Ky, Nguyen Cao:Twenty Years and Twenty Days
- gebunden oder broschiert 2011, ISBN: 9780812819083
New York: Penzler Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. George Carsillo (Jacket illustration). [8], 408 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. From th… Mehr…
New York: Penzler Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. George Carsillo (Jacket illustration). [8], 408 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. From the Dust Jacket: A True Romantic Saga of Young Theodore Roosevelt. The author states: "This book is a novel about real people and real events. It relates a true story--by Herodotus's rules. Every person names in the book was real, except for a hotel guest who was a fictitious invention. A few characters are also composites of more than one real person." The novel compresses an actual five year period into one of two years duration. The letter from the Marquis De Mores, challenging Theodore Roosevelt to a duel, is genuine, as are Roosevelt's reply and choice of weapons. Some of the more outlandish characters can be found in the pages of Roosevelt's Autobiography. The author further states that "this novel aims to be a dramatized homage to history rather than an unblemished factual record." Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (born January 26, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote his first published book at the age of eighteen and wrote several novels under such pen names as "Frank Wynne" and "'Brian Wynne" before gaining prominence when his book Hopscotch (1975) won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He is best known for his 1972 novel Death Wish, which was adapted for the 1974 film of the same title, followed by four sequels, and an upcoming remake. His follow-up 1975 sequel to Death Wish, Death Sentence, was very loosely adapted into a film of the same name which was released to theaters in late 2007, though an entirely different storyline, but with the novel's same look on vigilantism. Garfield is also the author of The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. Garfield's latest book, published in 2007, is Meinertzhagen, the biography of controversial British intelligence officer Richard Meinertzhagen. Garfield is the nephew of chorus dancer and stage manager Chester O'Brien. The author of more than seventy books, Brian Garfield is one of the country's most prolific writes of thrillers, westerns and other genre fiction. After time in the Army, a few years touring with a jazz band, and a Master's Degree from the University of Arizona, he settled into writing full time. Garfield is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America and the Western Writers of America, and the only author to have held both offices. Nineteen of his novels have been made into films, including Death Wish (1972), The Last Hard Men (1976) and Hopscotch (1975), for which he wrote the screenplay. To date, his novels have sold over twenty million copies worldwide. In 1884, Teddy Roosevelt's political career is dead in the water. A New York state assemblyman with eyes on national office, he finds his ambitions thwarted just months after his wife and infant daughter pass away. Frustrated by politics, he retires to the American West to ride, ranch, and hunt buffalo in the Dakota Badlands. Nobody tells him that the buffalo are gone. He arrives in Dakota a greenhorn, awkward in the saddle and unused to Western clothes. But his aristocratic charm, natural intelligence, and love of nature impress the hardened frontiersmen, forming a bond that lasts the rest of their lives. When a wealthy French marquis threatens the pristine country he has fallen in love with, Roosevelt joins with the Dakotans to defend it. Before the presidency, before San Juan Hill, it was in Dakota that Theodore Roosevelt became a man., Penzler Books, 1989, 3, New York: Stein and Day, 1976. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Edgar Blakeney (Jacket Design). 239, [1] pages. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling, chips and is price clipped. Ink notation on DJ rear flap. Highlighting noted. Nguy n Cao K (8 September 1930 - 23 July 2011) served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967. Then, until his retirement from politics in 1971, he served as vice president to bitter rival General Nguy n V n Thi u, in a nominally civilian administration. In 1964 K became prominent in junta politics, regarded as part of a group of young, aggressive officers dubbed the Young Turks. Over the next two years, there were repeated coup attempts, many of which were successful, and K was a key player in supporting or defeating them. In 2004, he became the first South Vietnamese leader to return, calling for reconciliation between communists and anti-communists. Derived from a Kirkus review: An informal memoir in highly polished as-told-to style, by the former South Vietnamese air commander, 1965-67 chief of state, and vice-president under Thieu. Ky began working with the Americans in the 1950s when he and CIA's William Colby airlifted secret agents into North Vietnam. With U. S. backing, he became prime minister amid pleas from the armed forces that he end post-Diem chaos. Speaking his mind to American generals, ambassadors, and presidents, Ky voiced complaints about U. S. conduct of the war: manipulation of South Vietnamese coups, failure to understand the country's culture, responsibility for corruption, and refusal to either make an all-out fight or keep a low profile like the Soviets and Chinese. Ky sees various turning points for South Vietnam. His government's 1968 refusal to agree to a bombing halt; Watergate prevented Nixon from blackmailing Hanoi with a new bomb; and in 1975, the US forbade Ky to fight a in Saigon., Stein and Day, 1976, 2.25<
