Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. VOLUME II ONLY. Ex-library. with usual library markings. viii, 421 pages. Some pencil underlining noted. Footnotes. Chronology. Index. George Kennan (February 16, 1845 – May 10, 1924) was an American explorer. As a reporter and war correspondent, he covered American politics, the Spanish–American War, the assassination of President McKinley, and the Russo-Japanese War, as well as World War I and the Russian Revolution. He also published E. H. Harriman's Far Eastern Plans, about Harriman's efforts to secure a lease to the South Manchuria Railway from Japan, as well as The Chicago and Alton Case, defending Harriman's purchase of the Chicago & Alton Railroad from criticism by the ICC and Teddy Roosevelt. Edward Henry Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909) was an American financier and railroad executive. By age 22, he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He made a career as a rebuilder of bankrupt railroads. Harriman was nearly 50 years old when in 1897 he became a director of the Union Pacific Railroad. By May 1898, he was chairman of the executive committee, and his word was the law on the Union Pacific system. In 1903, he assumed the office of president of the company. From 1901 to 1909, Harriman was also the president of the Southern Pacific Railroad. At his death Harriman controlled the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific, the Saint Joseph and Grand Island, the Illinois Central, the Central of Georgia, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and Wells Fargo Express. Two chapters on his break with Theodore Roosevelt. More

Quincy, MA: Francis X. McCauley, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 353, [1] pages. Minor cover wear. Signed, with sentiment, by the author on the fep. Contents include a Special Dedication, Introduction, Acknowledgments, Original Charter, Plan A 1917-1949, Plan E 1950-1957, Plan A Phase Two 1958-1999, Quincy School System. Miscellaneous Photographs, Quincy Voter Registration, Women in City Government 1889-1999, What's in a Name?, Mayoral Hall of Fame, Mayoral Photographs, The 20 year Club, Individuals Who Polled Over 20,000 Votes, Special Notes, Selected Biographies, Quincy Officials Service History, Epilogue, Frank McCauley's Election Record, Bibliography, and Every Name Index. Frank McCauley was Quincy mayor from 1982 to 1989 and spent a total of 32 years in public office. McCauley grew up in Houghs Neck, served a year in the Navy between World War II and the Korean War and then attended Boston College. He first ran for a seat on the Quincy City Council as a political unknown in 1959, and finished last. In his last time on the ballot, in 2003, he was the top vote-getter in the city council race. McCauley served in all four elective office in Quincy: ward Councillor, councillor at large, school committeeman, and mayor. He rose to the presidency of a local bank. He later served as the Executive Director of the State Retirement Board. Mayor James A. Sheets asked him to writ this history which covers the period after Quincy changed from a town meeting form of government to that of a city. “I’ve had a great life and I just wanted to share some of what I learned along the way,” he told a Patriot Ledger reporter. More

New York, N.Y. W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. First Edition [Stated]. Hardcover. 298, [6] pages. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Inscription reads: To Ann, with love and friendship and all best wishes Sue, and then signed Susan Richards Shreve under her printed name. Susan Shreve (also known as Susan Richards Shreve) is an American novelist, memoirist, and children's book author. She has published fifteen novels, most recently More News Tomorrow (2019), and a memoir Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood (2007). She has also published thirty books for children, most recently The Lovely Shoes (2011), and edited or co-edited five anthologies. Shreve co-founded the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing program at George Mason University in 1980, where she teaches writing. She is the co-founder and the former chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. It is 1973 and the scandal of Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter, children's book writer and single mother of two, is leaving New York and the married father of her children, to return to the house in the tightly knit Washington, DC, neighborhood where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of the circumstances surrounding her father's death or of the identity of their own father. As new neighbors enter their insular lives, the safety and stability of her family are in jeopardy. This is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets lead to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 262, [4] pages. Figures and Tables. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes Acknowledgments, Notes, References, and Index. Chapters cover The Puzzle of Successful Global Governance; Yes, the System worked; Why the Misperception?; The Role of Interest; The Role of Power; The Role of Ideas; and Where Do We Go from Here? In this book, Daniel Drezner, a renowned political scientist and international relations expert, contends that despite the massive scale and reverberations of this latest crisis (larger, arguably, than those that precipitated the Great Depression) the global economy has bounced back remarkably well. Examining the major resuscitation efforts by the G-20, IMF, WTO, and other institutions., the author shows that, thanks to the efforts of central bankers and other policymakers, the international response was sufficiently coordinated to prevent the crisis from becoming a full-fled depression. Yet the narrative about the failure of multilateral economic institutions persists, both because the Great Recession affected powerful nations whose governments managed their own economies poorly, and because the most influential policy analysts who wrote the books and articles on the crisis hail from those nations. Nevertheless, Drezner argues, while it's true that the global economy is still fragile, these institutions survived the "stress test" of the financial crisis, and may have even become more resilient and valuable in the process. More

