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tan, blue & red illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. fine cond. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. edges clean. old name erased on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. printing # not listed. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no notes or underlining, no remainder markings. 877+xxxiip. 97 b&w photo illustrations biblio. notes. index. world history. middle east. geopolitics. economics. saudi arabia. iraq. iran. john d. rockefeller. royal dutch. baku. imperial russia. world war i. turkish petroleum company. oil wars. the oil weapon. seven sisters. "jack" philby. anglo iranian oil co. british petroleum. calouste gulbekian. mr five percent. enrico mattei. nasser. king faisal. king ibn saud. shell oil. aramco.~ In the grand tradition of epic storytelling, The Prize tells the panoramic history of oil~and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. It is a struggle that has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the modern world as of the oil industry itself, for oil has shaped the politics of the twentieth ceutmy and has probably changed the way we lead our daily lives. The canvas is enormous~from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Prize reveals how and why oil has become the largest industry in the world, a game of huge risks and monumental rewards. Oil has played a critical role in world events, from Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's invasion of Russia to the Suez crisis and the Yom Kippur War. It has propelled the once poor nations of the Middle East into positions of unprecedented world power. And even now it is fueling the heated debate over energy needs versus environmental protection. With compelling narrative sweep, The Prize chronicles the dramatic and decisive events in the history of oil. It is peopled by a vividly portrayed gallery of characters that make it a fascinating story~not only the wildcatters, rogues, and oil tycoons, but also the politicians and heads of state. The cast extends from Dad Joiner and Doc Lloyd to John D. Rockefeller and Calouste Gulbenkian, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush, the oil man who became President, and Saddam Hussein. It is a momentous story that needed to be told, and no one could tell it better than Daniel Yergin. Not only one of the leading authorities on the world oil industry and international politics, Yergin is also a master storyteller whom Newsweek described as "one of those rare historians who can bring the past to life on the page." He brings to his new book an expert's grasp of world events and a novelist's~ indeed, a psychologist's~gift for understanding human character. After seven years of painstaking research and with unparalleled access to the sources, Daniel Yergin has written the definitive work on the subject of oil. The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement and great importance. It may well be described as the story of the twentieth century.

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blue hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or 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 (#1 in # line). 258p. endnotes. american history. journalism. political philosophy. political science. social science. ~ IN UNFREEDOM OF THE PRESS, FIVE~TIME #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, FOX NEWS STAR, AND RADIO HOST MARK R. LEVIN SHOWS HOW THOSE ENTRUSTED WITH NEWS REPORTING TODAY ARE DESTROYING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FROM WITHIN. Mark Levin provides a groundbreaking and enlightening book that reveals how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through "government oppression or suppression," he writes, "but through self~censorship, groupthink, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo~events, and outright lies as news." With the depth of historical background for which his books are renowned, Levin takes the reader on a journey through the early American patriot press, which proudly promoted and debated the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. This was followed by the early decades of the republic, during which newspapers around the young country were open and transparent about their fierce allegiance to one political party or the other. It was only at the start of the Progressive Era and the twentieth century that the supposed "objectivity of the press" first surfaced, leaving us where we are today: with a partisan party~press overwhelmingly aligned with a political ideology but hypocritically engaged in a massive untruth as to its real nature. This is not simply another book about the press, but a searing critique of a once proud and respected profession~and a fascinating exploration of where we must go from here.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. large, thick, black & gilt decorative (gilt dragon on spine) hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or 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 ( # 1 in # line). deckled foredge (looks "hand cut"). endpaper maps. author s note. list of principle characters. foreword. xix+787p. 77 glossy b&w photo illustrations. notes. biblilography. acknowledgments. index. biography. world history. history of china. politics. chinese revolution. american history. world war ii. sino~japanese war. cold war. ~ With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai~shek at the center of one of the great dramas in the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in the eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taiwan. An epic historical tapestry, this wonderfully wrought narrative brings to life what Americans should know about China~the superpower we are inextricably linked with~the way its people think and their code of behavior, both vastly different from our own. The story revolves around this fascinating woman and her family: her father, a peasant who raised himself into Shanghai society and sent his daughters to college in America in a day when Chinese women were kept purposefully uneducated; her mother, an unlikely Methodist from the Mandarin class; her husband, a military leader and dogmatic warlord; her sisters, one married to Sun Yat~sen, the George Washington of China, the other to a seventy~fifth lineal descendant of Confucius; and her older brother, a financial genius. This was the Soong family, which, along with their partners in marriage, was largely responsible for dragging China into the twentieth century. Brilliantly narrated, this fierce and bloody drama also includes U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell; Claire Chennault, head of the Flying Tigers; Communist leaders Mao Tse~tung and Chou En~lai; murderous warlords; journalists Henry Luce, Theodore White, and Edgar Snow; and the unfortunate State Department officials who would be purged for predicting (correctly) the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War. As the representative of an Eastern ally in the West, Madame Chiang was befriended~before being rejected~by the Roosevelts, stayed in the White House for long periods during World War Il., and charmed the U.S. Congress into giving China billions of dollars. Although she was dubbed the Dragon Lady in some quarters, she was an icon to her people and is certainly one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century.

