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FREE SPIRIT IN A TROUBLED WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32202More details Price: $35.00 -
THE PAPER'S PAPERS: A Reporter's Journey Through the Archives of the New York Times.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Times Books, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the New York Times from 1896 when Adolf Ochs bought the nearly bankrupt newspaper and breathed new life into it. This book "narrates a first-hand anecdotal history of the 421 cubic feet of internal memoranda, letters, sketches, and cartoons that comprise The Time's private archives." Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of letters and ephemera. Index. viii, 373 pp. ISBN: 0-812924533.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 67791More details Price: $15.00 -
MR. PERSONALITY: Profiles and Talk Pieces.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 33 of the best profiles and Talk of the Town pieces originally published in The New Yorker between 1977 and 1988. Included are profiles of prolific filmmaker Errol Morris, a family of superintendents, one of the last great zipper-fixers, a court buff in Brooklyn and his great-uncle, the rare map dealer Graham Arader. 361 pp. ISBN: 0-394572106.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67824More details Price: $16.50 -
IN THE HOT ZONE: One Man, One Year, Twenty-one Wars.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: HarperPerennial, (2007.). First edition - "Beginning his journey with the anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005 and ending with the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, Sites talks with rebels and government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and features the people on every side, including those caught in the cross fire. His honest reporting helps destroy the myths of war by putting a human face on war's inhumanity." Appendices. 549 pp. Includes a DVD with a documentary film "A World of Conflict.". ISBN: 9780061228759.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 54044More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WOMEN WHO WROTE THE WAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arcade Publishing, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A well-researched and fascinating account of the women war correspondents during War II, who brought a fresh vision to the battlefields of the war and reported home with a new sensibility. Included are photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only Western journalist to cover the Nazi invasion of the U.S.S.R. and the first to photograph Buchenwald; Martha Gelhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway; photographer Lee Miller; the New Yorker's Janet Flanner and more. In the years leading up to the war, in France during the invasion, in London during the Blitz, in China and Manila and Madrid, these women were there. Illustrated with photographs. Includes 39 pages of bibliographical notes, bibliography and index. xviii, 458 pp. ISBN: 1-559704934.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32626More details Price: $25.00 -
AMBUSHED: A War Reporter's Life on the Line.
Edition: First US printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - When armed rebels entered Freetown, the besieged capital of Sierra Leone, in 1999, journalist Ian Stewart and two of his colleagues were ambushed while driving down the street. One of them was killed and Stewart was shot in this head. Incredibly he survived and this book is his frank account of the extraordinary risks he and other journalists take when reporting the news from remote, war-ravaged countries. This book is both an inspiring personal story and an in-depth look at the day-to-day life of a war correspondent. Originally published in Canada under the title 'Freetown Ambush'. 310 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-3808.
Condition: SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy)
Book ID: 30030More details Price: $25.00 -
ENOUGH'S ENOUGH (And Other Rules of Life)
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of humorous columns on our national life, both public and private, by one of our funniest writers. SIGNED on the half title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-899199585.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62786More details Price: $30.00 -
PLAN OF ATTACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The "definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council and allies, launched a pre-emptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq." Photographs, index. 467 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-5547X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61021More details Price: $16.50 -
BUSH AT WAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of several in-depth books on George W. Bush's war in Afghanistan after 9/11 and the push towards attacking Iraq. Based on interviews with more than 100 sources, including the President himself. Photographs, index. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-04735.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67771More details Price: $16.50 -
STATE OF DENIAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Bush at War, Part III - an account of how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about the Iraq War to the public and to Congress. Photographs, index. 558 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-72234.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 67772More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BRETHREN: Inside the Supreme Court.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - These reporters now classic study of the US Supreme Court, of the men and women who are justices, and of its landmark decisions during the 1960s and 1970s. Reprinted many times, this is relatively uncommon in first printing. Photographs. Index. 467 pp. ISBN: 0-671-241109.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56982More details Price: $25.00