From Vietnam to Cambodia: A Background Book about the Struggle in Southeast Asia
New York: Parent's Magazine Press, 1971. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. ix, [3].196 p. Map. Bibliographic Note. Index. More
New York: Parent's Magazine Press, 1971. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. ix, [3].196 p. Map. Bibliographic Note. Index. More
Novato, CA: Presidio, c1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 214, map. General Davidson was the J-2 chief of intelligence at MACV under Westmoreland. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1987. First Printing. 22 cm, 349, Describes the years of relations with Nicaragua and Daniel Ortega. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 515, appendix, index, boards somewhat worn & soiled, raised stamp on front endpaper, edges soiled. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 515, appendix, index, small pencil and ink check marks in text margins, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ edges somewhat worn. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. [4], 294, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Glossary. Index. DJ in plastic sleeve with sticker over barcode. Orrin DeForest was by far the United States' most successful spymaster in the Vietnam war, inflicting massive damage to the Vietcong's political and military structure. David Chanoff is a noted author of non-fiction work. His work has typically involved collaborations with the principal protagonist of the work concerned. His collaborators have included; Orrin deForest, Augustus A. White, Joycelyn Elders, oàn V n To i, William J. Crowe, Ariel Sharon and Kenneth Good. He has also written about a wide range of subjects including literary history, education and foreign for The Washington Post, and The New Republic and the New York Times Magazine. He has more than twelve books. More
New York: PEN American Center, 1988. 175, wraps, chapter notes, readings, index, some soiling to rear cover. Preface by Arthur Miller. Foreword by Walter Karp. More
New York: Warner Vision Books, 2005. First United States Paperback Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. [12], 692 pages. Map. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Nelson Richard DeMille (born August 23, 1943) is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. His novels include Plum Island, The Charm School, and The Gold Coast. DeMille has also written under the pen names Jack Cannon, Kurt Ladner, Ellen Kay and Brad Matthews. After spending three years at Hofstra University, he joined the Army and attended Officer Candidate School. He was a First Lieutenant in the United States Army (1966–69) and saw action as an infantry platoon leader with the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam. He was decorated with the Air Medal, Bronze Star, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge. DeMille returned to the States and went back to Hofstra University, where he received his degree in political science and history. His first major novel was By the Rivers of Babylon, published in 1978 and still in print, as are all his succeeding novels. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [4], 436 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Sally Denton is an investigative reporter, author, and historian who writes about subjects others ignore--from a drug conspiracy in Kentucky to organized crime in Las Vegas; from corruption within the Mormon Church to the hidden history of Manifest Destiny; from one of America's bitterest political campaigns to the powerful forces against Franklin D. Roosevelt. She has received professional recognition and prestigious fellowships. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1985. First Printing. 24 cm, 327, illus., black dot at bottom edge, several tears to DJ, DJ edges worn. More
Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1973. Wraps. 291 pages. illus. 28 cm. Index. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [2], 234, [4] pages. DJ has fading/sunning at spine and front cover, some wear and rear flap creased. Some wear at bottom of rear board. Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She later adapted the book into a play that premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary entitled, The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xv, 393 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [3], 393, [3] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Some endpaper discoloration noted. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Pastor and Carolyn Corlson--Best Wishes Sam Dillon. Preface, List of Characters, A Note on Sources. Notes. Index. Ten Chapters: The Pit; Insurgent Roots. The Rise of the Ex-Guards; The Project; Dirty War; The Cutoff; The $100 Million Offensive; Back in the Camps; The Quilali Tribunal and Final Verdicts. These are followed by an Epilogue. Sam Dillon's news reportage from Latin America has been rewarded with numerous honors, including two Pulitzer prizes. He began his journalism career in 1981, when he reported on the civil war in El Salvador for the Associated Press. In 1987, Dillon was part of a team that won the Pulitzer for a series of stories on the Iran-Contra scandal, a situation in which the administration of U.S. president Ronald Reagan was accused of illegal arms dealings and negotiating for hostages. Dillon won his second Pulitzer for a series of articles on the effects of drug-related corruption in Mexico. Dillon's book Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels drew on his knowledge of the civil war in El Salvador, which pitted the contra rebels against the Sandinista government. Comandos shows some positive points about the contras as well as detailing their record of human-rights abuses, and also reveals the complicity of the Central Intelligence Agency in their activities. Dillon focuses his account on Comandante Johnson, a contra leader who attempted to stop the abuses that were so commonplace among the rebel forces. More
