New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxix, [1], 608, [2] pages. The Kennedy Court. Preface. Illustrations. Source Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Sarah Bedell Smith (born May 27, 1948) is an American journalist and biographer. She has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair since 1996. Previously, she was a cultural news reporter for New York Times and Time. She has written biographies of political, cultural, and business figures in the United States and members of the British royal family. She earned her Master of Science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she won the Robert Sherwood Memorial Travel-Study Scholarship and the Women's Press Club of New York Award. From a Publishers Weekly article: Smith, narrates scenes from the Kennedy White House. Publicity for this volume emphasized that Smith has interviewed "scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before". Smith waltzes through portraits of the Kennedys entertaining, with the likes of Gore Vidal, Ben Bradlee, William Walton and Mary Meyer. Not a few of the people who loom large in Smith's volume have previously—as Smith's profuse footnotes attest—written their own accounts of the Camelot scenes in which they play. Endeavoring to interweave her eloquently rendered social history with the political history of the Kennedy administration, Smith tends on occasion to oversimplify and understate major strategic discussions and initiatives. For those who seek a highly readable account of the White House milieu shaped by John and Jackie Kennedy, Smith's book does the job. More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xix, [1], 916, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Illustrated endpapers. DJ has slight wear. Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, and commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. After Johnson left office in 1969, she assisted Johnson in drafting his memoirs. Her first book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which drew upon her conversations with the late president became a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career. Derived from a Kirkus review: Goodwin examines Lincoln as a politician, focusing on his conversion of rivals to allies. It was smart politicking to recruit opponents who had very different ideas on most things but who nonetheless served loyally. By the end of the first term, enough divisions obtained within and without the White House that it looked as if Lincoln would not be reelected—whereupon he demanded that his secretaries sign a resolution “committing the administration to devote all its powers and energies to help bring the war to a successful conclusion,” the idea being that only a Democrat would accept a negotiated peace. More

San Rafael, CA: Amber-Allen Publishing, Inc., 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. x, [4], 202 pages. Slight cover wear and soiling. Epilogue. Summary of Myths and Magi. About the Author. Signed with sentiment on half-title page, which reads Love, Donald Epstein. Donald M. Epstein was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 7, 1953. After attending Brooklyn College, he received his Doctor of Chiropractic Degree from New York Chiropractic College in 1977. Through his keen insight into the healing process, he developed Network Spinal Analysis and Somato Respiratory Integration. His groundbreaking work has been the subject of numerous articles and research papers throughout the world, and has inspired the academic community in a wide range of disciplines. Dr. Epstein has trained thousands of individuals in his innovative healing techniques. His first book, The Twelve Stages of Healing, published in 1994, has been translated into five languages. He currently travels around the world with his wife, Jackie, leading healing intensives and training seminars, and delivering public lectures. More

Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2000. Sixth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 416 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Slight cover wear and soiling. Signed by both authors with sentiment on the half title page. Reads as Best little wishes Brian Kelly and Read, Learn & Enjoy Ingrid Smyer. Autographed sticker on front cover. C. Brian Kelly, a prize-winning journalist, is cofounder of Montpelier Publishing and a former editor for Military History magazine. He is also a lecturer in newswriting at the University of Virginia. Kelly's articles have appeared in Reader's Digest, Friends, Yankee, Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, and other magazines. He is the author of several books on American history. Mr. Kelly was a newspaper reporter for 20 years and now teaches news writing at the University of Virginia. His wife, Mrs. Smyer-Kelly, is a former freelance writer for newspapers. In recent years she has served on the board of the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia in Charlottesville and as a member of the city’s Historical Resources Committee. More

