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Picador, 2014. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Color photos of Rockwell's art; B&W era photos throughout. CONDITION: What makes this book "As NEW": Small remainder dot top edges. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2014 Picador trade paperback (493 pages), first paperback edition, first printing. There is a color photo section showing Rockwell's art - many from the collection of director Steven Spiellberg. B&W era photos throughout. CONTENT: "Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell mingled fact and fiction in paintings that reflected the we-the-people, communitarian ideals of American democracy. Freckled Boy Scouts and their mutts, sprightly grandmothers, a young man… Read More

Da Capo Press, 2003. 1st Paperback Edition 12th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. 2 B&W era photo sections; B&W maps. CONDITION: NEW 2003 Da Capo Press trade paperback, first paperback edition, 12th printing. Includes Reader's Guide. 2 B&W era photo sections plus B&W maps. CONTENT: June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia -- population just 3,000 in 1944 -- died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost--it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. This is the true and intimate story of these men and the friends and families they left behind. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives, as well as diaries and letters, Kershaw's book focuses on several… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD 1997 Simon & Schuster large hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Tiny "repaired" tear bottom DJ panel at fold. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: Recounts the trial of a radical union leader for the murder of Idaho's former state governor, a case that ultimately involved President Theodore Roosevelt and the tumultuous relationship between capital, labor, and the law in the 1900s. Multiple Pulitzer Prize winner Lukas, who committed suicide at age 64, aspires in his final book to use the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, governor of Idaho, as a platform from which to survey the panorama of the turn-of-the-century's incessant labor strife. The murder, investigation, and trial quickly became a cause for business, labor, and law enforcement, both private and public. Lukas attempts to gather every… Read More

Zoe Company, 1996. Assumed First Paperback Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Laura Fiedler-Ates color & B&W illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 1996 Zoe Company paperback (stapled wraps), probably first paperback edition, no printing given. Edited by Sand Warren Marmillion and illustrated by Laura Fiedler-Ates. B&W interior illustrations - with borders. CONTENT: It appears that this was compiled and edited for the visitor's center at Laura Plantation in Louisiana. This plantation was one where Alcee Fortier wrote or recorded the folk tales of the Trickster Compair Lapin as told by the descendants of slaves who were taken to the plantation from West Africa. The language of this story has been faithfully reprinted as Alcee Fortier originally wrote it. Spelling, grammar and punctuation reflect the speech patterns of the creole dialect as translated into English. Includes historical notes on the Plantation. I see this as a "scholarly" work rather than a work of fiction for children.… Read More

Riverhead Books, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W era photos & movie stills. CONDITION: As New - what makes this book "as new?" - back board bumped corner. Not awful, but there. So . . UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2012 Riverhead hardcover (gray boards & 1 bumped corner) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W era photos & movie stills throughout. CONTENT: [Don't recall Lyle Talbot in movies? Take a look at one of his photos and you will go "Oh, yeah, him. I liked his work."] Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture through a transfixing personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left his home in small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an… Read More

Viking, 2018. 1st Edition 5th Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: What makes this book "As New" - Tiny red remainder dot bottom edges. UNREAD 2018 Viking hardcover (gray boards) and dust jacket, first edition, 5th printing. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence adviser for six and a half years, longer than his three predecessors combined. He led the U.S. intelligence community through a period that included the raid on Osama bin Laden, the Benghazi attack, the leaks of Edward Snowden, and Russia's influence operation during the 2016 U.S. election campaign. In Facts and Fears, Clapper traces his career through the growing threat of… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Simon & Shuster hardcover (red boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Color photo section. CONTENT: THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. With authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president's first years in office. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. Often with day-by-day… Read More

