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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2001.. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An epic novel, beginning in Dallas on November 22, 1963, this is Ellroy's take on Kennedy&… mais…
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2001.. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An epic novel, beginning in Dallas on November 22, 1963, this is Ellroy's take on Kennedy's assassination and the subsequent cover-up The second book in his Underworld USA trilogy, this covers the period from 1962 to 1968 and involves the mob and the Ku Klux Klan, Howard Hughes, J. Edgar Hoover and bringing white 'powder' back from Vietnam. 672 pp., Alfred A. Knopf, 2001., 4, New York: Putnam, [1966]. good, fair. 22 cm, 287, index, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears, ink notation on front DJ flap. Foreword by Theodore M. Bernstein. This collection of articles originally published in Times Talk contains excellent material on the people behind the news., Putnam, 2, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. good, good. 752, figures, tables, chapter references, appendices, supplements, biblio, small stains to fore-edge, DJ soiled & in plastic sleeve. Comprehensive analysis of political assassination, including an overview ofthe impact of assassinations upon government, a description of all attempts on the lives of officeholders in the United States, an evaluation of the motives and emotional stability of assassins, cross-cultural comparative data with other nations, and cultural factors underlying the high incidence of political violence in the United States., Praeger Publishers, 1970, 2.5, London:: Century, , (2001). Near fine in fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages).. First UK printing. An epic novel, beginning in Dallas on November 22, 1963, this is Ellroy's take on Kennedy's assassination and the subsequent cover-up The second book in his Underworld USA trilogy, this covers the period from 1962 to 1968 and involves the mob and the Ku Klux Klan, Howard Hughes, J. Edgar Hoover and bringing white 'powder' back from Vietnam. SIGNED on the title page. 672 pp., Century, 4.5, Orig. pub. Spartanburg 1940. Reprinted 1976. Print on Demand Edition 2010. 338 pp., illus., index This book presents the history of Spartanburg County as compiled and written by the Spartanburg Unit of the WPA Writers' Program. Members of the project, under the editorship of Fronde Kennedy, researched courthouse records, newspaper files, and other sources for information on the affairs of city and county. An account of the formation of the Spartan Regiment, the Revolutionary battles in the county, and the stubborn resistance of Upcountry partisans to British and Tory dominance serves as an introduction to a balanced history which focuses more on events than individuals. The development of the county is covered under the following headings: the making of Spartan County; Spartan District, 1800-1825; the courthouse village; the old iron district; looms and spindles; doctrines and dogmas; schools and learning; the prosperous fifties; social life in the old days; secession and war years; political cross-currents, 1895-1868; the Union League and the Ku Klux Klan; the banner district of democracy, 1868-1876; rails and expansion; social life during Reconstruction; plows and progress; the Tillman era; Spartanburg, city of success; education and the arts; preparations for war; the Twenty-seventh Division at Camp Wadsworth; the year 1918; demobilization and memories; and these latter days. A selected bibliography is included., Orig. pub. Spartanburg 1940. Reprinted 1976, 0, Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, Inc, 2011. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xii, 323, [1] pages. Illustrations. Joseph Paul Franklin Timeline. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Mel Ayton has a B.A. Honours degree in Politics and History and a master's degree from Durham University. He is a former Fulbright Teacher and college lecturer. For his M.A. (Dunelm), post-graduate degree, Ayton specialized in the teaching of American history in US schools and colleges. Throughout his teaching career he has taught in schools and colleges. In 1988 he was selected as a Fulbright Teacher and taught in Michigan. In 2003 Mel Ayton was the historical adviser for the BBC's television documentary, The Kennedy Dynasty, which was broadcast in the UK and the US in November 2003. He also worked as a historical consultant for NBC News, National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel and appeared in their documentaries - CIA Secret Experiments, 2008, CIA - Mind Control, 2006, and Conspiracy Test: The Robert Kennedy Assassination, 2008. Ayton has appeared in television programs produced by the BBC's Newsnight and the UK's Channel 4 News and has also appeared as a guest on numerous US radio talk shows including: The Peter Boyles Show, The Dennis Miller Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Lars Larson Show, The Janet Mefferd Show, The Brian Thomas Show, The Schilling Show, and The Steve Cochran Show. Ayton is the author of numerous articles for various publications, including History Ireland, Crime Magazine, Max Holland's Washington Decoded, George Mason University's History News Network, The Los Angeles Times and TIME magazine. Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 - November 20, 2013) was an American white supremacist and serial killer who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Franklin was convicted of several murders and received six life sentences, as well as two death sentences. He also confessed to the attempted murders of magazine publisher and pornographer Larry Flynt in 1978 and civil rights activist Vernon Jordan in 1980. Both survived their injuries, but Flynt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Franklin was not convicted in either of those highly publicized cases, and he made his confessions years after the crimes had occurred. Because he repeatedly changed his accounts of some crimes, and was not charged in some of the cases in which he was suspected, officials cannot determine the full extent of Franklin's crimes. His claims of racial motivation were offset by a defense expert witness who testified in 1997 that Franklin had paranoid schizophrenia and was not fit to stand trial. Franklin was on Missouri's death row for 15 years awaiting execution for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon. He was executed by lethal injection on November 20, 2013. Believing himself to be on a "God-given mission," Joseph Paul Franklin was the only racially motivated serial killer ever pursued by the Justice Department. Mel Ayton examines his murderous life, from his poverty-stricken youth in a backward Alabama suburb to his indoctrination by militant Nazis and southern racists to his eventual capture by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Ayton's exhaustive report uncovers the truth behind Franklin's three-year undertaking to murder Jews and African Americans. White supremacist Franklin was, by his own admission, an outlaw, a racist, and weird. As a neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klansman, he violently enforced his views by embarking on a "lone hunter" mission to kill. He saw African Americans and Jews as subhuman and knew no moral obstacle to racial violence, invoking the Bible to support his criminal acts. As Franklin's 1977-80 killing spree was contemporaneous with other racially charged incidents that other Klansmen and neo-Nazis wrought throughout the United States, his story also exposes how hate organizations have made killers out of disaffected and bitter young men. In this first full-length book about Franklin, Ayton reveals a shocking and unsavory side of American society., Potomac Books, Inc, 2011, 3, Arco Publishers. Very Good. Plastic wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection that is not adhered to the book. No dust jacket. Dispatched within 2 business days., Arco Publishers, 3, arco london 1954. reprint 272pp ills.[b/w] VG- (red cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled w.spine sl.sunned,sl.wear to extrems.,owner's sign.and dealer's stamp to ffep,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed) lacks d/w, arco london 1954, 0, arco london 1954. reprint [june 1954] 272pp ills.[b/w] VG (red cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,spine and upper edge sl.sunned,sl.bumps to extrems.,paste action to eps,content edges and margins sl.browned) lacks d/w, arco london 1954, 0, Arco 1954. FIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 272pp, illus., VG (light scuffing to boards, light to moderate fading and soiling to boards, light to moderate foxing & tanning within), with partial d/w enclosed (front flap and cover only - the spine and the rear are MISSING; front segment that remains has moderate creasing, chipping, closed tears etc.), Arco 1954, 0, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf, 1994. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [12], 704, [4] pages. Illustrations. Sources, Resources, Credits and Notes on Structure. Annotated Bibliography. Index. Contains Prologue: Hinge of History; Chapter 1, 1932-1938: A Feudal Land; Chapter 2: 1938-1945: Road of Hope; Chapter 3, 1945-1950: Breaking the Mold; Chapter 4, 1950-1954; Chapter 4, 1950-1954: Days of Grace. John Egerton (1935 - 2013) was an American journalist and author known for his writing on the Civil Rights Movement, Southern food, history of the South, and Southern culture. Egerton wrote or edited approximately twenty non-fiction books and one "contemporary fable". He also contributed chapters to numerous other volumes and wrote scores of articles in newspapers and magazines. Egerton was a participant and writer for many projects and conferences dealing with education, desegregation, civil rights, and the American South; particularly its food. Among his best-known books are "The Americanization of Dixie", "Generations: An American Family", "Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History", and "Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation before the Civil Rights Movement in the South". Egerton's Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He also wrote Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History and coedited Nashville: An American Self-Portrait, a look at his adopted city to in the 1960s. In June 2013, five months before his own death, Egerton spoke at the memorial service for preacher and civil rights activist Will D. Campbell. This is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a "separate but equal" division of the races. Published forty years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling of the Supreme Court, this compelling book is not only a rich trove of forgotten history--it also speaks profoundly to us in the context of today's continuing racial and social conflict. Derived from a Kirkus review: Egerton's examination of the South in the period immediately preceding the civil rights movement is a form of history through group biography. Calling himself `a middle-aged, middle-class, white Southern male with moderately liberal biases,' Egerton gracefully combines narrative techniques with the richness of historical fact to examine the South in the period immediately preceding the civil rights movement. Covering the years from 1932 (the beginning of the New Deal) to 1954 (when the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education), the story unfolds chronologically, as most good history does, so the causes and effects are clear. Chronicling the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union and other groups, Egerton reminds us that conscience and opposition to racism existed in the South before Rosa Parks took her seat on the bus. Far less known than King, some of the most interesting individuals are Will Alexander, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.J. Cash, Frank Porter Graham, James Weldon Johnson, Lucy Randolph Mason, and Ralph McGill. The author wrestles successfully with his wonderment at who and what transformed the politics and culture of the South in the space of a single generation. Those devoted to the study of Southern history will read this book avidly. Newcomers will learn a great deal from the author's inspired conceptualization., Alfred A Knopf, 1994, 3, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [12], 704, [4] pages. Illustrations. Sources, Resources, Credits, and Notes on Structure. Annotated Bibliography. Index. John Egerton (June 14, 1935 - November 21, 2013) was an American journalist and author known for his writing on the Civil Rights Movement, Southern food, history of the South, and Southern culture. Egerton wrote or edited approximately twenty non-fiction books and one "contemporary fable". He also contributed chapters to numerous other volumes and wrote scores of articles in newspapers and magazines. Egerton was a participant and writer for many projects and conferences dealing with education, desegregation, civil rights, and the American South; particularly its food. Among his best-known books are "The Americanization of Dixie", "Generations: An American Family", "Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History", and "Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation before the Civil Rights Movement in the South". Egerton's Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He also wrote Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History and coedited Nashville: An American Self-Portrait, a look at his adopted city to in the 1960s. In June 2013, five months before his own death, Egerton spoke at the memorial service for preacher and civil rights activist Will D. Campbell. This is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a "separate but equal" division of the races. Published forty years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling of the Supreme Court, this compelling book is not only a rich trove of forgotten history--it also speaks profoundly to us in the context of today's continuing racial and social conflict. Derived from a Kirkus review: Egerton's examines the South in the period immediately preceding the civil rights movement. Egerton gracefully combines the narrative techniques of fiction with the richness of historical fact to examine the South in the period immediately preceding the civil rights movement. Covering the years from 1932 (the beginning of the New Deal) to 1954 (when the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education), the story unfolds chronologically, as most good history does, so the causes and effects are clear. Chronicling the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union and other groups, Egerton reminds us that conscience and opposition to racism existed in the South before Rosa Parks took her seat on the bus. Far less known than King, some of the most interesting are Will Alexander, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.J. Cash, Frank Porter Graham, James Weldon Johnson, Lucy Randolph Mason, and Ralph McGill. The author wrestles successfully with his wonderment at who and what transformed the politics and culture of the South in the space of a single generation. Those devoted to the study of Southern history will read this book avidly. Newcomers will learn a great deal from the author's inspired conceptualization., Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, 3, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. viii, [4], 512, [4] pages. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Minor corner bumping. Includes Acknowledgments and Prelude, Illustrations, as well as Notes, Appendix, and Index. Chapters include Searching for Roots; The Free State of Winston; The Growing-Up Years; Manhood Responsibilities; Off to the War; A Good Life in Jasper; Road to Montgomery; A Long Row to Hoe; Johnson and Rives; Early Years in Montgomery; A Trailblazing Court; The Evolving Storm; Freedom Riders; The Break with Little George; Close to Home; Ticking the Last Tick; Selma; Family Sorrows; Neighborhood Schools; Justice Johnson--Almost; The Right to Treatment; A Hell of a Day; Unfit for Human Habitation; Going to the FBI; Putting My Hay Down; Troopers; Overcoming Discrimination; Recognition and Acclaim; Appellate Judge; An Onerous Job; The Death Penalty; and Mark of a Man. Jack Bass is author or co-author of eight nonfiction books about the American South. His works have focused on Southern politics, race relations, and the role of law in shaping the civil rights era. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Bass studied as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University. In 13 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, he was twice named South Carolina "journalist of the year." He taught for 11 years as a professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Constitution, and Washington Post. In announcing Bass the winner of the 1994 Robert Kennedy Book Award grand prize for Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Arthur Schlesinger Jr. acclaimed it as "a strong and evocative work that illuminates the struggle for racial justice." Judge Frank Johnson endured the outrage of a society that felt itself and its allies under siege, and he prevailed, eventually winning honor even in his home state. In his twenty-four years on the District Court of Montgomery, Judge Johnson declared segregated public transportation unconstitutional, Judge Johnson paid heavily for his judicial vision. Ostracized from his community, subjected to death threats by the Ku Klux Klan, and labeled by George Wallace as "an integrating, scalawagging, carpet-bagging, race-mixing, bald-faced liar" who should be given "a barbed-wire enema," he was called by some "the most hated man in the South." Judge Frank Johnson endured the outrage of a society that felt itself and its values under siege, and he prevailed, eventually winning honor even in his home state. Taming the storm is the story of an authentic American hero, and the era that he did so much to define. Derived from a Kirkus review: Bass, using extensive quotes from taped interviews with his subject and others, tells the story of an outstanding and heroic federal judge: Frank M. Johnson of Alabama, who, despite the constant threat of violence in the explosive 1960's South, contributed to the achievement of racial justice in numerous landmark civil-rights cases. Johnson was a typically ornery product of the ``free state of Winston,'' as northern Alabama's Winston County was known. Aside from his fiercely independent personality, there was little in Johnson's upbringing to suggest that he would