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New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1982. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 361, illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1982. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 361, illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. First Simon & Schuster Hardcover Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xviii, [1], 234, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Documents. Glossary. Index. Decorative endpapers. Foreword by Edward Snowden. Afterword by Glenn Greenwald. Jeremy Scahill (born 1974) is an American investigative journalist, writer, a founding editor of the online news publication The Intercept, and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, which won the George Polk Book Award. His book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield was published by Nation Books on April 23, 2013. On June 8, 2013, the documentary film of the same name, produced, narrated and co-written by Scahill, was released. It premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Scahill is a Fellow at the Type Media Center. Scahill learned journalism and started his career on the independently syndicated daily news show Democracy Now!. The Intercept is an online American nonprofit news organization that publishes articles and podcasts. The Intercept has published in English since its founding in 2014, and in Portuguese since the 2016 launch of the Brazilian edition staffed by a local team of Brazilian journalists. The Intercept was founded by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras. It was launched in 2014 by First Look Media with funding by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. The publication reported on documents released by Edward Snowden. Co-founders Greenwald and Poitras subsequently left amid public disagreements about the leadership and direction of the organization. In January 2023 it spun off from the First Look Institute as an independent nonprofit organization. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Third Printing. 1066, illus., notes, index, weakness to front board, some wear and small tears to top and bottom edges of DJ. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First Printing. 1066, illus., notes, index, some wear and small tears to top and bottom edges of DJ. More
New York: Scribner, 1957. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 215, illus., usual library markings, part of DJ pasted in. More
New York: Smithmark, 1992. Fourth Printing. 29 cm, 802, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, some wear and soiling to DJ, minor bowing at spine (not uncommon in books this large). More
New York: D.I. Fine, Inc, c1994. First Printing. 25 cm, 296, map, library markings blacked out, text clean. More
1st Books, 2003. Trade paperback. viii, 448, [1] p. More
Salt Lake City, UT: Stevens & Wallis, 1945. 24 cm, 355, illus., boards somewhat worn, somewhat shaken. More
Hamburg: Hanseatische Druckanstalt, 1969. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 206, illus., map, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Scarce look at a better time for a nation now in turmoil. More
Philadelphia, PA: Soc/Architectural Historians, 1973. 28 cm, 87, wraps, illus., maps, ink name on cover, covers soiled. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. First Printing. 414, index, stain on fore-edge, DJ spine worn along top and bottom edges and small tears. More
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1991. 1st Carroll Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 409, illus., bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips, slightly shaken, rear endpaper creased. More
New York: Random House, c1976. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 209, map, footnotes, bibliography, index, minor discoloration and sticker residue to front endpaper. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2012. First Paperback Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xxvi, 380, [6] pages. Acronyms. Maps. Preface to the Paperback Edition. Notes. Index. A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction. Jason K. Stearns (born October 31, 1976) is an American writer who worked for ten years in the Congo, including three years during the Second Congo War. He first traveled to the Congo in 2001 to work for a human rights organization, Héritiers de la Justice, in Bukavu. He went on to work for the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUC). In 2008 Stearns was named by the UN Secretary General to lead a special UN investigation into the violence in the country. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University on May 24, 2016. More
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. Uncorrected Advance Proof; Advance Reading Copy. Trade paperback. xii, 225 p. Illustrations, black & white. Has Notes. Does not have Index. More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [c1937]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 276, illus., footnotes, index, some wear and soiling to boards, top of spine torn, spine lettering somewhat faded. More
M. Wesley Swearingen, 2008. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Trade paperback. [28], 281, [5] pages. Glossary. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Mont Wesley Swearingen (born May 20, 1927; Steubenville, Ohio) is a former FBI Special Agent from 1951 to 1977, and the author of FBI Secrets, and To Kill a President, an examination of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Swearingen served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. After the war, he graduated from Ohio State University and joined the FBI. He began his career doing black bag jobs on Communists in Chicago. In Kentucky and New York City, he spent years doing serious criminal investigations, which had been his goal in joining the FBI. But Hoover fixated on the threat posed by such groups as the Black Panther Party. and the Weathermen. In Los Angeles, Swearingen burglarized the Tucson Five and their lawyers during the FBI's efforts to prosecute them, but no incriminating evidence was found and the Tucson Five were exonerated. After 25 years with the FBI, Swearingen retired in 1977. Swearingen has been interviewed in the documentary films All Power to the People! and The U.S. vs. John Lennon. More
