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Published by Basic Books, 2006
ISBN 10: 0465054897ISBN 13: 9780465054893
Seller: The Maryland Book Bank, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Used - Very Good.
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Published by Brand: Smithsonian, 2002
ISBN 10: 1588340406ISBN 13: 9781588340405
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The year 2002 marked the 100th anniversary of the first installation of air-conditioning. During the past century, it has become a staple of American life; 83% of US homes are now air-conditioned. In this engaging social history, Marsha Ackermann explores how the idea of cooling became firmly embedded in the social perceptions and expectations of Americans, transforming our definition of comfort and the way we live, work, and play.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018, 2018
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
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Ellis, Joseph J. American dialogue: the founders and us. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018, stated First Edition, x, 283pp., very good dust-jacket, cover price $27.95, very good white and black hardcover, fresh attractive unused copy, some old price label residue on back of jacket. "What would the founders think? We live in a divided America that is currently incapable of sustained argument and is feeling unsure of its destiny. Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the recent best-selling The Quartet, explores anew four of our most prominent founders, in each instance searching for patterns and principles that bring the lamp of experience to our contemporary dilemmas. Ellis discusses Thomas Jefferson and racism, John Adams and economic inequality, James Madison and constitutional law, George Washington and foreign policy. Just as the founders went back to the Greek and Roman classics for seasoned wisdom in their time, Ellis takes us back to America's founders, our classics. In his compelling narrative voice, Ellis confronts the obstacles blocking discussions about our emerging multiracial society, the inherent inequalities of a global economy, the original meaning of the founders' words, and the impossible obligations confronting the one superpower once the moral certainties provided by the Cold War have disappeared. Ellis reminds us that the founders' greatest legacy lies not in providing political answers but in helping us find a better way to frame the question." - CONTENTS: Preface: My self-evident truth -- RACE. Then: Thomas Jefferson ; Now: Abiding backlash -- EQUALITY. Then: John Adams ; Now: Our gilded age -- LAW. Then: James Madison ; Now: Immaculate misconceptions -- ABROAD. Then: George Washington ; Now: At peace with war -- Epilogue: Leadership. ISBN 9780385353427.
Published by Theatre Communications Group, 1990
Seller: Next Chapter Books SC, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
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PAPERBACK. Condition: Collectible; VG. First Edition. This softcover book is square and tight. The pages are clean, with no markings or folds. The wrappers are bright with only mild wear to the points and no folds or creases to the spine. The condition is Very Good Plus. Not ex-library. No remainder mark.
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2017
ISBN 10: 1501174215ISBN 13: 9781501174216
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. A New York Times BestsellerA timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States-winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others-that reminds us of fundamental American principles.Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume designed to identify important principles and characteristics that are particularly American. The American Spirit reminds us of core American values to which we all subscribe, regardless of which region we live in, which political party we identify with, or our ethnic background. This is a book about America for all Americans that reminds us who we are and helps to guide us as we find our way forward.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1983
ISBN 10: 0195031989ISBN 13: 9780195031980
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Owner name. Short tear to jacket.
