Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 793 pages. Chronology on endpapers. Author's Note. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. "AMERICAN CAESAR is gracefully written, impeccably researched and scrupulous in every way...a thrilling and profoundly ponderable piece of work." (Newsweek). William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. In 1947, Manchester went to work as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, where he met journalist H. L. Mencken, who became his friend and mentor. In 1955, Manchester became an editor for Wesleyan University and the Wesleyan University Press and spent the rest of his career at the university. Manchester's wartime experiences formed the basis for his very personal account of the Pacific Theater, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. Manchester also wrote of World War II in several other books, including a three-part biography, The Last Lion, of Winston Churchill. Manchester also wrote a biography of General Douglas MacArthur, American Caesar. His best-selling book, The Death of a President (1967), is a detailed account of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, who had been the subject of an earlier book by Manchester. Before the book could be published, Jacqueline Kennedy filed a lawsuit to prevent its publication, even though she had previously authorized it. The suit was settled in 1967. More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 398, [2] pages. A collection of moguls, agents, directors, starlets, writers, gossip columnists, and a great film director named Rudolf Von Beckmann, all of whom converge on a small town to make a film. Leslie Donald Epstein (born May 4, 1938 in Los Angeles) is an American educator, essayist, and novelist. Epstein is currently Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. His father Philip and uncle Julius were both noted screenwriters. Together, they won an Academy Award for the celebrated 1942 film Casablanca. Epstein went to Yale University. In 1960 he matriculated at Merton College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship; he attained a Diploma in Social Anthropology in 1962. He returned to the United States as a graduate student in Theatre Arts at UCLA. Epstein has written nine novels including King of the Jews (1979), about Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat of the ód ghetto during World War II; and Pandaemonium (1997). His San Remo Drive: A Novel from Memory (2004) was based on his childhood growing up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s. Epstein's most recent novels are The Eighth Wonder of the World and Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Lieb Goldkorn. Epstein has written articles for Esquire, The Atlantic, Playboy, Harper's, The Yale Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. For more than twenty years, Leslie Epstein has been the director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, where he joined the faculty in 1978. More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 448 ages. Engpaper genealogical table. Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ is price clipped and has some wear and soiling. Jack Shepherd (1937) was born in Chatham, New Jersey, and enjoyed a global career as a journalist, writer and university professor. He worked principally as a Senior Editor at LOOK Magazine and as a writer in Newsweek's foreign department. He has also written for other US publications including Atlantic, Harper's, New York, Saturday Review, Outside, New York, and The Sunday New York Times Magazine. As a journalist Shepherd covered stories primarily in sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia) and the Middle East (Israel, Palestine). Shepherd is also the author of ten books, three of which made The New York Times best-seller list: Quotations from LBJ (with Christopher S. Wren); The Runner's Handbook (with Bob Glover); and The Adams Chronicles. Shepherd earned his Ph.D. at age 50 (Boston University) and then taught at Boston University, the University of Cambridge (UK) for six years, and, since 1988, at Dartmouth College. He retired in 2007 and has returned to writing full time. His tenth book, Hunger: The Biology and Politics of Starvation (with John Butterly), was published in October 2010. More

New York: Penguin Press, 2018. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 757, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Gene, with best wishes, Steve Coll. Author's Notes. Cast of Characters, Notes. Bibliography. Index. Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958) is an American journalist, academic and executive. He is currently the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is also the Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he served as the president and CEO of the New America think tank from 2007 to 2012. He is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prize awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards, a PEN American Center John Kenneth Galbraith Award, an Arthur Ross Book Award, a Livingston Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. From 2012 to 2013, he was a voting member of the Pulitzer Prize Board before continuing to serve in an ex officio capacity as the dean of the Columbia Journalism School. In 1985, he started working for The Washington Post. Two years later, he was promoted to serve as the financial correspondent for the newspaper. He and David A. Vise collaborated on a series of reports scrutinizing the Securities and Exchange Commission for which they received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers. In 1989, he was appointed as the Post's South Asia bureau chief (in New Delhi). He was promoted to managing editor of the newspaper in 1998 and served in that capacity through 2004. More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [18], 603, [3] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Some spine weakness noted between pages 4 and 5 and restrengthened with glue. This is a sequel to the Pulitizer Prize-winning Advise and Consent. Allen Stuart Drury (September 2, 1918 – September 2, 1998) was an American novelist. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, among others. He would convert these experiences into his first novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Long afterwards, it was still being praised as ‘the definitive Washington tale’. His diaries from this period were published as A Senate Journal 1943–45. From 1943 to 1945, Drury worked as the United States Senate correspondent for United Press. He worked as a reporter, but also kept a journal in which he recorded the events of Congress as well as his impressions and views of individual senators and the Senate itself. He followed Advise and Consent with several sequels. A Shade of Difference (1962) is set a year after Advise and Consent, and uses the United Nations as a backdrop for portraying racial tensions in the American South and in Africa. Drury then turned his attention to the next presidential election after those events with Capable of Honor (1966) and Preserve and Protect (1968). Preserve and Protect had a cliffhanger ending—an assassination in which the victim is not identified. More

