New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Trade Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [12], 317, [7] p. Illustrations. Index. Signed on the title page by Stern. Name of previous owner in ink on fep. Isaac Stern (21 July 1920 22 September 2001) was a Soviet-born violinist and conductor. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent. Isaac Stern was born into a Volhynian-Jewish family in Kremenets (Krzemieniec), then in the Soviet Ukraine (the year after his birth it again became part of Poland). He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother. In 1928, he enrolled at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied until 1931 before going on to study privately with Louis Persinger. He returned to the San Francisco Conservatory to study for five years with Naoum Blinder, to whom he said he owed the most. At his public debut on 18 February 1936, aged 15, he played Saint-Saens' Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Pierre Monteux. Stern received extensive recognition for his work, including winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom and six Grammy Awards, and being named to the French Legion of Honour. The Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall bears his name, due to his role in saving the venue from demolition in the 1960s. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. His first book The Chosen (1967), was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks. More

Moscow: Navka, 1988. One of only 8,700. Hardcover. TEXT IS IN RUSSIAN. 368 pages. Illustrations. Formulae. Bibliography. Index. Decorative cover. Minor cover wear and soiling. Inscribed by Sagdeev on the title page. Inscription reads Dorogomy Shuan Liv na dobruyu pamiat R. Sagdeev 17/III-89.[Translation Dear Shuan Liv in good memories]. Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (born 26 December 1932) is a Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also a science advisor to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Sagdeev graduated from Moscow State University. He is a member of both the Russian Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He has worked at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1989 in the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Sagdeev was married to, and divorced from, Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Sagdeev was the recipient of the 2003 Carl Sagan Memorial Award, and the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2001). George M. Zaslavsky (31 May 1935 – 25 November 2008) was a Soviet mathematical physicist and one of the founders of the physics of dynamical chaos. In 1991 Zaslavsky emigrated to the United States and became a Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the Physics Department of New York University and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. More

Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 292 pages. Footnotes. Maps. Illustrations. Appendix I and II. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Robert P. Watson is a professor, author, historian, and media commentator. Watson is the author and editor of over 40 books on topics in history and politics, and has published hundreds of articles, book chapters, and essays. Several of his books have won awards and been featured on C-SPAN's Book TV and at major literary festivals, including Affairs of State, America's First Crisis, The Nazi Titanic, The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn, George Washington's Final Battle, and Escape. A frequent media commentator, he has been interviewed by local, national, and international print, TV, and radio outlets, including CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, The New York Times, BBC, USA Today, and others. For many years, he was a Sunday columnist for the Sun-Sentinel newspaper and analyst for WPTV 5 (NBC), RTE One (Ireland), Australian Broadcasting Corporation, WFTL 850 (AM), WIOD 610 (AM), and WPBT 2 (PBS). Watson has the founder and editor of the journal, White House Studies. He has convened or co-convened a half-dozen national conferences on the American presidency and directed the annual Truman Legacy Symposium at The Harry S. Truman Little White House. Watson has won a number of awards, including the International Abraham Lincoln Center Award. In 2007 he joined Lynn University, where he holds the titles Distinguished Professor of American History and Avron Fogelman Research Professor. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. More

Washington DC: The National Bank of Washington, c1970. Presumed one of a set of multiple originals. Single sheet, printed on one side. Format is approximately 3.25 inches by 1.75 inches. Text reads True Davis [at the center], President and Chairman of the Board The National Bank of Washington [Lower left], and Washington, D. C. [lower right] Written boldly across the top, above True Davis in ink is "Merry Christmas!" It is presumed that the handwritten sentiment is in Mr. Davis' own handwriting. More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 254 pages. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge chips. Illustrations (100 black and white and 8 pages of color). Maps. Bibliography. Index. Includes parts on: The Background, The Strike Leaders, The Strike, The Settlement, and The Aftermath. The Story of the Labour movement's first great victory, produced in association with the Transport and General Workers' Union. Foreword by Ron Todd, General Secretary of the TGWU. The story of the British dock strike of 1889 in which the dockers ultimately won victory over the employers. An interesting and often neglected area of British social history. Terry McCarthy is a well known historian, and educationalist. He was brought up in London dockhands and left school at fifteen and went to university when he was twenty eight. More

