New York: Hyperion, 1995. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xix, [3], 357, [3] pages. Illustrations. Index. Foreword by Sen. Robert Dole. Introduction by Ed Koch. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Irving Kaye, Best wishes, Alfonse. The feisty senator from New York recounts his journey from obscurity to the U.S. Congress and discusses his investigation of the Whitewater affair involving President Clinton, attacks on his own ethics, health care, and other issues. This was possibly the Irving Kaye who got his start in the coin-op business in the 1940's in New York City. In the 50's Irving Kaye Co. Inc. was established as a premier manufacturer of coin-op pool tables. Alfonse Marcello D'Amato (born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 1, 1937) is a former United States Senator who represented the state of New York for 18 years from 1981 to 1999. He subsequently founded a lobbying firm, Park Strategies. During his term as US Senator, he was known for supporting President Ronald Reagan on non-economic issues such as abortion. He agreed with President Bill Clinton both in 1993 for opening service in the armed forces to non-heterosexuals and in 1996 for the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal recognition to same-sex marriages. D'Amato drew the nickname "Senator Pothole" for his delivery of "constituent services", helping citizens with their individual cases. New Yorkers saw the nickname as a positive affirmation of his attention to getting things done. He played a leading role in recruiting George Pataki and in securing him the Republican nomination in the gubernatorial race of 1994. More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 323, [1] pages. Epilogue. Index. Signed by the author on the fep. Some pages have off-white portions. Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Utah since January 2019, succeeding Orrin Hatch. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election, losing to Barack Obama. In 1998, Ann Romney learned that she had multiple sclerosis; Mitt described watching her fail a series of neurological tests as the worst day of his life.[50] After experiencing two years of severe difficulties with the disease, she found – while living in Park City, Utah, where the couple had built a vacation home – a combination of mainstream, alternative, and equestrian therapies that enabled her to lead a lifestyle mostly without limitations. When her husband received a job offer to take over the troubled organization responsible for the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, to be held in Salt Lake City in Utah, she urged him to accept it; eager for a new challenge, as well as another chance to prove himself in public life, he did. On February 11, 1999, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002 hired Romney as its president and CEO. Romney was elected U.S. Senator from Utah on November 6, winning 62.6% to 30.9% over Democrat Jenny Wilson. The other 6.5% of the vote went to nominees of the Constitution, Libertarian, and Independent American parties. More

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 351, [7] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Provides a short history of The Purple Heart and addresses the medal in terms of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, Civilians, Families, and Celebrities and Public Figures. Colonel Frederic L. Borch (born 1954) is a career United States Army attorney with a master's degree in national security studies, who served as chief prosecutor of the Guantanamo military commissions. He resigned his commission in August 2005. He worked for a time as a civilian consultant for the prosecution teams of the Guantanamo military commissions. In 2006 he was hired for the position of the first archive historian for the Judge Advocate General Corps. He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for 2012–2013 to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Leiden, teaching issues in terrorism and counter-terrorism. In addition, he has been serving as President of the Orders and Medals Society of America since 2010 and he is an active contributor to its journal. Borch published a book on military decorations of the U.S. Army and Air Force in 2013. More

Beverly Hills, CA: Global Treasures, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Format is 11.25 inches by 11.25 inches. 95, [1] pages. Profusely illustrated (mostly in color). Decorative front cover. Cover has front and back flaps and only slight wear and soiling. Signed with sentiment on title page, "One Love Roger Steffens". Also signed with sentiment on verso by Jim "Reggae" Marshall. Sentiment reads: Thank you and Jah Bless you Aberle! [sp?] Jim Marshall. RARE DOUBLE AUTOGRAPHED Reggae item. Jim Marshall's business card laid in. Roger Steffens (born June 17, 1942) is an American actor, author, lecturer, editor, reggae archivist, photographer and, producer. Six rooms of his home in Los Angeles house reggae archives, which include the world's largest collection of Bob Marley material. Based on these archives Steffens lectures internationally with a multi-media presentation called The Life of Bob Marley. His radio career began in New York City in 1961, and he co-hosted Reggae Beat on KCRW in Los Angeles and was syndicated on 130 stations worldwide in the 1980s. Steffens was named "Most Popular Reggae DJ in the World" by Martin's International Awards in Chicago, 1985, and "One of the Forty Who Matter in L.A." by the Los Angeles Reader. Jim "Reggae" Marshall stated that he has been blessed to take about 130,000 Reggae and African concert photographs over 31 years. He collects and enable other collectors of ANY thing related to Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, Reggae, Rastafari, Jamaica and Africa. More

Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. Presumed first paperback printing. Trade paperback. xviii, [2], 325, [7] pages. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on the fep by the author. Inscription reads To Nelson Ledsky With best wishes Alan Sherr 12/88. Cover has some wear and soiling. Alan B. Sherr is an American lawyer, specializing in the field of Intellectual Property, International Corporate Law, Russian Corporate Law, Administrative Law. Nelson C. Ledsky was the director of National Democratic Initiative (NDI)’s Eurasia programs for many years and a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service who retired with the rank of ambassador. Upon his retirement from the State Department in 1992, Ambassador Ledsky joined NDI, where he took over the reins of the Institute’s nascent democratic development program in Eurasia and built it into an operation with activities and partners in more than a dozen countries and a first-rate reputation for navigating challenging political environments. He served in the White House from 1987 to 1989 as a special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for European and Soviet Affairs, and held numerous other State Department posts, including principal deputy director of the policy planning staff, U.S. minister in Berlin, deputy assistant secretary for congressional relations and director for Southern Europe. He was also director of the State Department's Olympic Boycott Office in 1980 – 1981 and had postings in Bonn, Germany; Enugu, Nigeria; and Georgetown, Guyana. More

New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 437, [1] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes/captions. Cast of Characters. Index. DJ has minor wear, soiling and edge tears. Inscribed on title page by both authors. Inscription reads To! Donna + Art "More Life" I B 2-22-18 [in blue ink] and D 2-22-18 with a heart with wings [in pink ink]. Associated book mark, with the publication date of February 13, 2018, laid in! Isaac Butler is a cultural critic and historian, and a theater director. He is the co-author (with Dan Kois) of "The World Only Spins Forward," an oral history of the play "Angels in America" and its era, which was named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR. A frequent contributor to Slate, Isaac previously created and hosted the Shakespeare and politics podcast "Lend Me Your Ears," and currently co-hosts "Working," a podcast about the creative process. Butler’s writing has appeared in New York magazine, the Guardian, American Theatre, the Village Voice, and other publications. Dan Kois is a writer at Slate. He’s the author of a novel, Vintage Contemporaries, and three nonfiction books: How to Be a Family, The World Only Spins Forward (with Isaac Butler), and Facing Future. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 416 pages. Maps. Illustrations (8 pages). Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. George C. Daughan received a Ph. D. in American history and government from Harvard University, where he studied under Henry Kissinger. After Harvard, he spent three years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Most of the time he taught at the Air Force Academy, where he was director of the MA program in international affairs. On returning to civilian life, he became a professor at Connecticut College, and also taught at the University of Colorado, the University of NH, and Wesleyan University. One of his previous books, If By Sea, won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, and he has been honored with the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the USS Constitution Museum for his work as a naval scholar. More

San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004. Second Edition, Updated and Expanded [stated] . Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 6.75 inches by 9.25 inches. xxiii, [1], 240, [8] pages. Select Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Ira Chaleff is the author of the award winning book, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders. He is one of a handful of leadership development thinkers to focus on the impact that followers? attitudes, actions and inactions have on the quality of leadership and organizational integrity and performance. Ira has conducted workshops on Leader-Follower relations for a wide range of complex organizations and Leadership Development Programs including AARP, NASA, Ernst & Young, The Federal Judiciary, The Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior University, The FBI National Academy, The Office of Personnel Management, The Brookings Institute and a range of private and public sector companies. He is a member of the planning committee that sponsored the first national conference on Followership "Rethinking Followership: New Perspectives, Paradigms and Practices" hosted by the Kravis Leadership Institute and the Drucker/Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont University. Ira and his colleagues at Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates use their understanding of leader-follower dynamics to enrich the executive coaching they conduct for individuals and senior management teams in the private and public sectors. Ira holds a degree in Applied Behavioral Science and is adjunct faculty at Georgetown University. He has been named one of the 100 best consultants in the US by Executive Excellence magazine. More

New York: Routledge, 2012. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xxi, [1], 335, [3] pages. Minor top corner wear. Notes. Appendix. Index. Author Kubbig's business card laid in. Card signed/inscribed by this editor. Bernd W. Kubbig is Project Director at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Adjunct Professor at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Since 2006 he has coordinated the international expert groups “Multilateral Study Group on the Establishment of a Missile Free Zone in the Middle East” and Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East. He specializes in U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, especially on the Middle East, missile defense, and space. Sven-Eric Fikenscher currently serves as an expert rapporteur with the Global Relations Forum’s International Task Force on the Future of the Nuclear Deal with Iran. From 2015 to 2016, he was an associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 2012 to 2015 he was a research fellow with the International Security Program and the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center. More