New York, NY: Threshold Editions, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1],596 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the Author on title page. Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is an American Republican political consultant and policy advisor. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has also headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Since leaving the White House, Rove has worked as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal. Prior to his White House appointments, he is credited with the 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial victories of George W. Bush, as well as Bush's 2000 and 2004 successful presidential campaigns. In his 2004 victory speech Bush referred to Rove as "the Architect". Rove has also been credited for the successful campaigns of John Ashcroft (1994 U.S. Senate election), Bill Clements (1986 Texas gubernatorial election), Senator John Cornyn (2002 U.S. Senate election), Governor Rick Perry (1990 Texas Agriculture Commission election), and Phil Gramm (1982 U.S. House and 1984 U.S. Senate elections)....Shortly after leaving the White House, Rove was hired to write about the 2008 Presidential Election for Newsweek. He was also later hired as a contributor for the Wall Street Journal and a political analyst for Fox News. Rove was an informal advisor to 2008 Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, and donated $2, 300 to his campaign. More

New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1997. First Anchor Books Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 403, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Recommended Reading. Index. Autographed sticker on DJ. Signed with sentiment on the fep, reads Best wishes for the future! M Kaku. DJ has wear , tears, chips and soiling, with sticker residue on back. Michio Kaku (born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science (science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. For his efforts to bridge science and science fiction, he is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books Physics of the Impossible (2008), Physics of the Future (2011), The Future of the Mind (2014), and The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything (2021) became New York Times best sellers. Kaku has hosted several television specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel. Kaku is widely known as a science and physics outreach specialist. He has written books and appeared on many television programs as well as film. He hosts a weekly radio program. This is a book about the limitless future of science and technology, focussing on the next 100 years and beyond. Kaku examines how quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence will dramatically alter science and the way we will live in the 21st century. More

New York: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 224 pages. Illustration. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips. Some edge soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Stanley Cohen, a very discerning reader who was so helpful to me in this modest labor, with much appreciation Maurice S. Cohen July 8, 1976. There are three major sections: Speak Unto the Children of Israel; These are the Festivals of the Lord, and And My Voice is to the Sons of Men. Rabbi Maurice Seymour Cohen died on Sunday, February 5, 2012, at the age of ninety- two. Rabbi Emeritus of the Shaare Zion Congregation, Rabbi Cohen was a scholar and Revered Rabbi of his congregation for over 50 years. A native Bostonian, he graduated from Harvard University, and The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He was one of the leaders of Conservative Judaism in Montreal, and one of the founders of the Solomon Schechter Academy. He supported the participation of women in the rabbinate, and was a member of the Interfaith Ecumenical Council for many years. He received an Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the JTS, and authored several books of sermonics. More

New York: Basic Books, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 306, [4] pages. Author's Note. No Dust Jacket present. Front edges of fep and next page creased. Cover has some wear and soiling. Irvin David Yalom (born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction. After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, Yalom began his academic career at Stanford University. He was appointed to the faculty in 1963 and promoted over the following years, being granted tenure in 1968. Soon after this period he made some of his most lasting contributions by teaching about group psychotherapy and developing his model of existential psychotherapy. In 1970, Yalom published The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, speaking about the research literature around group psychotherapy and the social psychology of small group behavior. This work explores how individuals function in a group context, and how members of group therapy gain from his participation group. In addition to his scholarly, non-fiction writing, Yalom has produced a number of novels and experimented with writing techniques. In Every Day Gets a Little Closer Yalom invited a patient to co-write about the experience of therapy. More