New York: Signet Book, 2014. First edition. First Signet printing [stated]. Wraps. Glued binding. [10], 534 p. More
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 542 pages. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. G. Flint Taylor (born April 16, 1946) is an American human rights and civil rights attorney based in Chicago, Illinois, who has litigated many high-profile police brutality, government misconduct and death penalty cases. Taylor has pursued public interest law to take on allegations of corrupt police tactics and wrongful convictions in the city of Chicago and elsewhere. Taylor was part of a team of negotiators in the 2015 landmark decision by the City of Chicago to award reparations to the survivors of police torture, becoming the first municipal government to do so. During his second year in law school at Northwestern, Taylor began to work with a group of lawyers who were representing counterculture political groups, including the Black Panther Party (BPP), the Young Lords Organization, Rising Up Angry and the Weathermen. In August 1969, these lawyers, together with two other law students, established the People's Law Office (PLO) on the north side of Chicago. In his book The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago,[71] Taylor recounts much of his struggle for human rights against the systemic racism of a corrupt criminal justice system in Chicago. More
Boston, Mass. The Boston Globe, 1963. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 60 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. The cover has some wear and soiling. The purpose of this book is to preserve the record of how this sad page in our history was told in The Boston Globe. Includes Preface; Another Martyred President; Good Night, Brave Spirit; An American Tragedy; Nation Walks Last, Sad Steps; At Kennedy's Grave--an Eternal Flame; Shock...Grief...Disbelief...Kniper's Bullet Cuts Down President, Jacqueline Cradles Dying Husband, Johnson Sworn In; McCormack No. 2; Route Plan Gave Assassin Clear, Slow Target; Doctor Eating...Then Came Call; Never Thought of Personal Safety; Let's Be Responsible, If We're to Stay Free; Had World By Heart; He May Forget...The Nation Will Not; John-John Wanted Flag for His Daddy; Every Detail...Her Decision; Of What Was Her duty Made? Love...Mostly; Requiem for a President---His Widow Set Tone; Chief Justice Earl Warren's Tribute; Senator Mansfield's Tribute; Speaker McCormack's Tribute; Cardinal Cushing's TV Mass Eulogy from Boston; He Lived His Ideals; "Gave the Negro a Lift Onward'; Meditation at Walden; The Nation Asks Questions; Kennedy Patient in Every Campaign; President Kennedy's Inaugural Address. A soft cover copy of Good Night, Brave Spirit: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 tribute book. Featured is a pictorial recollection of President Kennedy, including replicas of newspapers, photos, and articles. The book was published by the Boston Globe and is presented in a gray softbound cover with black and white detailing to the front. More
Washington DC: The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 1963. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Newspaper. 76 pages. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie when he was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, firing in ambush from a nearby building. Governor Connally was seriously wounded in the attack. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after the shooting; Connally recovered. Oswald was arrested by the Dallas Police Department 70 minutes after the initial shooting. Oswald was charged under Texas state law with the murder of Kennedy, as well as that of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit, who had been fatally shot a short time after the assassination. At 11:21 a.m. November 24, 1963, as live television cameras were covering his transfer from the city jail to the county jail, Oswald was fatally shot in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby. After a 10-month investigation, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald assassinated Kennedy, that Oswald had acted entirely alone, and that Ruby had acted alone in killing Oswald. Kennedy was the eighth and most recent US President to die in office, and the fourth (following Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) to be assassinated. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson automatically became president upon Kennedy's death. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. 48 p. Includes illustrations. Two newpaper format compilations of articles from The New York Times coverage of the assassination of Kennedy, Oswald, and the state funeral. More
Berlin: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10 inches. 240 pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Folding front and back covers. Slight cover wear. Some corners creased. This is a catalogue of an Exhibition that opened on 11 August 2005. The Topography of Terror Foundation was founded by the Berlin Senate as a dependent foundation under public law on January 28, 1992. It was constituted as an independent foundation through the law of 1995. The foundation is supported by the state of Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany. According to the statutes, the purpose of the Topography of Terror Foundation is to relay historical information about National Socialism and its crimes and to encourage people to actively confront this history and its aftermath since 1945. Between 1933 and 1945 up to 15,000 political opponents were interrogated for days, weeks or months in the "police custody" at the "House Prison". As individuals or groups they chose refusal, protest and resistance, and many of them lost their lives in the process. More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1994. 28 cm, 39, wraps, illus., maps, charts, glossary, ink name on first page. More