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PANETTA(Subject); Panetta, Leon; Newton, Jim Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace Penguin Press HC, The 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Slight lean to spine. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152126. ISBN #1594205965 / 9781594205965. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PANETTA(Subject); Panetta, Leon; Newton, Jim Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace Penguin Press HC, The 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Slight lean to spine. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152126. ISBN #1594205965 / 9781594205965. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The inspiring and revelatory autobiography of the defense secretary and CIA director who led the intelligence war that killed Bin Laden, among many important roles in a legendary career It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past fifty years. His first career, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including a distinguished run as one of Congress s most powerful and respected members, lasted thirty-five years and culminated in his transformational role as Clinton s budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then retired to establish the Panetta Institute with his wife of fifty years, Sylvia; to serve on the Iraq Study Group; and to protect his beloved California coastline. But in 2009, he accepted what many said was a thankless task: returning to public office as the director of the CIA, taking it from a state of turmoil after the Bush-era torture debates and moving it back to the vital center of America s war against Al Qaeda, including the campaign that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. And then, in the wake of bin Laden s death, Panetta became the U.S. secretary of defense, inheriting two troubled wars in a time of austerity and painful choices. Like his career, Worthy Fights is a reflection of Panetta s values. It is imbued with the frank, grounded, and often quite funny spirit of a man who never lost touch with where he came from: his family s walnut farm in beautiful Carmel Valley, California. It is also a testament to a lost kind of political leadership, which favors progress and duty to country over partisanship. Panetta is a Democrat who pushed for balanced budgets while also expanding care for the elderly and sick; a devout Catholic who opposes the death penalty but had to weigh every drone strike from 2009 through 2011. Throughout his career, Panetta s polestar has been his belief that a public servant s real choice is between leadership or crisis. Troubles always come about through no fault of one s own, but most can be prevented with courage and foresight. As always, Panetta calls them as he sees them in Worthy Fights . Suffused with its author s decency and stubborn common sense, the book is an epic American success story, a great political memoir, and a revelatory view onto many of the great figures and events of our time.
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PAT NIXON(Subject); Eisenhower, Julie N. Pat Nixon : The Untold Story Simon & Schuster 1986 hardcover. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1146264. ISBN #0671244248 / 9780671244248. (keywords: NIXON PAT 1912 1993 PRESIDENTS FIRST LADIES) (filed under: Biography ) *
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PATTON(Subject); Patton, Stacey That Mean Old Yesterday: A Memoir Washington Square Press 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088590. ISBN #0743293118 / 9780743293112. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PATTON(Subject); Patton, Stacey That Mean Old Yesterday: A Memoir Washington Square Press 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088590. ISBN #0743293118 / 9780743293112. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An astonishing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who survived the foster care system to become an award-winning journalist On a rainy night in November 1999, a shoeless Stacey Patton, promising student at NYU, approached her adoptive parents' house with a gun in her hand. She wanted to kill them. Or so she thought. No one would ever imagine that the vibrant, smart, and attractive Stacey had a childhood from hell. After all, with God-fearing, house-proud, and hardworking adoptive parents, she appeared to beat the odds. But her mother was tyrannical, and her father turned a blind eye to the years of abuse his wife heaped on their love-starved little girl. Now in her beautiful memoir, Stacey links her experience to the legacy of American slavery and successfully frames her understanding of why her good adoptive parents did terrible things to her by realizing they had terrible things done to them.
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PEACE(Subject); Hobbs, Jeff Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark For The Ivy League Scribner 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016713. ISBN #147673190X / 9781476731902. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PEACE(Subject); Hobbs, Jeff Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark For The Ivy League Scribner 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016713. ISBN #147673190X / 9781476731902. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets and of one s own nature when he returns home. When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert s life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his father in jail and his mother earning less than 15,000 a year. But Robert was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier when he was accepted to Yale, where he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics. But it didn t get easier. Robert carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, fronting in Yale, and at home. Through an honest rendering of Robert s relationships with his struggling mother, with his incarcerated father, with his teachers and friends and fellow drug dealers The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America: race, class, drugs, community, imprisonment, education, family, friendship, and love. It s about the collision of two fiercely insular worlds the ivy-covered campus of Yale University and Newark, New Jersey, and the difficulty of going from one to the other and then back again. It s about poverty, the challenges of single motherhood, and the struggle to find male role models in a community where a man is more likely to go to prison than to college. It s about reaching one s greatest potential and taking responsibility for your family no matter the cost. It s about trying to live a decent life in America. But most all the story is about the tragic life of one singular brilliant young man. His end, a violent one, is heartbreaking and powerful and unforgettable.