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xvii, [3], 306, [2] pages. Illustrated front cover. Minor wear and soiling to cover. This is one of The Jewish People in America series, sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society. Series Editor's Foreword. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Index. Gerald Sorin (born October 23, 1940) is a Distinguished Professor of American and Jewish Studies and the Director of the Louis and Mildred Resnick Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish Life at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Sorin earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969. Sorin started teaching in 1965 at SUNY New Paltz, where he specialized in American social and political history and culture. He became the Director of the Jewish Studies Program at SUNY New Paltz in 1983, the Chair of the History Department in 1986, and was the founder of the Louis and Mildred Resnick Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish Life in 1989, which he continues to direct. His biography of the New York Intellectual, democratic Socialist, and Yiddishist, Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent (2002), won the National Jewish Book Award in History in 2003. A Time for Building: American Jewish Immigration, The Third Migration, 1880-1920, is part of the acclaimed five-volume series The Jewish People in America, edited by Henry Feingold, and was judged “a thoroughly engaging, carefully researched, and professionally impressive synthesis.” In 2013, his Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane won the National Jewish Book Award in Biography and a biography silver medal from Independent Publisher Awards (IPPY). More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Advance, Uncorrected Reading copy. Trade paperback. [6], 190 pages. Footnotes. Sequence of Events. Documents: Exclusion. Documents: Deportation. Documents: Internment. Memoirs. Translator's Note. Bibliographic Note. Ink word on spine. Tzvetan Todorov (1 March 1939 – 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, intellectual history and culture theory. Todorov's historical interests have focused on such crucial issues as the conquest of The Americas and the German Nazi concentration camps. Aside from his work in literary theory, Todorov has also published studies of philosophy. He wrote Frail Happiness about the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He focuses on Rousseau's ideas of attaining human happiness and how we can live in 'modern' times. More