black & grey hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. minor wrinkling on pg. 127, otherwise contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). deckled foredge (looks "hand cut"). b&w frontis. portrait. x+383p.+ about the author. 24 glossy b&w photo illustrations. acknowledgments.notes. glossary. bibliography. index. photo credits. american history. biography. american revolution. naval history. ~ John Paul J ones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way. " He never flinched or turned back. Evan Thomas's minute~ by~minute re~creation of the bloodbath between Jones's Bonhomme Richard and the British man ~of~war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Thomas draws on Jones's wide ~ ranging correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution~John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson~to paint a compelling portrait of a tortured warrior who was that most interesting and essential of American figures, the entirely self~made man. The son of a Scottish gardener (or possibly the bastard son of the lord of the manor), Jones fought his way up from second mate on a slave ship to become a mythic figure, hailed as the father of the navy, buried in a crypt (modeled after Napoleon's Tomb) beneath the chapel of the U. S. Naval Academy. Along the way he was an accused murderer (forced to flee to America under an assumed name); a notorious rake in Parisian society; and an admiral in the navy of Catherine the Great, fighting against the Turks in the Black Sea. He was a singularly successful naval officer during the American Revolution because he was both bold and visionary. John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Jones is a character for the ages. John Adams called him the "most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American Navy. " The renewed interest in the Founding Fathers reminds us of the great men who made this country, but John Paul Jones teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high~minded principle to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones's spirit was classically American. Evan Thomas brings his skills as a biographer to this complex, protean figure whose life and rise are both thrilling as a tale of dauntless courage and revealing about the birth of a nation. Evan Thomas is the author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (with Walter Isaacson); The Man to See: The Life of Edward Bennett Williams; The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared. the Early Years of the CIA; and Robert Kennedy: His Life.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. grey, white & b/w photo illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. fine cond .binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. edges clean. contents clean & free of all markings.first touchstone printing. nice clean copy. looks new. like new. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, remainder markings ~ xiv+399p. b&w illustrations. list of principal characters. 5 appendices. notes. index. world history. biography. politics. conspiracy theory. world war ii. imperial japan. ~ In Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret and our worst military disaster. Drawing on twenty years of research and access to scores of previously classified documents, Stinnett proves that Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese military coup. By showing that ample warning of the attack was on FDR's desk and, furthermore, that a plan to push Japan into war was initiated at the highest levels of the U.S. government, he ends up profoundly altering our understanding of one of the most significant events in American history.

brown hardbound 4to (quarto)~7.75" x 8.5". dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. minor shelf rubbing along bottom. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. minor wrinkle front bottom, not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). full color frontis. illustration. decorative page borders throughout. 224p. acknowledgments. biblio. index. glossy pages througout. almost every page illustrated, most in full color. many full page. several full color maps. religion. ancient literature. prophecy. new testament studies. christianity. eschatology. book of revelations. apocalypse of st. john. ~ The Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, has been an enigma to Christian theologians since it was written shortly after the Crucifixion. John of Zebedee, Jesus' closest disciple, wrote the book following a divinely inspired vision of an angel sent by God, and the result has long been seen as perhaps the most dramatic prophetic work ever to predict the future of mankind. As we draw close to the end of the millennium ~ the time many believe will herald the Last Judgment and possibly an apocalyptic end~of~the~world scenario ,Peter Lorie brings an entirely fresh and hopeful interpretation of Revelation and the future it declares. Through a unique analysis of this extraordinary religious book, previously hidden material and symbolism are revealed, such as references to astrology, paganism, eastern philosophy, numerology, magic, shamanism and most of all, prophecy. Studying the lines of Revelation, the author brings to light the seven stages of man's evolution, stages that take us all through joy, crisis and self~discovery to an age in the future which St. John describes as the new Jerusalem, and which the author interprets as a world filled with beauty and enlightenment. Some of the predictions that Lorie makes for our future include: a female president in the United States, a new world order for the 21st century, and a beginning of 1,000 years of peace. The Book of Revelation has tended in the past to strike fear into humanity, but through Peter Lorie's ground breaking interpretation, this fear and trepidation is transformed into a positive understanding of ourselves and the world we inhabit.