New York: Arco Publishing, Inc., 1983. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 4.75 inches by 8.5 inches. 160 pages. Decorative cover. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (over 100 photographs, most in color, 50 detailed line drawings and diagrams. Superb color profiles). Over 80 aircraft and remotely guided vehicles described in this fact-packed volume. No dust jacket present. Shows reconnaissance aircraft and systems used by the world's air forces, and describes the specifications and capabilities of each aircraft. Bill Gunston OBE, FRAeS (1 March 1927 – 1 June 2013) was a British aviation and military author. He flew with Britain's Royal Air Force from 1945 to 1948, and after pilot training became a flying instructor. He spent most of his adult life doing research and writing on aircraft and aviation. He was the author of over 350 books and articles. Gunston joined the Royal Air Force in 1945 and went to University College, Durham on an RAF cadetship. In 1946 he moved to No 4 Flying Training School in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. He later moved to No 5 Flying Training School at Thornhill were he continued training and then became an instructor flying the North American Harvard. He later flew the de Havilland Vampire F3 a single-seat jet fighter. He left the RAF in 1948. Gunston attended the Northampton Engineering College until 1951 then he joined the staff of Flight International magazine, writing as "W.T.G."; he was appointed Technical Editor in April 1955. From 1969, he was part of the production team on the annual Jane's All the World's Aircraft, editing the 2015/16 edition. He was editor of Jane's Aero-Engines from 1995 to 2007. More

Stroud, Glostershire, England: Fonthill Media Limited, 2016. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 317, [3] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tabular data. Alexander Mladenov is an aviation and defense author and journalist. His work has appeared in no fewer than twenty defense publications around the world, including AirForces Monthly, AIR International, Combat Aircraft and Defence Helicopter. He has also published four books on the subject of Soviet military aircraft. His main research interests include post-Second World War military aviation developments, jet fighters, bombers and helicopters designed between the 1950s and 1990s in the Soviet Union as well as the war in Afghanistan. More

New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 350 pages. DJ has slight wear, soiling and sticker residue. DJ front flap creased. With an Introduction by Peter Osnos. Editor's Note. Part 1: Worth the Risk. Part 2: A Good War--But for What? Part 3: Twilight Struggle. Part 4: The Wall Between Black and White. Part 5: A Promised Land. Part 6: A War Made of Lies. Part 7: Heroes and Others. Index. Isidor Feinstein Stone (December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989) was an American investigative journalist, writer, and author. Known for his politically progressive views, Stone is best remembered for I. F. Stone's Weekly (1953–1971), a newsletter which the New York University journalism department in 1999 ranked 16th among the top hundred works of journalism in the U.S. in the twentieth century and second place among print journalism publications. A former editor of The Nation, Victor Navasky, said that plain, solid work characterized Stone's investigative journalism. He was an old-school reporter who did his homework and perused public-domain records (official government and private-industry documents) for the facts and figures, the data, and quotations that would substantiate his reportage about the matters of the day. As a liberal, politically outspoken reporter from the American left wing, Stone often had to work in ideologically hostile environments (military, diplomatic, business) where information was controlled, making verifiability the essence of his journalism, corroborated by facts in the public domain, which the reader could verify. Articles originally published in I. F. Stone's Weekly later were compiled and published in The Best of I. F. Stone. More

