College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2004. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xii, 205, [1] pages. Illustrations. Introduction: A Note on the Editing by Robert H. Ferrell. Notes. Further Reading. Index. This is Number Six in the C. A. Brannen Series. The 42nd Division was activated in August 1917, four months after the U.S. entry into World War I. It was composed of National Guard units originating from 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The 42nd arrived overseas to the Western Front of Belgium and France in November 1917, one of the first divisions of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) to do so, under MG William A. Mann's command and also Colonel Douglas MacArthur as chief of staff. The AEF was commanded by General John Joseph Pershing. After initially landing at St. Nazaire (France), the 42nd was temporarily located at Vaucouleurs, Lorraine (France), from 7 November – 7 December 1917, to preliminarily train before transferring to another training area between Lafauche and Rimaucourt. The day after Christmas, the 42nd, along with other divisions it had now linked up with, departed for another training area near Rolampont, Langres (France). French officers had been attached to the 42nd at Lafauche, Rimaucourt, and Rolampont as instructors in trench warfare. During 1918, the 42nd took part in four major operations: the Champagne-Marne, the Aisne-Marne, the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. In total, it saw 264 days of combat. More

Madrid: Institvto Arias Montano, 1981. Contemporary Reprint of article from Sefarad; Madrid Vol. 41, Issue 1, (Jan 1, 1981). Wraps. Pagination is 23, [1] pages at bottom pages [71]-93, [1] at the top. Cover has some marks, wear and soiling. Title in in red, other text is in black. Footnotes. Norman Roth was born in Denver, Colo. in 1938; graduated from University of Denver, followed by several years of study in Israel. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and from 1976 to 1997 was professor of Jewish history and studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is now professor emeritus. Main areas of interest: Jewish history and culture of medieval Spain, medieval Hebrew literature and poetry. Lucas de Tui (or O Tudense) (died 1249) was a Leonese cleric and intellectual, remembered best as a historian. He was Bishop of Tuy from 1239 until his death. Born in León, Lucas was a canon of San Isidoro there between 1221 and 1239. While a canon he wrote De Miraculis Sancti Isidori in defence of Isidore of Seville. He traveled to Rome, Constantinople, Cyprus, Jerusalem, Armenia, and France. In 1233 or 1234 he completed his tract De altera vita fideique controversiis adverus Albigensium errores against the Cathars. In 1236, upon a request from Queen Berenguela, he composed the Chronicon mundi, a four-part chronicle of world history and his magnum opus. Beginning with Creation and ending in 1236, the Chronicon aspired to give comprehensive coverage to two topics: the world and the Spains. Lucas' principal sources are Isidore, John of Biclar, Hydatius, Orosius, the Chronicle of Alfonso III, the Crónica Silense, and Sampiro. Lucas does contain a few historical titbits which are found nowhere else. More

Chicago: R. S. Peale & Company, 1887. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 706 pages. Color frontis illustration. Illustrations (all present). Appendices. Index. Decorative front cover and spine. Cover has some edge wear, rubbing, and corner bumping. Front board weak and restrengthened with glue. Some rear board weakness noted--heavy book. Edges gilded. John Alexander Logan (February 9, 1826 – December 26, 1886) was an American soldier and politician. He served in the Mexican–American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a state Representative, a Congressman, and a U.S. Senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States with James G. Blaine in 1884. As the 3rd Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, he is regarded as the most important figure in the movement to recognize Memorial Day as an official holiday. His likeness appears on a statue at the center of Logan Circle, Washington, D.C. Logan is one of only three people mentioned by name in the Illinois state song. Upon his death, he lay in state in the United States Capitol rotunda. U.S. Representative Logan fought at Bull Run as an unattached volunteer in a Michigan regiment, and then returned to Washington where, before he resigned his congressional seat on April 2, 1862, he entered the Union Army as Colonel of the 31st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which he organized. Before resigning his seat, Colonel Logan served in the army of Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater and was present at the Battle of Belmont on November 7, 1861 and at Fort Donelson, where he was wounded. More

