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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good Condition paperback 329 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Paperback Edition. G/none, used pb, 317pp.+ Reading Guide. Perfect bound, stiff paper wraps with black and purple colored text on upper and spine; slight edge wear; no chips or tears; remainder mark on head fore edge. Interior pages have underlining in the first eight chapters and then the text is clear through the rest of the book. Binding is tight but slightly canted.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Very good. Edges lightly bumped. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Like-New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 406 Pages. Stated: First Hardcover Edition May 2017 and by the full number line. Signed by the author on the first page in from the front cover. The dust jacket is Not price-clipped. This is an interesting memoir from a man that ran for and got a seat in the US Senate, and who previously was a well-known writer and comedian. The book's dust jacket is in Fine condition with only very minor wearing marks at the base of the spine keeping it from being Like-New. The interior book, however, is in Like New condition with no visible extraneous markings, detriments, or distractions throughout it and thus it has all of the printing and photographs in a very well-preserved and readable condition and the bindings remain tight and therefore are sound. If you should order this book from us, it will be carefully wrapped up, then padded and boxed, and mailed right away to you and will come with our absolute appreciation for your order.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Trade Edition of March, 2010. Entire book is very clean, square along edges and corners, and tightly bound. Exterior has light edge-wear from prior reading use, otherwise book is without flaw.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good condition in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket encased in Brodart protector. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. 401 pages with black & white illustrations and index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed & Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 339 pages, 8vo. SIGNED and inscribed by both authors on title page: "For ----, Michael Isikoff and David Corn". First Edition; First Printing indicated by intact number line ending in the number 1. Minor shelfwear. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xiv, 285, [5] pages. Illustrations. The Editors and Contributors. Signed by both editors on the title page. These essays explore significant Jewish athletes, coaches, broadcasters, trainers, and even team winners. Contributors include some of today's most celebrated writers covering a vast assortment of topics, including David Remnick on Howard Cosell; Jonathan Safran on Bobby Fischer; Man Booker Prizewinner Howard Jacobson writing elegantly on Marty Reisman, America's greatest ping-pong player and the sport's ultimate showman. Jane Leavy reveals why Sandy Koufax agreed to attend her daughter's bat mitzvah. And we learn how Don Lerman single-handedly thrust competitive eating into the public eye with three pounds of buttter and 120 Jalapeno peppers. Franklin Foer (/ f r/; born July 20, 1974) is a staff writer at The Atlantic and former editor of The New Republic, commentating on contemporary issues from a liberal perspective. The book Jewish Jocks, which he co-edited with New Republic writer Marc Tracy, was published in 2012. It won a National Jewish Book Award in 2012. Foer has described it as an effort to avoid the "simple hagiography" he found in some of the many existing books about Jewish sports figures. Marc Tracy has covered print and digital media for The New York Times since 2019. Previously he covered college sports. He has also worked at The New Republic and Tablet magazine, where he won a National Magazine Award. Derived from a Kirkus review: A collection of essays about the most influential Jews in sports history. New Republic editor Foer and New Republic staff writer Tracy present a diverse collection of Jewish athletes celebrated by Jewish authors. Many of the 50 athletes included-e.g., Hank Greenberg, Sandy Koufax, Sid Luckman, Mark Spitz-will be familiar even to non-Jewish sports fans, while others-table-tennis star Marty Reisman, Nazi-era German fencing champ Helene Mayer, kung-fu instructor Harvey Sober and "the Ben Franklin of Competitive Eating," Don Lerman-will not. The list of contributors is also distinguished, with several Pulitzer Prize winners, Ivy League professors, novelists and even former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. The essays range from standard profiles to personal reminiscences. Most, but not all, of the athletes are American. In addition to Joshua Cohen's piece on Mayer, there is Simon Schama's fascinating essay about English pugilist Daniel Mendoza, David Bezmozgis' profile of Soviet strongman Grigory Novak and Timothy Snyder's piece on Austro-Hungarian author Max Nordau, whose speech to the 1898 Second Zionist Congress called on Jews to develop their muscles to overcome weakness. This theme of athleticism counteracting the stereotype of the Jew as weak victim runs through many of the essays, though it may be slightly undermined by the application of the "jock" title to Nordau and other nonathletes, such as gambler and 1919 World Series fixer Arnold Rothstein, Washington Post sports columnist Shirley Povich and broadcast legend Howard Cosell. Their inclusion on the basis of their significant impacts on the landscape of sports is, however, well-defended by Foer and Tracy. Other highlights include Jonathan Safran Foer on Bobby Fischer, Steven Pinker on Red Auerbach, Buzz Bissinger on Barney Ross and George Packer on Mark Cuban. A must for the bookshelf of any Jewish sports fan. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. x, 532 pages. Includes Prologue, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include Family; Brotherhood; On My Own; and Renewal. Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932-August 25, 2009) was a Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. He was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and was the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history, having served there for almost 47 years. Kennedy entered the Senate in a November 1962 special election to fill the seat once held by his brother John. Kennedy was known for his charisma and oratorical skills. His 1968 eulogy for his brother Robert and his 1980 rallying cry for modern American liberalism were among his best-known speeches. He became recognized as "The Lion of the Senate" through his long tenure and influence. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. For the first time, he describes his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of the deaths of his family members. Through it all, he describes his work in the Senate on the major issues of our time--civil rights, Vietnam, Watergate, the quest for peace in Northern Ireland--and the cause of his life: improved health care for all Americans, a fight influenced by his own experiences in hospitals. His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance, love of family, and an abiding faith. There have been controversies and he addresses them with unprecedented candor. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: The recent death of Senator Kennedy adds an extra layer of poignancy, but this would be a welcome addition to the political memoir bookshelf under any circumstances. Drawing upon a series of oral history interviews, and with the help of Ron Powers, Kennedy devotes more than half of the book to the first half of his life-growing up as the youngest of his generation, gaining a political education while touring the western U.S. for Jack's presidential campaign in 1960, clashing with Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam, and the heartache of Jack and Bobby's assassinations. After a brief section on Chappaquiddick, Kennedy tends to the anecdotal when discussing his political career from clashing with Nixon over Supreme Court nominations to campaigning for Barack Obama. (Recollections of courting his second wife, Vicki, bring a welcome spark of personal charm.) Some readers may feel there is not quite enough introspection-while acknowledging his first wife's alcoholism, for example, Kennedy glosses over his own drinking problems-but despite the firm line he draws in the sand about discussing his personal life, Kennedy's tone of contrition is sincere. When he was a child, Kennedy's father told him, "You can have a serious life or a nonserious life." He chose the former, and at the end, seems genuinely grateful not just for what that life gave him, but what it enabled him to do for others. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 435 pages. Published in 2010. The author's valedictory memoir. One of the best books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. Features a DJ design by Eric Baker in bold yellow and the blurb by Gore Vidal at the back crossed out in printed red marker. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Christopher Hitchens' "Hitch-22: A Memoir". One of the finest literary, intellectual, and polemical memoirs by a great writer of his life and our time. Hitchens achieved bestseller status with "God Is Not Great". Those who found that account riveting will be even more riveted by the beautifully written memoir - that is, unlike most bestseller-memoirs, it has literary value - of a formidable agent provocateur/intellectual. What sets his memoir apart from all of his previous books is that it shows in a sustained manner (at 435 pages) what an engaging storyteller he could be, whether he was being nasty, naughty, or nice. If God is, in Hitchens' estimation, dangerous and boring at the same time, Hitchens was surely his own best self-creation: "If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him" (Ian McEwan). An absolute "must-have" title for Christopher Hitchens collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in innumerable subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with archival photographs. One of the greatest writer/intellectuals of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS AND GORE VIDAL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0446540331. no.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 795 pages. Published in 2011. Massive retrospective collection of essays. The summing-up of Christopher Hitchens' stupendous achievement as an essayist and polemicist. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Christopher Hitchens' "Arguably". For the sake of argument - and his bequest to posterity. "For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles - the principles of reason, tolerance, and skepticism that define and inform the foundations of our civilization - principles that, to endure, must be defended anew by every generation. His knowledge is formidable, an encyclopedic treasure, and yet one has the feeling, reading him, of hearing a person thinking out loud, following the inexorable logic of his thought, wherever it might lead, unafraid to expose fraudulence, denounce injustice, and excoriate hypocrisy. Readers, admirers and detractors alike, have learned to read Hitchens with something approaching awe at the oxygen in every sentence, the enviable wit, and his readiness - even eagerness - to fight a foe. What emerges from this indispensable volume is an intellectual self-portrait" (Publisher's blurb). As such, he never did reconcile with America's own greatest literary wit, Gore Vidal, who (perhaps prematurely) anointed him as his successor, which Hitchens accepted and then repudiated. Premature because Hitchens, who died in 2011, pre-deceased "elder statesman" Vidal, who died in 2012. An absolute "must-have" title for Christopher Hitchens collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in innumerable subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writer/intellectuals of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS AND GORE VIDAL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1455502774. no.