Published by Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1996
ISBN 10: 0195086937ISBN 13: 9780195086935
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xii, 288 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Hailed by The New York Times as 'America's Aristophanes,' Will Rogers was one of this century's most astute and beloved humorists. If he often remarked that he never met a man he didn't like, it is also true that Rogers never met a man he didn't like to make fun of. Everyone from Congressmen and Presidents to Hollywood movie moguls and wealthy industrialists bore the brunt of his gently lacerating wit--and seemed, mostly, to be charmed in the process. So popular did Rogers become--through dozens of films, a daily column that ran for nine years in newspapers across the country, and countless lectures and stage performances--that he was often urged to run for Congress and even the Presidency. Upon receiving a mock appointment as Congressman at large for the whole United States, Rogers protested, 'I regret the disgrace that's been thrust upon me here tonight. I've tried to live my whole life so that I would never become a Congressman.' In American Original, Ray Robinson chronicles the trajectory of Will Rogers' remarkable life. Written with engaging immediacy and filled with a wealth of delightful anecdotes, this lively portrait follows Rogers from his childhood in the Indian Territory of what is now Oklahoma, to his first spellbinding lariat performances in the Wild West shows (where he would often lasso prominent audience members and drag them on stage), to his stardom in vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies, to his early silent movies and the later 'talkies,' and finally to his astonishing influence as a 'cowboy philosopher' columnist read by over 40 million Americans. Far more than other biographers, Robinson excels at conveying Rogers' impact as a political commentator ('I belong to no organized political party. I am a Democrat.') and his great success as an actor in Hollywood, where he was the leading star of Fox Films. And along the way, Robinson paints a vibrant portrait of one of America's most colorful eras. We follow the early evolution of modern entertainment, enjoy vivid snapshots of W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, Florence Ziegfeld, Samuel Goldwyn, and John Ford, and, perhaps most important, witness the major political events of the era through Will Rogers' uniquely perceptive eyes. American Original succeeds most appealingly in bringing Will Rogers before us with all the spontaneity, intimacy, and honesty of a live performance. In it we are given front row seats to the life of a character unabashedly American and unforgettably original. / Ray Robinson is a veteran magazine editor and sportswriter. He is the author of the widely acclaimed biography, Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time, Oh,Baby, I Love It!, with Tim McCarver, and Matty: An American Hero. He lives in New York City." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Published by Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2004
ISBN 10: 1566635772ISBN 13: 9781566635776
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xviii, 269 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In this witty and candid perspective on American television, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Howard Rosenberg traces a disturbing pattern: TV's relentless pursuit of the mundane in its seeming quest to dumb-down America. And, he writes, it may be succeeding. The longer mediocrity endures, Mr. Rosenberg advises, the greater the chance we will become permanently desensitized to it--and seduced by it--making third-rate the standard." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Team coverage of breaking news; Poor Richard's almanac of horrors; Obsession, not proportion, drives television news; Her nose makes news; Private lives and prying public; First amendment, shmendment; When ride-alongs take the public for a ride; Foreign news? It's all alien to the networks; Let's hear it (again) for old glory; A lox named fox; If you're not for yourself, who will be for you?; The blurred lines of today's "reality"; Celebrating fiction as fact; Paul goes home; Propping up the Berlin Wall; Out of the anchor chair, into the fray; The Russian roulette of live news coverage; To air is human, especially when it's live; Live from Iraq, ready or not; Publicity, they name is Schwarzenegger; The day the world shattered; Ratting on Bill was her duty; Wanna confess? Call Montel; How was poor Jenny to know he was a ticking time bomb?; Communing with nature by destroying it; Transgressing all the way to the bank; The art of rebounding; When crummy acting and writing equal fun; In "ark," Noah plays friars club; A tale of two miniseries; The face that launched a thousand cliches; Infomercials disguised as conventions; Judging political parties by their stagecraft; And now, for my next rehearsed ad lib; Do great moves make great presidents?; When his presence is the message; Our president: man or mannequin?; Bush's image fails to fill the screen; When no news is big news; White meat or dark?; D-day and the resonance of war now and then; Looking to the past to see the present; A new war, but the same old tube; War as a sales tool; Seeking symbolic moments in the tides of history; Talking the talk before taking the walk; Ultimate reality; Timothy McVeigh: the closed circuit; Let's bring cameras to death's door; O.J. on trial; The year of Simpson; The case for cameras in courtrooms; Give Bin Laden his (televised) day in court; One picture can be worth a thousand clips; The death of Challenger recalled; Columbia: freeze this frame; High noon in television's high court; TV keeps the dreams, and dross, alive; Big man, big laughs, big legacy; Excellence, from "Marty" to the mafia; I confess! I did watch Perry Mason!; A toast for Kuralt and one for the road; Contemplating Cosell; The life of a national hero has its perils; A "masterpiece theatre" of pomp and puff; When the coverage is as senseless as the tragedy. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
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Published by Oxford Univ Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A., 1983
ISBN 10: 0195031989ISBN 13: 9780195031980
Seller: A Good Read, LLC, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Binding tight, text crisp and bright. Appears unread! Minor shelfwear and edgewear.