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PELTON, ROBERT YOUNG(Subject); Pelton, Robert Young The Hunter, the Hammer, and Heaven: Journeys to Three Worlds Gone Mad Lyons Press 2002 hardcover. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1157104. ISBN #1585744166 / 9781585744169. (keywords: SIERRA LEONE EUROPE EASTERN DESCRIPTION) (filed under: Biography ) *
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PEPPER (Subject); Pepper, Claude Denson; Gorey, Hays Pepper: Eyewitness To a Century 1987 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1009052. ISBN #0151716951 / 9780151716951. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PEPPER (Subject); Pepper, Claude Denson; Gorey, Hays Pepper: Eyewitness To a Century 1987 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1009052. ISBN #0151716951 / 9780151716951. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The life story of Claude Pepper reveals the political career and personal philosophy of the influential politician and the great events, personalities, and scoundrels of the century. Claude Denson Pepper September 8, 1900 - May 30, 1989 was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from November 4, 1936, to January 3, 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1963 until his death on May 30, 1989.
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PERINO(Subject); Perino, Dana And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side Twelve 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119208. ISBN #1455584908 / 9781455584901. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PERINO(Subject); Perino, Dana And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side Twelve 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119208. ISBN #1455584908 / 9781455584901. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 1 New York Times Bestseller 1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller From her years as the presidential press secretary to her debates with colleagues on Fox News' The Five , Dana Perino reveals the lessons she's learned that have guided her through life, kept her level-headed, and led to her success, even in the face of adversity. Thoughtful, inspiring, and often surprising, AND THE GOOD NEWS IS . . . traces Dana Perino's unlikely journey through politics and television. It's a remarkable American story-made up of equal parts determination and clear-eyed optimism. From facing professional challenges and confronting personal fears to stepping up to a podium for a President, Dana has come to expect the unexpected and has an uncanny ability to find the good news in any tough situation. AND THE GOOD NEWS IS . . . takes us from her Western childhood in Wyoming and Colorado to a chance meeting on an airplane that changes her life entirely. Then, with refreshing honesty and humor, she recounts her frustration with a string of unsatisfying jobs and living circumstances until a key career tip leads her back to Washington, D.C. to work for the Bush Administration. Dana also shares here her best work and life lessons-tips that will help you to get your point across convincingly while allowing your own grace and personality to shine through. As someone who still believes in working together to solve the problems our nation faces, Dana offers clear, practical advice on how to restore civility to our personal and public conversations. The result is a fascinating read that can help anyone become more successful, productive, and joyously content.
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PERKS(Subject); Perks, Micah Pagan Time: An American Childhood 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023454. ISBN #1582431477 / 9781582431475. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PERKS(Subject); Perks, Micah Pagan Time: An American Childhood 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023454. ISBN #1582431477 / 9781582431475. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary For fans of Geoffrey Wolff's Age of Consent and Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, a wrenching and beautiful memoir of a child's life in a sixties commune. . "Sometimes it seems like I've spent my life searching for the words that will open my childhood for you. It's always the same-even as I'm trying to use my story to knock down the wall between us, I can see that I'm turning myself into a freak, my childhood into a sideshow. " Pagan Time is the story of Micah Perks's struggle to make comprehensible her unorthodox childhood. She was raised at her family's commune in the Adirondack wilderness, and at the core of her book lie memories of and feelings for her wildly eccentric father, a self-proclaimed pagan intent on demolishing conventional boundaries and morality. This complex memoir mixes a moving celebration of the utopian spirit and its desire for community and freedom with a lacerating critique of the consequences of those desires-especially for the children involved. How could the campaign for a perfect home and family create such confusion and destruction? The sixties, for many, became a laboratory of hope and chaos, of good intentions run riot. "There is breathtaking beauty in this memoir Micah Perks writes with great sympathy, subtlety, and precision about the explosive paradise of her youth. " -Joanna Scott, author of Make Believe.
