First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Printing. 512, illus., notes, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled and worn, marginal ink marks to text. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Printing. 512, illus., notes, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled and worn, marginal ink marks to text. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 512 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Stray red mark (light) on front flyleaf. DJ has some soiling and a small tear top edge rear DJ. David Maraniss, born 1949, is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate editor for The Washington Post. He received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993 for his coverage of then-candidate Bill Clinton during the 1992 United States presidential election. Maraniss received an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the Spring commencement ceremony on May 16, 2014. Maraniss began his journalism career as a high school student in Madison, Wisconsin, where he covered antiwar protests and high school football for a local daily newspaper. He joined The Washington Post in 1977 and has served it in various capacities since. The Post assigned him the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Touchstone Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 512 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index, Inscribed by the author on free end page. Cover has some wear and soiling. Small tear at top of spine. Some edge soiling. David Maraniss (born 1949) is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate editor for The Washington Post. He received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993 for his coverage of then-candidate Bill Clinton during the 1992 United States presidential election. Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss received an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the Spring commencement ceremony on May 16, 2014. Maraniss began his journalism career as a high school student in Madison, Wisconsin, where he covered antiwar protests and high school football for a local daily newspaper. He joined The Washington Post in 1977 and has served it in various capacities since. The Post assigned him the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama. Inscribed to Peter Perl, a member of the senior management at The Washington Post. More
Washington, DC: Center for Air Force History, 1994. 432, illus., maps, charts, tables, footnotes, bibliography, index. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Center for Air Force History, 1994. 432, wraps, illus., maps, charts, tables, footnotes, bibliography, index, some wear to cover and spine edges, front cover creased. More
Washington, DC: Center for Air Force History, 1994. 432, wraps, illus., maps, charts, tables, footnotes, bibliography, index. More
College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2019. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 7.125 inches by 10.25 inches ix, [1], 676 pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Stamp on fep. Several early pages of book are creased. Ink marks and comments on a number of subsequent pages at the beginning of the book. Hans Michael Mark (June 17, 1929 – December 18, 2021) was a German-born American government official who served as Secretary of the Air Force and as a Deputy Administrator of NASA. He was an expert and consultant in aerospace design and national defense policy. Mark retired from the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering in July 2014. In February 1969, he became director of NASA's Ames Research Center, located in Mountain View, California. In this role, he managed the center's research and applications efforts in aeronautics, space science, life science, and space technology. He subsequently served as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1977 until July 1979, when he was promoted to Secretary of the Air Force. Concurrently, he served as Director of the then-classified National Reconnaissance Office from August 1977 to October 1979. He remained at this position until 1981, when he was appointed Deputy Administrator of NASA by President Reagan, a position he served in from July 1981 to September 1984. Upon leaving NASA in 1984, Mark served as Chancellor of the University of Texas system until 1992. He returned to government in 1999–2000 as Director of Defense Research and Engineering. More
Berkeley: Atlantic Monthly Press in association with El Leon Literary Arts, 2011. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. [16], 608 pages Chain of Command. Maps. Karl Arthur Marlantes (born December 24, 1944) is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. He has written three books: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (2010), What it is Like to go to War (2011), and Deep River (2019). Marlantes left after one semester at Oxford to join active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps as an infantry officer. He served during the Vietnam War with 1st Battalion, 4th Marines from October 1968 to October 1969, and was awarded the Navy Cross for action in Vietnam in which he led an assault on a hilltop bunker complex. He also served as an aerial observer while in Vietnam. Marlantes was also awarded a Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and 10 Air Medals. He served another year of active duty at Marine Corps Headquarters after his combat tour. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Marlantes is featured in Ken Burns' and Lynn Novick's 10-part documentary series, The Vietnam War (2017), where he reflects on his experiences during the war. Marlantes is the author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (2010). Sebastian Junger of The New York Times declared Matterhorn: "one of the most profound and devastating novels ever to come out of Vietnam - or any war". It received the 2011 Washington State Book Award in the fiction category. The novel is based on Marlantes' combat experience in the Vietnam War. He next wrote "What It Is Like to Go to War," a biographical non-fiction work published in 2011 about his return to the civilian world and modern veteran life. More
