A Death in November: America in Vietnam, 1963
New York: E. P. Dutton, c1987. 25 cm, 373, illus., some damp damage to DJ, boards, and bottom edge, text clean. More
New York: E. P. Dutton, c1987. 25 cm, 373, illus., some damp damage to DJ, boards, and bottom edge, text clean. More
Maplewood, NJ: C. S. Hammond & Co., c. 1967. 21" x 29", 1 map, 1 color map (folded to 10.5" x 7.25"), illus., chronology, some soiling/stains & small rough spots, small tears at fold lines. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co, [1968]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 163, front flyleaf removed, ink notation to half title. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1971. 24 cm, 341, maps. More
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xvi, 206 pages. Maps. Notes. Epilogue: reflections on a war. Chronology. Bibliographical Essay. Index. This is one of Twayne's International History Series. The volumes in this series critically assess United States foreign relations since 1945 by presenting both historical and contemporary information on the effect that U.S. politics and economics have had on a multitude of areas around the world. Each volume is an authoritative, readable account by a preeminent historian and includes: A concise chronology of major events Background on pre-1945 history Details on the development and impact of U.S. foreign policy Explication of themes in postwar international relations Insights into the effects of U.S. policy on people worldwide. Gary R. Hess is Distinguished Research Professor of History at Bowling Green State University. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and a former chair of the U.S. State Department’s Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation. His publications include Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War 1941-1945 and Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. More
London, England: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1975. Presumed First Paperback Edition, Presumed First printing. Trade paperback. [8], 152 pages. Substantial ink notations inside front cover and some on half-title. Text appears unmarked except for one pencil erasure noted. Includes Illustrations. This is one of the Studies in Modern History series. Preface, Acknowledgments, Appendix: Dienbienphu References, Bibliography, and Index. Topics covered include The Impact of French rule: Opposition to the French; The War Against the French 1946-54; The Failure of the Geneva settlement: the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem in the South; The development of the North: Resistance to Diem; Kennedy and the growing American involvement; Johnson's war; The devastation of Vietnam; The effect of the war on the United States; Nixon's continuing pursuit of victory; and Peace and War. The author was an academic and had previously written about the Cold War and Muckrakers. This study presents an outline of the history of Vietnam from its colonization by the French during the 19th century to the so-called peace settlement of 1973 and the new war which followed it. Its principle theme is the lengthy struggle of the Vietnamese to regain their independence. It seeks to explain how and why their anti-colonial struggle became transformed into a conflict involving the world's major powers. One question it tries to answer is why the guerrillas in the South, together with the largely peasant society of North Vietnam, were able to withstand the onslaught of American military technology. It also analyzes the vulnerability, despite massive American support, of the governments in Saigon. More
New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1976. First Printing. 24 cm, 633, illus., appendix, index, DJ in plastic sleeve, front DJ flap price clipped. Inscribed by the author (Hubbell). More
Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA: Indochina Resource Center and NARMIC, 1974. Reprint. Second printing. Wraps. [4], 51 p. Three-hole punched and staple bound. Footnotes. Two copies of a Fact Sheet on U.S. Expenditures on Indochina laid in. More
New York: Young Socialist Alliance, 1970. Third Edition. 22 cm, 22, wraps, minor loss of material (no loss of text) on pp. 9-16 at bottom corner (presumed printing error). More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. Second Printing. 257, DJ somewhat soiled: edges worn, small tears, small pieces missing, sticker residue on front DJ, binding shaken. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 256 pages, Signed by the author. Ward Just's twelfth novel penetrates deeply into America's role in the world. Set in Indochina in 1965, A DANGEROUS FRIEND tells a story of "the devolution of an innocent American crusading for democracy" (VANITY FAIR), a man living the conflict of so many Americans caught in a political and spiritual crossfire. Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left home and family in an effort to become part of something larger than himself, a foreign-aid operation in Saigon. Even before he arrives, he encounters people who reveal to him the unsettling depths of a conflict he thought he understood, and in Saigon the Vietnamese add yet another dimension. This "fabulous, tense and dramatic" (LOS ANGELES TIMES) narrative needs neither combat nor bloodshed to tell its tale. A DANGEROUS FRIEND is the beautifully constructed story of civilians who want to reform Vietnam -- but the Vietnam they see isn't the Vietnam that is. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1971. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 336 pages. Index. DJ is price clipped with some wear and soiling. Bookplate of previous owner facing and inscription by Kalb on half-title page. Inscription reads: For Paul Weinstein With best wishes Marvin Kalb. {This is believed to be the Paul A. Weinstein, who was a University of Maryland professor who served as an adviser to Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel. The authors place the Vietnam War in the perspective of 200 years of history, and reveal new information on the roles played by such leaders as Dean Rusk, Maxwell Taylor, and Dean Acheson. Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. He was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter for CBS News and NBC News. Kalb was the last newsman recruited by Edward R. Murrow to join CBS News. His work at CBS landed him on Richard Nixon's "enemies list". At NBC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent and host of Meet the Press. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brother Bernard worked alongside him. Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books (Eastern Exposure, Dragon in the Kremlin, The Volga, Roots of Involvement, Kissinger, Campaign ’88, The Nixon Memo and One Scandalous Story). His book Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy, was published by the Brookings Institution Press in 2018. His latest book is 'Assignment Russia'. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 336 pages. Index. The DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by both authors on half-title page. Inscription reads: For Dick Valeriani-colleague and friend. Elie Abel/Marvin Kalb. RARE, probably unique item. A "trifecta" of three of the outstanding journalists of the late 20th Century together in one book with two autographs and an association. Some marginal markings in Valeriani's own hand noted! The authors place the Vietnam War in the perspective of 200 years of history, and reveal new information on the roles played by such leaders as Dean Rusk, Maxwell Taylor, and Dean Acheson. Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. He was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter for CBS News and NBC News. Kalb was the last newsman recruited by Edward R. Murrow to join CBS News. His work at CBS landed him on Richard Nixon's "enemies list". At NBC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent and host of Meet the Press. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brother Bernard worked alongside him. Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books (Eastern Exposure, Dragon in the Kremlin, Roots of Involvement, Kissinger, Campaign ’88, The Nixon Memo and One Scandalous Story). His book Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy. His latest book is 'Assignment Russia'. More
New York: Arno Press Inc., 1981. Special Book Club Edition. Wraps. 248 pages. Illustrations. Map. Cover has some wear and soiling. Introduction by Drew Middleton. This Military Book Club edition was specially updated. Text and photographs trace the conflict and American involvement in Vietnam as reported by the New York Times. Over 175 front pages from The New York Times together with hundreds of photographs, tracing the involvement of the United States in Southeast Asia. The coverage includes some early news of Indo-China; the earliest headline is from 1950. Drew Middleton covered World War II and postwar Europe for The New York Times and later served as the newspaper's military correspondent. Moving from sports writing to combat reporting at the outset of World War II, Mr. Middleton spent nearly half a century chronicling what he called ''the huge, changing, kaleidoscopic world of international affairs.'' He covered Allied forces in North Africa and on several European fronts, reported on peace conferences and war-crimes tribunals at the end of the conflict, and followed postwar diplomacy from both sides of a divided Europe and at the United Nations. He then returned to coverage of military affairs and was noted for his analyses of fighting in the Middle East and the Falkland Islands. Often, to provide the underpinning for his columns, he went to the scene of the action, and he dug hard for fresh information. Arriving in Saigon one afternoon during the Vietnam war, for example, he walked into a short-handed Times bureau and offered to take on the humblest of chores, writing the routine story based on the daily American communique. More
