Point of Order, Documentary of Army-McCarthy
Illustrated with photos from the movie, Point of Order was a documentary of the 1954 U.S. Army-McCarthy Hearings, essentially Senator Joe McCarthy's attack on communism in the United States. Emile deAntonio and Daniel Talbot were producers.

This is a 1964 FIRST EDITION, published in New York by W.W. Norton. The 108-page softcover book is Ex Lib with the usual library markings. Overall condition is Good- with covers creased, some scuffs and tape repair at the spine. (4076)
Publisher: W.W. Norton
ISBN: none  

My American Journey by Colin Powell Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. Born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica, he knew the rough life of the streets and overcame a barely average start at school. He joined the Army -- and the rest is history. But that history was not completely told until Powell himself told how it happened!

MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier’s directness. He writes of the anxieties and missteps, as well as the triumphs that marked his rise to four-star general, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mastermind of Desert Storm, and now Secretary of State and the man much of ht country would most like to draft as president, just as it drafted General Eisenhower in 1952.

The 643-page hardbound book, written with Joseph E. Persico, was published in this 1995 stated First Edition by Random House, New York. It includes two large sections of black/white photos.

Condition is Very Good, with a dust jacket also in Very Good shape. There is a small area on bottom one-inch of the covers where the dark blue binding has faded onto the white boards (evidently this was in a damp location), but there are no other apparent defects on the boards or pages inside. (6054/rIrev)

Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679432965  

Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Down to Now is a 426-page first edition hardbound book from Pantheon Books. Author Pat Watters seeks to grasp, in a personal manner, the Southern civil rights movement's deepest meaning for America. Anyone who every sang 'We Shall Overcome' will find this book powerfully nostalgic.

Ex lib with the usual library markings, the dust jacket is present with a protective cover. There are no apparent defects inside or out!
Publisher: Pantheon Books
ISBN: 039447113x  

1950s Jewish Life in America
Written by a Jew and about Jews, Commentary on the American Scene, Portraits of Jewish Life in America is a book about the Jewish immigrant experience in America. It was edited by Eliot E. Cohen and published in this 1953 FIRST EDITION by Knopf, New York, using commentary pieces that were first published in a magazine called From the American Scene that was devoted to Jewish affairs and world issues.

In the introduction, David Riseman speaks of what these pieces show of the Jewish group in the American setting –- their origins, their socio-economic status, etc., They also speak, says the editor, of the extra dimension given to Jewish personality and life by the fact that each Jew moves, consciously or not, in the context of a long and special history and a religious-ethical tradition that lays upon him the sense of being ‘chosen’ and creates the tendency –even the obligation, -- to carry himself with a difference. It is this that plays a persistent counterpoint – humorous, pathetic, tragic, farcical –- to whatever Jews do or are!

The book is fascinating reading – and in Good condition, although it is ex lib with the usual library markings. Covers do show some minor edge/corner/spine end wear and sun-fading of the spine and cover edges. There is a 1-inch tear at bottom front of spine. Inside pages are without any apparent defects. It’s a book you’ll enjoy – no matter your heritage! (4146)
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: none  

Government in Review, 1923
With this note printed on the title page, ‘Before publication every chapter of this book was read and approved by a Government authority,’ the J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, published in 1923 this revised, enlarged and illustrated edition of Frederic J. Haskin’s THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.

Illustrated with photographs by Harris & Ewing, the 484-page hardbound book details the history, organization, functions, powers, responsibilities, and duties of the departments, offices, bureaus, and specialized branches of the United States Government and supporting services.

Among the photos included are both common and more unusual views: the Statue in Lincoln Memorial; East front of the Capitol; Front view of the White House; Aerial view of Washington; Amphitheater at Arlington; A thousand-year-old giant sequoia; Forest Ranger in camp; Room in the Patent Office; Armored dinosaur at Smithsonian Institution; Washington crypt underneath Capitol Rotunda; Treasury employees weighing coins; Making comparison of total light; World's finest precision testing machine; Bronze doors of the Rotunda of Capitol; ‘The Ghosts,’ Wheeler National Monument; New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C.; State, War, and Navy Building; Armor plate punctured by 16-inch gun; How trapped miners keep out gases; Statue of Alexander Hamilton; Aztec Garden, Pan-American Building; Navy ZR-1, christened ‘Shenandoah’; Radio at Bolling Field; Surveying Mount Whitney; Scene in the Dead Letter Office . . . and many more!

It’s a fascinating book! And, it’s in Good+ condition, despite being ex lib with the usual library markings. There is some light damage to cover edges/corners and spine ends, but inside pages are clean and easy to read! Interesting information about our government in the early 1900s! (6111)

Publisher: Lippincott
ISBN: none  

Journalist’s Prelude to WW2
Written by renowned newspaperman and pioneer radio broadcaster William Shirer, who witnessed many of the most historic events of history during the era, THE NIGHTMARE YEARS 1930-1940 is Volume 2 in his ‘20th Century Journey: Memoir of the Life and Times.’

Shirer, it seems, was in the right place at the right time for many earth-shaking events. Prior to the beginning of World War II, he met, knew, talked to and occasionally drank with Goring, Goebbels, Himmler, Hess, Heydrich, Ribbentrop, Eichmann and dozens of High Command officers. He even observed Hitler at first hand.

