Washington DC: La Maison Francaise, Ambassade de France, 1992. Presumed one of a few multiple originals. Single sheet, printed on one side. The format is approximately 4.75 inches by 7 inches. Rare surviving invitation. The text reads En l'honneur de Monsieur Michel Lapin Ministre de l'Economie et du Finances L'Ambassadeur de France et Madame Jacques Andriani Le Ministre Plenipolentiaire, Conseiller Tinancier pres l'Ambassadeur de France et Madame Philippe Adhemar L'Administrateur de le Banque Mondiale et de Fonds Monetiaire Internatonal Jean-Pierrre Landau vous peirnt de leur faire l'honneur d'assister a la reception que sera donnee le lundi 21 septembre 1992 a 18 heurs. Regrets (202) 944-6393 La Maison Francaise, Ambassade de France 4101 Reservoir Road, N.W. [The translation is In honor of Mr. Michel Lapin, Minister of Economy and Finance, the Ambassador of France and Madame Jacques Andriane, along with Minister Plenipotentiary and Financial Counselor to the Ambassador Philippe Adhemar and Madame Adhemar, and World Bank and International Monetary Fund Executive Director Jean-Pierre Landau, request the honor of your presence at a reception to be held on Monday, September 21, 1992, at 6:00 p.m. Regrets: (202) 944-6393. La Maison Française, Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road, N.W.]. More

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University, 2026. Presumed First Edition, First Printing this issue Sesquicentennial issue--Celebrating 150 Years of Johns Hopkins. Wraps. 112 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Sticker on front cover. Cover has slight wear, edge tear and soiling. Mailing information on the back cover. The first issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine landed in readers’ mailboxes in 1950, marking the birth of a new kind of magazine. Published for the graduates, faculty, and friends of America’s first research university, it was conceived to give readers “intellectual nourishment,” and over the years has featured thought-provoking and sometimes controversial articles on particle physics, student unrest, solitary confinement, artificial intelligence, and trailblazing artists. Our award-winning quarterly publication is now mailed to more than 140,000 Johns Hopkins graduates, faculty, and friends, and viewed online around the globe. Johns Hopkins remains one of the nation’s premier centers of learning, research, and discovery—sharing knowledge to better the world. The university’s notable list of alumni includes visionary scientists; entrepreneurs of every stripe; famous authors of fiction and nonfiction; winners of Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, and Pulitzer Prizes; heads of local, regional, national, and international organizations; and various elected officials including mayors, governors, and members of Congress. An institution with such a rich and textured history of excellence deserves an alumni magazine that reflects this distinction and mirrors its global reach, while never losing sight of its Baltimore roots.At our core, we love to tell stories with a universal appeal. We consider Johns Hopkins Magazine a gift to our readers. More

New York: Nation Books, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. xiii, [1], 237, [5] pages. Notes. Index. DJ has some sticker residue. Nicholas von Hoffman (October 16, 1929 – February 1, 2018) was an American journalist and author. He worked as a community organizer for Saul Alinsky in Chicago from 1953 to 1963. Later, Von Hoffman wrote for The Washington Post, and most notably, was a commentator on the CBS Point-Counterpoint segment for 60 Minutes, from which Don Hewitt fired him in 1974. von Hoffman was also a columnist for The Huffington Post. In the 1950s, he worked for Saul Alinsky as a field representative of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago, where his best known role was as lead organizer for The Woodlawn Organization. Ben Bradlee hired von Hoffman from the Chicago Daily News. In her memoirs, Katharine Graham wrote of him: "My life would have been a lot simpler had Nicholas von Hoffman not appeared in the paper." She added "I firmly believed that he belonged at the Post". Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community activist and political theorist. His work through the Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation helping poor communities organize to press demands upon landlords, politicians, bankers and business leaders won him national recognition and notoriety. Responding to the impatience of New Left activists in the 1960s, Alinsky–in his widely cited Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer – defended the arts both of confrontation and of compromise involved in community organizing as keys to the struggle for social justice. More