white & blue 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. couple of scratches, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 463p. photo. illustrations. acknowledgments. epilogue. notes. index. american history. iran. persia. middle east history. politics. revolution. islam. ayatollah khomeini. jimmy carter. david rockefeller. afghanistan. bahamas. brzezhinski. cia. savak. egypt. great britian. islamic revolution. kissinger. omar torijos, opec. sadat. panama. soviet union. un. cyrus vance. white revolution.~ This is the story of a king's journey into exile and death. The story of the Shah of Iran, king of kings, stripped of honor, adrift in a dangerous world of divided loyalties, The Shah's Last Ride is journalism with the power of myth and the classical dimensions of tragedy. William Shawcross, acclaimed author of Sideshow and The Quality of Mercy, captures the Shah in flight from his enemies, powerless in the wake of his government's collapse, dying of cancer, and seeking refuge with his once~devoted allies. Moving from the surreal world of the Shah's court under siege, Shawcross describes the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the drama of the hostage crisis, and each step of the Shah's odyssey through Egypt, Morocco, the Bahamas, Mexico, the United States, Panama (where he was the guest of General Omar Torrijos and then Colonel Manuel Noriega), and back to Sadat's Egypt to die. Interwoven throughout are scenes of the Shah's rule from his ascension to the Peacock Throne to the final disintegration of his sycophantic court. We see the Shah's alternating enlightenment, vanity, and despotism through the progress of the White Revolution, the lavish excesses of the oil~boom years, and the bloody reign of SAVAK, the Shah's secret police force. Shawcross also describes the Shah's warm relationships~and enormous arms deals~with the West, showing how they helped the Shah destroy alternatives to his own rule and encouraged the delusions that led to his eventual downfall. Shawcross recounts the Carter administration's attempts to balance the concerns of a fallen ally, strategic realities, and the interests of the American hostages held in Iran. And he offers a striking account of the eight successive teams of doctors who, often at cross~purposes, treated the Shah. A portrait of one of this century's most complex leaders and, more importantly, of the shifting alliances and tenuous loyalties that define international politics, The Shah's Last Ride is modern history at its most powerful.

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speckled offwhite hardbound 8vo. 8º dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks brand new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or 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 ( # 1 in # line). xvi+364p. notes. index. biography. american history. politics. biography of barack obama. history of chicago. ~ this thoroughly researched and documented book explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished, and divided, and why Obama must be defeated~and how he can be. ~Barack Obama stepped onto the national political stage when the then~Illinois state senator addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, author Jerome Corsi began researching Obama's personal and political background. Scrupulously sourced with more than six hundred footnotes, The Obama Nation is the result of that research. By tracing Obama's career and influences from his early years in Hawaii and Indonesia, the beginnings of his political career in Chicago, his voting record in the Illinois legislature, his religious training and his adoption of Christianity through to his recent involvement in Kenyan politics, his political advisors and fund~raising associates, and his meteoric campaign for president, Jerome Corsi shows that an Obama presidency would, in his words, be "a repeat of the failed extremist politics that have characterized and plagued Democratic Party politics since the late 1960s." In this stunning and comprehensive new book, the reader will learn about: Obarna's extensive connections with Islam and radical politics, from his father's and stepfather's Islamic backgrounds, to his Communist and socialist mentors in Hawaii and Chicago, to his long~term and close associations with former Weather Underground heroes William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn~associations much closer than heretofore revealed by the press Barack and wife Michelle's twenty~year~long religious affiliation with the black~liberation theology of former Trinity United Church of Christ Reverend Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons have always been steeped in a rage first expressed by Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X, a rage that Corsi shows has deep meaning for Obama Obama's continuing connections with Kenya, the homeland of his father, through his support for the candidacy of Raila Odinga, the radical socialist presidential contender who came to power amid Islamist violence and church burnings Obama's involvement in the slum~landlord empire of the Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko, who helped to bankroll Obama's initial campaigns and to purchase Barack and Michelle's dream~home property the background and techniques of the Obama campaign's cult of personality, including the derivation of the words "hope" and "change" Obama's far~left domestic policy, his controversial votes on abortion, his history of opposition to the Second Amendment, his determination to raise capital~gains taxes, his impractical plan to achieve universal health care, and his radical plan to tax Americans to fund a global~poverty~ reduction program Obama's naive, antiwar, antinuclear foreign policy, predicated on the reduction of the military, the eradication of nuclear weapons, and an overconfidence in the power of his personality, as if belief in change alone could somehow transform international politics, achieve nuclear~weapons disarmament, and withdrawal from Iraq without adverse consequences for us, for the Iraqis, or for Israel. Meticulously researched and documented, The Obama Nation is the definitive source for information on why and how Barack Obama must be defeated~not by invective and general attacks, bu.

