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Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. 392, illus., index, black marker line to fore-edge, slight wear to DJ edges, slight soiling to DJ. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. 392, illus., index, black marker line to fore-edge, slight wear to DJ edges, slight soiling to DJ. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. 392, illus., index, pencil underlining & marginal underlining, some soiling to DJ, rough spot DJ spine. Inscribed by the author. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. 392, illus., index, some soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author to Dooly Mitchell, his father's partner. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. Second Printing. Hardcover. 242 pages. Illus., DJ soiled, tear in rear DJ. Signed by the author. More
New Rochelle: Arlington, House, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [10], 306, [4] pages. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears, and chips. Some edge soiling. William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded National Review magazine in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement; hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line (1966–1999), where he became known for his transatlantic accent and wide vocabulary; and wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column along with numerous spy novels. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, said Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century… For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary contribution to politics was a fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying groundwork for the new American conservatism of presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan, both Republicans. Former Senate Republican leader Bob Dole said "Buckley lighted the fire". Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and more than fifty other books on writing, speaking, history, politics, and sailing, including a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself as either a libertarian or conservative. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1988. Bicentennial Edition. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 29 cm. xviii, [2], 800, Volume One ONLY. Illustrations (some color). Foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg. Notes. Bibliography. Index, Senate Document 100-20. Inscribed on the half-title page by the author. Inscription reads "Best wishes to Hugh Evans Sincerely Robert C. Byrd." Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 Byrd is also the only West Virginian to have served in both chambers of the state legislature and both chambers of Congress. Initially elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1952, Byrd served there for six years before being elected to the Senate in 1958. He rose to become one of the Senate's most powerful members, serving as secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus from 1967 to 1971 and—after defeating his longtime colleague Ted Kennedy for the job—as Senate Majority Whip from 1971 to 1977. Over the next three decades, Byrd led the Democratic caucus in numerous roles depending on whether his party held control of the Senate, including Senate Majority Leader, Senate Minority Leader and President pro tempore of the United States Senate. As president pro tempore—a position he held four times in his career—he was third in the line of presidential succession, after the vice president and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Renowned for his knowledge of Senate precedent and parliamentary procedure, Byrd wrote a four-volume history of the Senate in later life. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1993. Bicentennial Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 29 cm xviii, 739, [1]. Volume 4 ONLY. List of Tables. Political Party Abbreviations. State Abbreviations. Footnotes. Index, . Senate Document 100-20. This volume covers Members, Elections, Sessions, Party Leadership and Organizations. Committees, Senate Organization, and Powers. Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, Byrd also served as a U.S. representative for six years, from 1953 until 1959. He remains the longest-serving U.S. Senator in history. Renowned for his knowledge of Senate precedent and parliamentary procedure, Byrd wrote a four-volume history of the Senate in later life. To help introduce the public to the inner workings of the legislative process, Byrd launched a series of one hundred speeches based on his examination of the Roman Republic and the intent of the Framers. Byrd published a four-volume series on Senate history: The Senate: 1789–1989: Addresses on the History of the Senate. The first volume won the Henry Adams Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government as "an outstanding contribution to research in the history of the Federal Government." In 2004, Byrd received the American Historical Association's first Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award for Civil Service. In 2014, The Byrd Center for Legislative Studies began archiving Senator Byrd's electronic correspondence and floor speeches in order to preserve these documents. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. 21 cm, 273, illus. More
University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, 298, [2] pages. Name of previous owner written in ink on front free endpaper. DJ has slight wear, soiling, and flap creases. Includes Preface, Introduction, Postscript, and Index. Also includes chapters on The Press; The Pennsylvania Senate; The Governors; and The Casey Years. Vincent P. Carocci covered state politics in Harrisburg during the 1960s for UPI and AP and then again in the early 1970s for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He then served on the Senate staff of the Democratic Party for thirteen years. From 1987 to 1995 he was a senior staffer for Governor Robert P. Casey during his two terms in office. From 1995 to 2003 he was Director of Government Affairs for Capital BlueCross. More
Washington DC: The White House, 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Thank You Note. Format is approximately 6 inches by 3.5 inches. Card printed on one side only. Card has Presidential seal and the following text: I appreciate your kind words of support and good wishes. In the months and years ahead, I will do my best to be worthy of the trust you have placed in me. Bound by a new spirit and new commitment we can together build a better and more peaceful world. Jimmy Carter. Envelop stating The White House present, and messily torn open. Postmark is March 14 '77. More