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POLO;(Subject); Byrne, Donn Messer Marco Polo Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. nd hardcover. Previous owner inscription, dated 1931, written on front endpage. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1124539. (filed under: Biography ) *
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POST(Subject); Claridge, Laura Emily Post: Daughter Of The Gilded Age, Mistress Of American Manners Random House 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or972455. ISBN #0375509216 / 9780375509216. (filed under: Biography ) *
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POST(Subject); Claridge, Laura Emily Post: Daughter Of The Gilded Age, Mistress Of American Manners Random House 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or972455. ISBN #0375509216 / 9780375509216. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What would Emily Post do? Even today, Americans cite the author of the perennial bestseller Etiquette as a touchstone for proper behavior. But who was the woman behind the myth, the authority on good manners who has outlasted all comers? Award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of the unforgettable woman who changed the mindset of millions of Americans, an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s. Born shortly after the Civil War, Emily Post was a daughter of high society, the only child of an ambitious Baltimore architect, Bruce Price, and his wellborn wife. Within a few years of his daughter s birth, Price moved his family to New York City, where they mingled with the Roosevelts and the Astors as well as with the new crowd in town J. P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt clan. Blossoming into one of Manhattan s most sought-after debutantes, Emily went on to marry Edwin Post, planning to re-create in her own home the happiness she d observed between her parents. Instead, she would find herself in the middle of a scandalous divorce, its humiliating details splashed across the front pages of New York newspapers for months. Traumatic though it was, the end of her marriage forced Emily Post to become her own person. She would spend the next fifteen years writing novels and attending high-powered literary events alongside the likes of Mark Twain and Edith Wharton, but in middle age she decided she would try something different. When it debuted in 1922 with a tiny first print run, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette s tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which Etiquette took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America s constantly changing social landscape. A tireless advocate for middle-class and immigrant Americans, Emily Post became the emblem of a new kind of manners in which etiquette and ethics were forever entwined. Now, nearly fifty years after her death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave . Praise for Emily Post Given the ubiquitousness of her repeatedly revised magnum opus, Etiquette , first published in 1922, we think of Emily Post as an institution rather than a human being. But she was a woman of substance and sensitivity. The first to fully portray this pioneer, Claridge is becoming the sort of biographer readers will follow anywhere, and one hopes she ll continue in the vein that yielded Norman Rockwell 2001 and now this absorbing study of a keenly perceptive ethicist second only to Eleanor Roosevelt in the immensity of her influence. A child of privilege born in the wake of the Civil War, smart and beautiful Emily Price married a rascal. The pain and humiliation of her divorce from Edwin Post fostered her devotion to writing she was a successful novelist and seeded the compassion and advocacy for women that shaped her highly moral approach to etiquette. Claridge chronicles Post s remarkable ability to discern the needs of a Claridge chronicles Post s remarkable ability to discern the needs of a burgeoning American public transformed by immigration, industrialization, war, and women s and civil rights, and hungry for guidance in social and familial situations. A best-selling writer and hugely popular radio personality, Post equated etiquette with character and ensured a democratization of manners. Claridge greatly deepens our appreciation for Post s achievements and brings forward the impressive woman behind the do s and don ts. ---Donna Seaman, Booklist starred review It was the genius of Emily Post to show us that manners are the small coin of morality .Emily Post became perhaps the most important and certainly the most influential moralist of the 20th century. It is Laura Claridge s genius to explain the surprising and improbable background and equally amazing personality of Emily Post. P.J. O Rourke, author of Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People What she Claridge has given us is not only a canny and insightful read, but when she calls her Emily a domestic anthropologist, you know she s right. Brava Nancy Milford, author of Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay Laura Claridge has given us so much more than a mere biography of this august arbiter of good manners; She has flung open the doors of an entire society she has shown us in enchanting, mesmerizing detail how the modern city of New York was built and made. -- Carolyn See, author of Making a Literary Life a biography as rich and engaging as a portrait by John Singer Sargent. Daniel Mark Epstein, author of The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage Laura Claridge s masterful Emily Post tells the story of a lively heroine, raised in a Gilded Age New York of silk-stockings and debutante balls, who wrote one of the enduring bestsellers of the 20th century . Laura Claridge s vivid, graceful biography of Emily Post is an essential contribution to American social history. Eric Homberger, author of Mrs. Astor s New York
