New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. First Carroll & Graf edition 2003 [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 381, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Index. Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title. Ruth Gruber (September 30, 1911 – November 17, 2016) was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and a United States government official. She was a recipient of the Norman Mailer Prize. During World War II, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes appointed Gruber as his Special Assistant. In this role, she carried out a study on the prospects of Alaska for homesteading G.I.s after the war. In 1944, she was assigned a secret mission to Europe to bring one thousand Jewish refugees and wounded American soldiers from Italy to the US. In 2011, at the age of 100, Ruth Gruber's work as a photojournalist - spanning six decades on four continents - was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York. The exhibition, Ruth Gruber: Photojournalist, curated by Maya Benton, is traveling internationally through 2020. More about Inside of Time; My Journey From Alaska to Israel

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006. First edition [Stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, 301 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Inscribed and dated by the author on title page. Michael Weisskopf (born 1946) is a Polk Award-winning journalist. Weisskopf specialized in national and international news during 20 years at The Washington Post. While he was embedded with a US Army unit in Iraq on December 10, 2003, his right hand was blown off as he tried to throw an enemy grenade back out of the Humvee. He was the first reporter to be treated at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Weisskopf wrote about this event in his book Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57. He has also cowritten two books: Truth at Any Cost, with investigative journalist Susan Schmidt about the Lewinsky scandal, and Tell Newt to Shut Up, with David Maraniss about the 1994 Republican takeover. Weisskopf has received the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Los Angeles Press Club's Daniel Pearl Award for Courage & Integrity in Journalism,& the U.S. Army's Fourth Estate Award. More about Blood Brothers; Among the Soldiers of Ward 57

New York, NY: Free Press, 2007. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xiv, 464, [2] p. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on fep/ DJ has slight wear and soiling. Howard "Howie" Alan Kurtz (born August 1, 1953) is an American journalist and author with a special focus on the media. He is the host of Fox News Channel's Media Buzz program, and the successor to Fox News Watch. He is the former media writer for The Washington Post and the former Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast. He has written five books about the media. Kurtz left CNN and joined Fox News Channel on July 1, 2013. In 1981 Kurtz was hired at the Washington Post by Bob Woodward. Kurtz has written for The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, and New York magazine. In Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War--Kurtz chronicles the struggles at the three "traditional" broadcast television networks (ABC, NBC and CBS) to enhance the stature, credibility and audience-draw of their evening news anchors (Gibson, Couric, and Williams). More about Reality Show; Inside the Last Great Television News War

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. x, 278 pages. Illustrations. Diagrams. Appendix. Index. DJ is price-clipped and worn and soiled with small tears and chips. Some edge soiling. William N Hess is the official historian for the American Fighter Aces Association, and is one of the most highly respected aviation writers of his generation. A B-17 crewman during World War 2, Hess has written over 40 books during his long and distinguished career. From the point of view of the American fighters in the pacific. this book tells the historical and factual truth about the war. More about Pacific Sweep; The 5th and 13th Fighter Commands in World War II

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xi, [1], 322, [2] pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Occasional Footnotes. Tables. Notes on the Plates. Bibliography. Index. Captain Geoffrey Martin Bennett, DSC FRHS (7 June 1909 – 5 September 1983), was a British Royal Navy officer and author. Bennett always wrote, and was awarded the Royal United Services Institution gold medal for an essay three times. At the end of World War II he published his first novel Phantom Fleet, a naval yarn, under the pseudonym "Sea Lion": as a serving officer he could not use his own name. Over the next two decades he produced about twenty such novels for both adults and children. After retiring he took to naval history. He published studies of the main battles of both world wars and Nelson; a biography of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford; and Cowan's War, an account of the British campaign in the Baltic (1918–19) under Admiral Sir Walter Cowan, which successfully thwarted Soviet Russia from seizing control of the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. More about Nelson the Commander

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1967. Second Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]. Wraps. 410, [6] pages. Wraps. Frontis illustration. Footnotes. Some underlning. Cover scuffed. Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, or Mao Tse-tung, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism. Mao is regarded as one of the most important and influential individuals in modern world history. He is also known as a political intellect, theorist, military strategist, poet, and visionary. Mao remains a controversial figure and there is little agreement over his legacy. Supporters credit and praise him for having unified China and for ending the previous decades of civil war. He is also credited for having improved the status of women in China and for improving literacy and education. More about Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-Tung