Washington, D.C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Policy and Plans, NASA History Office, 2001. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. VOLUME V ONLY. xxviii, [1], 796 pages. 25 cm. Illustrations. Glossary. Biographical Appendix. Index. Slight wear and soiling to DJ. This is part of the NASA History Series. John M. Logsdon is Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum;. From 1987 to mid-2008, Logsdon was Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where he is also Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs. Dr. Logsdon’s research interests focus on the policy and historical aspects of U.S. and international space activities. Dr. Logsdon is the author of The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest and is general editor of the eight-volume series Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. He has written numerous articles and reports on space policy and history. He is frequently consulted by the electronic and print media for his views on space issues. This volume is the fifth in a series that had its origins in the 1990s. The individuals involved in initiating the series and producing the first two volumes have been acknowledged in those volumes. An exception must be made for NASA Chief Historian Roger D. Launius, who has become not only a strong supporter of this series but also an essential collaborator in its implementation. More

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. [6], 359, [3] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has some wear and soiling. Walker Percy, Obl.S.B. (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Trained as a physician at Columbia University, Percy decided to become a writer instead after a bout of tuberculosis. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age." His work displays a combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep Catholic faith. He had a lifelong friendship with author and historian Shelby Foote. After many years of writing and rewriting in collaboration with editor Stanley Kauffmann, Percy published his first novel, The Moviegoer, in 1961. Later works included The Last Gentleman (1966), Love in the Ruins (1971), Lancelot (1977), The Second Coming (1980), and The Thanatos Syndrome in 1987. Percy's vision for the plot of The Second Coming came to him after an old fraternity brother visited him in the 1970s. He told Percy the story of his life where he is burned out and does not know what to do next. The trend of Percy's personal life influencing his writing seemingly held true throughout his literary career, beginning with his first novel. Percy also published a number of nonfiction works exploring his interests in semiotics and existentialism, his most popular work being Lost in the Cosmos. More

New York: Vintage Books, 2015. First Vintage Books Edition [stated]. First printing stated. Trade Paperback. xv, [1], 263, [3] pages. Illustrations. A Note on Sourcing. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Jason--Thanks for serving in government--hope this resonates with you! Matt Bai. Preface. Chapters cover Troublesome Gulch; Tilting Toward Culture Death; Out There; Follow Me Around; "I Do Not Think That's a Fair Question"; All the Truth Is Out; Exile; and A Lesser Land. Matt Bai is an American journalist, author and screenwriter. Matt Bai is the national political columnist for Yahoo News. For more than a decade he was a political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, where he covered three presidential campaigns. He is the author of The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake to Remake Democratic Politics, named a notable book by the New York Times. His cover stories in the magazine include the 2008 cover essay "Is Obama the End of Black Politics?” and a 2004 profile of John Kerry titled "Kerry’s Undeclared War". In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart--a dashing, reform-minded Democrat--seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspapers stateout of Hart's home resulted in a media frenzy the likes of which had never been seen before. All the Truth Is Out is a tour-de-force portrait of the American way of politics at the highest level, one that changes our understanding of how we elect our residents and how the bedrock of American values has shifted under our feet. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 560, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. David Jeremiah Barron (born July 7, 1967) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. He previously served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice. Barron is known for his controversial legal memo justifying the use of lethal drone strikes against U.S. citizens without judicial process. Barron joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in 1999 and became a professor in 2004. He left the faculty upon his confirmation to the Court of Appeals in 2014. In 2016, Simon & Schuster published his book Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS. In February 2017, Barron was named the winner of Norwich University's 2017 Colby Award, which is awarded for works that make major academic contributions to the understanding of military history, intelligence activities, and foreign relations. Several senators pledged to oppose Barron's nomination unless the administration publishes the secret memos Barron authored on the legality of killing American citizens with drone strikes. Until senators began raising concerns about Barron's nomination, only those on the Judiciary and Intelligence committees had seen any of the classified memos. On May 22, 2014, the Senate voted 53–45 for final confirmation to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He received his judicial commission on May 23, 2014. More

