The Missile Crisis
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1966. First Edition. 220, illus., endpaper maps, index, DJ soiled and small tears: small piece missing at top of spine. More about The Missile Crisis
Robert McNamara
The Missiles of October: The Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
London: MacGibbon & Kee Ltd., 1966. First U.K. Edition. 204, illus., index, DJ soiled, worn, and small chips, ink underlining to text. More about The Missiles of October: The Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Soldiers of Reason; The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2008. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 388 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Alex Abella (born 1950) is an American author and journalist best known for his works Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire and Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States (with Scott Gordon). Abella's work includes Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States, co-authored with law professor and Los Angeles Superior Court judge Scott Gordon. The book is set in Germany during World War II and follows a group of German-American agents trained in sabotage and terrorism. The author's most recent book, Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire, is the first history of the foreign policy think tank founded by the United States Military and funded in part by the United States Government. More about Soldiers of Reason; The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
Windows of Opportunity: From Cold War to Peaceful Competition in U.S.-Soviet Relations
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1989. First? Edition. First? Printing. 345, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the editor (Graham Allison). More about Windows of Opportunity: From Cold War to Peaceful Competition in U.S.-Soviet Relations
The Presidents' Men; White House Assistants of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1968. First edition. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. viii, [4], 420 p.; 25 cm. Occasional footnotes. Sources. Index. More about The Presidents' Men; White House Assistants of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D....
As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in the Words of Her Family and Friends
New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. viii, 376 pages. Sources. Index. Name of previous owner present. Black mark on the bottom edge. DJ has some wear and soiling. More about As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in the Words of Her Family and Friends
The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. First Printing. 202, illus., tables, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, library stamps ins fr flyleaf & on front DJ, some soiling to fore-edge. More about The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military
The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. First Printing. 202, illus., tables, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, pencil notes & underlining throughout, DJ scuffed & worn: small tears. More about The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military
The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. Second Printing. 202, wraps, illus., tables, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, orange underlining to text, cover edges worn Analysis of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's decision to award the contract for the development of the TFX (Tactical Fighter Experimental--the original designation of the F-111 fighter-bomber) to General Dynamics-Grumman. More about The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military
The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
New York: Pegasus, 1968. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 176, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, boards somewhat worn/soiled, some spine fading, compliments card laid in. More about The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
New York: Pegasus, 1968. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 176, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, name stamped on front flyleaf and edges, DJ soiled and small edge tears. More about The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
New York: Pegasus, 1968. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 176, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, small stains to edges, DJ somewhat soiled and stained: small edge chips. More about The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, c1982. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 527, illus., maps, notes, index, slight wear to spine edges, ink name inside front flyleaf. More about The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs
The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, c1982. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 527, wraps, illus., maps, notes, index, some wear to cover edges, sticker residue on rear cover. More about The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs
Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam
New York: Norton, c1989. First Printing. 25 cm, 254, illus. More about Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 816 pages. Illus., sources, notes, index, some soiling to fore-edge. Signed by the author. More about The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963
Lemnitzer: A Soldier for His Time
Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1997. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 386 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More about Lemnitzer: A Soldier for His Time
On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
New York: Hill and Wang, 1989. First Edition. 400, notes, chronology, index, library stamps (some crossed out in marker), damp stains to edges and boards, bd edges quite worn. More about On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
On the Brink; Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux [The Noonday Press], 1990. Second Edition [stated]. Noonday Press edition. Trade paperback. xvi, [2], 428, [2] pages. Preface to the Second Edition. Dramatis Personae. Authors' Note. Footnotes. Notes. Chronology. Afterword. Index. Foreword by McGeorge Bundy. Professor and international security expert James G. Blight began his career as a cognitive psychologist, but a decade later had begun research on prevention of a nuclear holocaust in a world of increasing proliferation of nuclear weapons. His research led him to study the closest scenario to a nuclear war: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. He has since become an expert on the subject. David A. Welch is a CIGI senior fellow and professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. His book, Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change, was the winner of the International Studies Association ISSS Book Award and his book, Justice and the Genesis of War, won the 1994 Edgar S. Furniss Award for an outstanding contribution to national security studies. He is co-editor of Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis. More about On the Brink; Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam: The Valor and the Sorrow: From the Home Front to the Front Lines in Words and Pictures
Little Brown and Company, 1985. First edition. First editon [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. 495 p. Illustrations. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Photo Credits. Index. More about Vietnam: The Valor and the Sorrow: From the Home Front to the Front Lines in Words and Pictures
Anatomy of Error: The Inside Story of the Asian War on the Potomac, 1954-1969
Boston, MA: Gambit, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 178 pages. Index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More about Anatomy of Error: The Inside Story of the Asian War on the Potomac, 1954-1969
Anatomy of Error: The Inside Story of the Asian War on the Potomac, 1954-1969
Boston, MA: Gambit, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. 178, index, some wear to DJ edges, ink notation inside front flyleaf. More about Anatomy of Error: The Inside Story of the Asian War on the Potomac, 1954-1969
Other Loyalties: A Politics of Personality
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. 331, small scratches and spots to fore-edge, DJ discolored and some edge wear: small tears, small piece missing. More about Other Loyalties: A Politics of Personality
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
New York: Vintage Books, 1990. First Vintage Edition. First Printing. 735, wraps, bibliography, notes, index, highlighting & red ink notes & underlining to text, some wear to cover edges This book covers the fifty-year period from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the superpower summitry of 1988. Bundy gives particular atttention to the most dangerous confrontations of the two superpowers--Khrushchev's challenges in Berlin and the Cuban missile crisis. More about Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition. Second Printing. 735, bibliography, notes, index, red marker line to fore-edge, slight soiling and small scratches to DJ. More about Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years