Three Rivers Press, 1999. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W era photo section: B&W Maps; Chapter Decorations. CONDITION: UNREAD 1999-2000 Three Rivers Press large trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Geologic maps, B&W era photo section, Geologic Time chart. There is an ever-so-light lift to the cover fore edge. CONTENT: It was an age of counterfeit giants, corrupt politicians, and intrepid pioneers. It was a time of scientific ferment. The second half of the 19th century - the so-called Gilded Age - was a time when Americans were exploring the West and building a nation which stretched from coast to coast. It was also when scientists began finding dinosaur fossils across the western half of the nation. Could the answer to the history of life and the proof of evolution be found in these bones? That was the question two young American paleontologists - Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh - set out to answer. But what began as a… Read More

Post Hill Press, 2017. Reprint Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W charts - very few. CONDITION: NEW c. 2017 Post Hill Press trade paperback, reprint edition, no printing given. Just a very few B&W charts throughout. As we all considered during the FDA-Alzheimer's disease debacle of a couple of years ago, there may be big problems with the FDA. CONTENT: Winner of Maverick of The Year Award and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, and featured by WSJ, Fortune and Bloomberg TV for his battle to defeat unlawful actions by the FDA, Dr. Joseph V. Gulfo provides a first-hand riveting account of an against-all odds fight that demonstrates what it takes to advance breakthrough medical products that truly benefit patients. Having been responsible for the development and FDA approval of three innovative cancer products, he provides the reader with ringside seats to the struggles that entrepreneurs of biotech and medtech companies must fight to successfully bring ideas to… Read More

Hill and Wang, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W map of the "Riot" by Jeffrey Ward. CONDITION: NEW 2013 Hill & Wang hardcover (tan boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W map of the "riot" area. CONTENT: An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history. In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the fires consuming black churches and schools were put out, forty-six freed people had been murdered. Congress, furious at this and other evidence of white resistance in the conquered South, launched what is now called Radical Reconstruction, policies to ensure the freedom of the region's four million blacks?and one of the most remarkable experiments in American history. This is a portrait of a Southern city that opens an entirely new view onto the Civil War and its aftermath.… Read More

Steerforth Press, 2020. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Color photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Steerforth Press trade paperback, UPDATED information, first paperback edition, first printing. Substantial color photo section. CONTENT: Investigative journalist Michele R. McPhee reports the details and delivers the facts, piecing together the puzzle so readers are able to come to their own conclusions. This page-turning narrative goes a long way toward answering questions that still linger about the notorious Boston Marathon bombing, such as: Where were the bombs made? And what had been Tamerlan Tsarnaev's relationship to the FBI? Mayhem casts a spotlight on the U.S. Government's relationship with the older Tsarnaev brother as his younger brother, Dzhokhar, will continue his efforts to have his death sentence commuted in October, just days after the Boston Marathon will be run for the first time since 2019. The federal government may be forced to… Read More

Warner Books, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. 3 B&W era photo sections. CONDITION: AS NEW - gift inscription back side of title page - you wouldn't know it was there unless looking for flaws. UNREAD 2006 Warner books hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Decorated end pages. 3 B&W era photo sections. CONTENT: When George H. W. Bush asked Doro to write this memoir, she contacted hundreds of his friends and associates; conducted scores of interviews with dignitaries including Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and General Colin Powell; tapped the memories of family members, including her mother, her four brothers, and of course, her father himself; and collected information from the former president's never-before-released files. "Now for the first time, a complete portrait of George H. W. Bush emerges. Doro reveals her father as a young man courting his future wife, Barbara, and how the death of their first daughter… Read More

Little, Brown & Company, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photos section. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Little, Brown hardcover (white boards - oh no) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace, deny it, defer it - and women have been on the front lines of this battle, willingly or not. Celebrating the achievements of heroines from Martha Washington to Sojourner Truth to Ruth Baker Ginsburg, Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has changed over the centuries. This is an expertly researched, lively social history of American women and aging, filled with colorful anecdotes and larger-than-life cast of characters - some I bet you have never heard of but will love meeting. Collins gives women a reason to expect the best from what's to come.

