Watching the World
London: Whittlesey House, [1944]. First? Printing. 24 cm, 372, illus., front endpaper torn out, some wear to board corners. More
London: Whittlesey House, [1944]. First? Printing. 24 cm, 372, illus., front endpaper torn out, some wear to board corners. More
Chicago, Il: Time Inc., 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Magazine. 80 pages plus covers. One page of text and one color portrait for each President. Cover has an ink notation and some moisture and scuffing damage and staining at the bottom. Decreasing bottom rippling to Abraham Lincoln section. Some ink underlining noted. Theodore Roosevelt in on the cover of this Bicentennial tribute. The writers were A. T. Baker, Rodney Campbell, Gilbert Cant, Tyler Mathisen, and John Verdon. Champ Clark, bearer of a famous 19th and early 20th Century political name, was a reporter, Kansas Missouri Star, 1947-1951; writer, Time magazine, 1951-1974; senior editor, Time magazine, 1960-1974; Chicago bureau chief, Time magazine, 1969-1972; senior correspondent, 1972-1974; teacher journalism, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. More
n.p. Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1992. First Edition. First? Printing. pocket paperbk, 114, wraps, some wear and soiling, tear at cover edge and several following pages. More
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, c1993. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 260, acid-free paper, DJ in plastic sleeve, pencil erasure on half-title. Foreword by Robert McNamara. More
New York: Times Books, Random House, 1996. First edition. First Edition Stated. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 178 p. More
Carrboro, NC: Signal Books, 1991. First? Edition. First? Printing. 163, illus. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 224 pages. Illustration. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips. Some edge soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Stanley Cohen, a very discerning reader who was so helpful to me in this modest labor, with much appreciation Maurice S. Cohen July 8, 1976. There are three major sections: Speak Unto the Children of Israel; These are the Festivals of the Lord, and And My Voice is to the Sons of Men. Rabbi Maurice Seymour Cohen died on Sunday, February 5, 2012, at the age of ninety- two. Rabbi Emeritus of the Shaare Zion Congregation, Rabbi Cohen was a scholar and Revered Rabbi of his congregation for over 50 years. A native Bostonian, he graduated from Harvard University, and The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He was one of the leaders of Conservative Judaism in Montreal, and one of the founders of the Solomon Schechter Academy. He supported the participation of women in the rabbinate, and was a member of the Interfaith Ecumenical Council for many years. He received an Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the JTS, and authored several books of sermonics. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, [c1942]. First Printing. 21 cm, 233, index, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper, endpages discolored. More
Durham, NC: Duke Univ. School of Law, c2002. First? Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 294, wraps, footnotes, references. Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume 65, Nubmer 2, Spring 2002. More
Brookline Village, MA: Branden Press, 1982. Volume I ONLY. Number 956 of 1000. Hardcover. 643 pages. Frontis Illustration. Library stamps of previous institutional owner. Some wear and soiling to dust jacket. Stamp on top edge. More
New York: Columbia Univ. School of Law, 2002. 25 cm, 221, wraps, footnotes, library stamp on front cover, one page creased, covers somewhat worn/soiled, small ding at rear cover The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law Association, Inc., is associated with Columbia University School of Law, New York City. This journal was founded by Wolfgang G. Friedmann. More
New York, N.Y. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1951. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xviii, 766 pages. Some front board weakness noted. Some cover wear and soiling. Includes Preface; Part One: The American Setting (with chapters on The People, and The Land); Part Two: Principles, Traditions, and Institutions, (with chapters on Fundamentals of the American Political System), The Machinery of Government, Democracy, or Majority Rule and Minority Right; State and Nation; The Welfare State and Rugged Individualism; Liberty and Order; The Tradition of Change and Reform; Church and State; School and Society; Part Three: America as a World Power: Peace and War, Isolation, Intervention and World Power. Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) was an American historian. As one of the most active and prolific liberal intellectuals of his time, with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, he helped define modern liberalism in the United States. In the 1940s and 1950s, Commager was noted for his campaigns against McCarthyism and other abuses of government power. He opposed the Vietnam War and was an outspoken critic of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan and what he viewed as their abuses of presidential power. His principal scholarly works were his 1936 biography of Theodore Parker; his intellectual history The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s (1950), which focuses on the evolution of liberalism in the American political mind from the 1880s to the 1940s, and his intellectual history Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment (1977). More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942. First? Edition. First? Printing. 105, usual library markings, part of DJ cut off and pasted to front endpaper. More
[Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941. 23 cm, 38, wraps, usual library markings, pencil marks to covers. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 237, [1] pages. DJ worn, torn, soiled, and chilled. Bookplate of Richard Allan Yaffe inside front board. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads: To Dick from Earl with best wishes. Hole you lke it, Dick. Regards to wife. E.C. Earl Conrad (17 December 1906 - 17 January 1986), birth name Cohen, was an American author who penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote was the autobiography of actor Errol Flynn, titled My Wicked, Wicked Ways. Conrad wished to be a writer from a young age, and his early experience included a stint at the Auburn Advertiser-Journal. He worked as a journalist for the newspaper PM in New York City, and other papers. As the Harlem Bureau Chief for The Chicago Defender, an African American title, he investigated lynchings in the south. This work brought him into contact with Haywood Patterson. In 1950, Conrad co-wrote Patterson's memoir, Scottsboro Boy, about his experience as one of the group of nine men accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. Some of his papers are in the local history collection of the Cayuga Community College in Auburn. Other papers are in the collection of the university of Oregon. His interests as a writer included biographies of show business personalities, such as his memoir of Errol Flynn and his biography of Dorothy Dandridge; and issues related to African Americans, such as his biographies of Harriet Tubman. His work on Jim Crow America is considered by some to be a civil rights classic. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Hardcover. 232 pages. Front DJ flap price clipped. Signed by the author. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 233, [1] pages. Notes. Price clipped. Signed by author. Inscription signed by Cooke. Selected and introduced by Ronald A. Wells. These never-before-collected pieces represent Cooke's best, funniest, most pungent commentary. Out of several hundreds of thousands of words, here are 57 pieces that represent the best of Cooke's views of his times. For more than a quarter of a century, from 1946 to 1972, as chief American correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, Alistair Cooke incisively, charmingly, and energetically interpreted our doings to the often mystified British. More
North Shadeland, IN: Liberty Classics; a publishing imprint of Liberty Fund, Inc., 1981. Reprint of 1931 edition published by A. Knopf. Hardcover. xxvi, 252 p. Illustrations. Index. Biographical Note. More
Boston, MA: Allen & Unwin, 1986. 109, wraps, footnotes, index, some highlighting to text. More
New York: Viking Press, 1942. First Printing. 22 cm, 314, footnotes, index, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
London: Latin American Bureau, 1988. Trade paperback. xxiv, 115, pages. Illustrations. Maps. Further Reading. Maps. List of Abbreviations. More
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxiv, 469, [3] pages. Illustrations. Index. Inscription signed by author on fep. The author is associated with the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. He is a historian specializing in the business and economic history of information and information technologies. He spent over 38 years at IBM in various sales, consulting, management, and executive positions. He is active in the IEEE Computer Society, American Historical Association, and sits on the board of directors of the IT History Society. All these activities have influenced the research he does. More
New York: W, W, Norton & Company, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 404 pages. Illustrations. Abbreviations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Margie Who has been such a heroic crusader for women--Best, Geoffrey Cowan Apr./2016. Geoffrey Cowan is an American lawyer, professor, author, and non-profit executive. He was a University Professor at the University of Southern California, where he held the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership and directed the Annenberg School's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. In 2010, Cowan was named president of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, a position he held until July 2016. In this role, Cowan was commissioned with the task of turning the 200-acre estate of Ambassador Walter Annenberg and his wife Leonore into "a venue for important retreats for top government officials and leaders in the fields of law, education, philanthropy, the arts, culture, science and medicine." Since Sunnylands reopened in 2012, Cowan has helped to arrange a series of meetings there. In 2013–14, President Barack Obama convened bilateral meetings at Sunnylands with President Xi Jinping of China and with King Abdullah II of Jordan. In 2016, President Obama hosted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at the site, where they released the Sunnylands Declaration. Prior to his time at Sunnylands, Cowan was appointed by President Bill Clinton as Director of Voice of America. Cowan also served as associate director of the United States Information Agency and as director of the International Broadcasting Bureau. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. x, [4], 385, [1] pages. Maps inside front and back covers. Chronology. Illustrations. Footnotes. Selected Readings. Cover shows,small spine tear and some other wear and soiling. Some highlighting and pencil marks noted. Contributors include Frederic Wakeman, Jr., Paul A. Cohen, John Whitney Hall, Marius B. Jansen, Akira Iriye, Ernest P. Young, Peter Duus, Jerome B. Grieder, Maurice Meisner, Hugh T. Patrick, and Shinkichi Eto. James Buckley Crowley was a historian specializing in the military and policies of modern Japan. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in European history from the University of Connecticut, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Japanese history from the University of Michigan. During the Korean War, he served in Army Intelligence, and later worked as a consultant for the State Department and the CIA. Beginning in 1963, he taught at Yale University for 40 years. Crowley retired from Yale as professor emeritus in 2003, although he continued to work with graduate students until shortly before his death in 2007. More
New York: Freedom House, 1988. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 63, wraps, bibliography. Focus on Issues, 4. More