Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: vg-. Mark Stutzman, dj (illustrator). 1st ptg. 306 pages; text unmarked, book store stamp on free front ep; light shelf wear to edges of color illustrated dj. Hardcover (dj).
Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: Blue Vase Books, Interlochen, MI, U.S.A.
Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: -OnTimeBooks-, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item for full refund. Ships USPS Media Mail.
Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: Bay State Book Company, North Smithfield, RI, U.S.A.
Condition: acceptable. The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.
Language: English
Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 0743290119 ISBN 13: 9780743290111
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tom Schierlitz/Getty Images, Mark Stutzman (Jacket Art);; Julie Brothers (Author Photo); Suet Y. Chong (Book Design) (illustrator). 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed. 2008. 280 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dj shows minimal wear.
Language: English
Published by Scribner, New York, London, Toronto, ON, Canada, et al., 2004
ISBN 10: 0743247949 ISBN 13: 9780743247948
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Mark Stutzman (Jacket Illustration); Howard Gotfryd (Author Photo); Erich Hobbing (Design) (illustrator). 383 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.
Language: English
Published by Saturday Review Press/E. P. Dutton, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002
ISBN 10: 0743211375 ISBN 13: 9780743211376
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Mark Stutzman (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A square solid tight clean very carefully read copy if at all. This copy has a an edge bump/wear to bottom edge of the front board. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. This copy includes a new audiobook still in original publisher's shrinkwrap of this title unabridged in cassette format. Ephemera.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Mark Stutzman(Jacket Art) (illustrator). First Edition. From a Buick 8 by Stephen King (First Edition) A sharp tight copy. Bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. First Edition with number line 1-10. BOOK.
Language: English
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2009
ISBN 10: 1416558829 ISBN 13: 9781416558828
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Mark Stutzman (illustrator). 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0374232911 ISBN 13: 9780374232917
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mark Stutzman (illustrator). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux:, 2013. First American edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, 403 pp. Cover artwork by: Mark Stutzman "As editor of the Guardian, one of the world's foremost newspapers, Alan Rusbridger abides by the relentless twenty-four-hour news cycle. But increasingly in midlife, he feels the gravitational pull of music - especially the piano. He sets himself a formidable challenge: to fluently learn Chopin's magnificent Ballade No. 1 in G minor, arguably one of the most difficult Romantic compositions in the repertory. With pyrotechnic passages that require feats of memory, dexterity, and power, the piece is one that causes alarm even in battle-hardened concert pianists. He gives himself a year. Under ideal circumstances, this would have been a daunting task. But the particular year Rusbridger chooses turns out to be one of frenetic intensity. As he writes in his introduction, 'Perhaps if I'd known then what else would soon be happening in my day job, I might have had second thoughts. For it would transpire that, at the same time, I would be steering the Guardian through one of the most dramatic years in its history.' It was a year that began with WikiLeaks' massive dump of state secrets and ended with the Guardian's revelations about widespread phone hacking at News of the World. 'In between, there were the Japanese tsunami, the Arab Spring, the English riots . . . and the death of Osama Bin Laden,' writes Rusbridger. The test would be to 'nibble out' twenty minutes per day to do something totally unrelated to the above." First American edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket,
Seller: Libris Books, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
First Edition
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Add to basketMark Stutzman (illustrator). New York. Scribner. 2003. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1) to the copyright page. Hard Cover. Demy 8vo 8¾" x 5½" approx. 247 pp and detailed notes to the rear. Quarter bound mustard cloth spine over cream boards with black titles to the spine. The book is tight and firmly bound with straight spine. No previous ownership inscriptions or remainder marks. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners have tiny knocks and the spine ends have some bruising. The pages and closed page edges are clean. The dust jacket is crisp and complete and unclipped. The colours are bright, fresh and unfaded, corners and spine ends are sharp. Wraparound jacket design by Mark Stutzman. Map of Easter Island in the prelims. One section of glossy monochrome photographs in the text. A 'Lisa Drew' book. Lisa Drew is most notably a retired executive editor who established her own imprint at Scribner Jo Anne Van Tilburg, is a leading authority on Easter Island statues This biography explores the life of Katherine Routledge, a pioneering female archaeologist. The book details her 1913-1915 "Mana Expedition" to Easter Island, where she conducted the first-ever excavations of the island's famous stone statues and preserved historical information through interviews with the local population. It covers her rebellion against Victorian values as one of Oxford's first female graduates, her groundbreaking archaeological work, and her eventual struggle with mental illness. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival Brodart sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage within the UK is tracked 48 by Royal Mail . Outside the UK , books are couriered by a variety of shippers to get you the best value for money. All duties and taxes paid at our end. All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.