become a champion of civil rights: He received a conventional legal education at the Univ. of Alabamawhere he befriended his future adversary George Wallace and graduated first in his classand, after WW II combat service in Europe, he returned to an ordinary legal practice in Alabama. But Johnson apparently had an innate sense of justice that, after his appointment to the federal bench in 1955, led to frequent confrontations with Alabama's reactionary political culture. Bass describes how Johnson's attempts to enforce Brown v. Board of Education resulted in dramatic and vituperative showdowns with Wallace and finally ended segregation in the Alabama schools, and how Johnson's decisions allowed the historic Selma march to go forward, and punished violence directed against African-Americans. Together with judges of the Fifth Circuit, who affirmed Johnson's progressive decisions, Johnson had a pervasive effect on the eradication of racial discrimination in the South. A vivid, first-rate biography of a judicial hero., Doubleday, 1993, 2.75, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, [4], 512 pages. Minor soiling to bottom edge. Includes Illustrations, Footnotes, Acknowledgments, Prelude, Notes, Appendix, and Index. Chapters include Searching for Root; The Free State of Winston; The Growing-Up Years; Manhood Responsibilities; Off to the War; A Good Life in Jasper; Road to Montgomery; A Long Row to Hoe; Johnson and Rives; Early Years in Montgomery; A Trailblazing Court; The Evolving Storm; Freedom Riders; The Break with Little George; Close to Home; Ticking the Last Tick; Selma; Family Sorrows; Neighborhood Schools; Justice Johnson--Almost; The Right to Treatment; A Hell of a Day; Unfit for Human Habitation; Going to the FBI; Putting My Hay Down; Troopers; Overcoming Discrimination; Recognition and Acclaim; Appellate Judge; An Onerous Job; The Death Penalty; and Mark of a Man. Jack Bass is an American author and journalist. He was born in 1934. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1956 with a degree in journalism. He worked at The News and Courier, a co-owned weekly paper, The West Ashley Journal, and The State (Columbia). He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for 1965-66. From 1966 to 1973 Bass worked as the Columbia Bureau Chief for The Charlotte Observer and was a lecturer for journalism at the University of South Carolina. He was named South Carolina Newspaperman of the Year in 1968 and 1972. His The Transformation of Southern Politics was on the American Library Association's "Notable Books for Adults List" for 1976, and he received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "Taming the Storm" in 1994. Thrust by fate into the center of a raging storm of controversy, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., at thirty-seven the youngest federal judge in the country, would turn the tide of white resistance to integration with a stream of decisions that upheld the claims of black Southerners to their civil rights. In his twenty-fur years on the District Court, Judge Johnson declared segregated public transportation unconstitutional, ordered the integration of public facilities, and required that blacks be registered to vote. He ordered Governor George Wallace, his former law school classmate, to allow the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, and brought about comprehensive statewide school desegregation. Judge Johnson paid heavily for his judicial vision. Ostracized from his community,subjected to death threats by the Ku Klux Klan, and labeled by George Wallace as "an integrating, scalawagging, carpet-bagging, race-mixing, bald-faced liar" who should be given "a barbed-wire enema," he was called by some "the most hated man in the South." Despite it all, he did not waver in administering justice by applying his concept of the Constitution as a charter of liberty. Martin Luther King, Jr, called him a man who "gave true meaning to the word Justice." Derived from a Kirkus review: Bass, using extensive quotes from taped interviews with his subject and others, tells the story of an outstanding and heroic federal judge: Frank M. Johnson of Alabama, who, despite the constant threat of violence in the explosive 1960's South, contributed to the achievement of racial justice in numerous landmark civil-rights cases. Johnson was a typically ornery product of the ``free state of Winston,'' as northern Alabama's Winston County was known (out of Unionist and antislavery sentiment, Winston attempted to secede from Alabama in 1862). Aside from his fiercely independent personality, there was little in Johnson's upbringing to suggest that he would become a champion of civil rights: He received a conventional legal education at the Univ. of Alabama-where he graduated first in his class-and, after WW II combat service in Europe, he returned to a legal practice in Alabama. But Johnson apparently had an innate sense of justice that, after his appointment to the federal bench in 1955, led to frequent confrontations with Alabama's political culture. Bass describes how Johnson's attempts to enforce Brown v. Board of Education resulted in dramatic and vituperative showdowns with Wallace and finally ended segregation in the Alabama schools, and how Johnson's decisions allowed the historic Selma march to go forward, and punished violence directed against African-Americans. Together with judges of the Fifth Circuit, who affirmed Johnson's progressive decisions, Johnson had a pervasive effect on the eradication of racial discrimination in the South. A vivid, first-rate biography of a judicial hero., Doubleday, 1993, 3, United Kingdom: Arco Publishers, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A grim insider account and exposé of the evils of racial discrimination. States: First published May 1954. Arco Publishers, London 1954. illus 272pp hb spine faded, pages browned, vg, Arco Publishers, 1954, 3, Chicago, IL: Esquire, Inc.. Condition: covers show light to moderate soil, light to moderate cover and edge wear in places; small chip to each of upper and lower outer spine edges, small chip to outer mid-spine; internal pages are in excellent condition. Contents include: "Other People's Mail" ("A bundle of really first-class letters in various moods from the pens of Groucho Marx, John Kenneth Galbraith, Cole Porter, James Michener, Robert Johnson, Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, James Thurber, Ezra Pound"); delightful spoof and photospread featuring Phyllis Diller and Godfrey Cambridge in "The Making of the President, 1968! A Musical Extravaganza by Theodore Black" by Alice Glaser (with Cambridge as a Ku Klux Klansman); article "Resume of the Young Man as a Non-Generation" by Howard Junker; fiction "The World (This One), The Flesh (Mrs. Oedipa Maas), and The Testament of Pierce Inverarity" by Thomas Pynchon; article and photospread "My Boston" by Senator Edward M. Kennedy; fiction "The Double Snapper" by Irvin Faust; article "The Artist As Buffalo Hunter" by Harvey Dinnerstein (with accompanying artwork); article "Willie Pep's Art of Self-Defense" by Steve Gelman; fiction "Thirst" by Ivo Andric; article "Sorry About That" by George C. Scott ("All the world being a stage, an actor can learn something everywhere: a brilliant American actor here takes a firsthand look at the performances in Vietnam and measures them against his own"); article "This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This Denmark" by Sybille Bedford; article "Robert Frost Speaks Prose" by Harvey Breit ("In herky-jerky sentences, a verbatim talk with the poet about art, freedom and the gift of hate"); article "What I Did Last Summer" by Candice Bergen; poem "How Like The Great Greek God Apollo Is Our King" by Jesse Stuart. . Good. Magazine. First Edition. 1965., Esquire, Inc., 1965, 2.5, New York: Ecco / An Imprint of HarperCollins, 2005. Signed by Deborah Lipstadt directly on the title page (her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only very lightly rubbed). NO chips, creases or fading. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. 