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. xcii, [3], 113, [3] pages. Chronology of the Martyrs' Movement, Notes. Bibliography. Index. The dust jacket has slight wear and soiling. At the University of California at Berkeley, Jessica Coope trained in medieval European history and the history of Islam in the Middle East. Her primary research interest is medieval Spain, particularly during the period when most of Spain was under Islamic rule, roughly 700 to 1200. Her first book looked at Christian conversion to Islam in Spain around the year 800. Her main teaching fields are pre-modern Europe and the Middle East, with an emphasis on history of religion. She has also spent a number of her twenty years at the University of Nebraska, including a four-year term as Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1973. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. 180, [4] pages. Ex-library with the usual markings. The dust jacket has a taped marking at the bottom of the spine. Harry Scott Ashmore (July 28, 1916–January 20, 1998) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in 1957 on the school integration conflict in Little Rock. Ashmore won a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 1941. When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, Ashmore left Harvard to join the United States Army, and served (reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel) with the Ninety-fifth Infantry Division, United States Third Army. After the war, Harry Ashmore became the editorial writer at the Charlotte News (in Charlotte, North Carolina). In 1951 Governor Sid McMath of Arkansas invited Ashmore to address the Southern Governors' Conference when it met at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Ashmore spoke to the governors on civil rights, a contentious subject in southern states, and newspapers around the United States reprinted the speech or excerpts from it. Ashmore wrote the first of his eleven books in 1954. The Negro and the Schools was a report of a Ford Foundation study of segregated education in the South. It was published shortly before the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision ending school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education. Chief Justice Earl Warren later told Ashmore that the book was used as a source while drafting the 1955 implementation ruling known as Brown II. In 1958, Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. More

New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Seventh Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 370 pages. Illustrations. Selected Bibliographies. Index. No dust jacket present. Some end paper and page soiling noted. James Thomas Flexner (January 13, 1908 – February 13, 2003) was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award in Biography and a special Pulitzer Prize. His one-volume abridgment, Washington: the Indispensable Man (1974) was the basis of two television miniseries, George Washington (1984) and George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986). His father was Simon Flexner, microbiologist, pathologist, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City and discoverer of a cure for spinal meningitis. His uncle, Abraham Flexner, was the educator whose 1910 report led to the reform of United States medical schools. In 1929, Flexner graduated cum laude from Harvard University, and found work as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1931, he took a position at the New York City Department of Health as an executive secretary. The following year, he left his job to devote his full energies to writing. He wrote other historical biographies, including The Young Hamilton (on Alexander Hamilton), Mohawk Baronet (on Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet), and The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John André. He wrote many books on the history of American art, including a highly regarded life of the American painter John Singleton Copley. More

Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1965. Seventh Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xiv, 345, [90 pages. Footnotes. Map. Notes. Appendices. Index. The cover has some wear and soiling. Some highlighting noted. Examines how the democratic framework of the German town of Thalburg (Northeim) was systematically dismantled from within between 1922 and 1945. The study illustrates how local Nazi activists integrated into everyday civic institutions, exploiting economic depression and fear of communism to turn citizens into complicit participants in totalitarian control. William Sheridan Allen (October 5, 1932 – March 14, 2013) was an American historian. Allen studied history at the universities of Michigan, Connecticut, and Minnesota, and in Germany at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen. The Nazi Seizure of Power (1965) was his first book. He also wrote The Infancy of Nazism. He retired in 2001 as professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Allen wrote two books on Adolf Hitler refuting the assertion that he came to power through violence. Allen claimed, Hitler's Nazi movement "seized power" in an act akin to democratic tactics. His most famous book, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1930–1935, was written to explain how one city (Northeim, Germany) fell into the Nazi trap. Fed by Nazi propaganda, many people of Northeim, especially in the middle classes, in the midst of the Great Depression saw the Nazis as a way to get their country back to greatness that Hitler and the Nazis promised they would do. The book was widely reviewed and extremely influential. More