Language: English
Published by Henry Holt, New York, 2018
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Pracher, Rick (jacket design); Stutzman, Mark (jacket illustration); Levavi, Meryl Sussman (book design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition gold boards with maroon spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard; Author Dedication; Prologue; Postscript; Sources; Illustration Credits; index and About the Authors. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. "In the latest installment of the mega-bestselling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard confront Nazi evil in a riveting account of the courageous efforts to capture fugitive members of the SS after World War II. As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through shadowy but sophisticated Nazi orgainizations designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, Hitler's brutal personal secretary; Klaus Barbie, the cruel "Butcher of Lyon:; and perhaps the most awful Nazi of all: Adolf Eichmann. Killing the SS is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled "Nazi hunters." This determined and disparate group included a French husband and wife team, an American lawyer who served in the army on D-day, a German prosecutor who had signed an oath to the Nazi Party, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, tracking down the SS fugitives and bringing them to justice, which often meant death. Written in the fast-paced style of the Killing series, Killing the SS will educate and stun the reader. The final chapter is truly shocking." - from the inner front jacket flap.
Published by New York, 2005
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Mark Stutzman (illustrator). First edition. First printing (full number line) 2004. The second Cold Case Squad mystery novel. A special homicide unit of the Miami Police Department.
Published by Scribners, New York, 2004
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Mark Stutzman (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). The author's long-lost novel written in 1939. An excellent copy.
Language: English
Published by Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002
ISBN 10: 0743235150 ISBN 13: 9780743235150
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Mark Stutzman, jacket illustration (illustrator). 1st Edition. Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002. First (1st) Printing (full number line down to 1) of the First Edition. Fine in an As New Dust Jacket. Possibly Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is blue-gray quarter cloth to gray boards, colors uniform throughout but for fading at top edge, with bright silver title, etc., to the spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket (illustration by Mark Stutzman) is flawless - colors bright and uniform throughout, and fully intact with the original prices (US $28.00 Canada $42.50) intact on the front flap. 459 pages. 6 1/2" x 9 5/8". A horror collection of eleven short stories and three novellas, each of which had been previously published in magazines or audiobooks. This book was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, 2003 and the British Fantasy Award, 2003; and was Runner-up (5th place) for the Locus Award for Best Collection, 2003. NOTE: This book weighs 808 grams / 28.5 ounces, and may, when packaged, require extra postage for international shipment. ISBN 10: 0743235150 / ISBN 13: 9780743235150.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Mark Stutzman (illustrator). 1st Edition. A Fine first printing in a Very Fine Jacket with a few light bumps to the heel of the book alone, This Scribner 2002 copy bears a full number line and is priced at $28.00. The jacket is now encased in archival Brodart. All our books ship bundled in multiple layers of bubble wrap inside a sturdy box.
Language: English
Published by New York : Scribner, 2004., 2004
ISBN 10: 0684196573 ISBN 13: 9780684196572
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st edition], 1st printing ; xv, 409 pp. ; illustrated ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0684196573; 9780684196572; LCCN: 2004-54748 ; OCLC: 55665486 ; LC: PS3552.O874; Dewey: 813/.54 ; beige and black cloth with godl lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; remainder mark at bottom ; "Paul Bowles -- novelist, composer, expatriate, rebel and bisexual--is one of the most compelling and mythological figures in twentieth-century American culture.He studied music with Aaron Copland and was a friend of Ger trude Stein, W H Auden, Carson McCullers, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Ned Rorem, Allen Ginsberg, William Buroughs, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood." ; VG/VG. Book.