Most interesting is the personal material -- his career as a radio commentator ended when CBS fired him in 1947, and he reveals the dark role played by Edward R. Murrow. Shirer describes the struggle to support his family during the McCarthy years, then his dramatic success as a best-selling author with the 1960 publication of ‘The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.’

The 654-page hardbound book was published in 1984 by Little, Brown & Co., New York. It is illustrated with black/white photos. A previous owner’s name is handwritten on the inside front. There is some edge wear on the dust jacket. Otherwise, the book is in Very Good condition with no apparent defects, inside or out! (5835)

Publisher: Little, Brown & Co
ISBN: 0316787035  

HAWAII, National Geographic Beauty!
Another title in the long line of wonderfully informative and illustrated books from the National Geographic Society, this 204-page hardbound copy of HAWAII was the society’s first special publication of the 1970-71 series. It features 200 color illustrations of the 50th state, and is supplemented with a large National Geographic map of the islands.

Written by William Graves of the Geographic’s senior editorial staff, locations highlighted include the 13,796-foot peak of Mauna Kea; the submerged formations of ‘pillow lava’ that are Hawaii's volcanic foundations; pineapple fields on Lanai; an orchid farm on Hawaii; wild pig hunting on Maui; exotic tropical fish in the waters off Makaha Beach; surfers on Oahu; engineers irrigating Molokai; and a Navy practice bombardment of desolate Kahoolawe.

History of the development of the islands is discussed, as are early settlers who built a society that endured undisturbed until 1778, when the great English explorer and navigator Capt. James Cook sighted the green, still heights of the Island of Oahu. News of his discovery spread, ultimately attracting traders and whalers, missionaries and merchants, and opening the latest chapter of Hawaii's history. Today's visitors, notes Graves, discover beaches stretching beneath swaying palms, the glitter of sun on waves, the steamy fragrance of a luau.

The book is a celebration of the state, with fabulous views of the important features. It’s in Very Good condition, with no apparent defects inside or out. The dust jacket is present and shows some minor edge/corner wear. The loose Geographic map is present and doesn’t appear to have been opened. (6101/11)
Publisher: National Geographic Society
ISBN: 0870440861  

How Visitors Viewed Early America

In the 347 pages of ABROAD IN AMERICA: VISITORS TO THE NEW NATION 1776-1914, the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution highlights observations of European, South American, Asian, and African visitors to the United States during the first century-and-a-half of its existence as a nation. The twenty-nine essays written by foreign writers, each discussing a compatriot's journey to the New World, and by American specialists in the cultures of other travelers, trace across time and from many vantage points the emergence of this country.

After his first visit to America in 1842, Charles Dickens wrote, ‘I do fear that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty will be dealt by this country in the failure of its example to the earth.’ A quarter of a century later, during his second visit, Dickens withheld such absolute judgments and said instead of the country: ‘It is a good sign, may be, that it all seems immensely more difficult to understand than it was when I was here before.’

Among others whose words and experiences are included: de Tocqueville, Fanny Kemble, Manjiro, Clemenceau, Jose Marti, Dvorak, Swami Vivekananda, Sholom Aleichem, H.G. Wells and more. Photographs, illustrations, and a complete bibliography highlight the book.

Whether America can yet be what the founding fathers intended, and immigrants before and since have dreamed it would be, remains to be seen. However, so long as change is possible, the promise lives. ‘Hope, the great divinity,’ John Butler Yeats believed, ‘is domiciled in America.’

Unusual (and somewhat difficult to find), this softcover book is in Very Good condition, with only slight bumping of the cover corners. Inside pages show no apparent defects. (6062)

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0201000318  

Jefferson & Hamilton: Bowers Classic
One of the classic works on the topic, JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON, THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA was written by Claude G. Bowers and published in 1926 by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, in this 7th impression.

In his preface, the author notes that the purpose of the book was not to make out a case for or against democracy, but to show how it came to the Republic, sometimes blundering and making a fool of itself on the way; to recreate, if possible, an heroic, picturesque, and lusty age; to make the men of the steel engravings flesh and blood; to stage the drama of a day when real giants trod the boards. And everything we’ve read shows that his efforts were successful!

Black/white plates (many full-page) include many players from the time -- Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Mrs. William Bingham, Fisher Ames, Robert Goodloe Harper, George Cabot, Gouverneur Morris, Albert Gallatin, Edward Livingston, William Branch Giles, and James Madison, as well as some contemporary political cartoons and facsimiles of important letters.

Condition of the 529-page hardbound book is Very Good, with very minor edge/corner/spine end wear to the covers. A previous owner’s book stamp is on inside front. A few inside pages have minor dog-ears, however, show no other apparent defects. A great look at an important part of our nation’s history. (5367)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
ISBN: None  

Civil War Novel, MacKinley Kantor

War, naked and flaming, changed their lives. The scene is Gettysburg PA 1863.

Bantam Giant #A1608, First printing 1952. LONG REMEMBER, by MacKinley Kantor.

Very minor corner chips on covers. (6236)

NOTE on descriptions: most of these books were cataloged by a previous owner with small numbers (e.g. N/7/30, N/3/9, etc.) written on first inside page. All have some very minor corner chips on covers. All are complete and readable. Most are more than half-a-century old … and very collectable!
Publisher: bantam
ISBN: None