St. Martin's Griffin, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 St Martin's Griffin trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. No illustrations. Extensive notes. The full subtitle is: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported. NEW FORWARD. CONTENT: American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump. We have never had a president who gave rise to such widespread alarm about his lack of commitment to the institutions of self-government, to the norms democracy requires, and to the need for basic knowledge about how government works. We have never had a president who raises profound questions about his basic competence and his psychological capacity to take on the most challenging political office in the world. The award-winning authors of One Nation After Trump explain Trump's rise and the danger his administration… Read More

David R. Godine Publisher, 2012. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/As New. Joe McKendry. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2012 David Godine large hardcover (blue boards with embossed silver foil design of flat iron building) first edition, assumed first printing. Wonderful color illustrations of the old buildings (and the new as well), i. e., Hammersteins (heard about it through the movies but never saw even a photo of it - but it is here!) by the Author. Problem, "repaired" tiny edge wear top DJ folds. End pages decorated with drawings of old buildings. Sorry about the description - when I love a book, I get carried away. Definitely belongs in a school library and/or homeschooling. CONTENT: At the heart of the non-stop bustle of modern Times Square stands One Times Square, the former headquarters of the New York Times and the skyscraper -- now all but invisible behind billboards -- that gave the square its name in 1904. Around it, a once-humble district of carriage houses and coal… Read More

Clarion, 2008. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color & B&W era art reproductions throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2008 Clarion large hardcover (orange boards with gold foil title) and dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, 3rd printing. Color and B&W paintings/art reproductions throughout. Some paintings are reproduced in full. CONTENT: Catlin is one of America's best-known painters, famous for his iconic portraits of Native Americans. He spent much of his life in the wilderness, sketching and painting as he traveled. A solo trek across 500 miles of uncharted prairie, an expedition to the Andes, harrowing encounters with grizzly bears and panthers, and tours of the royal palaces of Europe were among his many adventures. In an era when territorial expansion resulted in the near annihilation of many indigenous cultures, George Catlin dedicated himself to meeting and writing about the native peoples of the western hemisphere. With his "Indian Gallery" of… Read More

Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998. New Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W & sepia era photos, cartoon repros. CONDITION: NEW (UNREAD) 1998 Black Dog & Leventhal large hardcover (black boards, 2 lbs.) Included in this edition are B&W and sepia era photos plus political cartoons of the day. Epilogue by Caroline Kennedy & John F. Kennedy, Jr. CONTENT: The Illustrated Edition: The Pulitzer-Prize winning account of men of principle, integrity and bravery in American politics is now available in a handsome, illustrated format . Eight men who served in the United States Senate were selected by John F. Kennedy as models of virtue and courage under pressure. (From the Epilogue by John Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy) All our lives, people approached us to say, "Your father changed my life." They go on to describe their own commitment to public service, community involvement, and work for social justice John F. Kennedy inspired one generation, and now others, to believe that politics can be a noble… Read More

Henry Holt, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2011 Henry Holt hardcover (red boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. The men responsible included, from Cuba, the charismatic Fidel Castro, and his mysterious brother Raúl; from Argentina, the ideologue Che Guevara; from the Dominican Republic, the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and from Haiti, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture. Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices… Read More

Random House, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color & B&W illustrations throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2019 large (& heavy) 2019 Random House hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Decorated end pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. CONTENT: Through all the years of strife and triumph, America has been shaped not just by our elected leaders and our formal politics but also by our music-by the lyrics, performers, and instrumentals that have helped to carry us through the dark days and to celebrate the bright ones. From "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw take readers on a moving and insightful journey through eras in American history and the songs and performers that inspired us. Meacham chronicles our history, exploring the stories behind the songs, and Tim McGraw reflects on them as an artist and performer. Their perspectives combine to create a unique view of the role music has… Read More

Yale University Press, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 3-4 B&W era photos. CONDITION: What makes this book and DJ "as new"? I believe, but cannot prove it, that this book has been very very gently pre-read( or parts were). Yale Univ. Press hardcover (tan boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. 3-4 B&W era photos only. No major problems. CONTENT: What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the… Read More