New York: Harper Business, 2021. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 325, [1]. Notes. Index. Minor ding to bottom of boards. Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, which he joined in 2014. Mims received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University in 2001. Mims was a science and technology correspondent and editor for Quartz. Mims was an editor at Scientific American, Technology Review, Smithsonian and Grist. Mims was also a producer at Small Mammal, where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate, Popular Science, and Nature. Mims covered the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist. Mims has also reported for Wired and Scientific American, and worked on various projects for the BBC, The Atlantic, and Smithsonian. Mims was a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review between 2011 and 2012. Christopher Mims is a columnist who writes about technology for The Wall Street Journal's tech bureau in San Francisco. The subjects of his columns vary widely from one week to the next. He has written about bidets, brain implants, the cult of the founder, the history of technology, innovation, venture capital, robotics, batteries, energy, materials science, wireless communications, AI, data science, telepresence, microchips, logistics, IT, 3D printing and autonomous boats, trucks, cars, drones and flying taxis. Christopher joined the Journal from Quartz, where he also covered technology. He has won a Sabew award for commentary, and has written a book, “Arriving Today” on how supply chains work. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. [14], 318, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Black mark on bottom edge. Minor moisture stain at bottom. some DJ wear and soiling. George Peper, currently editor at large for Links magazine, was editor in chief of Golf Magazine for twenty-five years has written, co-written, or edited 17 books, including Artisan’s 500 World’s Greatest Golf Holes and Greg Norman’s Shark Attack. In 1999, his script for the documentary The Story of Golf was nominated for an Emmy Award. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world. It is a private members-only club based in St Andrews in Scotland. It was previously known colloquially as "The R&A", but in 2004, a new organization known as The R&A was spun off, assuming the club's functions as one of the governing authorities of the game and organizer of tournaments such as The Open Championship. Despite this legal separation, one of the club's objectives remains to contribute, through its members, to the governance, championship organization, and golf development roles now carried out by The R&A. The organization was founded in 1754 as the Society of St Andrews Golfers, a local golf club playing at St Andrews Links. The club quickly grew in importance. In 1834, King William IV recognized St Andrews as Royal and Ancient and The Royal Society of St Andrews Golfers grandly proclaimed it the Home of Golf. Later it was referred to as The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.[5] In 1897, the Society codified the rules of golf. Gradually over the next 30 years, it was invited to take control of the running of golf tournaments at other courses. More

New York: ECCO [An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2001. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxvii, [1], 237, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Publisher's Note. A Note to the Reader by Alain Vircondelet. Foreword by Paul Lombard. Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. DJ has a tear at the top front near the spine. This was originally published in French as Memoires de Balthus by Editions du Rocher. Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery. Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. He insisted that his paintings should be seen and not read about, and he resisted any attempts made to build a biographical profile. Towards the end of his life, he took part in a series of dialogues with the neurobiologist Semir Zeki, conducted at his chalet at Rossinière, Switzerland and at the Palazzo Farnese (French Embassy) in Rome. They were published in 1995 under the title La Qûete de l'essentiel and in it he gives some of his views on art, painting and some painters. Balthus was one of the few living artists to be represented in the Louvre, when his painting The Children (1937) was acquired from the private collection of Pablo Picasso. More

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Times, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 11 inches by 15 inches. 128 pages plus illustrated covers. Illustrations (some in color). Map. Cover has wear and soiling. Coverage of the war in graphics format with color throughout. The content includes: To The Reader, How We Covered The War, Special Report: The Line In The Sand November 25, 1990. War Diary. January 17, 1991 - March 12, 1991, World Report: Witness to War Mach 12, 1991. and Appendices. The Los Angeles Times, abbreviated as LA Times, is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. The paper moved out of its historic downtown headquarters to a facility in El Segundo, near Los Angeles International Airport in July 2018. More

New York: Penguin Press, 2020. Fourth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 465, [1] pages. Author's Note. Notes. Index. Philip Rucker is an American reporter and author. He is currently the White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post, where he has been working since 2005. Initially covering a variety of beats, he became a White House correspondent and was promoted to White House bureau chief in 2014. He covered the entire Trump administration for the Post, as well as Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. He is also a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a regular guest on PBS news shows. He is the co-author, with his Post colleague Carol Leonnig, of two best-selling books about the Trump administration. The first, A Very Stable Genius. is an insider account of the first three years of Trump's presidency. The second, I Alone Can Fix It, covers Trump's final year in office and its immediate aftermath. Carol Duhurst Leonnig is an American investigative journalist. She has been a staff writer at The Washington Post since 2000, and was part of a team of national security reporters that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting, which revealed the NSA's expanded spying on Americans. Leonnig also received Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting in 2015 and 2018. In 2011, Leonnig and her Post colleague Joe Stephens revealed in a series of stories how the Obama administration pressed to approve a $535 million federal loan to Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer whose leading investors were tied to a major Obama fundraiser. More