Washington DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 8.5 inches. [4], iv, 80 pages. Illustrations. Cover has minor wear, sticker residue and soiling. Letter from the Director Sara J. Bloomfield. Introduction by Margaret Peterson. Sections by Erika Eckstut, Frank Ephraim, Manya Friedman, Fritz Glucksetin, Nesse Godin, Pete Philipps, Charlene Schiff, Flora Singer, Esther Starobin, and Rabbi Joseph Weiner. Illustrations. Some of the contents are identified as works of fiction--the others are nonfiction. This is one of the publications that marked the 10th anniversary of the Holocaust Museum, which was dedicated in 1993. The Museum offers its survivor volunteers the Memory Project writing workshop as a means of recounting their experiences, whether in biographical accounts or in fictional form. These workshops have met the needs of many survivors who wanted to tell their story but who had not previously had the right place or time to do so. More

London: Peter Owen, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 75, [1] pages. Some page discoloration noted. DJ has some wear and soiling. Set in Guatemala, these spare and beautiful tales are linked by themes of magic, violence, and the fragility of existence. Paul Bowle’s translation perfectly captures Rey Rosa’s stories of the haunted lives of ordinary people in present-day Central America. “A genuinely surprising and original set of stories…a sense of violent unease shading into terror drifts up from every line…his writing has a sharp, almost sadistic edge.”—The Times Literary Supplement “Compelling in the extreme…these twelve tales (that) boast of hidden dangers and lurking terrors, are written in a deceptively undramatic style, with masterful restraint. Stories that continue to disturb and delight long after they are laid to rest."—Blitz. Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel The Sheltering Sky (1949), set in French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931. In 1947, Bowles settled in Tangier, at that time in the Tangier International Zone, and his wife Jane Bowles followed in 1948. Except for winters spent in Ceylon during the early 1950s, Tangier was Bowles's home for the remainder of his life. He came to symbolize American immigrants in the city. More

Rocky Mount, NC: Eternal Gold Publishers, 2009. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. xv, [1], 195, [5] pages. Illustrated front cover. Foreword by Emerson Harrison, M.D., FACS. Illustrations. Appendices (including Sources Consulted). Cover has minor wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To: Rev. Dr. Keith W. Byrd S.R. Zion Baptist Church Thomas L. Walker 8-16-15. Thomas Lorenzo Walker earned a Batchelor of Theology from Shaw Divinity School and his Doctoral degree in Divinity from the Eastern North Carolina Theological Institute. He earned a Doctor of Humane Letters from United Christian College. Rev. Walker has been pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Rocky Mount for 40 years. He was one of the first African American Commissioners elected in Edgecombe County. His proactive stance in community relations earned Walker the Order of the Long Leaf Pine from Governor James Hunt in 1981, a Community Service Award in 1991, and an Outstanding Service Award in 1996 from the Edgecombe County Involvement Council. His honors include the Black History Heritage Peace Keeper Award in 2002, an Outstanding Service Award in 2004 from the General Baptist State Convention, and the Humanitarian Award for Outstanding Service in 2009. After recovering from prostate cancer, the Rev. Dr. Walker authored Brother to Brother – You Don’t Have to Die of Prostate Cancer, and created Project EMPOWER which is Empowering Men through Prostate Organ Wellness, Education, and Recovery, and “Save the Seed” a national campaign which encourages men over 40 to get an annual prostate exam. More

Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's Publishing Division, 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. xvii, [1], 531,[1] pages. In Memoriam. Lineage of the Washington Artillery. Illustrations (photographs, drawings). Maps. Unit Rosters. Louisiana World War II Casualty Lists. Service record format inside covers (not filled in). Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Herbert W. Rutledge, My fellow Washington Artilleryman in the 935th F. A. Bn. who was at all the places that unit went in WWII, hoping that he will find here something of interest. With regards Powell A. "Pat" Casey. The author joined the Washington Artillery at the age of eighteen. He served in the unit for four years as an enlisted man and for sixteen years as an officer. After the war he earned an AB from Spring Hill College and a JD from Loyola University. He worked in the legal department of a major oil company for thirty-four years. He became a noted local historian, authoring Louisiana in the War of 1812 and published numerous articles in professional journals. More