New York: Arno Press Inc., 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, 248 pages. Illustrations. Map. DJ has some wear and soiling. Introduction by Drew Middleton. Text and photographs trace the conflict and American involvement in Vietnam as reported by the New York Times. Over 175 front pages from The New York Times together with hundreds of photographs, tracing the involvement of the United States in Southeast Asia. The coverage includes some early news of Indo-China; the earliest headline is from 1950. Drew Middleton covered World War II and postwar Europe for The New York Times and later served as the newspaper's military correspondent. Moving from sports writing to combat reporting at the outset of World War II, Mr. Middleton spent nearly half a century chronicling what he called ''the huge, changing, kaleidoscopic world of international affairs.'' He covered Allied forces in North Africa and on several European fronts, reported on peace conferences and war-crimes tribunals at the end of the conflict, and followed postwar diplomacy from both sides of a divided Europe and at the United Nations. He then returned to coverage of military affairs and was noted for his analyses of fighting in the Middle East and the Falkland Islands. Often, to provide the underpinning for his columns, he went to the scene of the action, and he dug hard for fresh information. Arriving in Saigon one afternoon during the Vietnam war, for example, he walked into a short-handed Times bureau and offered to take on the humblest of chores, writing the routine story based on the daily American communique. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974. Second Printing. 280, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. Inscribed by both authors (in separate inscriptions) to investigative journalist Morton Mintz. More
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1989. Hardcover. 242 p., [32] p. 23 cm. Illustrations, Plates. More
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1971. Wraps. 103 p. 16 cm. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1976. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 239, [1] pages. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling, chips and is price clipped. Ink notation on DJ rear flap. Highlighting noted. Nguy n Cao K (8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967. Then, until his retirement from politics in 1971, he served as vice president to bitter rival General Nguy n V n Thi u, in a nominally civilian administration. In 1964 K became prominent in junta politics, regarded as part of a group of young, aggressive officers dubbed the Young Turks. Over the next two years, there were repeated coup attempts, many of which were successful, and K was a key player in supporting or defeating them. In 2004, he became the first South Vietnamese leader to return, calling for reconciliation between communists and anti-communists. More
New York: Random House, [1966]. First Printing. 22 cm, 295, map, index, pencil erasure and label on front endpaper, DJ torn at edges. More
New York: Random House, 1968. Second Printing. 313, chronology, index, some scuffing to boards, ink names and date inside front flyleaf. More
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, c1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 197, illus., maps, tables, notes. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [4], 262, [10] pages. DJ is price clipped. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has sticker residue. Paul F. Langer was a member of the Social Science Department of the RAND Corporation, where he concentrates on Far Eastern affairs. Joseph Zasloff was a professor emeritus of political science, and expert on the politics of Southeast Asia. Joe was born in 1925 in Pittsburgh, PA. When he was eighteen he was drafted, and served as a radio operator in General Patton’s Army in World War II. He was wounded in Alsace, France, when, cut off from his unit, he escaped German tanks by running into a cellar and then a barn, where he hid for three days until, as he wrote, he “slithered past a parked tank and hobbled several miles to reach our rear echelon.” Joe was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster for bravery. Joe described his army service as opening the horizons of his world and inspiring his lifelong involvement in international affairs. Under the GI bill, he earned a BA/MA in political science at the University of Pittsburgh, then went on to earn a Ph.D. at the Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva. His interest in Southeast Asia began in 1959, when he was given a teaching assignment at the University of Saigon. He would go on to become a leading researcher in the politics of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, publishing seven books. He retired from forty-nine years at the University of Pittsburgh. More
New York: Webster's New World (an Imprint of Simon & Schuster MacMillan), 1999. First edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. x, 598 p. Maps. Chronology. Order of Battle. Bibliographic Guide. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [3], 247, [9] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Harry Marshall Sturdy Brother, Brilliant Chumpherman, Doer of Good Works. John Lehman Summer 76. This is one of the Praeger Special Studies in U.S. Economic, Social, and Political Issues. John Francis Lehman Jr. (born September 14, 1942) is an American private equity investor and writer who served as Secretary of the Navy (1981–1987) in the Ronald Reagan administration where he promoted the creation of a 600-ship Navy. From 2003 to 2004 he was a member of the 9/11 Commission. Lehman serves on the board of trustees for the think tank Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Lehman was also a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, commonly called the 9/11 Commission, and has signed some policy letters produced by the Project for the New American Century. He also served as an advisor to Sen. John McCain for the 2008 presidential race, and for Mitt Romney in his 2012 bid. More