blue & tan 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. remainder copy in fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. black in mark on bottom, other edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xi+493p. index of names. american history. political philosophy. political science. autobiography. memoirs. autobiography. philosophy. politics. ~ Neoconservatism is the movement that has provided the intellectual foundation for the resurgence of American conservatism in our time. And if neoconservatism can be said to have a father or an architect, that person is Irving Kristol. Kristol was an unlikely candidate for the mantle of a conservative leader. Schooled in radical socialism as a student at City College in the 1930s, Irving Kristal was soon disillusioned with the Left and thereafter rose swiftly to become an intellectual bulwark of the anticommunist movement. But he was much more than just an ideological foe of the Soviet Union. As an active editor and publisher, as well as a prolific writer in his own right, Kristol was instrumental in moving a generation of intellectuals to the conservative cause, and through them countless others. Neoconservatism is the most comprehensive selection of Kristol's influential writings on politics and economics, as well as the best of his now~famous essays on society, religion, culture, literature, education, and~above all~the "values" issues that have come to define the neoconservative critique of contemporary life. In the post~Cold War era, Kristol remains one of America's most prescient and important social critics. No narrow political partisan, Kristol champions pragmatic solutions to social problems while never straying from a deep grounding in ethics and religion. Whether addressing academic topics, crafting political strategy, or expounding on economics in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, Kristol writes with forceful clarity and ease; those who bemoan the disappearance of America's "public intellectuals" need look no further than this vital collection. These essays provide an unparalleled insight into the 50~year development of Kristol's social and political ideas, from an uneasy socialism tempered with religious orthodoxy, to a vigilant optimism about the future of the American experiment. Those already familiar with Kristal's work will especially enjoy the new autobiographical essay that introduces this volume; it is sprinkled with personal recollections about such luminaries as Lionel Trilling, Leo Strauss, Saul Bellow, Sidney Hook, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and historian Gertrude Himmelfarb (who is also Mrs. Kristol). Those relatively new to Kristal's writings will be treated to some of the most lucid, insightful, entertaining, and intellectually challenging essays of our time.

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tan & blue 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. couple of tiny specks on top edge. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond., not worn or torn or price clipped. 8th printing. ( # 8 in # line). 877+xxxiip. 97 b&w photo illustrations biblio. notes. index. world history. middle east. geopolitics. economics. saudi arabia. iraq. iran. john d. rockefeller. royal dutch. baku. imperial russia. world war i. turkish petroleum company. oil wars. the oil weapon. seven sisters. "jack" philby. anglo iranian oil co. british petroleum. calouste gulbekian. mr five percent. enrico mattei. nasser. king faisal. king ibn saud. shell oil. aramco.~ In the grand tradition of epic storytelling, The Prize tells the panoramic history of oil~and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. It is a struggle that has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the modern world as of the oil industry itself, for oil has shaped the politics of the twentieth ceutmy and has probably changed the way we lead our daily lives. The canvas is enormous~from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Prize reveals how and why oil has become the largest industry in the world, a game of huge risks and monumental rewards. Oil has played a critical role in world events, from Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's invasion of Russia to the Suez crisis and the Yom Kippur War. It has propelled the once poor nations of the Middle East into positions of unprecedented world power. And even now it is fueling the heated debate over energy needs versus environmental protection. With compelling narrative sweep, The Prize chronicles the dramatic and decisive events in the history of oil. It is peopled by a vividly portrayed gallery of characters that make it a fascinating story~not only the wildcatters, rogues, and oil tycoons, but also the politicians and heads of state. The cast extends from Dad Joiner and Doc Lloyd to John D. Rockefeller and Calouste Gulbenkian, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush, the oil man who became President, and Saddam Hussein. It is a momentous story that needed to be told, and no one could tell it better than Daniel Yergin. Not only one of the leading authorities on the world oil industry and international politics, Yergin is also a master storyteller whom Newsweek described as "one of those rare historians who can bring the past to life on the page." He brings to his new book an expert's grasp of world events and a novelist's~ indeed, a psychologist's~gift for understanding human character. After seven years of painstaking research and with unparalleled access to the sources, Daniel Yergin has written the definitive work on the subject of oil. The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement and great importance. It may well be described as the story of the twentieth century.

