Interventions
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1980. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 263 p. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1980. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 263 p. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 263, [1] pages. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Inscribed on title page. Inscription signed by author reads: For Luke Albee--Well-known Vermont Guide. Pat Breslin August, 1983. Luke Albee was the former Chief of Staff to Senator Pat Leahy of Vermont. A Cold War Novel of Love and Death. To millions of Chileans the socialist government of Salvador Allende meant reform, justice, and progress. But to the U.S. State Department it represented a defeat and a threat. In collusion with opposition interests, the Americans engaged in a covert campaign to subvert Allende's regime. Paul Steward's job is to gather intelligence--more bluntly, to spy--on Chile's leftists. The disillusioned agent's assignment is a better one than his record warrants, but it's also his last chance to salvage a once-promising career. As an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer, he had had an affair with beautiful Marisa Caseaux, a young Chilean artist studying in the States. The enthusiastic, hopeful American has drifted into a weary, bitter cynicism, and the sensitive Chilean artist has drifted leftwards into a CIA dossier. As events move inexorably toward Allende's fall, a noose tightens around Steward's battered conscience. Interventions is a novel worthy of Graham Greene, the tale of a man in bondage to a morally bankrupt policy, and of his desperate, tragic attempt to reconcile personal loyalty with the politics of betrayal. Interventions is a novel worthy of Graham Greene, the tale of a man in bondage to a morally bankrupt policy, and of his desperate, tragic attempt to reconcile personal loyalty with the politics of betrayal. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, c1996. First Printing. 25 cm, 260, illus., maps. More
New York: John Wiley, 1997. First Printing. 278, acid-free paper, illus., map, notes and sources, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Weidenfeld Nicolson, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 384, illus. More
New York: Times Books, 1982. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xx, 891,[1] pages. Donovan's Awards. Illustrations. Maps. A Note on Sources. Sources and Notes. Index, Some soiling to DJ. Some creasing and small tears to DJ edges, front DJ flap creased. Anthony Cave Brown (March 21, 1929 -July 14, 2006) was an English-American journalist and historian. Cave Brown's first work to attract attention was Bodyguard of Lies (1975), which examined the strategical elements of World War II, including codebreaking and its effect on the war's outcome. He followed up with The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan, about the director of the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II; OSS later evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency. Another effort was a biography of the head of British MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) during World War II. The book was titled C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill. His book Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century, examined the interconnected lives of the famous British spies Kim Philby and Harry St. John Philby, son and father. William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He is regarded as the founding father of the CIA, and a statue of him stands in the lobby of the CIA headquarters building in Langley, Virginia. A decorated veteran of World War I, Donovan is the only person to have received all four of the United States' highest awards: the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the National Security Medal. He is also a recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, as well as decorations from a number of other nations for his service during both World Wars. More
New York: Times Books, 1982. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xx, 891,[1] pages. Donovan's Awards. Illustrations. Maps. A Note on Sources. Sources and Notes. Index, Some soiling to DJ. Some creasing and small tears to DJ edges, front DJ flap creased. Anthony Cave Brown (March 21, 1929 in Bath - July 14, 2006 in Warrenton, Virginia) was an English-American journalist, espionage non-fiction writer, and historian. Cave Brown's first major work to attract widespread attention was Bodyguard of Lies (1975), which examined the strategical elements of World War II, including codebreaking and its effect on the war's outcome. He followed up on this theme with a book, The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan, about William J. Donovan, the director of the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II; the Office of Strategic Services later evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency. Another espionage-related effort was a 1987 biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, who served as head of British MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) during World War II. The book was titled C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill. His book Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century, published in 1994, examined the interconnected lives of the famous British spies Kim Philby and Harry St. John Philby, son and father. His final 1999 book Oil, God and Gold: The Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings, examined the Aramco company in Saudi Arabia. More
New York: Vintage Books [A Division of Random House], 1984. First Vintage Books edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xx, 891,[1] pages. Donovan's Awards. Illustrations. Maps. A Note on Sources. Sources and Notes. Index, Anthony Cave Brown (March 21, 1929 in Bath - July 14, 2006 in Warrenton, Virginia) was an English-American journalist, espionage non-fiction writer, and historian. Cave Brown's first major work to attract widespread attention was Bodyguard of Lies (1975), which examined the strategical elements of World War II, including codebreaking and its effect on the war's outcome. He followed up on this theme with a book, The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan, about William J. Donovan, the director of the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II; the Office of Strategic Services later evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency. Another espionage-related effort was a 1987 biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, who served as head of British MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) during World War II. The book was titled C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill. His book Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century, published in 1994, examined the interconnected lives of the famous British spies Kim Philby and Harry St. John Philby, son and father. His final 1999 book Oil, God and Gold: The Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings, examined the Aramco company in Saudi Arabia. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. [10], 677, [1] pages. Illustrations. References. Index. Inscribed by the author. This biography is documented with scores of interviews, the private papers of St. John and Kim Philby, and never-before-seen photographs and KGB memoranda. Anthony Cave Brown (March 21, 1929 in Bath - July 14, 2006) was an English-American journalist, non-fiction writer, and historian. Brown's first major work was Bodyguard of Lies, which examined the strategical elements of World War II, including codebreaking and its effect on the war's outcome. He followed up with The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan, about the director of the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II; the Office of Strategic Services later evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency. Another espionage-related effort was a 1987 biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, who served as head of British MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) during World War II. The book was titled C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill. His book Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century, examined the interconnected lives of the famous British spies Kim Philby and Harry St. John Philby, son and father. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. [10], 677, [1] pages. Illustrations. References. Index. DJ, in plastic sleeve, is price-clipped. This biography is documented with scores of interviews, the private papers of St. John and Kim Philby, and never-before-seen photographs and KGB memoranda. Anthony Cave Brown (March 21, 1929 in Bath - July 14, 2006) was an English-American journalist and historian. Brown's first major work was Bodyguard of Lies, which examined the strategical elements of World War II, including codebreaking and its effect on the war's outcome. He followed up with The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan, about the director of the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II; the Office of Strategic Services later evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency. Another espionage-related effort was a 1987 biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, who served as head of British MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) during World War II. The book was titled C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill. His book Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century, examined the interconnected lives of the famous British spies Kim Philby and Harry St. John Philby, son and father. More