Language: English
Published by Scribner, New York, 2006
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fulbrook, III, John (jacket design); Stutzman, Mark (jacket illustration; Guip, Amy (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition red boards, black spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Sigmund Freud, Konrad Lorenz, and Verizon; Acknowledgments; About the Author; and Rear Section "excerpt, in the author's hand, from the forthcoming novel Lisey's Story, which Scribner will publish on October 24, 2006". Remainder mark at lower page edge. "There's a reason cell rhymes wth hell. On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. He's already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his long suffering wife, and he knows just what he'll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself? Clay's feeling good about the future. That changes in a hurry. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature.and then begins to evolve. There's really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points home to Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north they begin to see crude signs confirming their direction: KASHWAK=NO-FO. A promise, perhaps. Or a threat. There are one hundred and ninety-three million cell phones in the United States alone. Who doesn't have one? Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn't just ask the question "Can you hear me now?" It answers it with a vengeance." - from the inner front jacket flap.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Mark Stutzman (Jacket illustration) (illustrator). xvii, [3], 263, [5] pages. Blue dot on fep. Introduction by Spider Robinson. Afterword by Robert James, Ph.D. This is Heinlein's long-lost first novel, written in 1939 and never before published, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name. After crashing his car in 1939, Naval Airman Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes in the economy, legal system, and the relationships between men and women. Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. His published works, both fiction and non-fiction, express admiration for competence and emphasize the value of critical thinking. His plots often posed provocative situations which challenged conventional social mores. His work continues to have an influence on the science-fiction genre, and on modern culture more generally. For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was published for the first time in 2003. Heinlein admirer and science fiction author Spider Robinson titled his introductory essay "RAH DNA", as he believes this first, unpublished novel formed the DNA of Heinlein's later works. The novel's manuscript was lost until biographer Robert James traced down references to it. His research led to its rediscovery in a box left in a garage. Heinlein had apparently sent it to an earlier biographer, Leon Stover. Perry Nelson, a normal 1939 engineer and Navy pilot, is driving his automobile when he has a blowout, skids over a cliff, and wakes up in the year 2086. Though he was apparently killed in the summer, he re-appears in extremely cold snow, nearly dies again by freezing, and is saved by a fur-clad woman named Diana. The exact circumstances of his being killed and reborn after a century and a half are never explained. The later 21st century people seem strangely incurious, showing little interest in how he had come to be among them and rather take his appearance for granted and proceed to explain to him the details of the social and political set-up of their world. The book is akin more to a lecture series than a novel. A number of people have remarked on its resemblance to H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come where the sleeper wakes into pseudo-utopia. The character Diana's background is clarified in a multiple-page footnote from the author. The future society has a version of a Social Credit structure with a central government-run bank exclusively controlling the monetary supply to prevent overproduction and remaining private banks prohibited from lending money they do not actually have on hand and which had been explicitly designated for investment risk. The book does not tell precisely how the protagonist came to wake up a century and a half after being killed in a car accident, and find himself wandering in the snow in the body of a denizen of the future who had had enough of life and chose to commit suicide. It is mentioned that his last sight before crashing down and getting killed was a girl in a green bathing suit who had the same face as the Diana which he meets in the future; it turns out that her name had been Diana, too, and that to her fell the disagreeable task of finding Perry's broken body and reporting the accident. There is the clear implication that the later Diana was an avatar or reincarnation of the earlier one, but this is not stated explicitly. As noted by reviewer Nancy Green, this aspect of the book gives the impression of a draft which Heinlein intended to further work on, but never did. May be Science Fiction Book Club edition, unknown printing.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Mark Stutzman, dj (illustrator) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stories include:-Autopsy Room Four First Edition 1st printing full number line -The Man in the Black Suit-All That You Love Will Be Carried Away-The Death of Jack Hamilton-In the Deathroom-The Little Sisters of Eluria-Everything's Eventual-L. T.'s Theory of Pets-The Road Virus Heads North-Lunch at the Gotham Cafà -That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French-1408-Riding the Bullet-Luckey Quarter 472 pp. unmarked text block securely bound Not price-clipped.
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Mark Stutzman (DJ illustration); Gene Thorp (maps) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book, " . . . is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled ' Nazi Hunters ' ." (front flap) 279 pp. plus: Postscript, Sources, Illustration Credits, Index, About the Authors. Book has slight ends of spine wear, ow it is as new. Unclipped DJ has very slight ends of spine edge wear. Bookseller's Inventory # 0231834.