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Published by Ballantine Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 0525619321ISBN 13: 9780525619321
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. NATIONAL BESTSELLER The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar ChampionThe gift Elizabeth Letts has is that she makes you feel you are the one taking this trip. This is a book we can enjoy always but especially need now.-Elizabeth Berg, author of The Story of Arthur TruluvIn 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctors advice to move into the county charity home. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned mens dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didnt even have a map. But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness.Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways. Between 1954 and 1956, the three travelers pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by them at terrifying speeds. Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through Americas big cities and small towns. Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities-from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers-a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher. In a decade when car ownership nearly tripled, when televisions influence was expanding fast, when homeowners began locking their doors, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world.
Published by Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, Vermont, 2007
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition softcover wraps. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; Preface; Introduction: Ten Steps; Conclusion: The Patriot's Task; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; The American Freedom Campaign; and About the Author. "In this timely call to arms, Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our free America is under assault. She warns us - with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlets - that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom. Wolf shows that there are ten classic steps dictators or would-be dictators always take when they wish to close down an open society. Each of those ten steps is now underway in the United States today. The End of America will shock, enrage, and motivate - spurring us to act, as the Founders would have counted on us to do in a time such as this, as rebels and patroits - to save our liberty and defend our nation." - from the rear outer cover. "Naomi Wolf's End of America is a vivid, urgent, mandatory wake-up call that addresses momentous issues of tyranny, democracy, and survival." - Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of the three-volume Eleanor Roosevelt. "The framers of our Constitution fully understood that it can happen here. Patriots like Madison, Paine, and Franklin would certainly applaud Naomi Wolf and recognize her as a sister in their struggle." - Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again. "Naomi Wolf sounds the alarm for all American patriots. We must come together as a nation and recommit ourselves to the fundamental American idea that no president, whether Democrat or Republican, will ever be given unchecked power." - Wes Boyd, co-founder, MoveOn dot org. "You will be shocked and disturbed by this book. Most Americans reject outright any comparison of post 9/11 America with the fascism and totalitarianism of Nazi Germany or Pinochet's Chile. Sadly, the parallels and similarities, what Wolf calls the 'echoes' between those societies and America today, are all too compelling." - Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights.
Published by Preservation Press; National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington D.C., 1993
ISBN 10: 0891332014ISBN 13: 9780891332015
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 215 pages, illustrations; 23 x 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Design for America is Alvin Rosenbaum's personal account of regional planning between 1920 and 1950 and how Frank Lloyd Wright's work during that period has contributed to the way we live now. The fascinating parallel stories of three men who helped shape the era - Wright, Henry Ford, and Franklin D. Roosevelt - are interwoven with details about other lives and historic events to demonstrate how Wright's ideas have given shape to modern America." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Unity; Muscle shoals; The regionalists; The Tennessee Valley Authority; At Taliesin; Broadacre City; Houses and housing; The Usonians; World War II; Today and tomorrow. Size: Oblong.
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Published by Theatre Communications Group, New York, N.Y., USA, 1993
ISBN 10: 1559360062ISBN 13: 9781559360067
Seller: rarefirsts, Charlotte Hall, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First Edition stated, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This collectible, " NEW" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. GIFT QUALITY Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by NY. 2005. W.W. Norton & Co., 2005
ISBN 10: 0393051358ISBN 13: 9780393051353
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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dark 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 (no price listed). 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). possible book club edition (no price on dustwrapper). xxvi+562p. 6 b&w maps. 16 pages of glossy b&w plates. works cited. endnotes. index. american history. canadian history. history of france. history of new france. british empire. history of new orleans. ~ On September 4th, 1755, The Pennsylvania Gazette printed a dispatch from the maritime province of Nova Scotia: "We are now upon a great and noble Scheme of sending the neutral French out of this Province, who have always been secret Enemies, and have encouraged our Savages to cut our Throats. If we effect their Expulsion, it will be one of the greatest Things that ever the English did in America; for by all Accounts, that Part of the Country they possess, is as good Land as any in the World: In case therefore we could get some good English Farmers in their Room, this Province would abound with all Kinds of Provisions." At the time these words were published, New England troops acting under the authority of the colonial governors of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts were systematically rounding up more than seven thousand Acadians, the French speaking, Catholic inhabitants who lived in communities along the shores of the Bay of Fundy. Men, women, and children alike were crowded into transport vessels and deported in small groups to other British colonies across the continent of North America. Many families were separated ~ wives from husbands, daughters from mothers ~ some never to meet again. Another ten thousand or more fled into the forests and spent years living as homeless refugees. Thousands of them were captured and deported to France, while others took up arms in guerrilla resistance. Meanwhile, their