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New York, NY: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006. First St. Martin's Paperbacks Edition [stated]. First printing. Mass-market paperback. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. [12], 578, [2] p. More
New York, NY: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006. First St. Martin's Paperbacks Edition [stated]. First printing. Mass-market paperback. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. [12], 578, [2] p. More
New York: Julian Messner, 1993. First Printing. 145, illus., notes, timeline, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and edgewear. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2014. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 352, [4] pages. Illustrations. A Note on Sources. Bibliography. Index. Peter Finn is the national security editor at The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 1995. Finn spent 10 years overseas for the paper as the bureau chief in its Warsaw, Berlin and Moscow bureaus. He reported on the 1999 war in Kosovo and its aftermath. Following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Finn covered terrorism for The Post. He was embedded with U.S. Special Forces during the invasion of Iraq. In all, Finn has reported from more than 60 countries for The Post. He returned to The Post’s newsroom in 2008 after covering the Russia-Georgia war and became a national security correspondent covering counterterrorism and U.S. detention operations, including at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which he has visited multiple times to report on military commission trials. Finn is the co-author of “The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle over a Forbidden Book,” published by Pantheon in June 2014. More
Washington, DC: CIA History Staff, 1999. Presumed First Edition, First printing Thus. Trade paperback. Quarto, 378 pages, wraps, maps, footnotes, charts, slight wear to covers and spine. Benjamin B. Fischer has worked for the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for nearly 30 years. He worked at the Center for the Study of Intelligence. The White House Millennium Council selected At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989–1991 (1999) for inclusion in a time capsule at the National Archives to be opened in 2100. Includes Foreword, Preface, Chronology, Appendix, Documents: A Compendium of National Intelligence Estimates and Assessments; The Soviet Crisis: Gorbachevv and the Perils of Perestroika, The End of Empire: Eastern Europe, The End of Empire II: National Secession and Ethnic Conflict in the USSR; "New Thinking": Soviet Foreign Relations; The Military Balance I: Conventional Forces in Europe; and The Military Balance II: Strategic Nuclear Weapons. More
New York, NY: Atria Books, 2005. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]/. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 465 p. More
New York: Atria Books, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To: Judy, I hope you enjoy. David is the best. Vince Flynn. Vincent Joseph Flynn (April 6, 1966 – June 19, 2013) was an American author of political thriller novels surrounding the story of the fictional assassin Mitch Rapp. He was a story consultant for the fifth season of the television series 24. He died on June 19, 2013, after three years with prostate cancer. With the exception of his first novel Term Limits, his works centered around counter-terrorism agent Mitch Rapp. His 2008 release, Extreme Measures, became the ninth novel in the series. Mitch Rapp is a fictional undercover CIA counter-terrorism agent. Rapp's primary focus is thwarting terrorist attacks on the United States, and he is presented as an aggressive operative willing to take measures that are more extreme than might be considered commonly acceptable. His constant frustration with procedures and red tape is a major theme throughout the entire series. Starting in 2015 with The Survivor, the Mitch Rapp series has been continued by Kyle Mills. More
New York: Signet Book, 2001. First Printing. Pocket Paperback. 466 pages, wraps, covers somewhat worn and soiled, ink notation on rear endpaper. More
Penguin Books, 2014. First Paperback Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xvii, [3], 1112, [2] pages. Map Cast of Characters. Chart of Families. This is Book Three of the Century Trilogy. Cover has some wear and soiling. Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 150 million copies of his works. Many of his books have reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, including Edge of Eternity, Fall of Giants, A Dangerous Fortune, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, Winter of the World, and World Without End. More
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. First Printing thus [Stated]. Hardcover. xxiv, 456 pages. Selected Chronology. Index. Gaeton Fonzi was an American investigative journalist and author known for his work on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was a reporter and editor for Philadelphia magazine from 1959 to 1972, and contributed to a range of other publications, including the New York Times and Penthouse. He was hired as a researcher in 1975 by the Church Committee and by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations in 1977, and in 1993 published a book on the subject, The Last Investigation, detailing his experiences as a Congressional researcher as well as his conclusions. An updated version was published in 2013. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1980. First Edition. 25 cm, 305, maps, stamp on bottom edge, usual library markings. More
Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 296 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Inscribed by the author, Francis Gary Powers Jr., on the half title page. Inscription reads: To Bob, Best wishes, Francis Gary Powers Jr. Includes Foreword by Sergei Khrushchev. Also includes Authors' Note, Introduction, Notes, and Index, as well as Chapters on The Restless Heart; Open Skies; Mayday; Repatriated; Lost in a Crowd; Searching for the Truth; Voice from the Grave; The Last Echo; and Unfinished Business. Also includes Acknowledgments, List of Interviews Conducted by Keith Dunnavant, Notes, and Index. One of the most talked about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. Powers was captured by the KGB, subjected to a televised show trial, and imprisoned, all of which created an international incident. Soviet authorities eventually released him in exchange for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Now his son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., founder of the Cold War Museum, and acclaimed historian Keith Dunnavant have written this new account of Powers's life based on personal files that had never been previously available. The result is a fascinating piece of Cold War history. More