2005. First printing with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Introduction by Anthony Lewis. Afterword by Alan Dershowitz. List of chapter notes. Index. Bound in the original pale gray boards, with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "In 1993, Deborah E. Lipstadt, a professor of Jewish Studies at Emory University, published the first comprehensive history of the Holocaust denial movement. In this critically acclaimed account, Lipstadt called David Irving -- a prolific, respected, and well known writer on World War II who had, over the years, made controversial statements about Hitler and the Jews -- one of the most dangerous spokespersons of the denial movement. A year later, when Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher, Penguin UK, for libel in a London courtroom, the media spotlight fell on Deborah Lipstadt and, by extension, on the historiography of the Holocaust. Five years later, when David Irving lost his case after an intense ten-week trial, Lipstadt's resounding victory was proclaimed on front pages of newspapers worldwide. The implications of the trial, however, were far from over. HISTORY ON TRIAL is Deborah Lipstadt's personal, riveting chronicle of the legal battle with Irving, in which she went from a relatively quiet existence as a professor at an American university to being a defendant in a sensational libel case. This blow-by-blow account reveals how Lipstadt raised $1.5 million for her defense, which included a first-rate team of solicitors, historians, and experts, among them Anthony Julius, a literary scholar who is better known as the late Princess Diana's divorce lawyer. Lipstadt describes how in forced silence she endured Irving's relentless provocations, including his claims that more people died in Senator Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, that survivors tattooed numbers on their arms to make money, and that nonwhite people are a different 'species.' She also reveals how her lawyers gained access to Irving's personal papers, which exposed his association with neo-Nazi extremists in Germany, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and the National Alliance, which wants to transform America into an 'Aryan society.' In the course of the trial, Lipstadt's legal team stripped away Irving's mask of respectability through exposing the prejudice, extremism, and distortion of history that defined his work, even his once highly regarded account of the Dresden bombing. Part history, part edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama, HISTORY ON TRIAL goes beyond the historiography of World War II and the Holocaust to reveal the intricate way in which extremism and deliberate historical distortions gain widespread legitimacy and help generate hatred. An inspiring personal story of perseverance and unexpected limelight, here is the definitive account of the trial that tested the standards for historical and judicial truths, a trial that the Daily Telegraph of London proclaimed did 'for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.'". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xxi, 346pp. + 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Ecco / An Imprint of HarperCollins, 2005, 4.5, new. 6 mil em espécie dá continuidade à eletrizante trama da série Submundo USA. Uma nova e ambiciosa história, repleta de violência e emoção, que nos leva através dos conturbados anos 60 e da verdade por trás de três assassinatos que chocaram os Estados Unidos. Em Tablóide americano, vemos ruir o sonho americano com o assassinato do presidente John Kennedy. 6 mil em espécie começa apontando uma conspiração, que liga o crime organizado a políticos de direita, como a responsável pela morte de uma das figuras mais importantes e adoradas dos Estados Unidos. No dia do crime, Wayne Junior, um tira de Las Vegas, chega a Dallas com 6 mil dólares em espécie no bolso, com a função de matar um cafetão negro. Sem saber, acaba preso na teia de aranha que encobriu os verdadeiros responsáveis pela morte de JFK. Pelo caminho, Wayne encontra dois personagens de Tablóide Americano: Ward Littell, ex-agente do FBI, advogado de Howard Hughes, e Pete Bondurant, ex-agente da CIA, anti-comunista fervoroso. Através das histórias e atitudes desses três homens, o livro embarca em uma jornada de cinco anos pelo submundo da política. Uma trama que coloca Wayne em contato com o crime organizado em Dallas e Las Vegas, com Howard Hughes, com a Ku-Klux-Klan, com tráfico de heroína no Vietnã e com extremistas de direita que planejam muitas mortes. 6 mil em espécie apresenta um retrato cru e não muito lisonjeiro dos Estados Unidos dos anos 60 no qual Ellroy retrata os mais importantes ícones deste período em conexão com assassinos, políticos corruptos, tiras e toda a galeria de personagens violentos e inesquecíveis do autor. Uma nova obra-prima de um dos mais reconhecidos autores da atualidade, que destrói, neste romance, os últimos resquícios de ingenuidade do sonho americano. Ellroy é um dos escritores policiais mais admirados e influentes da atualidade. Times Literary SupplementUm marco na carreira de Ellroy. Publishers WeeklyImpressionante. London Review of BooksUma jornada selvagem. The New York Times Book ReviewUm trabalho sujo, mas divertido. Compre este livro se tiver coragem. E, depois, veja se consegue largá-lo. TimeUma tapeçaria assustadora entremeada de fato, ficção, leitura hilariante e uma especulação informada e muito perturbadora sobre as ligações entre o crime e o governo dos EUA. Kirkus Reviews Editora : Record (5 julho 2002)Idioma : PortuguêsCapa comum : 848 páginasISBN-10 : 8501061646ISBN-13 : 978-8501061645Dimensões : 20.8 x 13.6 x 4.8 cm, 6<
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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2001.. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An epic novel, beginning in Dallas on November 22, 1963, this is Ellroy's take on Kennedy&… mais…
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2001.. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An epic novel, beginning in Dallas on November 22, 1963, this is Ellroy's take on Kennedy's assassination and the subsequent cover-up The second book in his Underworld USA trilogy, this covers the period from 1962 to 1968 and involves the mob and the Ku Klux Klan, Howard Hughes, J. Edgar Hoover and bringing white 'powder' back from Vietnam. 672 pp., Alfred A. Knopf, 2001., 4, New York: Putnam, [1966]. good, fair. 22 cm, 287, index, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears, ink notation on front DJ flap. Foreword by Theodore M. Bernstein. This collection of articles originally published in Times Talk contains excellent material on the people behind the news., Putnam, 2, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. good, good. 752, figures, tables, chapter references, appendices, supplements, biblio, small stains to fore-edge, DJ soiled & in plastic sleeve. Comprehensive analysis of political assassination, including an overview ofthe impact of assassinations upon government, a description of all attempts on the lives of officeholders in the United States, an evaluation of the motives and emotional stability of assassins, cross-cultural comparative data with other nations, and cultural factors underlying the high incidence of political violence in the United States., Praeger Publishers, 1970, 2.5, London:: Century, , (2001). Near fine in fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages).. First UK printing. An epic novel, beginning in Dallas on November 22, 1963, this is Ellroy's take on Kennedy's assassination and the subsequent cover-up The second book in his Underworld USA trilogy, this covers the period from 1962 to 1968 and involves the mob and the Ku Klux Klan, Howard Hughes, J. Edgar Hoover and bringing white 'powder' back from Vietnam. SIGNED on the title page. 672 pp., Century, 4.5, Orig. pub. Spartanburg 1940. Reprinted 1976. Print on Demand Edition 2010. 338 pp., illus., index This book presents the history of Spartanburg County as compiled and written by the Spartanburg Unit of the WPA Writers' Program. Members of the project, under the editorship of Fronde Kennedy, researched courthouse records, newspaper files, and other sources for information on the affairs of city and county. An account of the formation of the Spartan Regiment, the Revolutionary battles in the county, and the stubborn resistance of Upcountry partisans to British and Tory dominance serves as an introduction to a balanced history which focuses more on events than individuals. The development of the county is covered under the following headings: the making of Spartan County; Spartan District, 1800-1825; the courthouse village; the old iron district; looms and spindles; doctrines and dogmas; schools and learning; the prosperous fifties; social life in the old days; secession and war years; political cross-currents, 1895-1868; the Union League and the Ku Klux Klan; the banner district of democracy, 1868-1876; rails and expansion; social life during Reconstruction; plows and progress; the Tillman era; Spartanburg, city of success; education and the arts; preparations for war; the Twenty-seventh Division at Camp Wadsworth; the year 1918; demobilization and memories; and these latter days. A selected bibliography is included., Orig. pub. Spartanburg 1940. Reprinted 1976, 0, Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, Inc, 2011. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xii, 323, [1] pages. Illustrations. Joseph Paul Franklin Timeline. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Mel Ayton has a B.A. Honours degree in Politics and History and a master's degree from Durham University. He is a former Fulbright Teacher and college lecturer. For his M.A. (Dunelm), post-graduate degree, Ayton specialized in the teaching of American history in US schools and colleges. Throughout his teaching career he has taught in schools and colleges. In 1988 he was selected as a Fulbright Teacher and taught in Michigan. In 2003 Mel Ayton was the historical adviser for the BBC's television documentary, The Kennedy Dynasty, which was broadcast in the UK and the US in November 2003. He also worked as a historical consultant for NBC News, National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel and appeared in their documentaries - CIA Secret Experiments, 2008, CIA - Mind Control, 2006, and Conspiracy Test: The Robert Kennedy Assassination, 2008. Ayton has appeared in television programs produced by the BBC's Newsnight and the UK's Channel 4 News and has also appeared as a guest on numerous US radio talk shows including: The Peter Boyles Show, The Dennis Miller Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Lars Larson Show, The Janet Mefferd Show, The Brian Thomas Show, The Schilling Show, and The Steve Cochran Show. Ayton is the author of numerous articles for various publications, including History Ireland, Crime Magazine, Max Holland's Washington Decoded, George Mason University's History News Network, The Los Angeles Times and TIME magazine. Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 - November 20, 2013) was an American white supremacist and serial killer who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Franklin was convicted of several murders and received six life sentences, as well as two death sentences. He also confessed to the attempted murders of magazine publisher and pornographer Larry Flynt in 1978 and civil rights activist Vernon Jordan in 1980. Both survived their injuries, but Flynt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Franklin was not convicted in either of those highly publicized cases, and he made his confessions years after the crimes had occurred. Because he repeatedly changed his accounts of some crimes, and was not charged in some of the cases in which he was suspected, officials cannot determine the full extent of Franklin's crimes. His claims of racial motivation were offset by a defense expert witness who testified in 1997 that Franklin had paranoid schizophrenia and was not fit to stand trial. Franklin was on Missouri's death row for 15 years awaiting execution for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon. He was executed by lethal injection on November 20, 2013. Believing himself to be on a "God-given mission," Joseph Paul Franklin was the only racially motivated serial killer ever pursued by the Justice Department. Mel Ayton examines his murderous life, from his poverty-stricken youth in a backward Alabama suburb to his indoctrination by militant Nazis and southern racists to his eventual capture by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Ayton's exhaustive report uncovers the truth behind Franklin's three-year undertaking to murder Jews and African Americans. White supremacist Franklin was, by his own admission, an outlaw, a racist, and weird. As a neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klansman, he violently enforced his views by embarking on a "lone hunter" mission to kill. He saw African Americans and Jews as subhuman and knew no moral obstacle to racial violence, invoking the Bible to support his criminal acts. As Franklin's 1977-80 killing spree was contemporaneous with other racially charged incidents that other Klansmen and neo-Nazis wrought throughout the United States, his story also exposes how hate organizations have made killers out of disaffected and bitter young men. In this first full-length book about Franklin, Ayton reveals a shocking and unsavory side of American society., Potomac Books, Inc, 2011, 3, Arco Publishers. Very Good. Plastic wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection that is not adhered to the book. No dust jacket. Dispatched within 2 business days., Arco Publishers, 3, arco london 1954. reprint 272pp ills.[b/w] VG- (red cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled w.spine sl.sunned,sl.wear to extrems.,owner's sign.and dealer's stamp to ffep,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed) lacks d/w, arco london 1954, 0, arco london 1954. reprint [june 1954] 272pp ills.[b/w] VG (red cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,spine and upper edge sl.sunned,sl.bumps to extrems.,paste action to eps,content edges and margins sl.browned) lacks d/w, arco london 1954, 0, Arco 1954. FIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 272pp, illus., VG (light scuffing to boards, light to moderate fading and soiling to boards, light to moderate foxing & tanning within), with partial d/w enclosed (front flap and cover only - the spine and the rear are MISSING; front segment that remains has moderate creasing, chipping, closed tears etc.), Arco 1954, 0, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf, 1994. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [12], 704, [4] pages. Illustrations. Sources, Resources, Credits and Notes on Structure. Annotated Bibliography. Index. Contains Prologue: Hinge of History; Chapter 1, 1932-1938: A Feudal Land; Chapter 2: 1938-1945: Road of Hope; Chapter 3, 1945-1950: Breaking the Mold; Chapter 4, 1950-1954; Chapter 4, 1950-1954: Days of Grace. John Egerton (1935 - 2013) was an American journalist and author known for his writing on the Civil Rights Movement, Southern food, history of the South, and Southern culture. Egerton wrote or edited approximately twenty non-fiction books and one "contemporary fable". He also contributed chapters to numerous other volumes and wrote scores of articles in newspapers and magazines. Egerton was a participant and writer for many projects and conferences dealing with education, desegregation, civil rights, and the American South; particularly its food. Among his best-known books are "The Americanization of Dixie", "Generations: An American Family", "Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History", and "Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation before the Civil Rights Movement in the South". Egerton's Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He also wrote Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History and coedited Nashville: An American Self-Portrait, a look at his adopted city to in the 1960s. In June 2013, five months before his own death, Egerton spoke at the memorial service for preacher and civil rights activist Will D. Campbell. This is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a "separate but equal" division of the races. Published forty years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling of the Supreme Court, this compelling book is not only a rich trove of forgotten history--it also speaks profoundly to us in the context of today's continuing racial and social conflict. Derived from a Kirkus review: Egerton's examination of the South in the period immediately preceding the civil rights movement is a form of history through group biography. Calling himself `a middle-aged, middle-class, white Southern male with moderately liberal biases,' Egerton gracefully combines narrative techniques with the richness of historical fact to examine the South in the period immediately preceding the civil rights movement. Covering the years from 1932 (the beginning of the New Deal) to 1954 (when the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education), the story unfolds chronologically, as most good history does, so the causes and effects are clear. Chronicling the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union and other groups, Egerton reminds us that conscience and opposition to racism existed in the South before Rosa Parks took her seat on the bus. Far less known than King, some of the most interesting individuals are Will Alexander, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.J. Cash, Frank Porter Graham, James Weldon Johnson, Lucy Randolph Mason, and Ralph McGill. The author wrestles successfully with his wonderment at who and what transformed the politics and culture of the South in the space of a single generation. Those devoted to the study of Southern history will read this book avidly. Newcomers will learn a great deal from the author's inspired conceptualization., Alfred A Knopf, 1994, 3, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [12], 704, [4] pages. Illustrations. Sources, Resources, Credits, and Notes on Structure. Annotated Bibliography. Index. John Egerton (June 14, 1935 - November 21, 2013) was an American journalist and author known for his writing on the Civil Rights Movement, Southern food, history of the South, and Southern culture. Egerton wrote or edited approximately twenty non-fiction books and one "contemporary fable". He also contributed chapters to numerous other volumes and wrote scores of articles in newspapers and magazines. Egerton was a participant and writer for many projects and conferences dealing with education, desegregation, civil rights, and the American South; particularly its food. Among his best-known books are "The Americanization of Dixie", "Generations: An American Family", "Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History", and "Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation before the Civil Rights Movement in the South". Egerton's Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He also wrote Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History and coedited Nashville: An American Self-Portrait, a look at his adopted city to in the 1960s. In June 2013, five months before his own death, Egerton spoke at the memorial service for preacher and civil rights activist Will D. Campbell. This is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a "separate but equal" division of the races. Published forty years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling of the Supreme Court, this compelling book is not only a rich trove of forgotten history--it also speaks profoundly to us in the context of today's continuing racial and social conflict. Derived from a Kirkus review: Egerton's examines the South in the period immediately preceding the civil rights movement. Egerton gracefully combines the narrative techniques of fiction with the richness of historical fact to examine the South in the period immediately preceding the civil rights movement. Covering the years from 1932 (the beginning of the New Deal) to 1954 (when the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education), the story unfolds chronologically, as most good history does, so the causes and effects are clear. Chronicling the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union and other groups, Egerton reminds us that conscience and opposition to racism existed in the South before Rosa Parks took her seat on the bus. Far less known than King, some of the most interesting are Will Alexander, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.J. Cash, Frank Porter Graham, James Weldon Johnson, Lucy Randolph Mason, and Ralph McGill. The author wrestles successfully with his wonderment at who and what transformed the politics and culture of the South in the space of a single generation. Those devoted to the study of Southern history will read this book avidly. Newcomers will learn a great deal from the author's inspired conceptualization., Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, 3, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. viii, [4], 512, [4] pages. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Minor corner bumping. Includes Acknowledgments and Prelude, Illustrations, as well as Notes, Appendix, and Index. Chapters include Searching for Roots; The Free State of Winston; The Growing-Up Years; Manhood Responsibilities; Off to the War; A Good Life in Jasper; Road to Montgomery; A Long Row to Hoe; Johnson and Rives; Early Years in Montgomery; A Trailblazing Court; The Evolving Storm; Freedom Riders; The Break with Little George; Close to Home; Ticking the Last Tick; Selma; Family Sorrows; Neighborhood Schools; Justice Johnson--Almost; The Right to Treatment; A Hell of a Day; Unfit for Human Habitation; Going to the FBI; Putting My Hay Down; Troopers; Overcoming Discrimination; Recognition and Acclaim; Appellate Judge; An Onerous Job; The Death Penalty; and Mark of a Man. Jack Bass is author or co-author of eight nonfiction books about the American South. His works have focused on Southern politics, race relations, and the role of law in shaping the civil rights era. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Bass studied as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University. In 13 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, he was twice named South Carolina "journalist of the year." He taught for 11 years as a professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Constitution, and Washington Post. In announcing Bass the winner of the 1994 Robert Kennedy Book Award grand prize for Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Arthur Schlesinger Jr. acclaimed it as "a strong and evocative work that illuminates the struggle for racial justice." Judge Frank Johnson endured the outrage of a society that felt itself and its allies under siege, and he prevailed, eventually winning honor even in his home state. In his twenty-four years on the District Court of Montgomery, Judge Johnson declared segregated public transportation unconstitutional, Judge Johnson paid heavily for his judicial vision. Ostracized from his community, subjected to death threats by the Ku Klux Klan, and labeled by George Wallace as "an integrating, scalawagging, carpet-bagging, race-mixing, bald-faced liar" who should be given "a barbed-wire enema," he was called by some "the most hated man in the South." Judge Frank Johnson endured the outrage of a society that felt itself and its values under siege, and he prevailed, eventually winning honor even in his home state. Taming the storm is the story of an authentic American hero, and the era that he did so much to define. Derived from a Kirkus review: Bass, using extensive quotes from taped interviews with his subject and others, tells the story of an outstanding and heroic federal judge: Frank M. Johnson of Alabama, who, despite the constant threat of violence in the explosive 1960's South, contributed to the achievement of racial justice in numerous landmark civil-rights cases. Johnson was a typically ornery product of the ``free state of Winston,'' as northern Alabama's Winston County was known. Aside from his fiercely independent personality, there was little in Johnson's upbringing to suggest that he would become a champion of civil rights: He received a conventional legal education at the Univ. of Alabamawhere he befriended his future adversary George Wallace and graduated first in his classand, after WW II combat service in Europe, he returned to an ordinary legal practice in Alabama. But Johnson apparently had an innate sense of justice that, after his appointment to the federal bench in 1955, led to frequent confrontations with Alabama's reactionary political culture. Bass describes how Johnson's attempts to enforce Brown v. Board of Education resulted in dramatic and vituperative showdowns with Wallace and finally ended segregation in the Alabama schools, and how Johnson's decisions allowed the historic Selma march to go forward, and punished violence directed against African-Americans. Together with judges of the Fifth Circuit, who affirmed Johnson's progressive decisions, Johnson had a pervasive effect on the eradication of racial discrimination in the South. A vivid, first-rate biography of a judicial hero., Doubleday, 1993, 2.75, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, [4], 512 pages. Minor soiling to bottom edge. Includes Illustrations, Footnotes, Acknowledgments, Prelude, Notes, Appendix, and Index. Chapters include Searching for Root; The Free State of Winston; The Growing-Up Years; Manhood Responsibilities; Off to the War; A Good Life in Jasper; Road to Montgomery; A Long Row to Hoe; Johnson and Rives; Early Years in Montgomery; A Trailblazing Court; The Evolving Storm; Freedom Riders; The Break with Little George; Close to Home; Ticking the Last Tick; Selma; Family Sorrows; Neighborhood Schools; Justice Johnson--Almost; The Right to Treatment; A Hell of a Day; Unfit for Human Habitation; Going to the FBI; Putting My Hay Down; Troopers; Overcoming Discrimination; Recognition and Acclaim; Appellate Judge; An Onerous Job; The Death Penalty; and Mark of a Man. Jack Bass is an American author and journalist. He was born in 1934. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1956 with a degree in journalism. He worked at The News and Courier, a co-owned weekly paper, The West Ashley Journal, and The State (Columbia). He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for 1965-66. From 1966 to 1973 Bass worked as the Columbia Bureau Chief for The Charlotte Observer and was a lecturer for journalism at the University of South Carolina. He was named South Carolina Newspaperman of the Year in 1968 and 1972. His The Transformation of Southern Politics was on the American Library Association's "Notable Books for Adults List" for 1976, and he received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "Taming the Storm" in 1994. Thrust by fate into the center of a raging storm of controversy, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., at thirty-seven the youngest federal judge in the country, would turn the tide of white resistance to integration with a stream of decisions that upheld the claims of black Southerners to their civil rights. In his twenty-fur years on the District Court, Judge Johnson declared segregated public transportation unconstitutional, ordered the integration of public facilities, and required that blacks be registered to vote. He ordered Governor George Wallace, his former law school classmate, to allow the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, and brought about comprehensive statewide school desegregation. Judge Johnson paid heavily for his judicial vision. Ostracized from his community,subjected to death threats by the Ku Klux Klan, and labeled by George Wallace as "an integrating, scalawagging, carpet-bagging, race-mixing, bald-faced liar" who should be given "a barbed-wire enema," he was called by some "the most hated man in the South." Despite it all, he did not waver in administering justice by applying his concept of the Constitution as a charter of liberty. Martin Luther King, Jr, called him a man who "gave true meaning to the word Justice." Derived from a Kirkus review: Bass, using extensive quotes from taped interviews with his subject and others, tells the story of an outstanding and heroic federal judge: Frank M. Johnson of Alabama, who, despite the constant threat of violence in the explosive 1960's South, contributed to the achievement of racial justice in numerous landmark civil-rights cases. Johnson was a typically ornery product of the ``free state of Winston,'' as northern Alabama's Winston County was known (out of Unionist and antislavery sentiment, Winston attempted to secede from Alabama in 1862). Aside from his fiercely independent personality, there was little in Johnson's upbringing to suggest that he would become a champion of civil rights: He received a conventional legal education at the Univ. of Alabama-where he graduated first in his class-and, after WW II combat service in Europe, he returned to a legal practice in Alabama. But Johnson apparently had an innate sense of justice that, after his appointment to the federal bench in 1955, led to frequent confrontations with