property was plundered, their communities were torched, their lands were seized. The campaign to "extirpate" the Acadian people lasted until the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 and cost thousands of lives. In its aftermath, hundreds of surviving Acadians returned to the places they had come to call home over the previous 150 years, but not to their old homes on the Bay of Fundy, which in the meantime had been settled by Yankee families from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Other Acadians migrated to French Louisiana and became the ancestors of today's Cajuns. Piecing together the scattered remnants of Acadian civilization in documents and sources buried deep in archives, historian John Mack Faragher provides the first comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and historically accurate account of the expulsion from both British and Acadian points of view. It is a story filled with fascinating historical characters~native Mtkmaq who enjoyed a friendly relationship of cultural exchange and accommodation with the Acadian settlers, French and British governors and military officers isolated in lonely outposts, Yankee merchants and ministers motivated by enterprise and ideology, and ordinary Acadian men and women who insisted on their right to live their own lives, in their own independent ways, on the margins of contesting empires. It is a story of ethnic cleansing in early America, a story with a special poignancy in our own time. 6 pages of detailed maps showing the settlements of Acadia 16 pages of black~and~white historical illustrations.
Published by Oxford, New York, 1983
ISBN 10: 0195031989ISBN 13: 9780195031980
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.
Published by Warner Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0446525235ISBN 13: 9780446525237
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good, very good. First Edition. First Printing. 356, notes, appendix, index. This investigation into the American workforce introduces the concept of the free agent who, unlike the organization man of the 1950s and after, is no longer yoked to a large corporation. People who are free agents leverage their skills and cherish their independence, and sometimes they form small networks or microbusinesses. Pink examines the number of these independent workers in the economy, and how they are changing the way business operates. Pink (contributing editor, Fast Company) reveals that over 25 million Americans are now self-employed, and fewer than one in ten works for a Fortune 500 company. This excellent work synthesizes the seismic shift in attitudes and in patterns of work in the economy from the early 1950s era of William Whyte's The Organization Man to today's independent worker.
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Published by The Preservation Press, National Trust For Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, 1993
ISBN 10: 0891332014ISBN 13: 9780891332015
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
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First edition and first printing. Small oblong hardcover. 215 pages. Features a foreword by Frederick Gutheim and text by Alvin Rosenbaum. An examination of "regional planning between 1920 and 1950 and how Frank Lloyd Wright's work during that period has contributed to the way we live now." Includes some black and white illustrations. A clean near fine copy in black cloth boarfds in a very good dust jacket with some sunning to the spine and front cover.
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0060845538ISBN 13: 9780060845537
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xii, 370, [2] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Ink marks and highlighting noted. Deborah Cadbury is a British author, historian and television producer with the BBC. She has won many international awards for her documentaries including an Emmy Award. Cadbury joined the BBC in 1978 as a trainee.[citation needed] She went on to produce films for the BBC's Horizon strand and won awards for her investigations. Her Horizon film, Assault on the Male, launched a worldwide scientific research campaign into environmental oestrogens, hormone-mimicking chemicals potentially impacting human health, and led to her book, The Feminization of Nature. She moved into history programming in 2003 as the series producer of the BAFTA-nominated drama documentary series, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. The series was notable for combining live action with CGI, created by Gareth Edwards, and was described as "a ground breaking achievement" by the Times. In 2005 she produced the docudrama series, Space Race, the BBC's first co-production between Russia and the United States with unique access to the Russian side of the story. As an executive producer, Cadbury continued her investigation of Cold War espionage in her BBC series Nuclear Secrets, which explored the race for supremacy through pivotal personal stories of such nuclear scientists as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and Andrei Sakharov. The story of the race into space is marked by the greatest superpower rivalries, political paranoia, and technological feats of the twentieth century. But until now, we have known only half the story. With the end of the cold war, decades of secrets have been exposed, bringing with them a remarkable opportunity: the unmasking of the true heroes and villains behind one of the most exciting races in history. At the center of this exhilarating, fast-paced account are Wernher von Braun, the camera-friendly former Nazi scientist who led the American rocket design team, and Sergei Korolev, the chief Soviet designer and former political prisoner whose identity was a closely guarded state secret. These rivals were opposite in every way, save for one: each was obsessed by the idea of launching a man to the Moon. Korolev told his wife, "In every century men were looking into the sky and dreaming. And now I'm close to the greatest dream of mankind." In attempting to fulfill this dream, Korolev was initially hampered by a budget so small that his engineers were forced to repurpose cardboard boxes as drafting tables. Von Braun, meanwhile, was eventually granted almost limitless access to funds by an American government panicked at the thought that their cold war enemy might take the lead in the exploration of space. Korolev, whose family life was destroyed by his long sentence in the Gulag, was constantly aware that any false move would finish his career or even his life. His rival, on the other hand, enjoyed remarkable celebrity in America and was even the subject of a 1960 biopic. In this extraordinary book, Deborah Cadbury combines sheer adventure and nail-biting suspense with a moving portrayal of the space race's human dimension. Using source materials never before seen, she reveals that the essential story of the cold war is a mind-bending voyage beyond the bounds of the Earth, one marked by espionage, ambition, ingenuity, and passion. First U.S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated].
