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Galahad Books, 1996. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD 1996 Galahad Books large (& heavy - 3 lbs) hardcover (brown boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first Galahad edition, assumed first printing. The original copyright was 1961 and I assume was published around that year. 2 tiny loss-of-color spots front board. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: Everyone knows William Randolph Hearst - from newspapers, history, and even Hollywood movies, so I won't bore you with a long content section. An exhaustive profile of the nation's most powerful newspaper mogul explores the life and times of William Randolph Hearst, his turbulent and flamboyant personal life, his controversial style of journalism, and the growth of his publishing empire.

Random House, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Random House hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. CONTENT: "I've read kind of all the books on this subject . . . and this is the one you want to read."-Rachel Maddow Before Ukraine, before impeachment: This is the never-before-told inside story of the high-stakes, four-year-long investigation into Donald Trump's Russia ties-culminating in the Steele dossier, and sparking the Mueller report-from the founders of political opposition research company Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal who decided to abandon the struggling news business and use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms-and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015, they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. What began as a march through a… Read More

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

Viking, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W and color era photo section. CONDITION: What makes this AS NEW? Small remainder dot bottom edges near spine. Great/big B&W and color era photo section. CONTENT: Valerie Jarrett was the longest serving senior adviser to President Barack Obama. She oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls. Before joining the White House, she served as the chief executive officer of The Habitat Company in Chicago, chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, commissioner of Planning and Development, and deputy chief of staff for Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley. Jarrett has received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including Time's "100 Most Influential People." She received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981. She is currently a senior adviser to the Obama Foundation and Attn… Read More

Smithmark, 1994. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. B&W era photo section. NO PRIORITY PLEASE. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1994 Smithmark hardcover (teal boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), appears to be a facsimile edition, first printing. B&W era photo section. PROBLEM: 2 tiny "pin holes" dust jacket. IMHO, Longstreet (who often disagreed with Lee's tactics and decisions) is the most interesting of all the CSA generals. Love to hear your comments on this.

Yale University Press, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2016 Yale University Press hardcover (brown boards) and dust jacket, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document. From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens? The Declaration of Independence has long been invoked as a philosophical treatise in favor of limited government. Yet the bulk of the document is a discussion of policy, in which the Founders outlined the failures of the British imperial government. Above all, they declared, the British state since 1760 had done too little to promote the prosperity of its American subjects. Looking beyond the Declaration's frequently cited opening… Read More

Viking, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2018 Viking hardcover (white boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover - all white books need protection), first edition, first printing. PROBLEM: Small remainder dot bottom edges at spine. CONTENT: The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate. "There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it." When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the… Read More

Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Twelve/Hachette Book Group hardcover black boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Color photo section. CONTENT: Joshua Powell for the former Chief of Staff to Wayne LaPierre and senior Strategist for the NRA. What Powell uncovered was horrifying: "the waste and dysfunction at the NRA was staggering." INSIDE THE NRA reveals for the first time the rise and fall of the most powerful political organization in America--how the NRA became feared as the Death Star of Washington lobbies and so militant and extreme as "to create and fuel the toxicity of the gun debate until it became outright explosive." INSIDE THE NRA explains this intentional toxic messaging was wholly the product of LaPierre's leadership and the extremist branding by his longtime PR puppet master Angus McQueen. In damning detail, Powell exposes the NRA's plan to "pour gasoline" on the fire… Read More

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

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

W W Norton & Company, 2008. 1st Edition 6th Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photos throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2008 Norton hardcover (grey marbled boards) & dust jacket, first edition, 6th printing. B&W era photos throughout. CONTENT: Learn the science behind the headlines?the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of global warming. We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential country in the world, we need to know?truly understand, not just rely on television's talking heads?if Iran's nascent nuclear capability is a genuine threat to the West, if biochemical weapons are likely to be developed by terrorists, if there are viable alternatives to fossil fuels that should be nurtured and supported by the government, if nuclear power should be encouraged, and if global warming is actually happening. This book is written in… Read More

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

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

Simon & Schuster, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W & color era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2021 Simon & Schuster hardcover (red boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. B&W/color era photo section. Deckle edges. Problem: 2 lightly bumped corners bottom corners. This was my book and I never got around to reading it. CONTENT: What a life this man has lead. Raised in a large Irish-Catholic family in Philadelphia at a time when kids hid under their desks in atomic war drills, Chris's life etched a pattern: take a leap, live an adventure, then learn what it means. As a young Peace Corps graduate, Chris moved to DC and began knocking on doors on Capitol Hill. With dreams of becoming what Ted Sorensen had been for Jack Kennedy, Chris landed as a staffer to Utah Senator Frank Moss, where his eyes were opened to the game of big-league politics. In the 1970s, Matthews mounted a campaign… Read More