New York: Random House, 1987. First Edition. First Printing [per Random House convention--if stated First Edition and number line starts with 2 then this is a first printing. Hardcover. [2], xvii, [1], 198, [6] pages. Appendix. Minor wear to DJ. For Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the transition from the White House to Plains, Georgia, was painful. EVERYTHING TO GAIN is their warm and unpretentious account of their successful adjustment to a new life, full of encouragement and insight for any couple wanting to renew their commitment to each other and to life. James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. He is the oldest living former U.S. president and the longest-lived president in U.S. history. Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (née Smith; August 18, 1927 – November 19, 2023) was an American writer and activist who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as the wife of President Jimmy Carter. For the decades she was in public service, she was a leading advocate for numerous causes, including mental health. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1982. Hardcover. 24 cm, 308 pages. Signed by the author (Cetron). More
New York: Harper & Row, 1990. First Trade Edition [Stated]. First printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 176 pages. Sources. Index. Previous owner's mailing label on fep. NBC's senior political analyst argues that the United States is uniquely positioned to maintain its position as world leader in spite of social and economic problems. A prescriptive study of where the United States stands in the last decade of the 20th century. John Chancellor was one of the premier television broadcast journalists of the 20th century. His coverage of the Kennedy Assassination earned him the nickname of "The Iron Man" because of his lengthy and effective on-air reporting. He epitomized, along with Walter Cronkite, what being both an effective television anchor and journalist was. John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 – July 12, 1996) was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in television news. Chancellor covered issues of national importance while on The Huntley-Brinkley Report. Chancellor spent a number of years as a foreign correspondent in Europe, with postings in Vienna, London, Moscow, and Brussels (NATO Headquarters). He, Frank McGee, Edwin Newman, and Sander Vanocur comprised a team that covered the national political conventions in the 1960s so well, they were dubbed by industry observers as the "Four Horsemen". Chancellor served as anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982 and continued to do editorials and commentaries for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw until 1993. Chancellor has the distinction of creating the idea of using colors to represent the states won by presidential candidates in presidential elections. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969. Presumed first printing [Clear "I" on verso several lines under the Library of Congress catalogue information]. Trade paperback. viii, [2], 214 pages. Editor's Preface. A Note on the Sources. Index. This is one of The Library of American Biography series edited by Oscar Handlin. Cover has wear, soiling, and creases. The author was a long-time member of the faculty of Denison University. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's,'s Sons, 1996. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 874, [6] pages. Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels have been bestsellers. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects occasionally with co-authors, and video games. He was a part-owner of his hometown Major League Baseball team, the Baltimore Orioles of the American League, and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees. Originally an insurance agent, his literary career began in 1984 when he sold his first military thriller novel The Hunt for Red October for $5,000 published by the small academic Naval Institute Press of Annapolis, Maryland. His works The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991) have been turned into commercially successful films. Tom Clancy's works also inspired games such as the Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, The Division, and Splinter Cell series. Since Clancy's death in 2013, the Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors. After publication, the Hunt for Red October received praise from President Ronald Reagan, who called the work "the best yarn". The book was critically praised for its technical accuracy, which led to Clancy meeting several high-ranking officers in the U.S. military, as well as Steve Pieczenik, and to inspiration for reoccurring characters. More
New York: Harper & Row, [1964]. First Edition. 22 cm, 268. More
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 2000. Later (Second) Edition. First Printing thus. Hardcover. xiv, 194 pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Joseph Maxwell "Max" Cleland (born August 24, 1942) is an American politician from Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, is a disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for valorous actions in combat, and a former U.S. Senator. He was also Administrator of Veterans Affairs. From 2003 to 2007 he served on the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a presidentially-appointed position. He has served as Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission since May 2009. Cleland served from 1971 to 1975 in the Georgia Senate, and became an advocate for affairs relating to veterans. He was the administrator of the United States Veterans Administration under President Jimmy Carter, a fellow Georgian, from 1977 to 1981. He then served 14 years as Secretary of State of Georgia from 1982 to 1996, working closely with his future Senate colleague, Zell Miller. During this period, Cleland promoted a penny stock law in Georgia which would become the template for national regulations to curb stock manipulation abuses. In the 1992 Democratic presidential primaries, Cleland supported fellow Vietnam veteran Bob Kerrey. According to an interview featurette with Jon Voight on the DVD of Coming Home (1978), Cleland also served during this time as a consultant on the Academy Award-winning drama set in a VA hospital in 1968. More