New York: Random House, 1990. First Edition. 402, illus., notes, index, red marker line on fore-edge, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 426, [4] pages. List of Maps. A Note on Sources. Notes. Index. Some DJ wear. From the author's website: I spent much of my journalistic career covering the collapse of communism. After a stint in Rome as a correspondent for Reuters, I lived in Yugoslavia during the twilight years of Marshal Tito. I moved to Poland for The Washington Post, just in time to witness the extraordinary spectacle of workers rebelling against the "workers' state." I was the first western reporter to visit the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980 and was standing in front of Boris Yeltsin when he climbed on a tank in August 1991 to face down Communist hardliners. In between, I reported on the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, Gorbachev-Reagan summits, the Tiananmen uprising in China, and the 1989 revolution in Romania. Other highlights of my journalistic career included exposing the Soviet atomic spy known as Mlad (Theodore Hall), and covering the Bosnia peace negotiations as the diplomatic reporter for The Post. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Seventh printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 426, [4] pages. List of Maps. A Note on Sources. Notes. Index. Some DJ wear. From the author's website: I spent much of my journalistic career covering the collapse of communism. After a stint in Rome as a correspondent for Reuters, I lived in Yugoslavia during the twilight years of Marshal Tito. I moved to Poland for The Washington Post, just in time to witness the extraordinary spectacle of workers rebelling against the "workers' state." I was the first western reporter to visit the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980 and was standing in front of Boris Yeltsin when he climbed on a tank in August 1991 to face down Communist hardliners. In between, I reported on the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, Gorbachev-Reagan summits, the Tiananmen uprising in China, and the 1989 revolution in Romania. Other highlights of my journalistic career included exposing the Soviet atomic spy known as Mlad (Theodore Hall), and covering the Bosnia peace negotiations as the diplomatic reporter for The Post. More
New York: Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 25 cm, 554 pages appendices, notes, former owner's embossed seal cut from title page/verso, marginal line in ink noted on one page only. From Wikipedia: "Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting them. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, or interception of electronically transmitted information (such as Internet traffic or phone calls); and it can include simple, relatively no- or low-technology methods such as human intelligence agents and postal interception. Surveillance is used by governments for intelligence gathering, the prevention of crime, the protection of a process, person, group or object, or for the investigation of crime. It is also used by criminal organizations to plan and commit crimes such as robbery and kidnapping, and by businesses to gather intelligence. Surveillance is often a violation of privacy, and is opposed by various civil liberties groups and activists. Many nations have laws which restrict domestic government and private use of surveillance, usually limiting it to circumstances where public safety is at risk. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. xvi, 554, [4] pages. Includes footnotes. appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Minor page soiling. Some DJ wear. Frank J. Donner was a civil liberties lawyer who was an expert on the use of government surveillance and informers to discourage political dissent. He was director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Project on Political Surveillance. He worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights, argued cases before the Supreme Court and wrote books on the House Committee on Un-American Activities and Federal and local surveillance and suppression. In 1980, a book by Mr. Donner called "The Age of Surveillance" was published by Knopf. It called for curbs on surveillance abuses by the Federal Government and cited Government attempts to silence political activities and organizations outside the mainstream of American attitudes. More
New York: St. Martin's-Marek, c1984. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 216, illus., DJ worn and soiled. More
Toronto: Stoddart, 1987. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 350, DJ wrinkled at bottom front, black dot on top edge. More
New York: Random House, 2007. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 343, [1] pages. Small tears at edge of pages 315-322. Some page discoloration. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads Dear Alex & Pat, Bush threw us all a Curveball! Thanks for your support. All bests, Bob Drogin. Author's Note. Key Characters. Chronology. Glossary. Notes. Index. Bob Drogin (29 March 1952) is an American journalist and author. He worked for the Los Angeles Times, for nearly four decades. Drogin began his career with the Times as a national correspondent, based in New York, traveling to nearly every state in the United States. He spent eight years as a foreign correspondent, and as bureau chief in Manila and Johannesburg, before returning to the U.S. He covered intelligence and national security in the Washington bureau, from 1998 until retiring in November 2020. During his college years, he traveled throughout Asia and worked with UNICEF as a Shansi representative, of Oberlin College. He has a bachelor's degree in Asian Studies and received his master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Drogin has won a number of awards during his career, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and two prizes for his book, "Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War," a story of the Iraqi informant, who was a key source of false claims about Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition. 277, illus., bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped and small rough spot, DJ worn: small edge tears/chips. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover. 277 pages. Illus., bibliography, index, DJ worn and soiled: small edge tears/chips, DJ in plastic sleeve. Signed by the author. More