A More Perfect Union
Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 525 p. Endnotes. Bibliography. More
Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 525 p. Endnotes. Bibliography. More
Logan, IA: Perfection Learning Corp. 1990. First? Edition. First Thus? Printing. 58, wraps, footnotes, substantial underlining and marginal notations, name inside front cover. More
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. x, 283, [11] p. Tables. Footnotes. Appendix: The Interviews. Index. More
New York: Palgrave macmillan, 2010. First Edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 256 pages. Notes. Index. DJ has some edgewear and soiling. Some indication of damp staining at edges. Minor edge soiling. Charles James Ogletree, Jr. (born December 31, 1952) is the Jesse Climenko Professor at Harvard Law School, the founder of the school's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, and the author of numerous books on legal topics. On July 21, 2009, Ogletree issued a statement in response to the arrest of his Harvard colleague and client, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., whose arrest at his own home became a major news story about the nexus of politics, police power, and race that summer. Professor Ogletree later wrote a book about the events titled The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America. More
Montgomery, Alabama: NewSouth Books, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 152 pages. Includes Foreword, Preface,and Introduction, Notes, Index. Book has creases on pages 147-152 and in rear endpaper. DJ flap creased. Handwritten inscription on the Half Title page. The inscription reads: To Rosa M. Jeter We in the Livingstone College, National Alumni Association, and indeed the entire Livingstone College Community will be forever indebted to you for your loyal service and support throughout the years. Best Wishes, Sol Seay 2-18-09. Attorney Solomon Snowden Seay Jr. (1931-2015) played an integral role in Alabama communities and courtrooms in support of the civil rights movement from the late 1950s into the 1990s. Seay most notably participated in court cases aimed at desegregating public facilities in Montgomery, Montgomery County, ensuring that Alabama counties enforced the integration of public schools mandated by state and federal courts, and outlawing disenfranchisement practices dictated in the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He interceded in numerous causes around the state where white supremacists threatened the safety and livelihood of African American residents. Seay's legal activities demonstrate that the civil rights struggle was not restricted to urban areas in the Southeast, but pervaded rural areas as well, and that struggle persists into contemporary times. Delores R. Boyd practiced law for twenty-five years in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, before serving as a municipal court judge and a United States Magistrate Judge. Currently a mediator, Boyd is a product of Montgomery’s transition in the 1960s from a Jim Crow society. More
New York: Warner Books, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 336, illus., DJ slightly worn and soiled, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
Baltimore, Maryland: John Murphy & Company, 1896. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. 182, [4] pages. Frontis illustration. Cocked. Cover has some wear and discoloration. Some page discoloration. Includes Preface, as well as chapters on the Present Crisis and Past History of Armenia. From the Preface: While in Cairo last April, during my trip around the world, I received a letter from the editor of one of our American daily papers, requesting me to go into Armenia, and write from the ground, for his journal, an account of the condition of affairs that existed among this persecuted people, as contradictory reports had been published in America. This little work, that I now offer to the public, is the result of my observations and experiences during a two months' stay in the Ottoman Empire. I am indebted to a number of persons for many of the facts contained in this volume; but as, in every case, information was given me with the distinct understanding that the names of my informants should not be used, I am prevented from giving due credit to these heroic men and women, whose noble work for the suffering Armenians would be greatly hindered if word reached the Turkish officials that they were expressing through the American press their knowledge of the state of affairs in Armenia. In the preparation of the historical portion of the book, I was fortunate in having the aid of an Armenian professor of Armenian history in Constantinople. The author was thus able to present for the first time in English certain important data bearing on the national life of a people whose history, so singularly checkered with glory and gloom, must elicit the interest an sympathy of the civilized world. Important pre-genocide work! More
Dutton, 2005. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. viii, [4], 321 p. Illustrations. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 254, [2] pages. Occasional footnotes. DJ has some wear, tears, chips and soiling. Some endpaper and minor page soiling noted. Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the historically disenfranchised. During World War II, Young was trained in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was then assigned to a road construction crew of black soldiers supervised by Southern white officers. After just three weeks, he was promoted from private to first sergeant, creating hostility on both sides. Despite the tension, Young was able to mediate effectively between his white officers and black soldiers angry at their poor treatment. This situation propelled Young into a career in race relations. In 1961, at age 40, Young became Executive Director of the National Urban League. He was unanimously selected by the National Urban League's Board of Directors, succeeding Lester Granger on October 1, 1961.[17] Within four years he expanded the organization from 38 employees to 1,600 employees; and from an annual budget of $325,000 to one of $6,100,000. Young served as President of the Urban League until his death in 1971. In his eulogy, Nixon stated that Young's legacy was that "he knew how to accomplish what other people were merely for" More
Arlington, VA: Admiral Zumwalt & Associates, Inc., 1976. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. xv, [1], 568 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Chronology. Appendices. Glossary. Index. Inscribed by the author. On Watch is one of two books written by U.S. Navy admiral Elmo Zumwalt. It is largely a critical appraisal of the military policies of the Richard Nixon presidency during the Cold War. Though billed as a memoir, Zumwalt spends the first three chapters dealing with his early life, which included his time at the U.S. Naval Academy, service during World War II, and his family. Most of the volume addresses the years 1970 to 1974, when Zumwalt served as United States Chief of Naval Operations. In it, Zumwalt critically appraises the military policies of the Richard Nixon presidency with regard to Soviet containment at the height of the Cold War. In addition to Nixon and Kissinger, Zumwalt takes aim at the then-elderly Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Zumwalt charged: Rickover continually worked to ingratiate himself with members of the United States Congress as a means of consolidating personal political power; underhandedly challenged the authority of the Chief of Naval Operations; and would "stop at nothing" to ensure the primacy of nuclear programs over conventional armaments. Zumwalt used his memoir to criticize the Nixon administration, which he felt was too accommodating to the Soviet Union. Other sections of On Watch are spent on Zumwalt's glowing recollections of Paul Nitze, under whom he started working as an aide when Nitze was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, as well as discussing the racial integration of the U.S. Navy, and the expanding role of women in military service. More