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n.p. n.p., 1940. 17, discoloration inside boards and flyleaves, some wear to board corners and board and spine edges. More
n.p. n.p., 1940. 17, discoloration inside boards and flyleaves, some wear to board corners and board and spine edges. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. First Edition. [Scribner's "A" on the verso] Presumed first printing. Hardcover. [12], 532 pages. Frontispeice Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. DJ soiled: small tears and some wear along edges. Minor edge soiling. Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service. He was a leading exponent of business history and oral history. Nevins wrote his first book, The Life of Robert Rogers (1914) (about a Colonial American frontiersman and Loyalist) and a history of the University of Illinois (1917) during his postgraduate studies in that institution. Nevins then accepted positions with the New York Evening Post and The Nation and worked as a journalist in New York City for twenty years, as well as continued writing and editing history books. He resigned from the Nation in 1918, and the Post about a year after publishing its history The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism in 1922. In 1923 Nevins published American Social History as Recorded by British Travelers and The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775–1789 in 1924. In 1928, Nevins joined the history faculty of Columbia University, where he remained for three decades until his mandatory retirement in 1958. Nevins served as special representative of the Office of War Information in Australia and New Zealand in 1943–1944, and in 1945–1946 worked in London as chief public affairs officer at the American embassy. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. First Edition. 532, illus., footnotes, index, 1" tear at inner edge of p. 531 & rear flyleaf--those pages creased, boards scuffed. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [12], 448 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips and soiling. Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service. He was a leading exponent of business history and oral history. As a journalist, Nevins covered the campaigns of Al Smith. After the 1928 Presidential Campaign which he covered for Walter Lippmann, Nevins grew dismayed at what he perceived as intolerance and provincialism, religious bigotry and racial prejudice in the American South, which as a historian he contrasted to religious freedom and separation of church and state that the same region had brought to the new nation in the revolutionary era. In 1928, Nevins joined the history faculty of Columbia University, where he remained for three decades until his mandatory retirement in 1958. During World War II, Professor Nevins taught (as Harmsworth Professor of American History) at Oxford University from 1940 to 1941. Nevins served as special representative of the Office of War Information in Australia and New Zealand in 1943–1944, and in 1945–1946 worked in London as chief public affairs officer at the American embassy. After retiring, Nevins worked as researcher at the Huntington Library. Nevins published over 50 books and about 1000 articles, as well as serving as president of the American Historical Association, the Society of American Historians. More
New York: Public Affairs, 2003. Adv. Reading Edition. First Printing. 314, wraps, bibliography, slight wear to cover edges. No illustrations, map, or index in this advance reading copy. More
New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.875 inches by 8.5 inches. xxxviii, 294, [4] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Illustrations. Grant and Twain: A Chronology. A Note on Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Mark Perry (1950-8 August 2021) was an American author specializing in military, intelligence, and foreign affairs analysis. He authored nine books: Four Stars, Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA, A Fire In Zion: Inside the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, Conceived in Liberty, Lift Up Thy Voice, Grant and Twain, Partners In Command, Talking To Terrorists and The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur. Perry’s articles have been featured in a number of publications including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Newsday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Christian Science Monitor, and The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio). Perry’s books have met with critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications. He has served as editor of Washington D.C.’s City Paper, and The VVA Veteran, the largest circulation newspaper for veterans. Perry was also Washington correspondent for The Palestine Report, and was a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center. More
New York: Doubleday, 2000. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 512 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Genealogy table. Notes. Index. William Roe Polk (born 1929 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a veteran foreign policy consultant, author, and relation of president James K. Polk . He is a former professor of history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. Polk was appointed by President Kennedy to the State Department's Policy Planning Council focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. While there he served as a member of the Cuban Missile Crisis management team. In 1961 Polk was a Guggenheim Fellow in Near Eastern Studies. Polk resigned from the federal government to join the University of Chicago as Professor of History in 1965. Polk became president of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, which hosted the 20th Pugwash Conference on nuclear weapons problems, and contributed to planning the United Nations Environmental Program. During the 1967 Six-Day War he wrote a draft peace treaty and to serve as an advisor to McGeorge Bundy, who was President Johnson’s representative during that crisis. Polk was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has lectured at the Canadian Institute of International Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Institute of World Economy and International Affairs of the Soviet (now Russian) Academy of Sciences, as well at over a hundred universities and colleges. William Polk was also the foreign policy adviser for Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign. More