Washington DC: Naval Historical Center, Contemporary History Branch, 1991. Revised Edition. Wraps. [6], 100, [2] pages. Cover has some wear. Corners of several pages bent. This bibliography revises and updates A Select Bibliography of the United States Navy and the Southeast Asian Conflict, 1950-1975, compiled by Edward J. Marolda and G. Wesley Price III and issued in November 1983. The greater number of titles cited in this new edition reflects the outpouring of books and articles on the Vietnam War since 1983. In addition, because of the growing attention to the role of women in war, the current edition of the bibliography presents a new subject category entitled Navy Women. A primary object of this current work is to provide a bibliography that would enable researchers to identify the most comprehensive books and articles on the Navy's overall involvement in the struggle for Southeast Asia (hence the General Works section). Another goal was to present researchers only interested in specific subject areas with the fullest information on the sources treating those individual topics. The books, public documents, and articles cited in the bibliography can be found in the holding of the Navy Department Library. More
Philadelphia, PA: Women's International League, 1975. 34, wraps, illus., map, footnotes, references, bibliography, neat yellow highlighting. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1967. Hardcover. 408, illus., maps, index, bookplate ins front board, boards spotted & stained, DJ worn & soiled: small tears, small pieces missing, large tear front DJ. Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (July 18, 1900 – December 17, 1977) was a chief U.S. Army combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. Known professionally as S. L. A. Marshall, and nicknamed "Slam" (the combination of all four of his initials), he authored some 30 books about warfare, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action. During World War II, Marshall became an official Army combat historian, and came to know many of the war's best-known Allied commanders. He conducted hundreds of interviews of both enlisted men and officers regarding their combat experiences, and was an early proponent of oral history techniques. In particular, Marshall favored the group interview, where he would gather surviving members of a front line unit together and debrief them on their combat experiences of a day or two before. More
New York: The Dial Press, 1971. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 242, [2] pages. Illus. Maps. Includes: By way of Prelude; Darkness at Dong Tre; The View from the High level; Into the Valley; The Charge; On Hill 258; A Romp in the Sun; Try, try again; A Rare Day in June; Plums to Plummer; The Cauldron; Hoa Hoi, The Third Battle; A Study in Command; and By Way of Postlude, Glossary and Index. General Marshall describes what men have done and what men can do in battle. He brings out that battles are won not just because of the operational skill of our side, but also because of what the enemy does. Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, also known as SLAM, (July 18, 1900 – December 17, 1977) was a military journalist and historian. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, before working as a journalist. In 1940, he published Blitzkrieg: Armies on Wheels, an analysis of the tactics used by the Wehrmacht, and reentered the U.S. Army as its chief combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He retired in 1960 but acted as an advisor and historian during the Vietnam War. Marshall wrote over 30 books, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, later made into a film of the same name, as well as The Vietnam Primer, co-authored by Colonel David H. Hackworth. His most famous work was Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command, which claimed fewer than 25% of men in combat fired at the enemy. His conclusion that a significant number of soldiers do not fire their weapons in combat has been verified by multiple studies performed by other armies. More
Norwalk, CT: Gates & Bridges, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 9.5 inches by 11.25 inches. 192 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Contents include: Introduction by Jack Smith, A Vietnam Journey. City of the Soaring Dragon: Hanoi. Northern Encounters: Halong Bay and Beyond. Cradles of Culture: Hue and Danang: The Emperor's Sporting Grounds: Nha Trang and Dalat. In the Belly of the dragon: Saigon and the South. A Brief History of Vietnam. Chronology. Map. Bibliography. Index. Biographical Notes. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Marylee--All the best Paul Martin Dec. '97. Two decades after the end of the Indochina War, three celebrated journalists with firsthand knowledge of Vietnam's troubled past remember its rich history, survey its remarkable present and future as Asia's newest economic tiger, and reveal its captivating beauty. Paul Martin started his writing career in 1968 as a U.S. Navy journalist after receiving a B.A. in English from Central Missouri State University. In 1970, he was in Vietnam, covering American and South Vietnamese naval activities. Following his service, he earned an M.A. in journalism at the University of Missouri, and for the next six years he was managing editor of the monthly medical journal Continuing Education for the Family Physician. In 1979, Martin joined the staff of the National Geographic Society, where he has been an editor of World magazine and written or edited over a dozen books. Since 1989, Martin has been managing editor of National Geographic Traveler, four time winner of the Folio: Editorial Excellence Award for best travel magazine. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1968]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 175, profusely illus., DJ worn, torn, & soiled, review slip laid in. Commentary by Hubert Humphrey. Intro by Adlai Stevenson, III. More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [6], 250 pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. From the DJ: Escape From A North Vietnam Prison. Increasingly scarce Vietnam War military/pow fiction. Ramsey, an American soldier in Vietnam, is captured by the enemy, and plans a desperate escape attempt. The author immigrated to the United States from Scotland. He served in the Marine Corps in the Far East. This searing novel was written in reaction to the negative response given to returning Vietnam War veterans by the many people who could not separate out the war from the warriors. More
New York: Putnam, c1990. Book Club Edition. 23 cm, 269, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. First paperback printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xiv, 204, [6] pages. Illustrations. Epilogue. Methodology. Appendix: Biographical Notes on Interviews. Notes and References. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. RARE SIGNED COPY. Inscribed on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Nancy, Enjoy! Katrina. This work is divided into a section on Keeping the Secret and on After the War and Looking Back. The series editor notes that "Oral history may well be the twentieth century's substitute for the written memoir. In exchange for the immediacy of diaries or correspondence, the retrospective interview offers a dialogue between the participant and the informed interviewer. Having prepared sufficient preliminary research, interviewers can direct the discussion into areas long since "forgotten" or no longer considered of consequence. The quality of the interview, its candidness and depth, generally will depend as much on the interviewer as the interviewee, and the confidence and rapport between the two adds a special dimension to the spoken memoir. The author noted that "While the children of Los Alamos did not think of themselves as unique when they were children, as adults they realize that many circumstances they accepted were peculiar...They lived in a community that was not only secret but intense (and often tense), carefully selected, and diverse in geographic and cultural background." The recollections of those who were children in Los Alamos from 1943 to 1952 reveal common threads: security, multi-culturalism, and a sense of connection to the land. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [14], 396, [6] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Christopher John "Chris" Matthews (born December 17, 1945) is an American political commentator and news anchor known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews. Matthews served on the staffs of four Democratic members of Congress, including Senator Edmund Muskie. Matthews was a presidential speechwriter during the Carter administration and later worked for six years as chief of staff to longtime Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill. Matthews worked in print media for 15 years, spending 13 years as Washington, D.C. bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner (1987–2000) and two years as a nationally syndicated columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, and the Good Friday Peace Talks in Northern Ireland. In 1997 and 1998, his research in the National Archives produced a series of exclusives on the Nixon presidential tapes. Matthews has covered American presidential election campaigns since 1988. His bestselling books also include Jack Kennedy and Kennedy & Nixon . His book, Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit aim is to enable the public to see how much of the life and public career of Bobby Kennedy matters today. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021. Signed Edition, specially bound by the Publisher, First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [3], 336 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Index. Signed on a special half-title page bound in after the fep. Christopher John Matthews (born December 17, 1945) is an American political commentator, retired talk show host, and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, on America's Talking and later on MSNBC, from 1997 until March 2, 2020. He announced on his final episode that he was retiring, following an accusation that he had made inappropriate comments to a Hardball guest four years earlier. On that occasion, he stated: "The younger generation's out there ready to take the reins. We see them in politics, in media, in fighting for their causes. They're improving the workplace. Matthews worked in print media for 15 years, spending 13 years as Washington, D.C. bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner (1987–2000) and two years as a nationally syndicated columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, and the Good Friday Peace Talks in Northern Ireland. In 1997 and 1998, his research in the National Archives produced a series of exclusives on the Nixon presidential tapes. Matthews covered American presidential election campaigns from 1988 until his retirement in 2020. Matthews' Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero spent 12 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. In 2013, Matthews signed a long-term contract extension with MSNBC and would no longer host The Chris Matthews Show in order to focus on Hardball, writing books, and documentaries. More
Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2002. 224, wraps, illus., notes. More
New York, N.Y. Henry Holt and Company, 1989. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [8], 634, [4] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Maps, Introduction, and An Epiphany. Book One (Dragon's Teeth) covers the period from 1940-1965, and discusses "Welcome to Our American Friends," "La Sale Guerre", and "A Puppet Who Pulled His Own Strings. Books Two (Digging In) covers the period from 1954-1970, and discusses "Two Soldiers", "Grunts and REMFs;" "Bandages and Body Bags', ''Hearts and Minds'', Night Visitors; Those Daring Young Men; In Mine Enemy's House; Aid and Comfort; Brass; and The Good Life. Book Three (Liftoff) covers the period from 1970-1975, and discusses The Long Good-bye and The Fast Exit. The book also contains a Chronology, Glossary and an Index. Harry Maurer is the author of three oral histories: Not Working: An Oral History of the Unemployed; Strange Ground: Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975; and Sex: An Oral History. This oral history traces the evolution of American involvement from the last days of World War II to the fall of Saigon three decades later, after we had achieved "peace with honor." These are the vivid, spontaneous recollections of a vastly divergent group of Americans who lived and worked in Vietnam, in peace and in war--soldiers, diplomats, clerks, medics, reporters, doctors and nurses, generals, relief workers and spies. Some of them are bitter about their country's aggression, others about their country's defeat. Some feel they are better for the experience, or simply did a job that is now over. Some had a good time. Taken together, these unique voices and experiences illuminate the strange ground that was Vietnam. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First Edition. 246, index, raised stamp & ink name inside 2nd front flyleaf, front DJ flap price clipped, some DJ soiling, price sticker on rear DJ. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1969. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. viii, 323 p.; 22 cm. Occasional footnotes. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Army, 1974. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. 24 cm. x, 182 pages. Wraps, Illustrations (photographs, diagrams, charts). Maps (including inside front and back covers. Appendix A-J. Glossary. Index. Slight cover wear and soiling. Joseph Alexander McChristian (October 12, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was a United States Army Brigadier General and the assistant chief of staff for intelligence, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (J-2, MACV) (then commanded by General William Westmoreland) from July 13, 1965 to June 1, 1967. From August 5, 1968 to his retirement on April 30, 1971, as a Major General, he was assistant chief of staff for intelligence in the Department of the Army. As J-2, MACV, he predicted that the North Vietnamese would attack in full force, which they did during the 1968 Tet offensive. His prediction was unpopular because the official policy was that US and South Vietnamese forces were winning the war. McChristian is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. More
Pawleys Island, SC: Clebe McClary, 1984. Fifth Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 150 Pages Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads 3/Aug 85 To Jim & Claire In His Love Lt. Clebe McClary USMC John 9-4. Foreword by Tom Landry. The story of Vietnam Hero Lt. Clebe McClary. "An enemy soldier hovered right above me. I got off the first shot. He lurched forward, plunging into the pit with me. A satchel charge in his hand exploded, hurling both of us through the air like limp rag dolls." Patrick Cleburne “Clebe” McClary was raised in South Carolina. Clebe grew up hunting, fishing and excelling at sports. After fulfilling his dream of becoming a college coach, Clebe had plans to marry. But only weeks before the wedding, Clebe witnessed a startling event on a college campus that changed the course of his life forever – the burning of an American flag by students protesting the Vietnam conflict. Dismayed by the lack of support for the country he loved, Clebe resigned from his coaching position and volunteered for duty in the Marine Corps. First Lt. McClary said goodbye to his bride and became platoon leader of the 1st Recon Battalion in Vietnam. On his 19th recon patrol, Clebe and his unit engaged in combat with the enemy. Suffering devastating injuries, which included the loss of his left arm and left eye, Clebe continued to lead his men. Clebe’s valiant battle with the pain and disabilities that followed is amazing. He spent over two years in military hospitals, undergoing over 30 major surgeries and countless hours of physical therapy. Since then Clebe has used his powerful story of courage, determination, and strength to motivate audiences the world over. More