Published by Pantheon Books, New York, N.Y., 2008
ISBN 10: 0375423745ISBN 13: 9780375423741
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition, Fourth Printing. xx, 356, [6] pages. Autographed sticker on DJ. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes Introduction, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and Index. Topics covered include The Way We Live Now: Just Us Folks; The Way We Lived Then: Intellect and Ignorance in a Young Nation; Social Pseudoscience in the Morning of America's Culture Wars; Reds, Pinkos, Fellow Travelers; Middlebrow Culture from Noon to Twilight; Blaming It on the Sixties; Legacies: Youth Culture and Celebrity Culture; The New Old-Time Religion; Junk Thought; The Culture of Distraction; Public Life: Defining Dumbness Downward; and Cultural Conservation. Susan Jacoby is an independent scholar specializing in the history of reason, atheism, secularism, and religious liberty. Jacoby's best-known books include Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, hailed in The New York Times as an "ardent and insightful work" that "seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of posterity" and The Age of American Unreason, a New York Times bestseller praised by Richard Dawkins as a "luminously clear" work in which the author "reaches out to welcome all who would share in her elevated vision of the way our culture could be-and is not." Jacoby began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post. Her first book, Moscow Conversations was based on the articles she contributed to the Post from Moscow between 1969 and 1971. Other works include Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1984, and The Possible She. The author offers an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to infotainment--from television to the Web--and cites this toxic dependency as the major element distinguishing our current age of unreason from earlier outbreaks of American anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism. With reading on the decline and scientific and historical illiteracy on the rise, an increasingly ignorant public square is dominated by debased media-driven language and received opinion. Derived from a Kirkus review: Anti-intellectualism is as American as-well, as anti-intellectualism, an ironic tradition that, writes Jacoby), allows the president to declare himself pro-education while admitting to not reading newspapers. Of course, the author adds, Bush said that "he rarely read newspapers because that would expose him to 'opinions,' " opinions presumably meaning anything with which he did not agree. Yet Bush's just-plain-folks appeals worked, at least for a while; even Hillary Clinton calls people folks, which, grumbles Jacoby, sounds forced and inauthentic, just like the rest of politics. Americans, it seems, prefer their presidents on the autodidactic side, and not too smart. Even if Bill Clinton was a Rhodes scholar, Teddy Roosevelt a historian and Woodrow Wilson a college president, the model is always of Lincoln. Contrary to this strain, notes the author, is the middlebrow contribution to the culture, which thrived on self-education. Even the middlebrows are largely absent these days, Jacoby laments, as are the opportunities she once had as a magazine writer to turn out long think pieces for women's magazines that now specialize in short features about how to please your man. Jacoby twits the academic enemies of intelligence-professors who write endless tomes on Bob Dylan's poetry and chair programs in "fat studies"-while zapping the usual suspects, such as television and video games, as assassins of the mind and spirit. Jacoby makes a good case for having a president who reads and a culture that provides material worth reading.