Language: English
Published by Scribner, New York, NY U.S.A, 2002
ISBN 10: 0743211375 ISBN 13: 9780743211376
Seller: Bargain Finders of Colorado, Simla, CO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mark (Jacket Illustration) Stutzman (illustrator). 1st Edition. From a Buick 8 by Stephen King (2002 1st Edition Trade Hardcover in Dust Jacket) From a Buick 8 is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King. Published on September 24, 2002, this is the second novel by King to be centered around a car (the first one being Christine which, like this novel, is set in Western Pennsylvania). It is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable. Appearing for only one week at Number 1 of the New York Times bestseller list, the book received a mixed reception. It has not yet been made into a movie. Hardcover has gray paper boards with navy cloth spine, silver lettering on spine, in an as new complete dust jacket (coded 0902.) Interior is Fine/(As New) complete, tight, clean and unmarked. Always privately owned with no ownership markings. Copyright 2002. Full print-line, this copy is from 1st print-run of First Trade Hardcover Edition. Manufactured in U.S.A. Book designed by Erich Hobbing. Jacket design by John Fulbrook III. ISBN: 0-7432-1137-5. LCCN: 2001055118. MSR = US $28.00. Thanks for looking! No Ownership Markings.
Language: English
Published by Family Media, Incorporated, 1989
ISBN 10: 1877773026 ISBN 13: 9781877773020
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
Language: English
Published by Portfolio / Penguin, New York, 2018
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Sergio, Christopher (jacket design); Stutzman, Mark (jacket painting); Bachrach Inc. (author photograph) (illustrator). New condition white boards with red spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preliminary Page Quote; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. Signed and inscribed by the author, Cofounder of The Home Depot Ken Langone, with black pen on the blank first free front endpaper. "A joyful, authentic, and entertaining must-read by a patriot and hero who defines what it means to give back. I loved this great American story, and so will everyone who wants to understand true business success." - Jack Welch. "Insightful and inspirational. Ken reminds us of a very important lesson - that capitalism does work. An authentic, up-by-the-bootstraps story by a shining example of the American dream." - Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO, JP Morgan Chase. "An honest, interesting, and spectacular journey that confirms that anything is possible in America. Ken's book inspires all those continuing to search for success." - Larry Bissidy, former CEO and chair, Honeywell. "This book is my love song to capitalism. Capitalism works! And I'm living proof -- it works for everybody. Absolutely anybody is entitled to dream big, and absolutely everybody should dream big." - Ken Langone. "Ken Langone started as a hardworking teenager who dug ditches and collected used cardboard; now he's a billionaire and business icon -- a co-founder of The Home Depot, a former director of the New York Stock Exchange, and a world-class philanthropist. In this memoir he finally tells the gripping story of his unlikely rise and storied career. That story doubles as a passionate defense of the American Dream: a county in which any young striver can reach the maximum potential of his or her talents and work ethic. It wasn't easy for an Italian American kid from a blue-collar family to break into the clubby, WASP-dominated world of Wall Street in the late 1950s. But Langone pulled it off, in part by trusting his gut and teaming up with other go-getters who didn't fit the traditional mold. For instance, he shares the story of how his bravado and perseverance persuaded Ross Perot to hire him to lead Perot's first IPO, for Electronic Data Systems. Their shockingly high offer price astonished the investment banking community and cemented both of their reputations. He describes how he learned to evaluate a business by applying common sense, not just the formulas he picked up at his night school business classes. His instinct about the potential for Bernie Marcus's idea for a big-box hardware chain led him to team up with Marcus and Arthur Blank to co-found The Home Depot. Of course, not everyone is a Langone fan, especially not former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer. He pulls no punches about their epic legal and public relations battle, and the principles Langone had to defend at all costs. And he writes candidly about his passion to give back as a philanthropist, repaying the generosity that made his whole career possible -- such as the extra $300 he got from Bucknell when he was too broke to finish college. I Love Capitalism! is a classic, enduring American story -- as inspiring as a Frank Capra movie, but a little too crazy to be fiction." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Signed by Author(s).