New York: Scribner, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 252, [4] pages. This copy has an author signed sentiment that reads: "Happy Father's Day Al Roker". The famed weatherman on NBC's Today show offers a collection of essays, some serious, some humorous, offering his thoughts on parenting and life in general that draw on his experiences as the father of two girls and his own childhood as the oldest of six children. Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. (born August 20, 1954) is an American weather presenter, journalist, personality, and author. He is the weather anchor on NBC's Today, and occasionally co-hosts 3rd Hour Today. Roker received exposure when David Letterman asked him to join in an elevator race on the talk show Late Night with David Letterman, which taped near the WNBC news studio in the GE Building. This led to Roker becoming the forecaster for Weekend Today. He also substituted on the weekday edition of Today when Willard Scott was ill or away. In early 1996, Scott announced his semi-retirement from Today. On January 26, 1996, Roker received the regular weekday weather slot. Roker's studio remote forecasts, interviewing visitors outside and giving them some camera time, became a staple. Roker conducted more interviews and segments on the show over time. He continues the daily tradition of birthday wishes to centenarians that began with Scott. In November 2014, Roker embarked on a "Rokerthon", in which he did a non-stop, 34-hour weather forecast on NBC, from 10:05 p.m. on November 12, 2014, until about 8:00 a.m. on November 14, 2014. The record-setting event was a fundraiser to benefit the military and USO. More

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Presumed First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 338 pages. Footnotes. Index. Signed and dated by previous owner on the fep. Some pencil marks noted. DJ has slight wear, tears and soiling. Dedicated to Cass Canfield. Herbert J. Muller’s Adlai Stevenson: A Study in Values explores Adlai Stevenson II’s political life as a symbol of twentieth-century democratic idealism, focusing on the tension between his personal integrity and the demands of Cold War politics. The biography analyzes his unsuccessful 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns and his later tenure as U.N. Ambassador, presenting him as the intellectual conscience of his generation. Herbert J. Muller (1905–1980) was a prominent American historian, author, and academic who famously synthesized history, philosophy, and political science. He spent a significant portion of his career at Indiana University, serving as a professor of both English and Government. Muller was widely acclaimed for his sweeping, broad-lens historical narratives that sought to extract meaningful, humanist lessons from past civilizations to apply to contemporary societal dilemmas. He achieved major literary recognition as a National Book Award finalist for his celebrated 1952 work, The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies. Over his lifetime, Muller penned numerous highly regarded texts exploring the evolution of democracy and the ethical dilemmas of progress, including The Loom of History (1958), Freedom in the Ancient World (1961), and The Children of Frankenstein: A Primer on Modern Technology and Human Values (1970). More

New York: Random House, 1962. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 243 pages. Footnotes. Index. Some ink underlining and marginal marks noted. RARE! The Fourth Floor is an Account of the Castro Communist Revolution offers a critical insider perspective on the final years of Fulgencio Batista's regime and the rapid rise of Fidel Castro, arguing that U.S. State Department bureaucrats and favorable media coverage facilitated the communist takeover. Earl Edward Tailer Smith (1903–1991) was an American diplomat and investment broker who served as the United States Ambassador to Cuba from 1957 to 1959 before later serving as the Mayor of Palm Beach from 1977 to 1983. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Smith as special assistant in the Office of Production Management (later War Production Board). He left this post to serve in the United States Army during the Second World War. Smith served overseas and by the end of the war, attained the rank of Lieutenant colonel. In June 1957, President Eisenhower appointed Smith ambassador to Cuba. Smith had never held a diplomatic position and who did not speak Spanish. Smith was urged by his staff to leave Havana to get a better feel of the country, which was in a state of turmoil. Smith witnessed firsthand the funeral of Frank Pais, one of the leaders of the M-26-7 movement. Well over 200,000 people attended the event, which convinced Smith that something had to be done about Fulgencio Batista. Smith felt that the CIA underestimated the strength of the revolutionary movement. Smith resigned his post on January 20, 1959, three weeks after the Cuban Revolution led by Castro. More

