Foreign Correspondent (17 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. 8vo, owner inscription.

black, grey & gilt hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. very light rubbing, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first edition so stated. first printing (nap). 288p. glossy full color photo. illustrations. autobiography. memoirs. world history. american history. military history. journalism. iraq history.~ In a flash, Kimberly Dozier's life changed. As an award~winning CBS News reporter, Dozier had devoted her career to being in the right place at the right time to capture the story. Suddenly, in the wrong place at the worst time, she became the story, as a deadly explosion tore through her team and word spread worldwide. That Memorial Day in 2006, a routine mission ended with Dozier in a pool of blood on a Baghdad street, a victim of a car bomb that killed cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan as well as Captain James Alex Funkhouser and his translator. Critically injured, Dozier woke to find herself fighting first for survival, then for recovery, and finally to return to her career. Breathing the Fire tracks one woman's relentless determination to get the story, to get it right, and to get well again after everything went wrong. In vivid and unapologetic detail, she recounts the moments from bomb to rescue to the waves of pain that spread from that Baghdad blast to homes and families around the world, now linked by an event horribly commonplace for U.S. troops and Iraqis alike. Covering events in the Middle East as a foreign correspondent for CBS News, Kimberly Dozier earned a reputation for being on top of the news, from disputed territories of Israel to the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. She reported on the war in Iraq from 2003 until she was injured by a car bomb in 2006. Previously she was London bureau chief and chief European correspondent for CBS Radio News as well as a television reporter for CBS News. She covered world events ranging from the crisis in the Balkans to the death of Princess Diana. In the 1990s Dozier was an anchor for BBC Radio World Service's ''World Update" and, while living in Cairo, did freelance reporting for The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other news media. She has received four prestigious Gracie Awards from American Women in Radio and Television including the Grand Gracie Award in 2007 for her body of work in Iraq. A seasoned traveler since childhood, Dozier has a home in Jerusalem and is eager to return to reporting the news in the Middle East.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. On June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of people. A quarter-century later, this defining event remains buried in China's modern history, successfully expunged from collective memory. In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR and former BBC correspondent Louisa Lim charts how the events of June 4th changed China, and how China changed the events of June 4th by rewriting its own history. Lim reveals new details about those fateful days, including how one of the country's most senior politicians lost a family member to an army bullet, as well as the inside story of the young soldiers sent to clear Tiananmen Square. She also introduces us to individuals whose lives were transformed by the events of Tiananmen Square, such as a founder of the Tiananmen Mothers, whose son was shot by martial law troops; and one of the most important government officials in the country, who post-Tiananmen became one of its most prominent dissidents. And she examines how June 4th shaped China's national identity, fostering a generation of young nationalists, who know little and care less about 1989. For the first time, Lim uncovers the details of a brutal crackdown in a second Chinese city that until now has been a near-perfect case study in the state's ability to rewrite history, excising the most painful episodes. By tracking down eyewitnesses, discovering US diplomatic cables, and combing through official Chinese records, Lim offers the first account of a story that has remained untold for a quarter of a century. The People's Rebulic of Amnesia is an original, powerfully gripping, and ultimately unforgettable book about a national tragedy and an unhealed wound. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: New.

One page, 12mo. Good, on aged and lightly spotted paper, but with blank verso showing traces of previous mounting. Nine-line printed biographical cutting laid down in top left-hand corner. Reads 'Madam, In accordance with your request I enclose my autograph'.

Condition: New. Ian Bond is the Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform (CER) and was previously a member of the British diplomatic service.Dick Leonard was a journalist, author and former Labour MP.Robert Taylor was a journa.

1p., small 4to. He refers to 'lunch with the Bells' and 'Tattie', and apologizes for keeping the books for so long: 'They were a great help, especially Rory Fitzpatrick's God's Frontiersmen'. He ends with the news that he is revising his manuscript, 'and would like to send you a copy when it is eventually published'. The book Heren was working on does not appear to have been published.

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged paper. Written in a difficult hand. 'The negatives are with Mr P, Solicitor, 50 Leinster Square, who, while I was away, received them from the W Printing Company. I will ask him to leave them out for you. I will call to-morrow or the nexxt day and give you an order for this delivery.'.

Condition: Good. - 74 words typed on a sheet of his cream-colored personalized letterhead, approximately 7 inches high by 6 inches wide. Signed "George Seldes" with 1 insertion & 1 correction in ink. There is light creasing, a light paper-clip mark & 2 pinholes left by a staple at top left. Folded once for mailing. Together with 2 unsigned carbon copies of letters from Harold Rugg. Good. Seldes writes to Harold Rugg about travel arrangements for a talk he is to give at Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City: "The 3:30 p m train also has a bus service and I am sure the ordeal will be over by then." The first carbon copy is a letter from Rugg saying he is delighted that Seldes can meet with their luncheon group. "If you prefer to write a brief summary of the points you are making in your book on Europe, in order to provoke questions from the group, that will be fine." He goes on to ask about travel arrangements, to which Seldes' letter is a reply. The second carbon copy is of Rugg's confirmation of the arrangements.George Seldes [1890-1995] was an American investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, editor, author and media critic. He is best known for publishing the newsletter "In Fact" from 1940 to 1950. Seldes influenced and was greatly admired by a whole generation of journalists and activists such as Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy, Nat Hentoff and Ralph Nader.One of the best-known educators during the Progressive era of education, Harold Rugg (1886-1960) was a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University. A Civil Engineer, he had become interested in how students learn and pursued a doctorate in education. He was responsible for producing the very first series of school textbooks from 1929 until the 1940s.