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POWELL(Subject); Barber, Michael Anthony Powell: A Life Overlook Books 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or961100. ISBN #1585677108 / 9781585677108. (filed under: Biography ) *
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POWELL(Subject); Barber, Michael Anthony Powell: A Life Overlook Books 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or961100. ISBN #1585677108 / 9781585677108. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this biography of Anthony Powell, publisher, journalist, man-about-town and author of the "Dance to the Music of Time" sequence, Michael Barber takes a close look at the man and the writer. He finds someone whose temperament was often at war with his upbrining. The son of an army officer, educated at Eton and Balliol, Powell chose as his closest friends people like Malcolm Muggeridge and the composer, Constant Lambert, who were not out ot the top drawer or the one below it. And, although happily married for over sixty years to Lady Violet Pakenham, the daughter of an earl, he admitted that he had "always been attracted by girls who looked as they'd slept under a bush for a week". Powell believed that creative writing was, like alchemy, a mysterious, indefinable proces by which experience became art. Michael Barberfocuses on the experience that provided Powell with his raw material. He pays particular attention to the "entre-deux-guerres", that sharply divided cultural interlude when the artists and good-timers with whom Powell identified in the twenties were followed, in the thirties, by the politicians and the prigs.
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POWELL(Subject); Powell, Colin L.; Persico, Joseph E. My American Journey: An Autobiography Random House 1995 hardcover. Signed by Author. signed bookplate. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or878539. ISBN #0679432965 / 9780679432968. (filed under: Biography ) *
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POWELL(Subject); Powell, Colin L.; Persico, Joseph E. My American Journey: An Autobiography Random House 1995 hardcover. Signed by Author. signed bookplate. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or878539. ISBN #0679432965 / 9780679432968. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "A GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY . . . AN ENDEARING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK." --The New York Times Book Review Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm--but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier's directness. MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is the powerful story of a life well lived and well told. It is also a view from the mountaintop of the political landscape of America. At a time when Americans feel disenchanted with their leaders, General Powell's passionate views on family, personal responsibility, and, in his own words, "the greatness of America and the opportunities it offers" inspire hope and present a blueprint for the future. An utterly absorbing account, it is history with a vision. "The stirring, only-in-America story of one determined man's journey from the South Bronx to directing the mightiest of military forces . . . Fascinating."--The Washington Post Book World "Eloquent." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "PROFOUND AND MOVING . . . . Must reading for anyone who wants to reaffirm his faith in the promise of America." --Jack Kemp The Wall Street Journal "A book that is much like its subject--articulate, confident, impressive, but unpretentious and witty. . . . Whether you are a political junkie, a military buff, or just interested in a good story, MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is a book well worth reading." --San Diego Union Tribune "Colin Powell's candid, introspective autobiography is a joy for all with an appetite for well-written political and social commentary." --The Detroit News From the Paperback edition.
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POWELL, KEVIN; (Subject); Powell, Kevin The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood Atria 2016 paperback. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161262. ISBN #1501118579 / 9781501118579. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PULITZER(Subject); Swanberg, W. A. Pulitzer hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or973048. (keywords: Journalism) (filed under: Biography ) *
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PYLE(Subject); Pyle, Ernie Home Country hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1009498. (filed under: Biography ) *
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