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First Edition. Seventh Printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 603, [7] pages. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ is price clipped and has some edge wear and sticker residue at back. Inscribed by the author on the title page Inscription reads To the Bartnetts, With warm regards, and with hope--Joan Peters September 17, 1985. Joan Peters (April 29, 1936 – January 5, 2015), was a journalist and broadcaster. She wrote the 1984 book From Time Immemorial, a controversial account of the origins of the Palestinians. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Peters wrote for magazines such as Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader, was a consultant for of CBS news documentaries in 1973 about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and provided commentary for PBS. Her dedication to the cause of Israel may have been triggered by a visit in the 1970s to the Soviet Union, where officials treated her and her husband with suspicion. According to the Walker Agency, which booked engagements for her, Peters served as an adviser to the White House on foreign policy in the Middle East during the Carter administration. In From Time Immemorial (1984), she argued that Palestinians are largely not indigenous to modern Israel and therefore have no claim to its territory. The book, a best-seller, became controversial. Scholars and writers such as Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Yehoshua Porath. and Ian and David Gilmour criticized it. Shortly before her death, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, telephoned to convey to her that Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was deeply grateful for her work. More

New York: The Penguin Press, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 421, [1] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Pencil underlining and marks noted. Includes Authors' Note, Prologue, Appendix: How the AIDS Epidemic Can Be Overcome, Acknowledgments, Notes, References to the Appendix; Additional Suggested Readings; and Index. Drawing on remarkable new science, this book tells the story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of the deadly AIDS epidemic, and the best ways to fight it today. Recent genetic discoveries have traced the birth of HIV to the forbidding equatorial forests of Cameroon, where chimpanzees carried a nearly identical virus for illennia without causing a major outbreak in humans. During the Scramble for Africa near the turn of the twentieth century, colonial companies blazed new routes through the jungle in search of rubber and other riches, sending African porters into remote regions rarely traveled before. It was here, during the age of European conquest, that humans first contracted the strain of HIV that would eventually cause 99 percent of AIDS deaths around the world. This book is an indictment of Western ineptitude and meddling and lost opportunities to prevent millions of infections and deaths. But it also contains valuable prescriptions for making change--and it's an important read for anyone who cares about Africa. More

New York City: Shengold Publishers, Inc., 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. DJ and book have wear and soiling. Bookplate of previous owner on fep. Preface. Notes. The contents are divided into eight chapters: Prolegomenon, The State of Shock, Despair, The World Stands Accused, The Complaint Against Heaven, Confession, Unshaken Faith, and Conclusion. This book is an in-depth study of predominant Holocaust themes as reflected in Hebrew poetry during and in the post-Holocaust periods. Rabbi Kohn consulted leading contemporary Hebrew poets, like Aharon Zeitlin, Yehudah Leib Bialer, Israel Efros, Shimon Halkin, and Chaim Chamiel. The material was selected on specific topics such as Shock, Despair; and Reactions to a silent and indifferent world in full view of the annihilation of the Jewish people; and the sense of guilt of those who survived and of those who were not "there"... This study unveils for the first time, for the English reading public, poetic sources on the Holocaust. Poetry is the closest emotional testimony of the victims and witnesses of the Holocaust whose testimony reverberates from every verse, particularly of those who can no longer personally bear witness. They eternalized their feelings poetically. Poetry comes closest to a recorded testimony of our martyrs. They conveyed their anguish through verse before dying, thus letting us emotionally experience that imponderable moment and help us, albeit vicariously, identify with that suffering. Thus the martyr and victims testify in poetic genre for the annals of human history what happened, while the other poets record their anguished protest and speak the conscience of our partially decimated people. More