New York: Doubleday, 2000. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 512 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Genealogy table. Notes. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has minor sticker residue. Fep has minor scuff. William Roe Polk (born 1929 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a veteran foreign policy consultant, author, and relation of president James K. Polk . He is a former professor of history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. Polk was appointed by President Kennedy to the State Department's Policy Planning Council focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. While there he served as a member of the Cuban Missile Crisis management team. In 1961 Polk was a Guggenheim Fellow in Near Eastern Studies. Polk resigned from the federal government to join the University of Chicago as Professor of History in 1965. Polk became president of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, which hosted the 20th Pugwash Conference on nuclear weapons problems, and contributed to planning the United Nations Environmental Program. During the 1967 Six-Day War he wrote a draft peace treaty and to serve as an advisor to McGeorge Bundy, who was President Johnson’s representative during that crisis. Polk was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has lectured at the Canadian Institute of International Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Institute of World Economy and International Affairs of the Soviet (now Russian) Academy of Sciences, as well at over a hundred universities and colleges. William Polk was also the foreign policy adviser for Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign. More
New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1970. First Edition. First Printing. 192, illus., maps, bibliography, index, DJ faded and small edge tears/chips, bookplate from USMA Director of Admissions. More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. 22 cm, 290, illus., bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, and small edge tears, some edge soiling. More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. 22 cm, 290, illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and small edge tears/chips, some edge soiling. More
Harrisburg, PA: National Historical Society, 1985. Reprint Edition. 23 cm, 701, footnotes, index, boards stained and soiled, book slightly cocked, edges soiled. More
New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., [1974]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 35 cm, 400, illus., DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, some tape repair to DJ, ink gift notation front endpaper. Foreword by Bruce Catton. More
New York: Promontory Press, 1991. Hardcover. 412 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Boards somewhat worn and soiled. Pencil erasure and ink marks on front endpaper. Gene Smith depicted the lives of presidents, prime ministers and generals in a series of biographies, among them the 1964 best seller “When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson." The book was on The Times’s best-seller list for 15 weeks. Of Mr. Smith’s 19 books, perhaps the next best-known is “The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression” (1970). He portrayed Hoover as an honest, caring president trapped by circumstances beyond his powers, and also by his own reserve and cautiousness. At the same time, Hoover “took no precipitate steps,” Mr. Smith wrote, “saying that the most dangerous thing in the world was a man with emotion but no ideas.” Among Mr. Smith’s other books are “High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson” (1977); “Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography” (1984); and “Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing” (1998), a study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I. His last book, “Mounted Warriors: From Alexander the Great and Cromwell to Stuart, Sheridan and Custer” (2009), is a history of the cavalry. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. Second Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 447, [7] pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Index. David O. Stewart (born April 2, 1951) is an American lawyer-turned-author who writes historical narratives and lives in Garrett Park, Maryland. His books include Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America; The Lincoln Deception; American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America, Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy, and The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. Stewart's experience in defending a Senate impeachment trial provided the spur to write about the first presidential impeachment in Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy. Stewart's books have shed new light on history and challenged previous views: for instance, Impeached counters the view, once best known from Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy, that the acquittal of Andrew Johnson was a triumph of bravery over politicking. Stewart has countered this view with evidence, some of which had come out in hearings under Representative Benjamin Butler soon after the acquittal, that senators had been led to vote to acquit by offers of patronage and money. More
Boston, MA: James H. Earle, 1885. 480, illus., text has darkened, board and spine edges worn, weakness to front board, small chips to front flyleaf. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1991. First American Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xix, [1], 514, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Note on the Organization of Forces. Organization of Forces (1864-1865). Index. Noah Andre Trudeau is an American historian who has written books and produced programs for National Public Radio. In addition to his books, Trudeau has written a number of articles for military history magazines such as Civil War Times Illustrated, Gettysburg Magazine, Blue and Gray, North & South, The Columbiad, America's Civil War and Military History Quarterly. Trudeau’s first book Bloody Roads South won the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Award. He was also awarded the Jerry Coffey Memorial Book Prize offered by the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation. In June 2012, Trudeau’s essay in Military History Quarterly won the Army Historical Foundation’s 2011 Distinguished Writing Award. This is a definitive account of the siege of Petersburg, VA, the most extensive military operation of the Civil War. More
Jamestown, VA: Eastern Acorn Press, 1987. Reprint Edition. 50, wraps, illus., maps, covers somewhat worn and soiled, sticker residue on front cover. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1887. First? Edition. First? Printing. 29 cm, 220, frontis illus., bds somewhat worn/soiled, edges worn, corners bumped, bookplate, spine torn, ink notation 2nd front flyleaf. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1901. Quarto, 135, illus., appendix, weakness to boards, tears and small hole in front flyleaf, few library markings, boards worn and stained. More
New York: Orion Books, c1993. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 194, illus., map, slight sticker residue on DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Richmond, VA: Virginia Civil War Trails, 2006. 40, wraps, brochure (ten-fold/forty panel--center fold and then nine-fold), illus. (most in color), maps. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 508, illus., appendices, bibliography, notes, index, some soiling inside front flyleaf, More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 508 pages, illus., appendices, bibliography, notes, index, bds weak, fr bd mostly separated, ins hinges reinforced w/ tape, usual lib marks. Floyd E. Risvold was a manuscript collector, dealer, and historian from Minnesota. He had a great interest in Western Americana history. In 1976, he received the Barondess Lincoln Award for his contribution to the study of the life of Abraham Lincoln. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. Book Club Edition. 384, illus., endpaper maps, appendix (roster), notes, bibliography, index. More