Published by Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2007
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Cipiriano, Ellen (book design); Staehle, Will (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition navy blue boards, navy blue spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; List of Maps; Introduction; Prelude: At the Threshold; Epilogue: The Founding; Bibliographic Notes; Illustration Credits; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates, maps, frontispiece of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette at Valley Forge, and illustrated front and rear endpapers. "It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. Now, for the first time, in The Great Upheaval, acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization. In this sweeping, magisterial drama, Winik brings his vast, meticulous research and narrative genius to the cold, dark battlefields and deadly clashes of ideologies that defined this age. Here is a savage world war, the toppling of a great dynasty, and an America struggling to survive at home and abroad. Here, too, is the first modern holy war between Islam and a resurgent Christian empire. And here is the richest cast of characters to walk upon the world stage: Washington and Jefferson, Louis XVI and Robespierre, Catherine the Great, Adams, Napoleon, and Selim III. With powerful echoes for understanding the international chaos that confronts the globe today, we see them all fighting desperately for the ideals they believed in, whether man-made democracy or divinely inspired autocracy, whether republicanism or Allah's law. Exquisitely written and utterly compelling, The Great Upheaval vividly depicts an are of revolutionary fervor stretching from Philadelphia and Paris to St. Petersburg and Cairo - with fateful results. A landmark in historical literature, Winik's gripping, epic portrait of this tumultuous decade will forever transform the way we see America's beginnings and our world." - from the inner front jacket flap. "If you want to understand the beginning of the twenty-first century, you have to come to grips with the end of the eighteenth century. In one amazing decade filled with revolutions and a Middle East holy war, ideas like democracy and idealism as well as authoritarianism took root. In this masterful book, Jay Winik sheds new light on a tumultuous decade rife with lessons for today." - Walter Isaacson. "Not content to give us just a portrait or diorama of the late eighteenth century, Jay Winik has sketched a veritable fresco of three countries - France, Russia, and the United States - in the throes of revolutionary change. The Great Upheaval is a historical work of rare drama and audacity, told with the tireless verve of a gifted story teller." - Ron Chernow. "Only a masterful writer could shape such a stirring narrative from such a wide-ranging field of original research. Jay Winik's The Great Upheaval is a terrific work that will endure for years to come." - Doris Kearns Goodwin. "Jay Winik's new book is a cinematic reconstruction of the birth of the modern world between 1788 and 1800. He brilliantly moves across a world stage, capturing the men, women, and tumultuous events - revolution, war, political strife - that he persuasively calls The Great Upheaval. No one interested in history will want to miss it." - Robert Dallek. "With grace and insight and sweep, Jay Winik has given us a marvelous account of an epoch that fundamentally shaped the way we live now. The Great Upheaval is great history, vividly told." - John Meacham.
Published by Wiley, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 0471395269ISBN 13: 9780471395263
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Stories from the amazing journey of African American women across thousands of years Throughout history, black women have tapped hidden sources of strength and inspiration to overcome the often formidable obstacles in their path. In Sister Days, the acclaimed author of Freedom Days and Glory Days celebrates these women with 365 thought-provoking daily entries that focus on the themes of sisterhood and sister power. Each day of the year features a different role model of African American womanhood. Whether read as history or as practical inspiration, these stories of courage, intelligence, and fortitude give a unique and valuable roadmap to rediscovering your personal power. Stories from the Amazing journey of African American Women "Whether read as history or practical inspiration, the stories of bravery, intelligence, and fortitude revealed . . . give a unique road map to rediscovering sister power."-The New American "A collection of . . . moving stories that celebrate the lives of black women who have overcome the many obstacles in their paths to pursue their dreams."-African Sun Times Now in paperback, Sister Days offers you a daily invitation to share in the life-affirming legacy of African American women. Here are 365 uplifting meditations on courage, daring, and resistance that bring us valuable reminders of how real women in real times-from Harriet Tubman to aviator Bessie Coleman to Wild West legend "Stagecoach Mary" to world-renowned writer Maya Angelou-created a better way of life for themselves and a better world for others. In reading their stories, we ensure that these women live on-as shining beacons to light our own quests for happier, more fulfilled lives. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by One World {The Ballantine Publishing Group], New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0345432150ISBN 13: 9780345432155