William A. Pogue, 2009. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 152 pages. Illustrations. Map. RARE. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Joe Jeffers 100th July 13!! with Fond Memories of Norwood. Bill Pogue June 28, 2011. The author grew up in Birmingham, Alabama in the Norwood neighborhood, graduating from Norwood Grammar School and Phillips High School. During World War II he served in the Naval Air Corps before entering West Point in 1946. He graduated in 1950 and served in the Korean War as an Artillery Officer in the 3rd Infantry Division, attaining the rank of Captain and receiving the Bronze Star Medal for Valor. After military service, he was with the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company for thirty-five years. Norwood is a neighborhood of Birmingham in the northeast corner of the Northside community, in the "North Highlands" north of downtown. Norwood's borders follow an irregular path of creek, roads, and railroad tracks. Village Creek forms the northern border. To the east, the border comes down along the Railroad's track to Interstate 20/59, then follows the interstate west to Vanderbilt Road; it follows that road down to Richard Arrington Boulevard and back to the east to the railroad and then down to the southern border. The southern border follows 9th Avenue North southwest to 31st Street North, then turns due west until meeting Arrington Boulevard; it follows Arrington briefly before turning due west again across the interstate to meet Carraway Boulevard. Carraway is the western border up to 19th Avenue North. The northwestern border follows 19th Avenue east to the Railroad track, then follows the track NNW back to Village Creek. More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. vi, 280, [2] pages. Notes. Notes on Contributors. Index. Sticker residue inside the front cover. David Biale is an American historian specializing in Jewish history. Biale specialized in Jewish history, and obtained a Ph.D. in the subject from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977. Between 1986 and 1999, Biale was the Koret Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He subsequently joined the University of California, Davis, as Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History. Michael Galchinsky writes on human rights literature, international human rights law, nineteenth-century British literature, and Jewish studies. His study of Jewish human rights activism after World War II, Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings, explores Jews’ initial enthusiasm for the growing international human rights regime in the wake of the Holocaust, but then the waning of their support, starting in the late 1960s, as the human rights began to be used to delegitimize Israel. He also co-edited with David Biale and Susannah Heschel, Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism. Susannah Heschel (born 15 May 1956) is an American scholar and the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, she is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards. Heschel's scholarship focuses on Jewish and Christian interactions in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2007. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 484 pages. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling and is price-clipped. John Joseph Mearsheimer (born December 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation. Mearsheimer is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. In accordance with his theory, Mearsheimer believes that China's growing power will likely bring it into conflict with the United States. In his 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, Mearsheimer argues that the Israeli lobby wields disproportionate influence over US foreign policy. Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International relations at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University and a political scientist. A member of the realist school of international relations, Walt has made important contributions to the theory of neorealism and has authored the balance of threat theory. Books that he has authored or coauthored include Origins of Alliances, Revolution and War, and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 288 pages. Illustrations. Author's Note. Notes. Index. Eric Lichtblau (born 1965) is an American journalist, reporting for The New York Times in the Washington bureau, as well as the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, The New Yorker, and the CNN network's investigative news unit. He has earned two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 with the New York Times for his reporting on warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency. He also was part of the New York Times team that won the Pulitzer in 2017 for coverage of Russia and the Trump campaign. He is the author of Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice, and The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States. He was recruited to the OSS, the country's first spy outfit before the CIA. Freddy, joined by Dutch Jewish refugee Hans Wynberg and Nazi defector Franz Weber, parachuted into Austria as the leader of Operation Greenup, meant to deter Hitler's last stand. He posed as a Nazi officer and a French POW for months, dispatching reports to the OSS via Hans, holed up with a radio in a nearby attic. The reports contained a goldmine of information, provided key intelligence about the Battle of the Bulge, and allowed the Allies to bomb twenty Nazi trains. On the verge of the Allied victory, More

Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 401, [3] pages. Illustrations. Genealogical Tables. Cemeteries. Glossary of Foreign and Domestic Words and Phrases. Bibliography. Leonard Markowitz was a chemist and later an aerospace engineer. Mr. Markowitz grew up in West Philadelphia and Wynnefield, and lived in the Philadelphia area all his life. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Temple University, where he majored in chemistry and minored in history. Mr. Markowitz worked in various capacities with Thiokol Chemical Corp., Radio Corp. of America, and General Electric Co. He contributed to programs such as the "Star Wars" missile defense system, the International Space Station, and a number of classified projects. He made presentations to, and worked with, the military and intelligence communities. After retiring in 1991, he became interested in the genealogy of his and his wife's families. In 2000, the research led to the self-publication of a 424-page book, Four Jewish Families in Philadelphia. The book includes descriptions of life in Eastern Europe during the 19th century, the voyage to America, and what Philadelphia was like when the families arrived at the turn of the 20th century. "There are also vivid descriptions of what happened in the small European towns covered during the Holocaust," Mr. Markowitz wrote in an online synopsis. The book contains the names of over 1,200 individuals, he wrote, with the core surnames of Solotnitsky, Markowitz, Malinger, and Rosenberg. The book has proved to be a godsend for answering questions about genealogy, said his daughter, Lynn Pechinski. More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 820 pages. Illustrated Dust Jacket. Footnotes. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Some front board weakness noted. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Richard Parker (born November 5, 1946) is an economist from the United States. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford, and has worked for the United Nations Development Programme. Parker co-founded Mother Jones magazine and is on the editorial board of The Nation. He wrote the books The Myth of the Middle Class, Mixed Signals: the Future of Global Television News, and John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. Parker has held Marshall, Rockefeller, Danforth, Goldsmith, and Bank of America fellowships; and is lecturer in public policy and senior fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he teaches courses on modern macroeconomic policy, as well as on the role of religion in American politics and public policy. In June 2008, Parker was elected the 26th President of the liberal political advocacy group Americans for Democratic Action. More