New York: Viking, 2019. 22nd Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [16], 352 pages. Map. List of Characters. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Sonia Purnell is a British writer and journalist who has worked at The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times. Her books include Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill, which was chosen as book of the year by The Telegraph and The Independent, and was a finalist for the Plutarch Award. She also wrote the book and screenplay for the future film about Virginia Hall – A Woman of No Importance, produced by J. J. Abrams. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: British journalist Purnell vividly delivers an enthralling story of wartime intrigue. Virginia Hall, a spirited young woman from a Baltimore family, embarked on an overseas career with the State Department in 1931. Despite impressive work, she was barred from taking the diplomatic corps entrance exam. A gunshot wound in a hunting accident cost her half of her left leg. Despite her disability, Hall drove ambulances for the French army after the war started. An undercover British agent noticed her, and she was hired by the Special Operations Executive to recruit Resistance workers in France. Posing as a newspaper reporter, Hall established a vast underground network that pushed back against the German invaders. In late 1942, with her cover blown, Hall escaped France via a dangerous trek across the Pyrenees to Spain. When the SOE refused to send her back to France, she joined the American Office of Strategic Services to facilitate D-Day operations. Purnell does a fine job of bringing Hall’s story to life. More

New York: Crescent Books, 1982. First Crescent Books Edition [presumed] Second printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 12.75 inches. 80 pages. Illustrations [Full color throughout, Nearly 200 illustrating including cutaways, profiles, photographs and diagrams. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Small edge tear at page 37/38 and 47/48 noted. Minor page scuffing noted. This is one of the Combat Aircraft Library series. David A Anderton is an international known and widely published writer and photographer. He is a graduate aeronautical engineers. He has frequently written for NASA publications on aeronautical and aeronautical research. His Strategic Air Command won the Aviation/Space Writes' Association non-fiction award. More

Greenwich: Brompton Books, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 12.25 inches. 191, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Glossary. Index. DJ has a small edge tear and minor wear and soiling. James Norris Gibson was born into the Southern California Aerospace Industry. His father was a senior engineer on the Apollo program and then a Senior principal Engineer on the Space Shuttle. Thus, at a young age he began studying missiles, rockets and Space technology. Mr. Gibson succeeded in earning a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Masters in Aerospace Engineering, his Fundamentals in Engineering License, and a certificate in Technical Writing. His big break then occurred in 1995 when McDonnell Douglas needed an Engineer with a Technical Writing back ground for the International Space Station project. It was supposed to be a short term contract, but he became a full time employee, a position he then held until 2009. In his time at Boeing/Douglas he provided Engineering support for the Delta II, III and IV launch vehicles; the C-17, the MD-90/717, the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. He is now a skilled engineer on mechanical fasteners and the joining of primary structure. In the late 80s he published his first book on US Nuclear Weapons. The book was a response to what he saw as a series of errors in books and literature put out by Anti-nuclear groups during the 1980s. More

Emeryville, CA: Woodford Press, 1999. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 10.25 inches by 11.75 inches. 208 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Bibliography. Index. "This book celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit that launched the world's most famous commercial airline, Pan American World Airways." Contents include: Introduction Bold Dreams and Acts of Genius; Getting off the Ground Linking the Americas; Crossing The Pacific Nothing was Impossible; Across the Atlantic in War and Peace; The Jet Age Inventing the Future, Turbulence Great Airlines Don't Die, Epilogue. Barnaby Conrad III (born 1952) is an American author, artist, and editor. After graduating Yale with a B.A. in Fine Arts in 1975, Conrad worked as a journalist and magazine editor. His first published story was about his experiences running with the bulls in Pamplona, which he sold to the San Francisco Examiner for $100. Much of his work was for art magazines: he was one of the founding editors of Art World in the 1970s, and a senior editor of Horizon from 1979-80. In 1982, Conrad moved to Paris and became an adventure travel writer. He wrote articles about riding trains across India, skiing in the Alps, and hot air ballooning over Germany, for magazines such as Condé Nast Traveler, and Forbes Life, for which he served as editor-at-large. Absinthe: History In a Bottle, in 1988, was his first book as a solo author. As of 2011, Conrad has authored over 11 non-fiction books, and hundreds of magazine articles for over 30 publications. In some circles he is particularly known for his book Pan Am: An Aviation Legend. More