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black & grey hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). decorative endpapers. b&w frontis. portrait. ix+415p.+ about the author. glossy b&w photos & illustrations. other b&w illustrations & document facsimiles in text. 4 appendices. notes. a bibliographic note. index. american history. biography. american civil war. political philosophy. ~ The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg comprise perhaps the most famous speech in history. It has been quoted by popes, presidents, prime ministers, and revolutionaries around the world. From "Four score and seven years ago . " to "government of the people, by the people, for the people," Lincoln's words echo in the American conscience. Many books have been written about the Gettysburg Address and yet, as Lincoln scholar Gabor Boritt shows, there is much that we don't know about the speech. In The Gettysburg Gospel he reconstructs what really happened in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. Boritt tears away a century of myths, lies, and legends to give us a clear understanding of the greatest American's greatest speech. In the aftermath of the bloodiest battle ever fought in North America, the little town of Gettysburg was engulfed in the worst man~made disaster in U.S. history: close to 21,000 wounded; very few doctors; heroic women coping in houses, barns, and churches turned into hospitals; dead horses and mules rotting in farmyards and fields; and at least 7,000 dead soldiers who had to be dug up, identified, and reburied. This was where Lincoln had to come to explain why the horror of war must continue. Planning America's first national cemetery revitalized the traumatized people of Gettysburg, but the dedication ceremonies overwhelmed the town. Lincoln was not certain until the last moment whether he could come. But he knew the significance of the occasion and wrote his remarks with care~the first speech since his inauguration that he prepared before delivering it. A careful analysis of the Address and the public reaction to it form the center of this book. Boritt shows how Lincoln responded to the politics of the time and also clarifies which text he spoke from and how and when he wrote the various versions. Few people initially recognized the importance of the speech; it was frequently and, at times, hilariously misreported. But over the years the speech would grow into American scripture. It would acquire new and broader meanings. It would be better understood, but also misunderstood and misinterpreted to suit beliefs very different from Lincoln's. The Gettysburg Gospel is based on years of scholarship as well as a deep understanding of Lincoln and of Gettysburg itself. It draws on vital documents essential to appreciating Lincoln's great speech and its evolution into American gospel. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, or American history.

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black & red hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. highlighted copy in good cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. water type staining along the top edge of some of the pages, does not obscure text. approximately 8 pages with minor yellow highlighting. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice reading copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, no remainder markings. good binding. clean text. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). illustrated title pg. 391p. b&w photo illustrations. notes. index. world history. true crime. conspiracy theory. secret societies. espionage. covert operations. ~ Kings of Cocaine traces America's drug epidemic back to its chief source~the murderous Colombian drug~smuggling group known as the Medellin cartel. In less than a decade the cartel has come to control more than half of the world's cocaine supply, from coca farmers in Bolivia and Peru to giant jungle laboratories, fleets of aircraft and boats, assassins on motorcycles wielding MAC~1O machine pistols, and a vast web of distributors stretching into every major American city. The most complete and revealing account of the cartel ever published, Kings of Cocaine chronicles the evolution of a small group of young Medellin street thugs into a mammoth multinational network that has saturated the United States with cocaine, rocked Colombia's government, and sown corruption throughout Latin America. Based on firsthand reporting inside Colombia and sources within the cartel itself, Kings of Cocaine recounts in riveting detail the escalating violence as the cartel moved to eliminate its enemies, including Colombia's justice minister, antidrug police commander, and a dozen Supreme Court justices, as well as the freewheeling Barry Seal, the most important informant in the history of the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Kings of Cocaine also profiles the DEA agents and Colombian police who, with extraordinary courage, battle the cartel in a continuing war of move and counterrnove, Kings of Cocaine is based on a series of articles that ran in the The Miami Herald in 1987, plus additional reporting by the authors. The original series was simultaneously reprinted by more than two dozen newspapers in Colombia as a gesture of unprecedented solidarity against the violence of the drug traffickers. The series went on to win the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondence and an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for outstanding investigative reporting.