New York, N.Y. Random House, 1999. First Edition (Stated). Hardcover. xix, [1], 484, [8] pages. Illustrations. Includes Acknowledgment, Maps, Introduction, Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes, Bibliographic Note, and Index. Also contains 4 maps: Japan and Operation Downfall; Plan for Operation Olympic and Estimated Japanese Dispositions as of May 1945; Plan for Operation Olympic and Actual Japanese Dispositions as of August 1945; and August Storm: Soviet Offensive in Manchuria, August 1945. Chapters cover Tokyo Burns: Raid of March 9-10; Strategies Old, Strategies New; From Zeppelins to B-29s; LeMay Takes Command; Fire and Mud; The "Fundamental Policy"; Magic Insights; Downfall and Olympic Plans; The Invasion and the President; Pummeling and Strangling: Bombardment and Blockade, June to August; Ketsu Operation on Kyushu; Kamikazes, Civilians, and Assessments; The Eclipse of Olympic; Unconditional Surrender and Magic; Magic and Diplomacy with the Soviets; Hiroshima; Manchuria and Nagasaki; The Decisive day, Surrender, Assessing Realities and Alternatives and Conclusions. Richard B. Frank (born November 11, 1947 in Kansas) is an American lawyer and military historian. Frank graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969, after which he served four years in the United States Army. During the Vietnam War, he served a tour of duty as a platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division. In 1976, he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. Frank has written several books and articles on the Pacific campaign of World War II and Southeast Asia. More

The Johns Hopkins University: Service Center for Teachers of History [A Service of the American Historical Association], 1967. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Booklet. [2], 82 pages. Footnotes. References. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some underlining noted. Since World War II, a new group of scholars has subjected the writings of the Imperial and Progressive historians to a massive, critical reassessment. Reexamining and rethinking the evidence at almost every major point, they have proceeded along two distinct yet complementary and overlapping lines of investigation. One line has been concerned mainly with exploring the substantive issues both in the debate with Britain and in the politics of the new nation between 1776 and 1789 and in examining the nature of internal political divisions and assessing their relationship to the dominant issues. A second line of investigation has been through the history of ideas, especially through the underlying assumptions and traditions of social and political behavior, and has sought to explain the relationship between those ideas and the central developments of the Revolutionary era. The material will appear in somewhat altered form as the introduction to a collection of essays on the American Revolution to be published by Harper & Row. More

San Francisco, California: Miller Freeman Books, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. CD is NOT PRESENT. xv, [1], 271, [1] pages. Includes Foreword, Editor's Introduction, Prologue: King Solomon Hill; Initial Inquiries and Encounters; Tips, Leads, and Documents; Witnesses; H.C. Speir; Retrospectives; and Epilogue. Also includes Knocking on Doors for 78s: Record Grades; The Immortal Charlie Patton; Country Blues and Gospel Pioneers; Memphis City Directory Blues; A Quick Ramble and more. Also contains One Last Walk up King Solomon Hill, Afterword, References, List of 78 rpm Record Issues Cited, Index to 78s, List of Interviews Cited, Reissues, Index of Names, CD Liner Notes, and about the Author and Editor. This book by expert blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow reveals the stories of the great blues pioneers--many in their own words. Based on personal interviews, public records, and even door-to-door canvassing, Wardlow's lively writings reflect the unique excitement of blues search-and-discovery. He paints colorful portraits of both legends and unknowns of the 1920s, '30s, and beyond who helped shape the music: Charlie Patton, Ishmon Bracey, Bukka White, Tommy Johnson, The Real Willie Brown, Skip James, and dozens more. Wardlow has added three new articles especially for this book. "Bukka White: From Aberdeen to Parchman" introduces the use of court documents to blues research. "Blind Roosevelt Graves" was a piece that he had long wished to write, and it was prepared with its context with this book in mind. "Stop, Look, and Listen at the Cross Road" is a commentary asking the blues fan to entertain another interpretation of the crossroads legend. More

