Walsh, Kenneth T.:
Ronald Reagan; Biography - signiertes Exemplar
2004, ISBN: 9780517200780
Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe
New York: Pocket Books, 2004. First Pocket Books printing [stated]. Mass-market paperback. Very good.. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 417 pages. Signed by author. Nice in… Mehr…
New York: Pocket Books, 2004. First Pocket Books printing [stated]. Mass-market paperback. Very good.. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 417 pages. Signed by author. Nice inscription to a service member on the page facing the title page. Called in to investigate the torture slaying of Major Franklin Talbot, Air Force detective Martin Collins becomes embroiled in the most controversial case of his career when evidence begins to suggest that Talbot had been hiding a deadly secret. From an on-line posting: "The son of an American diplomat and a Chinese mother, Patrick A. Davis spent most of his childhood living in a variety of countries, including Pakistan, Sudan, Liberia, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. When Pat was sixteen, his father retired from the Foreign Service and the family moved to Washington State. After graduating from Sequim High School, Pat attended the United States Air Force Academy, receiving his commission as a second lieutenant in 1979. He earned his wings a year later and spent his initial assignment flying C-130 transports, becoming the youngest evaluator pilot on the base. In 1986, he was selected as an ASTRA a prestigious designation where the Air Force identifies young officers to be groomed for senior leadership and transferred to the Pentagon. Following this staff assignment, he returned to the cockpit to pilot the secret U-2 spy plane. The missions were long and challenging, and while Pat never enjoyed the restrictions of working in a space suit, he loved the sensation of floating seventy thousand feet above the earth. During the first Gulf War, he helped plan and direct U-2 surveillance operations and was credited with 11 combat sorties. Once the war was over, Pat, now a major, was sent for a year of advanced military studies at the Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas. Upon completing the course, he was faced with accepting an extended tour as a staff officer. Still desiring to fly, he made the painful decision to separate from the military and applied for a pilot job with a major airline. In 1992, he was hired by American Airlines...and subsequently furloughed ten months later. Deciding to treat the furlough as a sabbatical, Pat used his time off to hone his writing skills. Three years and countless drafts later, Pat was recalled to American Airlines. In 1997, an agent agreed to read one of his novels and within weeks, had signed a two-book deal. The General, a military murder thriller, was released in hardback in 1998 and cracked several bestseller lists, including reaching number one in the Dallas Morning.", Pocket Books, 2004, 3, (Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press, 1986) 0909079307. Brenthurst Second Series, number 2. Standard edition limited to 850 copies. Large 4to; original crimson cloth; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; tinted top edge; silk markers; pp. 275 + (i), incl. index; several reproductions of contemporary illustrations, in monochrome and full colour. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. A few fox spots to fore-edge, else fine. "The name of John Blades Currey (1829-1904) is seldom mentioned in histories of southern Africa. Indeed, the young Englishman who arrived at the Cape in 1850 made little direct impact on its story. He was nonetheless to become a profound influence on some of the Cape's most famous men and an astute chronicler of the political and social events of his time. His memoirs, published here for the first time, cover half a century of Cape history, from 1850 to 1900. Soldiering, farming, copper-mining - Currey tried all these; then, on the advice of governor Sir George Grey he joined the Cape civil service. While in its employ in the late 1860s he was entrusted with the task of introducing to a sceptical Europe southern Africa's first diamond, the 'Eureka'. Later, as secretary to the government of Griqualand West, he chose the new name of 'Kimberley' for the burgeoning diamond-fields town of New Rush. But in 1875 Currey was blamed for the diggers' rebellion there, and this led to his dismissal from office and blighted his subsequent public career. While he was in Kimbeley Currey befriended two young fortune-hunters, both of whom were to become renowned premiers of the Cape: Cecil John Rhodes and John X. Merriman. To both of them Currey was to remain a lifelong friend and counsellor. ... He is revealed in the account not as a politician but as a man who helped to shape politicians, not as a man who made history but rather as one who was passionately part of it. The manuscript forms part of The Brenthurst Collection, as do the majority of the contemporary illustrations which complement the text." ., (Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press, 1986) 0909079307, 0, San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1986. First edition. Paperback. g+. Large Quarto. 124pp. Original photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Black endpapers. Frontispiece photograph of Joan Miro. Striking exhibition catalogue featuring 114 b/w photographic portraits of major creative personalities by Arnold Newman, one of the most innovative and prolific artists of his time. Wrappers with light wear along edges and light scuffing. Blaind-stamp "Library of Michael Levee" on front endpaper. Wrappers and interior in overall good+ to very good condition., Harcourt Brace, 1986, 2.5, Sutton, NE : SELF-PUBLISHED (Spearman Publishing and Printing), 1986 . Paperback. Very Good Plus. Just a bit of shelfwear to front and rear panels. The documented story of transplanted Easterner-turned Idaho trapper and survivalist Claude Dallas, shot two game wardens and was the target of one of the largest manhunts in law-enforcement history. Dallas believed he was exempt from seasonal hunting, fishing and trapping regulations because he lived off the land full-time. Originally published serially in the periodical "The Trapper." Here, the author, a trapper himself, attempts to offer a balanced account of the conflict between trappers and game regulations, particularly as regards the moving of Bobcats to the Endangered Species list in 1978. 85 pp., SELF-PUBLISHED (Spearman Publishing and Printing), 1986, 3, New York: Park Lane Press, 1997. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. 184 pages. Illustrations. Chronology. Bibliography. Sources. Index. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Inscription reads: To Bob, colleague, ally in the journalism wars, and friend. All the best, Ken Walsh, February 1998. Topics covered include Middle American, Actor, Ideologue, Politician, President: First Term; President: Second Term; and Reagan's Legacy. This is one of the Biography book series. It is also a Balliett & Fitzgerald Book. This book is based on the A&E Television Network Biography series. Political correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh examines the roots of the man who went from small-town middle America to Hollywood and the White House, and tells readers how Ronald Reagan developed his unflagging belief in the American dream. Kenneth T. Walsh (born May 1947) is an American journalist. From 1994 to 1995, he was president of the White House Correspondents' Association. Kenneth T. Walsh is the chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, author of "The Presidency" column for The Report at U.S. News and writer of a daily blog called "Ken Walsh's Washington". He joined the magazine in 1984 as a congressional correspondent and has covered the presidency, presidential campaigns, and national politics since 1986. Walsh is one of the longest-serving White House correspondents in history. He has won the two most prestigious awards for White House coverage: the Aldo Beckman Award (twice) and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency (three times). In reporting on the presidency, Walsh has traveled to more than 70 countries and covered a wide range of events, including many superpower summits and international conferences. He has conducted numerous interviews over the years with Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Herbert Walker Bush, and Ronald Reagan. Building on exclusive interviews and access to major figures of the Reagan era such as Michael Deaver and Mikhail Gorbachev, Kenneth Walsh, longtime White House correspondent of U.S. News and World Report, shows us a more complex and compelling man than either end of the political spectrum would have us believe - an arch-conservative with roots in FDR's New Deal; a divorce who rarely saw his own children, yet lectured America on family values; a rabid hater of Communism who once belonged to leftist Hollywood organizations and later brokered peace with the Soviet Union. Though Reagan regularly blurred reality and fiction to create what he - and so many millions of Americans - wished to be true, his motivations were not always political, and here you will learn what drove Ronald Reagan from a small flat in Tampico, Illinois, to the White House, and what obstacles he overcame to get there., Park Lane Press, 1997, 3<