New York: Public Relations Bureau, Medical Society of the State of New York, 1939. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [8], 87, [1] pages. Footnotes. Pencil underlining noted. Taped inside the rear cover is a TLS by Dr. Anderson to Dr. Frederick Williams noting a speech Dr. Williams made and indicating he was sending him this book separately. Author's Inscription on the fep. Inscription reads To: Dr. Frederick Williams Who fully know what it means... With Best Regards Dwight Anderson Dec. 11, 1944. Content sections are: What It Means...to Doctors; What It Means...to Dr. Edgar James; What It Means...to the Public. A questionnaire was sent to 500 general practitioners, surgeons, pediatricians, orthopedists, gynecologists, obstetricians, and many other specialists throughout the country. Only four were asked: 1. What qualities of mind and character do you consider most important for the practice of medicine as a profession? 2. How old were you (approximately) when you determined to be a doctor? 3. What decided you? 4. If you had a son, would you wish him to select medicine as career? Honesty was said to be the most important of all the qualifications by 173 doctors who, having thus proclaimed this as a standard, proceeded to be quite frank. Sixty-two doctors (22%) specified that to be a doctor one must have "intellectual curiosity," that is, a searching, inquisitive nature, a longing for the acquisition of knowledge, an eagerness for discovery, and an everlasting curiosity concerning that most complex product of nature, the human being. In the words of the Dean of a medical school, "the kind of medical student wanted is the type who, when he finds an unanswered question, cannot rest until he has solved it." More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, 201, [3] pages. A Note on Sources. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. Signed by Catton on the fep. Some minor page discoloration. This is the first book to be published in The Library of American Biography series edited by Oscar Handlin. Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian, Catton featured interesting characters and historical vignettes, in addition to the basic facts, dates, and analyses. His books were researched well and included footnotes. He won a Pulitzer Prize during 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia. After serving briefly with the United States Navy during World War I, Catton became a reporter and editor for the newspapers The Cleveland News, the Boston American, and the Cleveland The Plain Dealer. From 1926 to 1941, he worked for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a Scripps-Howard syndicate, for which he served as a Washington, D.C. correspondent. At the start of World War II, Catton was too old for military service. During 1941, he accepted a position as Director of Information for the War Production Board, and later he had similar jobs in the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior. His experiences as a federal employee prepared him to write his first book, The War Lords Of Washington, during 1948. In 1954, Catton accepted the position as founding editor of the new magazine American Heritage. More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960. Hardcover. 74 pages. Appendix, index, foxing to fore-edge, DJ soiled & edges worn, small chips missing at spine, signed by the author. More

New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xiv, 354 pages. Illustrations Editor's Note by Paul R. Baier. Appendix: The Opinions of Hugo Lafayette Black. Index. DJ soiled, DJ edges worn and small tears. Foreword by Justice William. J. Brennan. Signed by Mrs. Black on the fep. Hugo Lafayette Black (February 27, 1886 – September 25, 1971) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a U.S. Senator from 1927 to 1937 and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971. A member of the Democratic Party and a devoted New Dealer, Black endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections. Having gained a reputation in the Senate as a reformer, Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 16 (six Democratic Senators and 10 Republican Senators voted against him). The fifth longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history, Black was one of the most influential Supreme Court justices in the 20th century. He is noted for his advocacy of a textualist reading of the United States Constitution and of the position that the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights were imposed on the states ("incorporated") by the Fourteenth Amendment. Black wrote the majority opinion in Korematsu v. United States (1944), which upheld the Japanese-American internment that had taken place. Black opposed the doctrine of substantive due process and believed that there was no basis in the words of the Constitution for a right to privacy, voting against finding one in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). More

Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 323, [1] pages. Illustrations. Contents include: Acknowledgments; One: An Anthropological Excursion into the Muslim World; Two: The Struggle within Islam; Three: Tribes, Women, and Honor in the Age of Globalization; Four: Who is Defining Islam after 9/11 and Why?; Five: The Clash of Civilizations?, Six: Lifting the Veil; Epilogue: The Hope of the World; Appendix: Analysis of the Questionnaires; Notes, and Index. Inscribed by author to Oprah Winfrey with transmittal letter referencing his previous appearance on her program and presenting this copy of his book to her. Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed, is a Pakistani-American academic, author, poet, playwright, filmmaker and former diplomat. He held the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and is Professor of International Relations at the American University in Washington, D.C. Immediately prior, he taught at Princeton University as served as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He also taught at Harvard University. Ahmed was the First Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. In 2004 Ahmed was named District of Columbia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. A former Pakistani High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland, Ahmed served as Political Agent in South Waziristan Agency and Commissioner in Baluchistan. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. More