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 9.75 inches. xii, 530, [2] pages. Some pages creased. Illustrations. Some pencil marks noted. DJ has wear, tears, chips, and soiling. Inscribed by the author (Gaston) on the fep. Inscription reads "12-15-02 :To Virginia Vrein Good health & God bless. You have a special friend to give the gift of health. Marilyn Hughes Gaston, M.D. Ink notation inside the front cover. Foreword by Joycelyn Elders. Marilyn Hughes Gaston (born in 1939) is a physician and researcher. She was the first black woman to direct the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. She is most famous for her work studying sickle cell disease (SCD). Gaston also worked to bring affordable health care to impoverished families and was the first black woman to direct a public health service bureau (Bureau of Primary Health Care in the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Through this program, with only a 5-million-dollar budget, she was able to bring impoverished families the opportunity to have access to medical workers, medical supplies, and the facilities that an average American is guaranteed. The program also granted medical care to elders, pregnant women, and new immigrants. Gaston received many awards in her lifetime, including the National Medical Association (NMA's) Lifetime Achievement Award, every honor awarded by the Public Health Service, and even has Marilyn Hughes Gaston Day celebrated each year in Cincinnati and in Lincoln Heights, Ohio. Today seven million African American women are living in their prime, experiencing the joys, the challenges, and the opportunities of middle age. Now, at last, here is the book that specifically addresses our total health needs--physical, emotional, and spiritual. Written by a distinguished physician and clinical psychologist, Prime Time is the first complete guide that empowers us to take charge of our lives and attain the well-being we deserve. In many ways, it's true that we are better off today than our foremothers were: We earn more money, command more respect. Yet in spite of these advances, we still experience more chronic health problems, endure more stress, and live shorter lives than women of other races. That's why Prime Time is both urgent and essential. This groundbreaking book not only lays out a detailed, practical plan for overall healing and for maintaining wellness, it also addresses the underlying attitudes and assumptions that lead so many of us to neglect ourselves and undermine our own health. It's time for us as African American women at midlife to start putting ourselves first. We can save our own lives and stop ourselves from dying too soon. To do this, we each need to acquire up-to-the-minute information about our unique health concerns, adjust our diet and exercise program, and use the "power of prevention" to improve the quality of daily life. Prime Time helps you do all this and more by combining both traditional medicine and a holistic approach. It covers the full range of health options you can incorporate into your life, starting now--including self-tests and quizzes that reveal your health profile and vital tips on dealing with the often-overwhelming health-care system. A central section on the Big Four--heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes--explores why black women run a high risk of developing these conditions, why they so often go undetected and untreated, and what we can do about them. Prime Time also deals powerfully and directly with the psychological and spiritual issues that stand in the way of our true well-being. Historically, African American women have been expected to function as "strong black women" to overcome the harsh realities with which we've been confronted. Anger and "attitude" have often become part of our protective shield. Prime Time provides sensible, usable, and even enjoyable methods you can employ to overcome anxiety and other negative moods, channel anger in life-affirming ways, and find "Prime Time Sisters" to share this wonderful journey with you. Comprehensive, straight-talking, and grounded in science and spiritual truth, Prime Time is at once a guide to total health in middle age and a celebration of the strength, wisdom, and beauty of African American women in their second half of life. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].
