New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 387, [1] pages. Occasional footnotes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Name in ink on fep. The work is organized in the following sections: Black and White--Together, Rites of Passage, Culture and Anarchy, and A State of the Nation. Among the contributor are Norman Podhoretz, Kenneth B. Clark, Stokely Carmichael, Ralph Ellison, Bruno Betteheim, Jack Newfield, Philip Roth, Henry Steele Commager, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and William Styron! Peter Anthony Dale Collier (June 2, 1939 – November 1, 2019) was an American writer and publisher. He was the founding publisher of conservative Encounter Books in California and held that position from 1998 until he resigned in 2005. With David Horowitz, Collier wrote many books that made The New York Times Best Seller list and was described by the New York Times Book Review as "the premier biographer of American dynastic tragedy." His book Medal of Honor: Profiles of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty (2003) profiled living recipients of the Medal. Collier was teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966 when he became an editor at Ramparts magazine, the publication that was influential in transmitting New Left ideas into the mainstream. Collier wrote about the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement and other radical organizations for Ramparts. He and fellow Ramparts writer David Horowitz became disillusioned when the New Left turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the communist victors in Southeast Asia—the tiger cages and boat people in South Vietnam, the genocide in Cambodia. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. viii, 380, [8] page. Illustrated endpapers. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Signed by the author on the title page. In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul FRAS TC (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul's breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas was published in 1961. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1983, and in 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honor. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. More

New York: George Braziller, 1978. First U. S. Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 219, [3] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as a national treasure. In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". Bainbridge spent her early years working as an actress, and she appeared in one 1961 episode of the soap opera Coronation Street playing an anti-nuclear protester. In the 1990s, Bainbridge turned to historical fiction. These novels continued to be popular with critics, but this time, were also commercially successful.[8] Among her historical fiction novels are Every Man for Himself, about the 1912 Titanic disaster, for which Bainbridge won the 1996 Whitbread Awards prize for best novel, and Master Georgie, set during the Crimean War, for which she won the 1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Her final novel, According to Queeney, is a fictionalized account of the last years of the life of Samuel Johnson as seen through the eyes of Queeney Thrale, eldest daughter of Henry and Hester Thrale. The Observer referred to it as a "...highly intelligent, sophisticated and entertaining novel" More

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 399, [5] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Erasure residue on fep. Minor edge soiling noted. Paul Lauter (spouse of Florence Howe) is the Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College. He has served as president of the American Studies Association and is a major figure in the revision of the American literary canon. Lauter writes about movement activities from the perspective of a full-time participant: 1964 Mississippi freedom schools; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); the Morgan community school in Washington, DC; a variety of antiwar, antidraft actions; the New University Conference; The Feminist Press, which he helped found; and the United States Servicemen's Fund, an organization supporting antiwar GIs. He got fired, got busted, got published, and even got tenure. Florence Howe was an American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian. She earned a BA from Hunter College in English, and a MA in English from Smith College. Her life and work were focused on feminism and social justice. She founded Feminist Press in 1970. In 1973, she became the president of the Modern Language Association. She was a college professor and taught women's studies at Goucher College. In 1971, she became professor of Humanities at SUNY. She wrote or edited more than a dozen books and more than 120 essays. Her essays were published in the Harvard Educational Review, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, the Women's Review of Books, and a variety of anthologies. Her books included a memoir, A Life in Motion and a collection of essays, Myths on Coeducation. More

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First U.S. Edition [stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 434 pages. Footnotes. Publications Cited. Index. Ink name on front flyleaf [Erik Rasmussen--perhaps the noted Congressional staff member who formerly worked for Cong. Lee Hamilton]. Some ink marks to margins and text noted. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Examines the immensity of the Cold War and the limitations and strengths of the world leaders involved, and includes commentary on the political changes that have ended the Cold War. Louis Joseph Halle Jr. (17 November 1910, New York City – 13 August 1998, Geneva, Switzerland) was an American naturalist, author, U.S. State Department official, and professor of international studies in Geneva. Halle received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1932. As a young man, he worked for a railway company in Central America and later with a publishing house in New York. For a year, he did graduate study in anthropology at Harvard, then explored boundary rivers between Guatemala and Mexico by mule and dugout canoe. He served in the US Army before World War II and in the Coast Guard during World War II. He was a Latin American specialist employed by the US State Department Policy Planning Staff from the mid 1940s to 1954. From 1954 to 1956 at the University of Virginia, he was a researcher on American foreign policy. He became in 1956 a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He retired there as professor emeritus in 1973 but remained in Geneva. He was the author of 22 books. More