Condition: New. Ian Bond is the Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform (CER) and was previously a member of the British diplomatic service.Dick Leonard was a journalist, author and former Labour MP.Robert Taylor was a journa.

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Addressed to 'My dear Richard'. In the first paragraph he explains that he will not be able to accept his inviation as he is 'obliged to go into the country'. In the second he writes: 'Arthur Locker will succeed me here after the first of May; and he will attend at the office, with me, for about a week before his engagement begins. If you don't know him and if you will look in I will introduce you.' The Graphic was first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited. Edwards's position as the initial editor has not been widely noticed.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 4pp, 12mo. On bifolium. A thin strip (no more than 1 cm deep) has been cut away at the head of the first leaf, with no loss of text, otherwise in good condition. Folded once. Written a few months after Wallace's return from his duties as Private Secretary to the future King George V on his world tour on HMS Ophir, and during the Second Boer War. Wallace has just been struck by the thought that 'though I returned the Volume on South Africa to the address in Victoria Street' he forgot to give her his opinion of it. 'The author is evidently Dutch in nationality and sentiment. (I mean, of course, Dutch in the South African sense of the term) and he is very proud of the exploits of his countrymen in their struggles with the blacks.' As an example of the author's attempt at impartiality, Wallace gives his account of 'the incident which gave rise to the celebration of "Dingan's Day". About recent events also he tries to be impartial and he is very reticent as to burning questions. See particularly his account of the Jameson raid.' Nevertheless, on reading a great part of the volume, Wallace was in no doubt where the author's 'innermost sympathies tended. His state of mind is I should think very much that of the Cape Dutch under the peach-trees, as graphically described in an article published in the Times last Tuesday.' Wallace's conclusion is that the volume is 'not well fitted for stimulating the Imperial British sentiment in children or young people, but it may be read with advantage by open-minded people of a less tender age'.

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, with light signs of age. He hopes to make his Breakfast Club 'debut' the following Saturday morning.

Both items nicely printed and in good condition, with light signs of age and wear. ONE: 'The Encyclopaedia Britannica Dinner given by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace. Hotel Cecil, Friday Evening, November 21st, 1902. Plan of Tables.' 28.5 x 80 cm, folding up into a 28.5 x 13.5 cm packet. Printed in black and red on the whole of one side, with the other side carrying a 'Programme of Music' ('M. G. Fericescu, Musical Director'), an alphabetical table, and a cover with engraved illustration. Made out in pencil to 'Mr. A. Williams | K24' (i.e. the Liberal MP Aneurin Williams). TWO: 'MENU | 1768 The Encyclopaedia Britannica Dinner 1902 | Given by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace | Friday, November 21st, 1902.' Card bifolium. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Cover printed in black and red, with engraved portrait of William Smellie. Back cover with engraving of 'Three Contributors' (Sir Walter Scott, Thomas De Quincey and Thomas Babington Macaulay). In addition to the menu and a 'List of Toasts', the centre pages carry three definitions ('rhetoric', 'wine' and 'banquet') from the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. No other copy of either item traced either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC, although OCLC WorldCat records two copies of a sixteen-page booklet for the dinner.

Two pages, 8vo, good condition. He says he'll give a few more names for the lunch invitation (listed overleaf with addresses), speculating (in response to anarticle in the Observer - presumably by Davies) on the sort of people he might have to mix with: " assorted PR bumf-pushers, star fuckers, eavesdroppers, undiscovered geniuses, autograph-Hunters [sic], celebrity accosters, gossip-column- stringers, amateur-pappazi [sic], and bores from five continents", The list of suggested names on the verso include Brian Inglis, Eva Figes(see my #26964), James Cameron, Katherine Whitehorn, Gavin Lyall, etc. After his signature he has drawn a small bearded face, presumably meant to be him.See Image of recto.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Bon. Authentic album page signed in person in 1981 in Paris. + Photo 11x15 cm (recent print). Size : 22.5x15.5 cm. Condition : please see scans. Provenance : impressive collection of the French athlete and journalist Michel Clare (1927-2008). Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

2pp., 12mo. 33 lines of text in blue ink. In good condition, lightly-aged. He writes that his family have 'all been listening to your third broadcast on Gandhi with pleasure and admiration'. He cannot imagine 'a better treatment of the subject', and is 'lost in admiration for the skill with which you pieced all these fragments together, and wove out of them a thrilling and convincing narrative [.] The old charwoman at Bow was a delight, and how sympathetic & interesting was Lord Templewood! But there wasn't a "dud" among all your many contributors, both the Indians & the English. [.] There was one voice missing from this astonishing record - the man who wouldn't meet Gandhi - Winston.' He is glad that Watson found his 'stuff so serviceable'. He ends by describing the series (which had been compiled with Maurice Brown for the Third Programme) as 'these works of art'.