Alabama's political culture. Bass describes how Johnson's attempts to enforce Brown v. Board of Education resulted in dramatic and vituperative showdowns with Wallace and finally ended segregation in the Alabama schools, and how Johnson's decisions allowed the historic Selma march to go forward, and punished violence directed against African-Americans. Together with judges of the Fifth Circuit, who affirmed Johnson's progressive decisions, Johnson had a pervasive effect on the eradication of racial discrimination in the South. A vivid, first-rate biography of a judicial hero., Doubleday, 1993, 3, United Kingdom: Arco Publishers, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A grim insider account and exposé of the evils of racial discrimination. States: First published May 1954. Arco Publishers, London 1954. illus 272pp hb spine faded, pages browned, vg, Arco Publishers, 1954, 3, Chicago, IL: Esquire, Inc.. Condition: covers show light to moderate soil, light to moderate cover and edge wear in places; small chip to each of upper and lower outer spine edges, small chip to outer mid-spine; internal pages are in excellent condition. Contents include: "Other People's Mail" ("A bundle of really first-class letters in various moods from the pens of Groucho Marx, John Kenneth Galbraith, Cole Porter, James Michener, Robert Johnson, Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, James Thurber, Ezra Pound"); delightful spoof and photospread featuring Phyllis Diller and Godfrey Cambridge in "The Making of the President, 1968! A Musical Extravaganza by Theodore Black" by Alice Glaser (with Cambridge as a Ku Klux Klansman); article "Resume of the Young Man as a Non-Generation" by Howard Junker; fiction "The World (This One), The Flesh (Mrs. Oedipa Maas), and The Testament of Pierce Inverarity" by Thomas Pynchon; article and photospread "My Boston" by Senator Edward M. Kennedy; fiction "The Double Snapper" by Irvin Faust; article "The Artist As Buffalo Hunter" by Harvey Dinnerstein (with accompanying artwork); article "Willie Pep's Art of Self-Defense" by Steve Gelman; fiction "Thirst" by Ivo Andric; article "Sorry About That" by George C. Scott ("All the world being a stage, an actor can learn something everywhere: a brilliant American actor here takes a firsthand look at the performances in Vietnam and measures them against his own"); article "This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This Denmark" by Sybille Bedford; article "Robert Frost Speaks Prose" by Harvey Breit ("In herky-jerky sentences, a verbatim talk with the poet about art, freedom and the gift of hate"); article "What I Did Last Summer" by Candice Bergen; poem "How Like The Great Greek God Apollo Is Our King" by Jesse Stuart. . Good. Magazine. First Edition. 1965., Esquire, Inc., 1965, 2.5, New York: Ecco / An Imprint of HarperCollins, 2005. Signed by Deborah Lipstadt directly on the title page (her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only very lightly rubbed). NO chips, creases or fading. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. 2005. First printing with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Introduction by Anthony Lewis. Afterword by Alan Dershowitz. List of chapter notes. Index. Bound in the original pale gray boards, with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "In 1993, Deborah E. Lipstadt, a professor of Jewish Studies at Emory University, published the first comprehensive history of the Holocaust denial movement. In this critically acclaimed account, Lipstadt called David Irving -- a prolific, respected, and well known writer on World War II who had, over the years, made controversial statements about Hitler and the Jews -- one of the most dangerous spokespersons of the denial movement. A year later, when Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher, Penguin UK, for libel in a London courtroom, the media spotlight fell on Deborah Lipstadt and, by extension, on the historiography of the Holocaust. Five years later, when David Irving lost his case after an intense ten-week trial, Lipstadt's resounding victory was proclaimed on front pages of newspapers worldwide. The implications of the trial, however, were far from over. HISTORY ON TRIAL is Deborah Lipstadt's personal, riveting chronicle of the legal battle with Irving, in which she went from a relatively quiet existence as a professor at an American university to being a defendant in a sensational libel case. This blow-by-blow account reveals how Lipstadt raised $1.5 million for her defense, which included a first-rate team of solicitors, historians, and experts, among them Anthony Julius, a literary scholar who is better known as the late Princess Diana's divorce lawyer. Lipstadt describes how in forced silence she endured Irving's relentless provocations, including his claims that more people died in Senator Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, that survivors tattooed numbers on their arms to make money, and that nonwhite people are a different 'species.' She also reveals how her lawyers gained access to Irving's personal papers, which exposed his association with neo-Nazi extremists in Germany, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and the National Alliance, which wants to transform America into an 'Aryan society.' In the course of the trial, Lipstadt's legal team stripped away Irving's mask of respectability through exposing the prejudice, extremism, and distortion of history that defined his work, even his once highly regarded account of the Dresden bombing. Part history, part edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama, HISTORY ON TRIAL goes beyond the historiography of World War II and the Holocaust to reveal the intricate way in which extremism and deliberate historical distortions gain widespread legitimacy and help generate hatred. An inspiring personal story of perseverance and unexpected limelight, here is the definitive account of the trial that tested the standards for historical and judicial truths, a trial that the Daily Telegraph of London proclaimed did 'for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.'". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xxi, 346pp. + 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Ecco / An Imprint of HarperCollins, 2005, 4.5, new. 6 mil em espécie dá continuidade à eletrizante trama da série Submundo USA. Uma nova e ambiciosa história, repleta de violência e emoção, que nos leva através dos conturbados anos 60 e da verdade por trás de três assassinatos que chocaram os Estados Unidos. Em Tablóide americano, vemos ruir o sonho americano com o assassinato do presidente John Kennedy. 6 mil em espécie começa apontando uma conspiração, que liga o crime organizado a políticos de direita, como a responsável pela morte de uma das figuras mais importantes e adoradas dos Estados Unidos. No dia do crime, Wayne Junior, um tira de Las Vegas, chega a Dallas com 6 mil dólares em espécie no bolso, com a função de matar um cafetão negro. Sem saber, acaba preso na teia de aranha que encobriu os verdadeiros responsáveis pela morte de JFK. Pelo caminho, Wayne encontra dois personagens de Tablóide Americano: Ward Littell, ex-agente do FBI, advogado de Howard Hughes, e Pete Bondurant, ex-agente da CIA, anti-comunista fervoroso. Através das histórias e atitudes desses três homens, o livro embarca em uma jornada de cinco anos pelo submundo da política. Uma trama que coloca Wayne em contato com o crime organizado em Dallas e Las Vegas, com Howard Hughes, com a Ku-Klux-Klan, com tráfico de heroína no Vietnã e com extremistas de direita que planejam muitas mortes. 6 mil em espécie apresenta um retrato cru e não muito lisonjeiro dos Estados Unidos dos anos 60 no qual Ellroy retrata os mais importantes ícones deste período em conexão com assassinos, políticos corruptos, tiras e toda a galeria de personagens violentos e inesquecíveis do autor. Uma nova obra-prima de um dos mais reconhecidos autores da atualidade, que destrói, neste romance, os últimos resquícios de ingenuidade do sonho americano. Ellroy é um dos escritores policiais mais admirados e influentes da atualidade. Times Literary SupplementUm marco na carreira de Ellroy. Publishers WeeklyImpressionante. London Review of BooksUma jornada selvagem. The New York Times Book ReviewUm trabalho sujo, mas divertido. Compre este livro se tiver coragem. E, depois, veja se consegue largá-lo. TimeUma tapeçaria assustadora entremeada de fato, ficção, leitura hilariante e uma especulação informada e muito perturbadora sobre as ligações entre o crime e o governo dos EUA. Kirkus Reviews Editora : Record (5 julho 2002)Idioma : PortuguêsCapa comum : 848 páginasISBN-10 : 8501061646ISBN-13 : 978-8501061645Dimensões : 20.8 x 13.6 x 4.8 cm, 6<
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[EAN: 9788501061645], Neubuch, [PU: Record], 6 mil em espécie dá continuidade à eletrizante trama da série Submundo USA. Uma nova e ambiciosa história, repleta de violência e emoção, que … mais…