Windsor, CT: Tide-Mark Press, 2004. First North American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 8.875 inches by 11.25 inches. Illustrated covers and endpapers. Illustrations (color). Bibliography. Index. DVD is present in clear plastic pocket inside rear board. No dust jacket present. The contents include Introduction, The Great Voyages, Sons of Sinned, The Dragon at See, Wooden Ships and Iron Men, and an Epilogue. Cuyvers graduated from University of Delaware with master’s and doctoral degrees. He took an interest in writing and filming on topics related to the sea. That led to a number of television presentations and accompanying books on the oceans. Setting Sail:10,000 Years of Seafaring Adventure includes a four-part television series that aired on The Discovery Channel’s high definition network and is available in a colorful book published by Tide-Mark Press of Windsor, Conn. The series and book tell the story of humankind’s quest to cross the seas, examining the subject from a variety of cultural perspectives and providing fresh insights on the history of ocean travel. Setting Sail is unique for its multicultural approach to the history of sailing ships. The book looks first at the early Polynesian explorers who covered thousands of nautical miles, then turns its attention to the sailors of China and the Middle East before discussing the era of sail in Europe that resulted in the extension of Western economic and political power around the globe. Cuyvers says he hopes the book will help people “take a broader view, gain an appreciation for other cultures and a develop a fascination for how different peoples sometimes found different solutions to the same problem.”. More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 334 pages. Color frontispiece. Illustrations. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has wear, tears, soiling and chips. William Oliver Stevens (October 7, 1878 - January 15, 1955) was an American writer and Professor for the United States Naval Academy. Stevens was born in Yangon. His grandfather was Francis Mason a famous missionary. He moved to the United States and graduated from Colby College in 1899 with a B.A. in English literature. In 1903 he received a Ph.D. from Yale University. He taught at the United States Naval Academy (1905-1924) as Senior Professor and Executive of the English Department. After 21 years, Stevens left the Naval Academy in 1924 to become headmaster of the upper division at Roger Ascham Country Day School in White Plains, New York. In 1926, he accepted the position as the first headmaster of Cranbrook School for Boys, a position that he assumed in late February 1927. Stevens authored more than 45 books. More

Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 208 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Foreword by C. Eric Lincoln. Content addresses Black Power, Brown Power, and Red Power. James Mencarelli had been a teacher who then became a freelance journalist and writer. He participated in the Project on Student Values and helped prepare a curriculum guide on teaching to combat racial prejudice. Steve Severin is also a former student who was a doctoral candidate at the time this work was published. Charles Eric Lincoln (June 23, 1924 – May 14, 2000) was an American scholar. He was the author of several books, including sociological works such as The Black Church Since Frazier (1974) and Race, Religion and the Continuing American Dilemma (1984), as well as fiction and poetry. More

