "ghost network," unleashes a horrific anthrax attack across America - made all the more terrible by how easily it is accomplished. Meanwhile, although US Navy Captain "Camp" Campbell is still recovering from a gunshot wound and a life-altering near-death experience, he decides to cross the ocean in search of the woman he loves - only to uncover a box filled with evil and rage. Camp now finds himself locked in a biological war, and there's no turning back. More
New York, N.Y. Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007. First Carroll & Graf Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 291, [15] pages. DJ has small scratch at back. Includes Preface, Epilogue, Further Readings, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Notes, and Index. Part 1 covers The Path to Abu Ghraib; Part 2 covers War Crimes; Part 3 covers Investigation; and Part 1V covers Judgment. Tara Shannon McKelvey is an American journalist who is a White House reporter for the BBC and a former correspondent for Newsweek/The Daily Beast. She has reported on topics which include national-security issues from the Middle East, South Asia and Russia. McKelvey began her journalism career as a clerk at The New York Times, following her graduation from Georgetown University. She is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and The American Prospect and a former contributing editor of Marie Claire. McKelvey also, at one point, taught a course on National Security and the Media at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. McKelvey is now a White House reporter for the BBC. In 2011, McKelvey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction. McKelvey also won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 2010 to research and write about the military's black operations. For her investigative work on national security, McKelvey was supported by not only the Alicia Patterson Foundation but also Northwestern University's Carnegie National Security Journalism Initiative. McKelvey, a fellow at Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, wrote on the relationship between the media and US covert operations. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: National Defense University, 2000. First? Edition. First? Printing. 104, wraps, tables, endnotes, minor wear and soiling to covers. More
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, c1985. First Printing. 24 cm, 226, illus., maps, footnotes, references, index, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, minor red ink marks on verso and facing page. More
New York, NY: Berkley Books, 2001. Reprint. Second paperback printing. Mass-market paperback. Mass market paperback. Glued binding. 319, [7] p. Sixth Fleet (Paperback), 1. More
William Morrow & Company, 1998. First edition. First edition stated. First printing stated. Hardcover. 369 p. More
Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College, 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. ix, [1], 63, [3] p. Tables. Endnotes. This is one of the Letort Papers. More
Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel [Subsidiary of Universal Press Syndicate], 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. cii, [1], 184 pages. Embossed stamp on half-title and title pages. Frontis illustration of Idi Amin Dada. Illustrations. Includes chapters on Diplomatic Assignment: Kampala, Uganda; The Brutal Tyrant Emerges; The Brutal Tyrant in Action; Amin: Vicious Anti-Semite; The Expulsion of the Asians; Is Amin an African Hero? The Second Persecution; An American Family in Uganda: Abroad and Divided; Amin: The African Hitler; and What Can Be Done about the New Hitler? The tragedy of Uganda is that, until now, the United Nations has remained silent about the man who regards Hitler as his hero. and who has impersonated him by liquidation of thousands of Ugandan people. While the world only watches, the Meladys call for action. . The authors had visited Uganda briefly for the first time in July 1952. Within ninety days of arriving, the author was to be in the presence of a man who had said that Hitler knew how to take care of the Jews. The Ugliness quickly became real. The authors went to Uganda expecting to find an authoritarian erratic government. The growing fear in their hearts, starting within ninety days of there arrival, was that Amin was looming on the scene of world leaders as a confirmed brutal tyrant practicing torture and murder. “As a former Ambassador to Uganda, during the very difficult and some would say dangerous times of Idi Amin, my wife and I relate in some detail the situation in Uganda while he was the dictator.” -Thomas P. Melady. More