[EAN: 9788501061645], Neubuch, [PU: Record], 6 mil em espécie dá continuidade à eletrizante trama da série Submundo USA. Uma nova e ambiciosa história, repleta de violência e emoção, que nos leva através dos conturbados anos 60 e da verdade por trás de três assassinatos que chocaram os Estados Unidos. Em Tablóide americano, vemos ruir o sonho americano com o assassinato do presidente John Kennedy. 6 mil em espécie começa apontando uma conspiração, que liga o crime organizado a políticos de direita, como a responsável pela morte de uma das figuras mais importantes e adoradas dos Estados Unidos. No dia do crime, Wayne Junior, um tira de Las Vegas, chega a Dallas com 6 mil dólares em espécie no bolso, com a função de matar um cafetão negro. Sem saber, acaba preso na teia de aranha que encobriu os verdadeiros responsáveis pela morte de JFK. Pelo caminho, Wayne encontra dois personagens de Tablóide Americano: Ward Littell, ex-agente do FBI, advogado de Howard Hughes, e Pete Bondurant, ex-agente da CIA, anti-comunista fervoroso. Através das histórias e atitudes desses três homens, o livro embarca em uma jornada de cinco anos pelo submundo da política. Uma trama que coloca Wayne em contato com o crime organizado em Dallas e Las Vegas, com Howard Hughes, com a Ku-Klux-Klan, com tráfico de heroína no Vietnã e com extremistas de direita que planejam muitas mortes. 6 mil em espécie apresenta um retrato cru e não muito lisonjeiro dos Estados Unidos dos anos 60 no qual Ellroy retrata os mais importantes ícones deste período em conexão com assassinos, políticos corruptos, tiras e toda a galeria de personagens violentos e inesquecíveis do autor. Uma nova obra-prima de um dos mais reconhecidos autores da atualidade, que destrói, neste romance, os últimos resquícios de ingenuidade do sonho americano. "Ellroy é um dos escritores policiais mais admirados e influentes da atualidade." ? Times Literary Supplement"Um marco na carreira de Ellroy." ? Publishers Weekly"Impressionante." ? London Review of Books"Uma jornada selvagem." ? The New York Times Book Review"Um trabalho sujo, mas divertido. Compre este livro se tiver coragem. E, depois, veja se consegue largá-lo." ? Time"Uma tapeçaria assustadora entremeada de fato, ficção, leitura hilariante e uma especulação informada e muito perturbadora sobre as ligações entre o crime e o governo dos EUA." ? Kirkus Reviews Editora : Record (5 julho 2002)Idioma : PortuguêsCapa comum : 848 páginasISBN-10 : 8501061646ISBN-13 : 978-8501061645Dimensões : 20.8 x 13.6 x 4.8 cm, Books<
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Paperback, [PU: RECORD], 6 mil em espécie dá continuidade à eletrizante trama da série Submundo USA. Uma nova e ambiciosa história, repleta de violência e emoção, que nos leva através dos conturbados anos 60 e da verdade por trás de três assassinatos que chocaram os Estados Unidos. Em Tablóide americano, vemos ruir o sonho americano com o assassinato do presidente John Kennedy. 6 mil em espécie começa apontando uma conspiração, que liga o crime organizado a polÃticos de direita, como a responsável pela morte de uma das figuras mais importantes e adoradas dos Estados Unidos. No dia do crime, Wayne Junior, um tira de Las Vegas, chega a Dallas com 6 mil dólares em espécie no bolso, com a função de matar um cafetão negro. Sem saber, acaba preso na teia de aranha que en cobriu os verdadeiros responsáveis pela morte de JFK. Pelo caminho, Wayne encontra dois personagens de Tablóide Americano: Ward Littell, ex-agente do FBI, advogado de Howard Hughes, e Pete Bondurant, ex-agente da CIA, anti-comunista fervoroso. Atravé s das histórias e atitudes desses três homens, o livro embarca em uma jornada de cinco anos pelo submundo da polÃtica. Uma trama que coloca Wayne em contato com o crime organizado em Dallas e Las Vegas, com Howard Hughes, com a Ku-Klux-Klan, com tráf ico de heroÃna no Vietnã e com extremistas de direita que planejam muitas mortes. 6 mil em espécie apresenta um retrato cru e não muito lisonjeiro dos Estados Unidos dos anos 60 no qual Ellroy retrata os mais importantes Ãcones deste perÃodo em conex ão com assassinos, polÃticos corruptos, tiras e toda a galeria de personagens violentos e inesquecÃveis do autor. Uma nova obra-prima de um dos mais reconhecidos autores da atualidade, que destrói, neste romance, os últimos resquÃcios de ingenuidade do sonho americano. “Ellroy é um dos escritores policiais mais admirados e influentes da atualidade.†— Times Literary Supplement“Um marco na carreira de Ellroy.†— Publishers Weekly“Impressionante.†— London Review of Books“Uma jornada selvagem.†— The New York Times Book Review“Um trabalho sujo, mas divertido. Compre este livro se tiver coragem. E, depois, veja se consegue largá-lo.†— Time“Uma tapeçaria assustadora entremeada de fato, ficção, leitura hilariante e uma especulação informada e m uito perturbadora sobre as ligações entre o crime e o governo dos EUA.†— Kirkus Reviews, Contemporary Fiction<
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Paperback, [PU: RECORD], 6 mil em espécie dá continuidade à eletrizante trama da série Submundo USA. Uma nova e ambiciosa história, repleta de violência e emoção, que nos leva através dos conturbados anos 60 e da verdade por trás de três assassinatos que chocaram os Estados Unidos. Em Tablóide americano, vemos ruir o sonho americano com o assassinato do presidente John Kennedy. 6 mil em espécie começa apontando uma conspiração, que liga o crime organizado a polÃticos de direita, como a responsável pela morte de uma das figuras mais importantes e adoradas dos Estados Unidos. No dia do crime, Wayne Junior, um tira de Las Vegas, chega a Dallas com 6 mil dólares em espécie no bolso, com a função de matar um cafetão negro. Sem saber, acaba preso na teia de aranha que encobriu os verdadeiros responsáveis pela morte de JFK. Pelo caminho, Wayne encontra dois personagens de Tablóide Americano: Ward Littell, ex-agente do FBI, advogado de Howard Hughes, e Pete Bondurant, ex-agente da CIA, anti-comunista fervoroso. Através das histórias e atitudes desses três homens, o livro embarca em uma jornada de cinco anos pelo submundo da polÃtica. Uma trama que coloca Wayne em contato com o crime organizado em Dallas e Las Vegas, com Howard Hughes, com a Ku-Klux-Klan, com tráfico de heroÃna no Vietnã e com extremistas de direita que planejam muitas mortes. 6 mil em espécie apresenta um retrato cru e não muito lisonjeiro dos Estados Unidos dos anos 60 no qual Ellroy retrata os mais importantes Ãcones deste perÃodo em conexão com assassinos, polÃticos corruptos, tiras e toda a galeria de personagens violentos e inesquecÃveis do autor. Uma nova obra-prima de um dos mais reconhecidos autores da atualidade, que destrói, neste romance, os últimos resquÃcios de ingenuidade do sonho americano. “Ellroy é um dos escritores policiais mais admirados e influentes da atualidade.†— Times Literary Supplement“Um marco na carreira de Ellroy.†— Publishers Weekly“Impressionante.†— London Review of Books“Uma jornada selvagem.†— The New York Times Book Review“Um trabalho sujo, mas divertido. Compre este livro se tiver coragem. E, depois, veja se consegue largá-lo.†— Time“Uma tapeçaria assustadora entremeada de fato, ficção, leitura hilariante e uma especulação informada e muito perturbadora sobre as ligações entre o crime e o governo dos EUA.†— Kirkus Reviews, Contemporary Fiction<
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Paperback, [PU: Record], 6 mil em espécie dá continuidade à eletrizante trama da série Submundo USA. Uma nova e ambiciosa história, repleta de violência e emoção, que nos leva através dos conturbados anos 60 e da verdade por trás de três assassinatos que chocaram os Estados Unidos. Em Tablóide americano, vemos ruir o sonho americano com o assassinato do presidente John Kennedy. 6 mil em espécie começa apontando uma conspiração, que liga o crime organizado a polÃticos de direita, como a responsável pela morte de uma das figuras mais importantes e adoradas dos Estados Unidos. No dia do crime, Wayne Junior, um tira de Las Vegas, chega a Dallas com 6 mil dólares em espécie no bolso, com a função de matar um cafetão negro. Sem saber, acaba preso na teia de aranha que encobriu os verdadeiros responsáveis pela morte de JFK. Pelo caminho, Wayne encontra dois personagens de Tablóide Americano: Ward Littell, ex-agente do FBI, advogado de Howard Hughes, e Pete Bondurant, ex-agente da CIA, anti-comunista fervoroso. Através das histórias e atitudes desses três homens, o livro embarca em uma jornada de cinco anos pelo submundo da polÃtica. Uma trama que coloca Wayne em contato com o crime organizado em Dallas e Las Vegas, com Howard Hughes, com a Ku-Klux-Klan, com tráfico de heroÃna no Vietnã e com extremistas de direita que planejam muitas mortes. 6 mil em espécie apresenta um retrato cru e não muito lisonjeiro dos Estados Unidos dos anos 60 no qual Ellroy retrata os mais importantes Ãcones deste perÃodo em conexão com assassinos, polÃticos corruptos, tiras e toda a galeria de personagens violentos e inesquecÃveis do autor. Uma nova obra-prima de um dos mais reconhecidos autores da atualidade, que destrói, neste romance, os últimos resquÃcios de ingenuidade do sonho americano. “Ellroy é um dos escritores policiais mais admirados e influentes da atualidade.†— Times Literary Supplement“Um marco na carreira de Ellroy.†— Publishers Weekly“Impressionante.†— London Review of Books“Uma jornada selvagem.†— The New York Times Book Review“Um trabalho sujo, mas divertido. Compre este livro se tiver coragem. E, depois, veja se consegue largá-lo.†— Time“Uma tapeçaria assustadora entremeada de fato, ficção, leitura hilariante e uma especulação informada e muito perturbadora sobre as ligações entre o crime e o governo dos EUA.†— Kirkus Reviews<
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