red & black 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. couple of faint edge spots. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). 304p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. notes. bibliography. index. world history. organized crime. true crime. conspiracy theory. secret societies. covert operations. ~ No one has benefited more from the political changes of the 1990s than international organized crime. Within the space of just three or four years, the world's great crime syndicates have joined in a planet~wide criminal consortium unlike any in history. A Pax Mafiosa has emerged, an agreement to avoid conflict, devise common strategy, and exploit the planet peaceably together~linking the American and Sicilian mafias, Russian organized crime, the Chinese Triads, the Japanese Yakuza, and Colombia's cocaine cartels. It threatens the liberty, security, and political integrity of the U.S., Europe, and all free societies. For these giants of the underworld, the creation of the European Community in Western Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Empire in the east have erased borders and made the commerce of crime easier than ever. In Thieves' World, outstanding international investigative reporter Claire Sterling traces the stunning advance of this global criminal enterprise since 1990: the proliferation of its criminal interests and growth of its investment capital to a quarter of a trillion dollars, its deepening penetration of worldwide money markets, its spreading powers of blackmail and corruption, and its alarming colonization of Western Europe and America. Above all, Claire Sterling describes the great shift of worldwide criminal attention to eastern Europe and Russia, showing how a country covering a sixth of the earth's land mass has been taken captive by the mafias of the world in partnership with Russian criminals, looting the nation systematically, crippling its economic capacity, contaminating its body politic, and suffocating its political will~all at enormous peril to the West.

black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. 2" tear at spine bottom along front edge, not price clipped (no price listed) . nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. book club edition. deckled foredge. xx+410p+ about the author. b&w illustrations. (list of) leading characters. 3 appendices. notes. index. american history. biography. conspiracy theory. covert operations. espionage. secret societies. ~ In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation's foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades. In 1805, the United States was not twenty years old, an unformed infant. The government consisted of a few hundred people. The immense frontier swallowed up a tiny army of 3,300 soldiers. Following the Louisiana Purchase, no one even knew where the nation's western border lay. Secessionist sentiment flared in New England and beyond the Appalachians. Burr had challenged Jefferson, his own running mate, in the presidential election of 1800. Indicted for murder in the dueling death of Alexander Hamilton in 1804, he dreamt huge dreams. He imagined an insurrection in New Orleans, a private invasion of Spanish Mexico and Florida, and a great empire rising on the Gulf of Mexico, which would swell when America's western lands seceded from the Union. For two years, Burr pursued this audacious dream, enlisting support from the General~in~Chief of the Army, a paid agent of the Spanish king, and from other western leaders, including Andrew Jackson. When the army chief double~crossed Burr, Jefferson finally roused himself and ordered Burr prosecuted for treason. The trial featured the nation's finest lawyers before the greatest judge in our history, Chief Justice John Marshall, Jefferson's distant cousin and determined adversary. It became a contest over the nation's identity: Should individual rights be sacrificed to punish a political apostate who challenged the nation's very existence? In a revealing reversal of political philosophies, Jefferson championed government power over individual rights, while Marshall shielded the nation's most notorious defendant. By concealing evidence, appealing to the rule of law, and exploiting the weaknesses of the government's case, Burr won his freedom. Afterwards Burr left for Europe to pursue an equally outrageous scheme to liberate Spain's American colonies, but finding no European sponsor, he returned to America and lived to an unrepentant old age. Stewart's vivid account of Burr's tumultuous life offers a rare and eye~opening description of the brand~new nation struggling to define itself.