Norman, Oklahoma: The Arthur H. Clark Company, An imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 546, [6] pages. Volume 10 of the Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier series. Includes Footnotes, Illustrations, Foreword, Acknowledgments, Editorial Procedures, and Introduction. Chapters cover "Like a Thousand o-Brick"; Happy Fighting Led by Inspired Men: Approaching the Flash Point, 1856; "See the Red Stuff Run": Awaiting Buchanan; "Dancing on a Volcano"; The Change in Administrations; "It's a Hell of a Place"; The Decision to Intervene; "President Young Says that He Would Build a Fort" Utah Prepares for the Storm; "To Conquer Both Time and Distance"; Harney Organizes the Expedition; In Pharaoh's Army: Teamsters, Reporters, and soldiers West; "We Will Make a Potter's Field of Every Canyon: Young and the Legion Respond; "Bring Home All the Powder and Lead": The Quest for Arms and Munitions; "If We Are Driven into Extreme Measures"; "Lonely Bones"; "Like Stubble before a Wirlwing"; "Staggering Along Like so Many Drunken Men"; "My Thoughts upon Utah Matters". William P. MacKinnon, an American independent historian. A management consultant, MacKinnon is a historian of the American West, Mormon history, and Utah history who was described by Richard E. Turley in 2018 as "the acknowledged expert" and by Thomas G. Alexander in 2019 as "the most knowledgeable authority" on what was known in its time as the American War of the Mormons' Succession (or more recently "the Utah War"), a topic of which MacKinnon began his study as a Yale sophomore history major in 1958. More

Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vii, [1], 420, [4] pages. Includes Introduction and Index. Also includes chapters on Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, Kentucky, East Tennessee, West Tennessee, Illinois; Missouri; West Indies; Indulgences; and Index. This material is not only of value for genealogical research. It is clearly of importance for economic and social history. For example, the great number of weavers, spinners, carders, and makers of cotton machines throw light on the rapid growth of the cloth industry, notably in Rhode Island, New Jersey, and sections of New York. Many British subjects were engaged in the gunpowder business, in Delaware particularly. Almost all crafts and employments are represented: some of the aliens were artists, engravers, printers, silver-smiths, gunsmiths, cabinetmkers, schoolmasters, and ministers of the Gospel, to mention only a few occupations. After passage of an Act of July 6, 1812 required all British subjects were to report to the marshal of the state or territory of their residence "the persons composing their families, the places of their residence and their occupations or pursuits; and whether, and at what time, they have made the application to the courts required by law, as preparatory to their naturalization." The returns had been deposited in the National Archives. Some returns supplied additional data, such as country of origin. More

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 483, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Some yellow highlighting noted. Stamp on bottom edge. Sticker residue on back cover. Contains List of Illustrations, Illustrations. Maps. Preface, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover France's First Empire: Gains and Losses; Bugeaud and the Conquest of Algeria; Faidherbe of Senegal and West Africa; Gallieni and Joffre: Colonials Tragically Intertwined; Lyautey: Prince of Proconsuls; Heirs to Lyautey; The Twilight of French Colonialism; Bigeard: Last of the Line in Vietnam and Algeria; and "A Remnant Shall Remain...". Contains 7 photographs, and 3 maps. Inscribed by Alain Cohen (not an author and not mentioned in the Index, may be noted security professional) to General Petraeus on the half title page. Inscription reads: To General Petraeus, The Marcel Bigeard of our generation. I present you my well-worn copy of a superb book about the cultured generals who shaped and defended their greater Republic. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Respectfully, Alain Cohen. Cultured Force is a revisionist work, first because it takes vigorous issue with prevalent negative views of colonial activity, second because it presents most of the military figures who are the heroes of the tale as cultivated, sensitive, all-round men. And its focus on individual personalities brings the story to life, filling it with anecdotes and color. The result is intriguing, mostly convincing, sometimes demanding, and quite fascinating. More