Booth, T. Michael, and Spencer, Duncan:
Paratrooper; The Life of Gen. James M. Gavin - signiertes Exemplar
2019, ISBN: 9780671732264
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Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press [An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield], 2016. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xiii, [1], 225, [1] pages. Illustr… Mehr…
Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press [An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield], 2016. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xiii, [1], 225, [1] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Inscription on the title page signed by the author. Inscription reads To Norma Lynn Fox, Thanks for everything! Jesse J. Holland. [This is believed to be the Dr. Fox who has a Ph.D. in physiology from Cambridge University in England and a master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University, and worked as a clinical scientist at Genentech in South San Francisco]. Jesse James Holland Jr. (born June 28, 1971) is an American journalist, author, television personality and educator. He was one of the first African American journalists assigned to cover the Supreme Court full-time, and only the second African American editor of The Daily Mississippian, the newspaper of the University of Mississippi. He was a Visiting Distinguished Professor of Ethics in Journalism at the University of Arkansas, and then a guest host on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. He worked as a Race & Ethnicity reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Holland is one of the few Washington, D.C. reporters who has been credentialed to cover all three major branches of government: he worked as a Congressional reporter in 2000 and 2001-05, a White House reporter from 2000 to 2001, and a Supreme Court reporter from 2009 to 2014. He also served as National Labor Writer for the Associated Press from 2007 to 2009. In 2019 Holland became a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Residence at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. The Invisibles was awarded a silver medal in U.S. history from the Independent Publishers Association. The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture and History. The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis. By reading about these often-intimate relationships, readers will better understand some of the views that various presidents held about class and race in American society, and how these slaves contributed not only to the life and comforts of the presidents they served, but to America as a whole. Derived from a Kirkus review: Ten of the first 12 United States presidents were slave masters. In this brisk history, Holland. Washington correspondent for the Associated Press, examines the tangled relationships between slaves and the presidents they served, from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant, and exposes the convoluted laws enacted to impede slaves' quests for freedom. Of the first 12 presidents, only John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, fierce opponents of slavery, did not own slaves, thereby incurring heavy costs for domestic help to maintain the White House. Although some slaves' lives have been lost to history, Holland creates a vivid portrait of many, including William Lee, who worked as Washington's "body servant," and Oney Judge, born at Mount Vernon, who was Martha Washington's favorite. They were among some 150 slaves that Washington amassed by the time of the Revolution, many bought by his wife. Martha cherished Oney, and she was devastated when the woman fled from servitude. Tracked down, Oney was told that the Washingtons would free her when she returned to thembut she didn't believe the offer. "I am free now and choose to remain so," she replied. Holland reprises Jefferson's connection to the Hemings family, whose descendants claimed that he fathered Sally Hemings' children, and he reveals that even presidents who spoke against slavery kept slaves to run their farms and work on their land. James Madison, convinced that slaves should not be freed into white America, founded the American Colonization Society, "dedicated to freeing slaves and transporting them to the west coast of Africa." James Monroe, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson also endorsed that idea. Several thousand freed slaves were sent to Liberia from 1820 to 1840; in honor of Monroe, the capital was renamed Monrovia. An informative history of a chapter in America's past., Lyons Press [An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield], 2016, 3, Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1857. Hardcover. About Very Good. Sparks, author of this 19th century biography of Washington, was a leading educator and intellectual of his time. A president of Harvard, chaplain of Congress and author of numerous historical works on the American Revolution and early American leaders including Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris, Gen. Anthony Wayne, and Ethan Allen. This copy of Washington's "Life,' is from the 1857 printing. The book was originally published in 1839. About 6 x 9 3/4 inches, 562 pages including frontispiece and a print of Martha Washington as well as 9 appendices. Bound in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards are moderately worn, with lightly bumped corners and some minor spotting and staining. The spine has faded though lettering remains visible. Spine ends are worn away though underlying binding is intact and firm. Hinges are cracked but binding is tight. Text shows light age-tanning and some sparse spotting and staining. Tissue paper protecting portraits of Washington and his wife are intact. Text appears complete, clean and easily readable. There is a fading previous owner's signature and 19th century date on fep, o/w no marginal notes or underlining. The book's covers show its age but it is structurally sound and whole. It is interesting to note that Sparks was one of those American intellectuals who received the French author, Alexis de Tocqueville, during his 1831-32 visit to the U.S. that resulted in the classic "Democracy In America."., Little Brown & Co., 1857, 3, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Laura Patterson (Duncan Spencer photograph). 494, [2] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Sources and Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. This is a gripping account of an exceptional man - Jim Gavin, America's best paratrooper leader throughout WWII. During Operation Market Garden, Gavin wrote a new chapter in paratrooper heroism, seizing all his objectives despite a serious spinal injury on landing. The first comprehensive biography of James M. Gavin profiles the heroic general who led the famous 82nd Airborne Division during World War II and who later worked at the Pentagon and served as ambassador to France under President Kennedy. First printing was reportedly limited to only 20,000 copies. T. Michael Booth was a former paratrooper and Green Beret. A graduate of Yale, he knew General Gavin for a period of time before the Generals death and had his encouragement to produce this biography. Duncan Spencer was the author or coauthor of numerous books, among them Paratrooper and Conversations with the Enemy (which was a nonfiction finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He was a veteran journalist who had worked for The Washington Star and had been a columnist for Roll Call. James Maurice Gavin (March 22, 1907 - February 23, 1990), sometimes called "Jumpin' Jim" and "the jumping general", was a senior United States Army officer, with the rank of lieutenant general, who was the third Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. During the war, he was often referred to as "The Jumping General" because of his practice of taking part in combat jumps with the paratroopers under his command; he was the only American general officer to make four combat jumps in the war. Gavin was the youngest major general to command an American division in World War II, being only 37 upon promotion, and the youngest lieutenant general after the war, in March 1955. He was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses and several other decorations for his service in the war. Gavin also worked against segregation in the U.S. Army which gained him some notability. After the war, Gavin served as United States Ambassador to France from 1961 to 1962. Derived from a Kirkus review: A first-rate narrative of the life and times of Lt. Gen. James Maurice Gavin, one of the US Army's few great WW II heroes to stand his last post without a full-dress biography or autobiography. Drawing mainly on their subject's personal papers (including an unpublished memoir), Booth and Spencer offer a tough-minded, appraisal of a complex career officer whose combat record remains a legend in the American military. Gavin was raised by foster parents in western Pennsylvania's coal country. Leaving his home as a teenager, he enlisted and soon earned an appointment to West Point. Graduating in 1929, Gavin was well prepared for senior command when the US entered WW II. A protégé of Matthew Ridgway, Gavin made an enduring name for himself as the 82nd Airborne Division's up-front leader in its nonstop campaigns on Europe's bloodiest killing grounds. The unhappily married paratrooper made love as well as war; his conquests included the high-profile likes of Marlene Dietrich and journalist Martha Gellhorn. When the guns fell silent, America's youngest general since Custer never quite regained his stride. With little prospect of earning a fourth star, let alone becoming Chief of Staff, Gavin resigned from the Army in 1957 at the age of 50. Contentedly ensconced in a successful second marriage, the former soldier went on to head Arthur D. Little, a world-class consultancy whose revenues increased almost tenfold during his 20-year stewardship. Gavin (who gave JFK the idea for what became the Peace Corps) took time out to serve as US ambassador to France and otherwise kept active in public affairs. A balanced account of a storied fighting man's achievements on and off the battlefield., Simon & Schuster, 1994, 3<