Published by Random House, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400061547ISBN 13: 9781400061549
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xii, [2], 224, [2] pages. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Some pencil marginal marks, underlining, and comments noted--some have been easily erased. Germond began his career in 1951 writing for the Evening News in Monroe, Michigan. In 1953, he moved to Gannett's Rochester Times-Union, and he was chief of Gannett's Washington bureau from 1969 until 1973. In 1974, he joined the Washington Star, becoming a syndicated columnist and national editor, and went on to the Baltimore Sun when the Washington Star folded. On television, Germond began appearing on Meet the Press in 1972 and The Today Show in 1980. He was a fixture on The McLaughlin Group from the show's inception 1982, acting as a "liberal voice" against conservative guests such as Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak. When The McLaughlin Group was parodied on Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s, Germond was portrayed by Chris Farley and John Goodman. Germond left the program in 1996, citing a decline in the show's discourse and frustration with John McLaughlin's heavy-handed moderation. He was later featured as a panelist on the PBS program Inside Washington. He authored several political books with Jules Witcover. Germond retired in 2000. For more than forty years, Jack Germond has been covering politics for Gannett newspapers, the Washington Star, and the Baltimore Sun, and talking politics on the Today show, The McLaughlin Group, and Inside Washington. Now, in Fat Man Fed Up, Germond confronts the most critical issues raised by our election process and offers a scathing but wry polemic about what's wrong with American politics. Is there any connection between what happens in campaigns and what happens in government? And if not, where does the blame for the discontent lie? Was Tocqueville right? Do we get the leaders we deserve? Indeed, according to Germond, the politicians aren't the only ones to blame, or even the chief culprits. He describes how he and his colleagues in the news media have been guilty of dumbing-down the political process, and how the voters are too apathetic to demand better coverage and better results. Instead, they simply turn away and too often end up enduring third-rate presidents. This no-sacred-cows manifesto faces the problems many are reluctant to address: Polls and how they are used and abused by politicians and press to mislead gullible voters. The critical failure of the press to accurately portray figures in the political realm, from Eugene McCarthy to Barbara Bush to Al Sharpton. How the complaints about liberal bias in the press miss the real point: whether that bias, if it exists, colors the way editors and reporters work. The staggering influence of television, and the networks' inability to provide anything but the most simplistic coverage of politics. The big lie school of campaigning. From Where's the beef? to compassionate conservatism, the politics of empty slogans has always placed noise above nuance: Say anything loudly enough and long enough, and voters are bound to mistake it for the truth. Along the way, Germond illustrates his arguments by drawing from his war chest of priceless anecdotes from decades in the business. With his inimitable combination of incisive journalism and sardonic and witty straight talk, Germond guides us through the fog created by candidates and the media. In this timely, outrageous, and compulsively readable book, no one is let off the hook. Fat Man Fed Up is a bracing look at how we never seem to get the truth about the people we're electing. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].
Published by Franklin Library for the Signed 1st Edition Soc, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 2000
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Leather. Condition: New. Limited First Edition. This beautiful dark green leather Franklin Library edition is a true first edition and has never been opened (still in original shrinkwrap). One of a reported 1300 copies signed by author. Book contains an introduction by Sontag not found in other editions. Susan Sontag's other credits include "Women" with photos by Annie Leibovitz, "The Way We Live Now" with the art of Howard Hodgkin, and many essays. She has been called one of the pre-eminent critics writing in America. A significant book. Winner of the 2000 National Book Awards.
Published by New York City, NY: The Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991, 1994
ISBN 10: 0224029169ISBN 13: 9780224029162
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 30 pages. Published in 1991. Artist Book rendition of the author's story on AIDS. One of the greatest short stories of the 20th century. The First Trade Edition. Based upon the Limited Edition, the British and American regular editions were published simultaneously as softcover originals only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Howard Hodgkin: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Susan Sontag. Art by Howard Hodgkin. Printed on archival, thick coated (for the art) and uncoated (for the text) stock papers in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Susan Sontag's and Howard Hodgkin's "The Way We Live Now". Widely regarded as the best fictional account ever written on AIDS at the height of its devastation. The author's story is interpreted by the greatest British abstract painter of our time, in luminous aquatints that are beautifully reproduced in this edition. Hodgkin spent more than four years working on them to ensure, by his own account, that he captured the short story's finely modulated emotional temperature faithfully. The result is a sequence of moving images. Sontag presents the sufferer's illness from the points-of-view of his closest friends, who take turns visiting him, worrying about him, exchanging notes, and making life-enhancing arrangements. Each friend is named after a letter of the Roman alphabet (from A to Z), which is Sontag's concrete way of saying all of humanity has a stake in the illness and its sufferers' plight. The story was included in the "Best American Short Stories of the Twentieth Century" by John Updike, not a fan of Sontag, who nevertheless recognized the piece's significance and achievement. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag and Howard Hodgkin collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great Artist Book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. Copies of the Artist Book turn up occasionally, commanding $5000 if all of the prints are present. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Susan Sontag is Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Howard Hodgkin is Winner of the Turner Prize, the most prestigious British artistic award, among numerous other honors. Two of the most influential and important artists of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG AND HOWARD HODGKIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0224029169. Signed by Author.