Fat Man in a Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics
New York: Random House, 1999. First American Edition. Third Printing. 284, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: Random House, 1999. First American Edition. Third Printing. 284, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: Random House, 1999. First American Edition. First Printing. 284, index. More
New York: Random House, 1999. First American Edition. First Printing. 284, index, some soiling to DJ, some creasing and small chips to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Warner Books, 1989. Third Printing (stated). Hardcover. 24 cm. xvi, [2], 478 pages. Occasional footnotes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribtion on fep and signed by both authors. John Worthen Germond (January 30, 1928 – August 14, 2013), known as Jack Germond, was an American journalist, author, and pundit. His journalistic career spanned over 50 years; Germond wrote for the Washington Star and The Baltimore Sun. Together with Jules Witcover, Germond co-wrote "Politics Today", a five-day-a-week syndicated column, for almost a quarter-century. He began his career working for Gannett's Rochester Times-Union in 1961. He moved to the Washington Star in 1974, became a syndicated columnist and national editor, and went on to The Baltimore Sun when the Star folded. He began to appear on Meet the Press in 1972, the Today Show in 1980, and the NBC and PBS program The McLaughlin Group from its inception in 1981. A fixture on The McLaughlin Group for 15 years before abruptly resigning, he later appeared on CNN, and appeared for a time on the PBS program Inside Washington. In 2011 he wrote several pieces on the 2012 Presidential election for The Daily Beast, an online-only publication. More
New York: Warner Books, c1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 534, index, slight soiling to fore-edge. More
New York: Warner Books, c1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 534, index, some soiling and price sticker on rear DJ, ink name ins fr flylf. Inscribed by the author (Germond). More
New York: Warner Books, c1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 534, index. Inscribed by the author (Germond). More
New York: Warner Books, c1989. Third Printing. 24 cm, 478, index. Inscribed by the author, Jack Germond, a noted journalist and television commentator. More
New York: Warner Books, c1989. First Printing. 24 cm, 478, index, some wear to DJ edges, some soiling to fore-edge. Inscribed by the co-author (Witcover). More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 322 pages. Illustrations. Appendix: Cast of Characters. Index. Minor edge soiling. Minor DJ wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author (Gerson) on the fep. Inscription reads For Aidan in the hope you will draw strength from this saga of trials and some triumphs. Best, Allen 12/2001. Mr. Gerson graduated at the University at Buffalo in 1966. He received a law degree from New York University in 1969, a master of laws degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1972 and a doctor of juridical science from Yale University in 1976. Gerson was a Washington lawyer and legal scholar who helped pioneer the practice of suing foreign governments in U.S. courts for complicity in terrorism, representing victims’ families in the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Mr. Gerson was an author, private-practice lawyer, former professor at George Mason University and deputy assistant attorney general under President Ronald Reagan, known for representing victims of human rights abuses and terrorist attacks. As a Justice Department trial lawyer, he pursued Nazi war criminals who had immigrated to the United States, later rising to become senior counsel to two U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Gen. Vernon A. Walters. Mr. Gerson was named Kirkpatrick’s senior counsel in 1981 and chronicled those years in a book, “The Kirkpatrick Mission: Diplomacy Without Apology” (1991). He wrote books including “Israel, the West Bank and International Law” (1978) and “Privatizing Peace: From Conflict to Security” (2002) with Nat J. Colletta. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, c2001. First Printing. 25 cm, 322, illus., appendix, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, c2001. First Printing. 25 cm, 322, illus., appendix, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, c2001. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 322, illus., appendix, index, slight wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author (Gerson). More
Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. 187, wraps, maps, notes, index, usual library markings. More
New York: Basic Books, 1992. First Printing. 314, illus., notes, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, several page corners creased. More
New York: Miramax Books, 2002. Later printing. Hardcover. xvii, 407, [1] p. Appendices. Index. More
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, c1994. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 742, illus., slight wear to DJ edges. More
Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985. First Printing. 24 cm, 468, illus., index, DJ worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ pasted to boards. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company, 1996. First Paperbk Edition. Second Printing. 551, wraps, notes, index, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. First Paperbk Edition. Fourth Printing. 551, wraps, maps, notes, index, date stamps on bottom edge. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. First Paperbk Edition. First Printing. 551, wraps, maps, notes, index, some wear to covers, some soiling and creasing to a few pages. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [1], 551, [7] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Michael R. Gordon was the chief defense correspondent for The New York Times. Michael R. Gordon is the chief military correspondent for The New York Times. During the first phase of the Iraq war, he was the only newspaper reporter embedded with the allied land command under General Tommy Franks. He and General Bernard E. Trainor have written two books together. As a journalist for The New York Times he was the first to report Saddam Hussein's alleged nuclear weapons program in September 2002. Bernard E. Trainor (born September 2, 1928) is a journalist and a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. He served in the Marine Corps for 39 years in both staff and command capacities. After retiring from the Marine Corps, he began working as the chief military correspondent for the New York Times. He was also a military analyst for NBC. More
Place_Pub: New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. First Edition. First Printing. 266, notes, index. More
Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 220, illus., index. The author was the wife of Allan Gotlieb, Canada's ambassador to the United States. More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xv, 301 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Suggestions for Further Reading. Name Index. Subject Index. Name of previous owner present. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Foreword by Richard Norton Smith. After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale in 1966, Lewis Ludlow Gould taught history at the University of Texas at Austin until his retirement in 1998. Gould has written and edited numerous articles and books on politics and the American presidency. "The Modern American Presidency" is a lively, interpretive synthesis of 20th century leaders, filled with intriguing insights into how the presidency has evolved as America rose to prominence on the world stage. Gould traces the decline of the party system and the increasing importance of the media, resulting in the rise of the president as celebrity. More