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 435, illus., mark at bottom edge. More
McLean, VA: The Association of Former Intelligence Officers, 1993. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. [4], 58, [2] p. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography. More
New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1979. Second Printing. pocket paperbk, 339, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers, some page discoloration Incisive, outrageous, and downright hilarious observations about the body politic and impolitic in the Jimmy Carter age. Buchwald investigates the Sans Souci, famed watering hole for Washington's big game, exposes Santa Claus, three-martini luncheons. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Second Printing. Hardcover. 295, [5] pages. Some wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. Arthur "Art" Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his column in The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982. In November 1952, Buchwald wrote a column in which he attempted to explain the Thanksgiving holiday to the French; Buchwald considered it his favorite column, and it was re-run every Thanksgiving during Buchwald's lifetime. Buchwald also enjoyed the notoriety he received when U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary, Jim Hagerty, took seriously a spoof press conference report. After Hagerty denounced the article as "unadulterated rot," Buchwald retorted, "Hagerty is wrong. I write adulterated rot." While in Paris, Buchwald became the only correspondent to substantively interview Elvis Presley. Presley's impromptu performances at the Le Lido piano, as well as his singing for the showgirls, became legendary following its inclusion in Buchwald's bestselling book, I'll Always Have Paris. His column appeared in more than 550 newspapers at its height, and he published more than 30 books in his lifetime. More
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 500, [8] pages. Signed by author. DJ has some wear and soiling, with small tears and chips. Sticker residue on DJ flap. Signed on fep. Also includes a gift inscription NOT from author. Excerpts from a Kirkus review posted on-line: Approximately 25 years of Buchwald's follies are gathered in this omnibus collection which shows the humorist's wide-ranging concerns to fair advantage. For students of US foreign policy there's the instructive case of La Enchilada, a small but bellicose Latin American nation famous for its coups. Reformers of assorted stripes will appreciate Buchwald's suggestions for ""Upgrading Prison Requirements,"" and jaded parents might consider a proposal for ""Kid-Swapping in the United States."" Buchwald is just pondering the vicissitudes of living in 20th-century America. Take fresh air; these days it can make you queasy as he discovered on a trip to Alaska: ""Isn't there a diesel bus around here that I could breathe into for a couple of hours?"" And of course there are those little Buchwaldian asides on Washington politics. Of Watergate."" More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. First Printing. 25 cm, 304. More
New York: Random House, c1987. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 322, pencil erasure on rear endpaper, red mark on bottom edge. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2000. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 305, [3] pages. DJ has some sticker residue at top front. William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded National Review magazine in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement; hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line (1966–1999), where he became known for his transatlantic accent and wide vocabulary; and wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column along with numerous spy novels. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, said Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century… For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary contribution to politics was a fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying groundwork for the new American conservatism of presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan, both Republicans. Former Senate Republican leader Bob Dole said "Buckley lighted the fire". Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and more than fifty other books on writing, speaking, history, politics, and sailing, including a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself as either a libertarian or conservative. More
New York: International Publishers, 1970. Firs Edition [paperback] [stated] Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. 204, [2] pages. Footnotes. Map. Index. Front cover has some wear, soiling, and curls at the edge. Some ink marks to text noted. Wilfred Graham Burchett (16 September 1911 – 27 September 1983) was an Australian journalist known for being the first western journalist to report from Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb, and for his reporting from "the other side" during the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Burchett began his journalism at the start of the Second World War, during which he reported from China, Burma and Japan and covered the war in the Pacific. After the war he reported on the trials in Hungary, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and on Cambodia under Pol Pot. During the Korean war he investigated and supported claims by the North Korean government that the US had used germ warfare. He was the first western journalist to interview Yuri Gagarin after Gagarin's historic first flight into outer space (Vostok 1). He played a role in prompting the first significant Western relief to Cambodia after its liberation by Vietnam in 1979. He was a politically engaged anti-imperialist who always placed himself amongst the people and events about whom he was reporting. His reporting antagonized both the US and Australian governments and he was effectively exiled from Australia for almost 20 years before the incoming Whitlam government granted him a new passport. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1998. First Printing. 25 cm, 356, illus., notes, index, red pencil note and marginal underlining on p. 23, DJ somewhat soiled. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1998. Second Printing. Hardcover. [10], 356, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Nina D. Burleigh (born 1959 or 1960) is an American writer and journalist. She is the author of five books, including Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (2007), about the scholars who accompanied Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798; Unholy Business (2008), chronicling a Biblical archaeological forgery case and the Jerusalem relic trade. Her investigative journalism includes The Fatal Gift of Beauty (2011), on the wrongful imprisonment of American student Amanda Knox. An adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Burleigh is strongly sympathetic to secular liberalism, and known for her interest in issues of women's rights. She wrote a column for The New York Observer called "The Bombshell". As of January 2015 she writes for Newsweek as a National Politics Correspondent. Burleigh has written extensively on feminism, issues of human trafficking, domestic violence, and double standards for violence against women, American women and power and politics. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977. Second Printing. 179, illus., map, index, boards weak, discoloration inside hinges, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped. More
New York: Random House, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 419, illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Random House, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. 273, index, DJ worn, soiled, small tears, and chips, publisher's ephemera laid in. More