The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. First Edition. First Printing. 387, illus., map, endpaper maps, notes, index, some creasing to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. First Edition. First Printing. 387, illus., map, endpaper maps, notes, index, some creasing to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 337, [1] pages. References. Index. No DJ present. Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Examples of Brands' biographical histories include his biographies on Benjamin Franklin, covering the colonial period and the Revolutionary War; Andrew Jackson, covering the War of 1812, western expansion and the National Bank; Ulysses S. Grant, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction; Theodore Roosevelt, covering the Progressive Movement; and Franklin D. Roosevelt, covering the Great Depression, the New Deal, the Second World War, and the ascension of the U.S. as an international power. Loy Wesley Henderson (June 28, 1892 – March 24, 1986) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. In between serving as U.S. Minister in Iraq (1943–45), Ambassador to India (1948–51) and Ambassador to Iran (1951–54), Henderson returned to Washington in 1945 to serve at the State Department as the director of the Office of Near Eastern Affairs. There he dealt with the newly elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, on questions associated with Iran's oil reserves previously owned by British interests that Mossadegh had recently nationalized. He helped orchestrate the 1953 CIA-assisted coup which removed Mossadegh, a democratically elected leader. In 1956, he was named a Career Ambassador. More
New York: Viking, 1998. Second Printing. 25 cm, 586, illus., references, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Viking, 1998. Second Printing. 25 cm, 586, illus., notes, bibliography, index. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Viking, 1998. Second Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 586 pages. Illus., notes, bibliography, index. Signed by the author. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, [1993]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 32, wraps, references, slight wear and soiling to covers, pencil erasure on title page. Foreword by John W. Mountcastle. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, c1992. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 107, wraps, bibliography. Inscribed by the co-author (Luers) to noted author, commentator, and television personality Jim Lehrer. More
Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First Edition. 288, maps, tables, appendix, index, a few small chips to DJ edges. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. First Printing. 240, index, lib stamps on fore-edge, pencil underlining & notes on several pages, DJ in plastic sleeve, lib stickers on DJ & sleeve. More
New York: Basic Books, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 291, [1] pages. Introduction by David Ignatius. Index. Inscribed on a bookplate by Scowcroft. Inscription reads To Dave Peterson with my very best wishes Brent Scowcroft. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius moderates a lively conversation between Zbigniew Brzezinski (formerly National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter) and Brent Scowcroft (formerly National Security Advisor to Presidents George H. W. Bush and Gerald Ford) on the most significant foreign policy challenges facing the United States. Brent Scowcroft (March 19, 1925 – August 6, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer who was a two-time United States National Security Advisor, first under U.S. President Gerald Ford and then under George H. W. Bush. He served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He served as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezi ski (March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), or Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. Brzezinski was the primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1999. Second Printing. 437, notes, index, several pages dog-eared, small red stain inside front flyleaf, slight wear to DJ edges. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1999. Second Printing. 437, notes, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. Inscribed by the author to Jack Kilpatrick. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1999. Second Printing. 437, notes, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Times Books, c1984. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 358, endpaper maps, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First Edition. 454, index, small tears and small pieces missing at DJ edges. Bookplate inscribed by the author. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First Edition. 454, index, small tears and small chips to DJ edges, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. First Edition. 122, some wear to corners of boards and edges of spine. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First Edition. First Printing. 20 cm, 310, diagrams, endpaper maps, footnotes, appendices, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, boards somewhat worn/soiled. More
New York: Free Press, c1980. First Printing. 22 cm, 103, The Charles C. Moskowitz Memorial Lectures, No. 21. More
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, c1988. First Thus? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 65, small tear/chip in front DJ. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. ix, [3], 107, [5] pages. Name of previous owner on fep. DJ has some wear, soiling, chips and tears. Hugh Byas was a British editor who became a leading expert on Japan between the first and second World Wars. The writings of Hugh Byas, journalist and japanologist, developed while he was editor of the Japan Advertiser and later as correspondent of the London Times and New York Times. His work in Japan between the World Wars, is a discourse on progressive sovereignty. Byas equated a sovereign state with one that possessed an organized government capable of modernizing the state and developing democratic institutions to empower public opinion. More
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment, 1918. 127, frontis illus., appendices, index, bds slightly scuffed, some soiling inside bds, foxing on fore-edge. More
Pittsburgh, PA: Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1958. 365, footnotes, bibliography, index, some wear, soiling, and small edge tears/chips to DJ. Foreword by William Y. Elliott. More
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [c1941]. First Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 332, illus. with sketches by the author, maps, diagrams, index, bds worn and soiled, endpages discolored, ink name on front endpaper. More
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 192 pages. Illus., notes, index. Signed by the author. More