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Viking, 2018. 1st Edition 5th Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: What makes this book "As New" - Tiny red remainder dot bottom edges. UNREAD 2018 Viking hardcover (gray boards) and dust jacket, first edition, 5th printing. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence adviser for six and a half years, longer than his three predecessors combined. He led the U.S. intelligence community through a period that included the raid on Osama bin Laden, the Benghazi attack, the leaks of Edward Snowden, and Russia's influence operation during the 2016 U.S. election campaign. In Facts and Fears, Clapper traces his career through the growing threat of… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Simon & Shuster hardcover (red boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Color photo section. CONTENT: THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. With authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president's first years in office. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. Often with day-by-day… Read More

Post Hill Press, 2017. Reprint Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W charts - very few. CONDITION: NEW c. 2017 Post Hill Press trade paperback, reprint edition, no printing given. Just a very few B&W charts throughout. As we all considered during the FDA-Alzheimer's disease debacle of a couple of years ago, there may be big problems with the FDA. CONTENT: Winner of Maverick of The Year Award and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, and featured by WSJ, Fortune and Bloomberg TV for his battle to defeat unlawful actions by the FDA, Dr. Joseph V. Gulfo provides a first-hand riveting account of an against-all odds fight that demonstrates what it takes to advance breakthrough medical products that truly benefit patients. Having been responsible for the development and FDA approval of three innovative cancer products, he provides the reader with ringside seats to the struggles that entrepreneurs of biotech and medtech companies must fight to successfully bring ideas to… Read More

Steerforth Press, 2020. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Color photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Steerforth Press trade paperback, UPDATED information, first paperback edition, first printing. Substantial color photo section. CONTENT: Investigative journalist Michele R. McPhee reports the details and delivers the facts, piecing together the puzzle so readers are able to come to their own conclusions. This page-turning narrative goes a long way toward answering questions that still linger about the notorious Boston Marathon bombing, such as: Where were the bombs made? And what had been Tamerlan Tsarnaev's relationship to the FBI? Mayhem casts a spotlight on the U.S. Government's relationship with the older Tsarnaev brother as his younger brother, Dzhokhar, will continue his efforts to have his death sentence commuted in October, just days after the Boston Marathon will be run for the first time since 2019. The federal government may be forced to… Read More

Little, Brown & Company, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photos section. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Little, Brown hardcover (white boards - oh no) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace, deny it, defer it - and women have been on the front lines of this battle, willingly or not. Celebrating the achievements of heroines from Martha Washington to Sojourner Truth to Ruth Baker Ginsburg, Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has changed over the centuries. This is an expertly researched, lively social history of American women and aging, filled with colorful anecdotes and larger-than-life cast of characters - some I bet you have never heard of but will love meeting. Collins gives women a reason to expect the best from what's to come.

W W Norton & Company, 2008. 1st Edition 6th Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photos throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2008 Norton hardcover (grey marbled boards) & dust jacket, first edition, 6th printing. B&W era photos throughout. CONTENT: Learn the science behind the headlines?the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of global warming. We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential country in the world, we need to know?truly understand, not just rely on television's talking heads?if Iran's nascent nuclear capability is a genuine threat to the West, if biochemical weapons are likely to be developed by terrorists, if there are viable alternatives to fossil fuels that should be nurtured and supported by the government, if nuclear power should be encouraged, and if global warming is actually happening. This book is written in… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "As New?" Small remainder mark top edges. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2020 Simon & Schuster hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: "For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and to courageous prosecutors, witnesses, and FBI agents, justice finally prevailed." -John Grisham. On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the "Mississippi Burning" case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the civil rights movement. And even though the killers' identities, including the sheriff's deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder… Read More

Henry Holt, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2011 Henry Holt hardcover (red boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. The men responsible included, from Cuba, the charismatic Fidel Castro, and his mysterious brother Raúl; from Argentina, the ideologue Che Guevara; from the Dominican Republic, the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and from Haiti, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture. Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices… Read More

Center Street, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Center Street hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller CRISIS OF CHARACTER comes an explosive new exposé of the Secret Service. The United States Secret Service is tasked with protecting our Presidents, their families, and the complex in which they live and work. Given this important mission, world stability rests upon the shoulders of its agents. In his new book, former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne takes readers behind the scenes to understand the agency's history and today's security failings that he believes put Americans at risk. The American public knows the stories of Secret Service heroism, but they don't know about the hidden legacy of problems that have plagued the agency ever since its creation. Gary Byrne says that decades of catastrophic public failures, near… Read More