London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. x, [4], 465, [1] pages. Map. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Robert Shaplen was a correspondent and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine whose authoritative articles and books on Asia over many years made him one of the deans of American journalism. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1937 and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1938. In a journalistic career that spanned five decades, Mr. Shaplen was a reporter for The New York Herald Tribune and an Asia correspondent for Newsweek, Fortune and Collier's magazines. For the last 36 years, he had been on the staff of The New Yorker, and was the magazine's Far East correspondent from 1962 to 1978. He was the author of 10 books. From the battlefields of World War II, Korea and Vietnam to the jungles of Cambodia and Laos and the teeming byways of Hong Kong and Singapore, Mr. Shaplen covered a troubled and turbulent region of the world. He plunged ashore with the Marines on Leyte in the Philippines in 1944. He flew over Nagasaki hours after it was devastated by the atomic bomb in August 1945.' He was with Mao Zedong in the mountains of Yanan in 1946; reported on the rise and fall of Indonesia's President Sukarno in the 1960's; wrote strategic and battlefield pieces from Korea and Vietnam and, in 1973, provided a gripping firsthand account of the fall of Saigon. His last book, ''Bitter Victory,'' published by Harper & Row in 1986, was an account of his 1984 journey to Vietnam and Cambodia, and the last trip of his life was to Vietnam only a month before his death. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. xlvi, [2], 862 pages. Folding map at back. Volume III only. Dramatis Personae. Illustrations (Eight portrait photographs and forty-six military maps), Footnotes. Appendices. Selected Critical Bibliography. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Scuff and white out area on fep. Douglas Southall Freeman (May 16, 1886 – June 13, 1953) was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, radio commentator, and author. He is best known for his multi-volume biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington, for both of which he was awarded Pulitzer Prizes. Following the critical success of R. E. Lee: A Biography, Freeman expanded his study of the Confederacy with the critically acclaimed three-volume Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, published in 1942, 1943, and 1944. It presents a unique combination of military strategy, biography, and Civil War history, and it shows how armies actually work. Published during World War II, it had a great influence on American military leaders and strategists. A few months after the conclusion of the war, Freeman was asked to join an official tour of American forces in Europe and Japan. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command established Freeman as the preeminent military historian in the country, and led to close friendships with United States generals George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. May be Book Club--no price on DJ and no indentation on back cover. Hardcover. viii, 590, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Page 17/18 has minor crimp at edge. DJ slight wear and soiling. Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service. He was a leading exponent of business history and oral history. Nevins wrote his first book, The Life of Robert Rogers (1914) (about a Colonial American frontiersman and Loyalist) and a history of the University of Illinois (1917) during his postgraduate studies in that institution. Nevins then accepted positions with the New York Evening Post and The Nation and worked as a journalist in New York City for twenty years, as well as continued writing and editing history books. He resigned from the Nation in 1918, and the Post about a year after publishing its history The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism in 1922. In 1923 Nevins published American Social History as Recorded by British Travelers and The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775–1789 in 1924. In 1928, Nevins joined the history faculty of Columbia University, where he remained for three decades until his mandatory retirement in 1958. Nevins served as special representative of the Office of War Information in Australia and New Zealand in 1943–1944, and in 1945–1946 worked in London as chief public affairs officer at the American embassy. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Book Club? (No price on DJ, but no indentation at rear cover). Hardcover. xiv, 472 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. Some highlighting noted. DJ worn, torn, soiled, with large chips. Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service. He was a leading exponent of business history and oral history. Nevins wrote his first book, The Life of Robert Rogers (1914) (about a Colonial American frontiersman and Loyalist) and a history of the University of Illinois (1917) during his postgraduate studies in that institution. Nevins then accepted positions with the New York Evening Post and The Nation and worked as a journalist in New York City for twenty years, as well as continued writing and editing history books. He resigned from the Nation in 1918, and the Post about a year after publishing its history The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism in 1922. In 1923 Nevins published American Social History as Recorded by British Travelers and The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775–1789 in 1924. In 1928, Nevins joined the history faculty of Columbia University, where he remained for three decades until his mandatory retirement in 1958. Nevins served as special representative of the Office of War Information in Australia and New Zealand in 1943–1944, and in 1945–1946 worked in London as chief public affairs officer at the American embassy. More

New York: Lyons & Burford, 1990. Later printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 4.375 inches by 6.375 inches. [6], 81, [5] pages. Decorative front cover. Illustrations (most in color). Charts. Bibliography. Personal Hatch Records (blank). No dust jacket present. This is a detailed field guide to the major trout stream insects throughout the United States--with more than 120 full-color photographs of mayflies, caddisflies, and stoneflies. A thorough reference on hatches and the correct selection of flies by color, size, and imitative strategy. Dick Pobst was a legendary Michigan angler, entomologist, fly-shop owner, and author. After a stint in the Army and a career in international business, Dick changed courses, becoming a leader in the fly-fishing industry. From 1975 to 2000, Dick and his wife, Nancy, ran the Thornapple Orvis Shop, a fly shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They also became Regional Business Managers for Orvis, and Orvis Chairman Perk Perkins remembers “the amazing job he and Nancy did for us in the Midwest.” As an author, Pobst focused on the insects that trout eat, and his books include Trout Stream Insects: An Orvis Streamside Guide, Orvis Vest Pocket Guide to Mayflies: An Illustrated Reference To The Most Important Hatches Of North America, and The Caddisfly Handbook: An Orvis Streamside Guide. His autobiography, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Trout Stream: 40 Years Trout Fishing in Europe and North America was published in 2011. More