New York: New York Bound Bookshop, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. 31, [1] pages, plus covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Minor wear noted. New York Bound Books specialized in Local History (New York City & Environs): Manuscripts, Atlases & Maps, Prints, and Ephemera. Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a bookstore that was the best place — often the only place — to find anything on just about everything that had been written, photographed or sketched in regard to New York City. New York Bound did some bounding of its own after it came into being in 1976. It started out at the South Street Seaport, then moved to a fourth-floor apartment on West 54th Street and, finally, to the lobby of 50 Rockefeller Plaza. There, it died in 1997. The landlord declined to renew the lease, and the shop owners simply didn’t have another move in them. Customers lost little time picking through the store’s inventory of more than 5,000 books. Catalogue Sixteen is a fine, and rare, surviving example of their stock The Table of Contents addresses Antiquarian, Fine & Rare; Architecture, City Planning & Real Estate; Art & Photography; Guidebooks; High Life & Low Life; History; The Immigrant Experience; Journalism; Literature, Places: City & State; Politics and Government; Restaurants & Hotels; Theater, Transportation & Public Works; and Young New Yorkers: Children's Books. More
Washington, DC: Ethics & Public Policy Cen. 1993. Hardcover. 153 pages. Appendix, notes, tables, index. Includes card "With my compliments, " signed by the editor. More
New York: Random House, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 301, [1] pages. Acknowledgments. Credits. Inscribed by the Editor on the title page. This compilation states that the future is as Foretold by Leading Democrats, Republicans, Activists, and Independent Thinkers. The Editor is the current (2020) Governor of New York State. Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957) is an American politician, author and lawyer serving as the 56th and current Governor of New York since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the same position his father, Mario Cuomo, held for three terms. He began his career working as the campaign manager for his father, then as an assistant district attorney in New York City. In 1993, Cuomo joined the Clinton Administration as Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development in the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. From 1997 to 2001, he served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Original Harvest publication. First ed. /first ptg. stated. Trade paperback. [8], 204, [4] p. Illustrations. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Printing. By the author of "The Bone Collector" More
Nashville, TN: Fidelis Books, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xviii, [2], 277, [7[ pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bookplate, associated with this publications, signed by the author, with a biblical reference, affixed to the fep. One word is stamped on fep. James Warren DeMint (born September 2, 1951) is an American lobbyist, businessman, author, and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from South Carolina and as president of the Heritage Foundation. The Washington Post and The Christian Post have described DeMint as a "staunch conservative", based on his actions during his time in the House. Wall Street Journal editor Steve Moore called DeMint the “taxpayers’ greatest ally.” After being re-elected in 2010, DeMint became the highest-ranking elected official associated with the Tea Party. DeMint is a member of the Republican Party and a leading figure in the Tea Party movement; he is also the founder of the Senate Conservatives Fund. DeMint served as the United States representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1999 to 2005. He was elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina in 2004 and reelected in 2010. DeMint served in the Senate until January 2, 2013, when he stepped down to become president of The Heritage Foundation. On May 2, 2017, DeMint resigned his position at Heritage. He later became a senior advisor to Citizens for Self-Governance and the founding chairman of the Conservative Partnership Institute. More
New York: Twelve, 2016. First Edition [stated]. Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 439, [3] pages. Timeline of U.S. Presidential elections. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads Margo, Hope you enjoy! John Dickerson. John Frederick Dickerson (born July 6, 1968) is an American journalist and a reporter for CBS News. His current assignment is anchoring “CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson” on the news division’s streaming network. His previous roles include 60 Minutes and CBS News' Election specials. Most recently, he was co-host of CBS This Morning along with Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King. He served as an interim anchor of the CBS Evening News until Norah O'Donnell took over in the summer of 2019. Previously he was the host of Face the Nation on CBS News, the political director of CBS News, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, and a political columnist for Slate magazine. Before joining Slate, Dickerson covered politics at Time magazine for 12 years, serving the last four years as its White House correspondent, and he is also a fill-in and substitute anchor for CBS Mornings, CBS Evening News, and Face The Nation. Before joining Slate, Dickerson covered politics at Time magazine for 12 years, serving the last four years as its White House correspondent. The Washington Post once wrote about his style of asking questions: "The master of the game is John Dickerson of Time magazine, who has knocked Bush off script so many times that his colleagues have coined a term for cleverly worded, seemingly harmless, but incisive questions: 'Dickersonian.'" More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [2], 234, [4] pages. DJ has fading/sunning at spine and front cover, some wear and rear flap creased. Some wear at bottom of rear board. Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She later adapted the book into a play that premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary entitled, The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017. More