New York: Freedom House, c1997. 28 cm, 63, wraps, maps, slight wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Pegasus, [1970]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 223, illus., DJ worn and soiled, front DJ flap price clipped. Introduction by Victor S. Navasky. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 420 pages. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Aleksandr Fursenko was one of Russia’s leading historians and was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Timothy Naftali is a Canadian-American historian who is a professor at New York University. He has written four books, two of them with Alexander Fursenko on the Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrushchev. No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the Soviet Union have long been sealed from public view: Of the most frightening episode of the Cold War--the Cuban Missile Crisis--we have had an incomplete picture. When did Castro embrace the Soviet Union? What proposals were put before the Kremlin through Kennedy's back-channel diplomacy? How close did we come to nuclear war? These questions have now been answered for the first time. This important and controversial book draws the missing half of the story from secret Soviet archives revealed exclusively by the authors, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and his leadership circle. Contained in these remarkable documents are the details of over forty secret meetings between Robert Kennedy and his Soviet contact, records of Castro's first solicitation of Soviet favor, and the plans, suspicions, and strategies of Khrushchev. This unique research opportunity has allowed the authors to tell the complete, fascinating, and terrifying story of the most dangerous days of the last half-century. More
New York: The Penguin Press, 2005. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, [6], 333, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Substantial highlighting and ink marks and comments noted. (primarily up to page 80). Evaluates the second half of the twentieth century in light of its first fifty years, chronicling how the world transformed from a dark era of international communism and nuclear weapons to a time of political and economic freedom. John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is an American international relations scholar, military historian, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, and he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life, his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His most famous work is the highly influential Strategies of Containment, which analyzes in detail the theory and practice of containment that was employed against the Soviet Union by Cold War American presidents; his 1983 distillation of post-revisionist scholarship similarly became a major channel for guiding subsequent Cold War research. The Cold War, praised by John Ikenberry as a "beautifully written panoramic view of the Cold War, full of illuminations and shrewd judgments," was an examination of the history and effects of the Cold War than had been previously possible, and won Gaddis the 2006 Harry S. Truman Book Prize. More
Martha Galleher, 2007. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 219, [1] pages. Inscribed on title page. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Galleher was the niece of Thompson, conducted her own detailed investigation in 1967 and for years afterwards, corresponded with numerous key actors in the case, and became part of the story. She had in-depth knowledge of Thompson and of the case. More
New York: Warner Books, 1991. First Paperbk Edition. First Printing. Pocket paperbk, 406, wraps, illus., notes, index, text slightly darkened, slight wear to cover edges, spine creased and some wear to spine edges. More
New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988. First Edition. Fourth Printing. 342, illus., endpaper maps, notes, index, slight wear to DJ, black dot on top edge. More
New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. 342, illus., endpaper maps, notes, index, some wear to DJ, small tear to top DJ spine, some foxing to edges. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Printing. 604 pages, illus., notes, index, slight wear to DJ. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Printing. Trade paperback. [2], 604, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the CIA. Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University. Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, that studied the lessons of the Iraq War. Gates was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush as Secretary of Defense after the 2006 election. He was confirmed with bipartisan support. He continued to serve as Secretary of Defense in President Barack Obama's administration. He retired in 2011. Gates was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Obama. More
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006. Fourth Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [2], 604, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the CIA. Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University. Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, that studied the lessons of the Iraq War. Gates was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush as Secretary of Defense after the 2006 election. He was confirmed with bipartisan support. He continued to serve as Secretary of Defense in President Barack Obama's administration. He retired in 2011. Gates was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Obama. More
New York: Simon & Schuster {A Touchstone Book}, 1997. First Touchstone Edition [Stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. [2], 604, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the CIA. Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University. Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, that studied the lessons of the Iraq War. Gates was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush as Secretary of Defense after the 2006 election. He was confirmed with bipartisan support. He continued to serve as Secretary of Defense in President Barack Obama's administration. He retired in 2011. Gates was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Obama. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2017. First Vintage Books Edition [stated]. First printing [printing]. Trade paperback. [12], 239, [5] pages. Index. Signed on half-title. Ephemera (2 sheets) from a program with the author at the National Archives folded and laid into the book. A characteristically direct and informed assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement. Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday life. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are essential, yet Americans know these institutions fall short. Robert Gates having led change successfully at three monumental organizations—the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense—offers the ultimate insider’s look at how major bureaus, organizations, and companies can be transformed, which is by turns heartening and inspiring and always instructive. With practical advice on tailoring reform to the culture; effecting change within committees; engaging the power of compromise (“In the real world of bureaucratic institutions, you almost never get all you want when you want it”); and listening and responding to your team, Gates brings the full weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to civic duty to inspire others to lead desperately needed change. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2017. First Vintage Books Edition [stated]. First printing [printing]. Hardcover. [14], 239, [5] pages. Index. Signed by author on second front end paper. A characteristically direct and informed assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement. Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday life. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are essential, yet Americans know these institutions fall short. Robert Gates having led change successfully at three monumental organizations—the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense—offers the ultimate insider’s look at how major bureaus, organizations, and companies can be transformed, which is by turns heartening and inspiring and always instructive. With practical advice on tailoring reform to the culture; effecting change within committees; engaging the power of compromise; and listening and responding to your team, Gates brings the full weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to civic duty to inspire others to lead desperately needed change. More