New York: Avery [An imprint of Penguin Random House], 2012. First Trade Paperback Edition [Stated]. Later printing. Trade paperback. xxv, [3], 211 pages. xxv, [3], 211, [1] pages. Endnotes. Select Bibliography. Index. This copy has a gift card and has a gift inscription to the recipient that reads: To Roger Lewis the NNSA Pun Master. Shawna". There is a large vertical crease down the front cover. John Pollack (born c. 1965) served as a Special Assistant to the President and Presidential Speechwriter for Bill Clinton, was a foreign correspondent, and was an advisor to prominent leaders and philanthropists. Pollack is a noted authority on analogy, wordplay, creativity, and innovation. In 1988 he graduated from Stanford University with an AB in American Studies. In 1995, Pollack won the O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships. He wrote a book about puns and the history of wordplay, referencing his experience competing in the pun competition. Pollack began his journalism career writing for The Hartford Courant, and later spent several years in Spain as a foreign correspondent. He served as a project manager for the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, now known as The Henry Ford. He moved to Washington, D.C., where he became a speechwriter for Representative David E. Bonior, and later for President Bill Clinton at The White House. He is the author of four books: The World On a String: How to Become a Freelance Foreign Correspondent; Cork Boat: A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built; The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History and Made Wordplay more than Some Antics; and Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation and Sell Our Greatest Ideas. More

Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Black Rose Books, 1983. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Trade paperback. [10], 478 pages. Footnotes. Typed text in margins. Sticker residue on back cover. Dimitrios Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a prominent Canadian political activist, ecologist, publisher, and author. For over six decades, he has been a central figure in North America's New Left, peace, and anarchist movements.Contains two scarce Chomsky essays. Among the contributors are Seymour Melman, Michael Klare, Noam Chomsky, Farley Mowat, Theodore Olson, Robert Jungk, Bertrand Russell, Jawaharlal Nehru. Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a Canadian political activist and publisher. Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a Canadian political activist and publisher. Roussopoulos studied philosophy, politics, and economics at several Montreal and London universities, including McGill University and the London School of Economics. He chose to pursue his political activism. He has remained institutionally independent apart from teaching two years in the late 1960s at a progressive college. Roussopoulos’s political and peace activism began in London, England. He founded in 1959 the Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and organized the first post-war student demonstration in Ottawa. He founded and edited Canada's first quarterly peace research journal, Our Generation, in 1961. Its first issue gained a circulation of three thousand and carried a preface by Bertrand Russell. In 1969, Roussopoulos founded Black Rose Books, an international publishing house known for publishing works of left-wing politics by Noam Chomsky and Murray Bookchin, among others. More

Lynchburg, VA: Published by the author and printed by Progress Printing Co., Inc., 1991. Presumed First Edition, First Printing. Trade paperback. [2], x, [1], 167, [3] pages. Author's Personal Note. Map. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Edges soiled. Signed with sentiment [Hauntingly yours L. B. Taylor] on fep. Notation by previous owner also on fep. Dare you not believe? The periodic return of George Washington's brother in law who died more than 200 years ago! The ghost in the church belfry who frightened a man to death, the confused Confederate soldier who threw a tantrum - 125 years after his death! The headless "Blue Lady" who roamed Charlotte Street... the Phantom prankster at the Rising Sun Tavern. These and many other examples of inexplicable physic phenomena are chronicled in "The Ghosts of Fredericksburg." Are the stories true? Skeptics may scoff, but a number of respected witnesses who have personally seen or otherwise experienced the "presence" of these spirits swear by them. Williamsburg resident L B. Taylor, Jr., is credited with 50 non-fiction books, including 25 enormously popular collections of Virginia ghost stories. He earned his journalism degree from Florida State University, served in the U.S. Army, and later covered spaceflight missions for NASA. As a freelance writer, he wrote more than 300 articles throughout his career and his retirement. While his popular non-fiction books cover diverse subjects, from pirate treasure to electronic surveillance, his ghost story collections set him firmly in Virginia libraries, schools, and homes. More