offwhite & black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). decorative title pg. x+353p. 10 appendices. notes. references. index. physics. mathematics. philosophy. history of science. al khwarizmi. babylonian mathematics. gerolamo cardano. cubic equations. dal ferro. ludovico ferrari. geometry. group theory. felix klein. lobachevsky. newton. quantum mechanics. quintic equations. relativity. tartaglia. ~What do the music of J. S. Bach, the basic forces of nature, Rubik's Cube, and the selection of mates have in common? They are all characterized by certain symmetries. Symmetry is the concept that bridges the gap between science and art, between the world of theoretical physics and the everyday world we see around us. Yet the "language" of symmetry ~ group theory in mathematics ~ emerged from a most unlikely source: an equation that couldn't be solved. Over the millennia, mathematicians solved progressively more difficult algebraic equations until they came to what is known as the quintic equation. For several centuries it resisted solution, until two mathematical prodigies independently discovered that it could not be solved by the usual methods, thereby opening the door to group theory. These young geniuses, a Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel and a Frenchman named Evariste Galois, both died tragically. Galois, in fact, spent the night before his fatal duel (at the age of twenty) scribbling another brief summary of his proof, at one point writing in the margin of his notebook "I have no time." The story of the equation that couldn't be solved is a story of brilliant mathematicians and a fascinating account of how mathematics illuminates a wide variety of disciplines. In this lively, engaging book, Mario Livio shows in an easily accessible way how group theory explains the symmetry and order of both the natural and the human~made worlds.

blue & grey ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. few faint spots on top, other edges clean. couple of tiny spots on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. bit of minor wrinkling, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 288p. coda. index. history. philosophy. politics. social science. theology. psychology. gnosticisim. In this strikingly bold and original work, Harold Bloom extends his investigation of the religious imagination to produce a brilliant examination of America's national soul. We think we are a Christian nation, but we are not, says Bloom, who identifies the American religion as a variation on Gnosticism. We are Americanized Gnostics, believers in a pre~Christian tradition of individual divinity. Americans believe that God knows and loves them in a personal way, and that something inside them, deeper even than a soul, is already in contact with God. The American self stands outside of creation; it is older than creation, as old as God, of which it is a part. In the American religion, to be free is to be joined in solitude with God or Jesus. "No Western nation is as religion~soaked as ours," says Bloom, and he explores the varieties of religions that have grown on American soil. With perception and insight he examines Christian Science, Seventh~day Adventism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostalism, and the varieties of New Age and African~American beliefs. But he probes most deeply into the two religions that he believes will come to pervade our national life in the next century: the Mormons and the Southern Baptists. Bloom's analysis of religion in America, while certain to be controversial, will influence and perhaps shape any discussion of this subject for years to come.

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black & tan 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. tiny wrinkles to bottom of couple of pages near spine (bindery defect). contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). 427p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. author's note. notes. index. american history. espionage. covert operations. world war ii. cold war. secret societies. ~ Ivan Thomas is the first author or historian ever permitted to read the CIA's own secret histories. Thomas, the Washington Bureau Chief of Newsweek, was given access to classified histories of all of the agency's covert operations from World War II to the Vietnam War: the CIA~backed coups in Guatemala and Iran, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination plots, the spy vs. spy war against the KGB. He has woven together this never~before~seen material to tell the tale of four spymasters who ran the agency during the "golden age" of the CIA. Thomas was the coauthor, with Walter Isaacson, of The Wise Men, the story of six statesmen who helped create the postwar world. The Wise Men became a popular classic because it was at once a work of history and a human drama, deeply evocative of a time and class. In his new book, Thomas has drawn on his original research in CIA archives and interviews with scores of old agency hands to evoke the urgency and uncertainty, as well as the giddiness, of the shadow wars of the 1950s and early 1960s when the country, with reason, felt itself in danger from Soviet~led Communist aggression. Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald embodied the confidence, daring, and arrogance of the WASP elite that dominated the CIA at its founding. Thomas brings these men to life as they move boldly, and a bit innocently, into the corrosive life of secrets. He portrays the improbable scene of Bissell, of Groton and Yale, hiring the Mafia to eliminate Fidel Castro, and the terrible drama of Frank Wisner, the first chief of covert operations, slowly succumbing to suicidal mania. He follows Barnes and FitzGerald as they run covert operations from Berlin to Burma. These men, said one of their wives, "went to war every day." They felt that it was their duty~and their calling~to avoid a global conflagration. In a larger sense, they succeeded, but the personal cost was high. The Very Best Men is social history, a spy yarn, and a tragedy. It is the story of American hubris, of the corruption of good intentions, of four brave and flawed men who dared too greatly.