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 286, [2] pages. Illustrations. Note on sources, DJ has some wear and soiling. Some cover wear noted. David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the Sunday This Week program and a top commentator on election-night coverage for ABC News. Over his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He wrote three books, including the 1988 bestseller Washington Goes to War, about how World War II transformed the nation's capital. This social history was largely based on his own observations as a young reporter in the city. More about Washington Goes to War

New York: The New Press, 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xxvi, 468, [2] pages. Footnotes. References. Inscribed by the author on half-title page. Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history. For Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Terkel assembled recollections of the Great Depression that spanned the socioeconomic spectrum, from Okies, through prison inmates, to the wealthy. In 1997, Terkel was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two years later, he received the George Polk Career Award in 1999. More about Coming of Age; The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It

New York: Thomas Dunne Books [an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2007. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [3], 293, [3] pages. Illustrations. Index. Inscribed by Charlie Rangel on the fep. Charles Bernard Rangel (born June 11, 1930) is an American politician who was a U.S. Representative for districts in New York from 1971 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-longest serving incumbent member of the House of Representatives at the time of his retirement, serving continuously since 1971. As its most senior member, he was also the Dean of New York's congressional delegation. Rangel was the first African-American Chair of the influential House Ways and Means Committee. He is also a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. In November 2010, the Ethics Committee found Rangel guilty of 11 counts of violating House ethics rules, and on December 2, 2010, the full House approved a sanction of censure against him. During the 2012 and 2014 elections Rangel faced primary challenges but prevailed. He did not run for re-election in 2016 and left office in January 2017. More about And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since; From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxii, [4], 454 pages. List of Maps. Author's Note. A Note on the Text. Main Characters, Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on the half-title page by author to Irene Inouye, widow of Senator Daniel Inouye, in honor of her late husband and his service, and the Monuments Men! Robert Morse Edsel[(born December 28, 1956) is an American businessman and author. He has written three non-fiction books - Rescuing Da Vinci (2006), Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2007); and Saving Italy (2013) - chronicling the recovery of artwork stolen by Nazi Germany during World War II. Edsel is the co-producer of the Emmy-nominated documentary film, The Rape of Europa (2007). He is also founder and Chairman of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, which received the 2007 National Humanities Medal under President George W. Bush. More about Saving Italy; The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 286, [2] pages. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Minor sticker residue on DJ back. Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th President of the United States. Trump entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and defeated sixteen opponents in the primaries. Commentators described his political positions as populist, protectionist, and nationalist. Trump was elected president in a surprise victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. He became the oldest and wealthiest person ever to assume the presidency, the first without prior military or government service, and the fifth to have won the election while losing the popular vote. He pursued his America First agenda in foreign policy, withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal. He recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, imposed import tariffs on various goods, triggering a trade war with China, and negotiated with North Korea with the aim of denuclearization. More about The America We Deserve

Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxixm [1], 648, [2] pages. List of Illustrations. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix A-E. Bibliography. Index. Biography. Long inscription to an editor, signed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Lowell E. Baier (born January 6, 1940) - is an American attorney, successful entrepreneur, and an environmental historian and author. He has dedicated his life to natural resources and wildlife conservation. Throughout his career he has been an advisor to many elected officials and educators, including every successive presidential administration since George H. W. Bush, and has been an active and instrumental member of several national conservation groups. Lowell E. Baier's book Inside the Equal Access to Justice Act: Environmental Litigation and the Crippling Battle over America's Lands, Endangered Species, and Critical Habitats won the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Grand Prize Winner in non-fiction in 70 categories from over 7,000 books submitted, & was the Winner in Science/Nature/Environment. More about Inside the Equal Access to Justice Act; Environmental Litigation and the Crippling Battle over...

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 312, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix 1: The Crew of United States Store Ship Supply. Appendix 2: Members of the Expedition. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed and dated by the author on page facing the title page. Andrew C. A. Jampoler spent nearly twenty-five years as an active duty naval aviator including a year on the ground in Vietnam, command of a squadron and a naval air station, and service on several high level staffs. He is the author of six other Naval Institute Press books, beginning with Adak in 2003 and most recently Congo. More about Sailors in the Holy Land; The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom...