John Madere (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Pictorial wraps. One slight horizontal stress crease on spine. Slightly rubbed with very faint edge wear. 22 pp. (unpaginated). 12.75 x 10 inches. Color portraits of eleven graphic designers: Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, Stephen Doyle, Michael Bierut, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Chip Kidd, April Greiman, Seymour Chwast, and Ellen Lupton. Includes brief notes by Madere regarding each image, the artist and the setting of the photo. Presented on Mohawk Kromekote paper. John Madere is a New York based, award winning photographer.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Forner, Alison (cover design); Madere, John (cover photograph) (illustrator). Fine unread condition color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Praise for Straw; Author Dedication; Introduction; Acknowledgments and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographs. Signed by the author, Darryl Strawberry, with thick black Sharpie/marker on the inner front cover. "Former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry, whose achievements on the field were often overshadowed by his struggles off the field, recounts the highs, the lows, and the lessons learned along the way that allowed him to survive. The youngest son of Henry and Ruby Strawberry, Darryl grew up in one of Los Angeles's toughest neighborhoods but channeled his energy into basketball and baseball. The New York Mets drafted in in 1980, and he was voted the National League Rookie of the Year in 1983. Strawberry went on to be the first National League player voted to the All-Star Game in each of his first four full seasons. Throughout the eighties and nineties, however, Strawberry faced many challenges off the field, including tax evasion, drug use, solicitation, and allegations of domestic assault. His seasons with the Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees were interrupted by suspensions, visits to rehab, treatment for colon cancer, and time in prison. But in 2006, Strawberry's life dramatically changed course. He married and devoted himself to his church and his work with children and adults affected by autism and other developmental disorders. For the first time, in his onwn words, Darryl Strawberry delivers his inspirational narrative, the extraordinary story of his life." - from the rear outer cover. "Straw does have the virtue of sincerity and of seeming profoundly felt. Its narrator emerges as a real and complex man: humble in the face of his failures, palpably hungry for redemption, and yet still capable of myopia and self-righteousness. You feel for him in a way you never did -- at least I never did -- when you were merely cheering and/or booing him at Shea." - New York Times Book Review. ABOUT DARRYL STRAWBERRY: Darryl was born in Crenshaw, California. An eight-time All-Star, a four-time World Series Champion, and a National League Rookie of the Year, he played for the Mets, Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees during his headlining career. In 2008, Strawberry began serving as a speical ambassador for the Mets. He is the father of five and lives in Missouri with his wife, Tracy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Madere (Jacket Photo) (illustrator). x, 294 pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: To David-- Enjoy the Journey! Lynne Duke. Includes Author's Note, Finding My Way, The Dream, Mandela's Reality, In Need of Armor, Smoke and Mirrors, Comrades and Capitalists, Truth and Chains, The Elephants Fight, Mobutu's Fading Spots, Exit Mobutu, Lyrics of African Lives, Winniephobia, With Impunity, The Scramble for Congo, An African American Woman, Coffins and Whispers, Madiba's Twilight, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, and Index of Names and Places. For four years as her newspaper's Johannesburg bureau chief, Lynne Duke cut a rare figure as a black American woman foreign correspondent as she raced from story to story in numerous countries of central and southern Africa. From the battle zones of Congo-Zaire to the quest for truth and reconciliation in South Africa; from the teeming displaced person's camps of Angola and the killing fields of the Rwanda genocide to the calming Indian Ocean shores of Mozambique, Lynne Duke interviewed heads of state, captains of industry, activists, tribal leaders, medicine men and women, mercenaries, rebels, refugees, and ordinary, hard-working people. It is the people of Africa who fueled the hope and affection that drove Duke's reporting. The nobility of the ordinary African's struggles, so often absent from accounts of the continent, is at the heart of Duke's searing story. Lynne Duke (July 29, 1956 - April 19, 2013) she was a journalist and author. Her 2003 book, Mandela, Mobutu and Me, is a critically acclaimed memoir chronicling her four-year term as chief of the Washington Post s African bureau and was nominated for the National Community of Black Writers' Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in 2004. After her return to the U.S., Duke served as the Washington Post New York City bureau chief for a year. She later returned to Washington D.C. and wrote long-form features for the Style section, eventually becoming editor and retiring from the paper in 2008. Duke was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2009. After her death in 2013, the National Association of Black Journalists established the Lynne Duke International Fellowship to honor the memory and legacy of the longtime journalist and member of their community. In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal 1990s and brilliantly illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable depredation and horrors. MANDELA, MOBUTU, AND ME is a richly detailed, clear-eyed account of the hard realities Duke discovered, including the devastation wrought by ruthless, rapacious dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko and his successor, Laurent Kabila, in the Congo, and appalling indifference of Europeans and Americans to the legacy of their own exploitation of the continent and its people. But Duke also records with admiration the visionary leadership and personal style of Nelson Mandela in south Africa as he led his country's inspiring transition from apartheid in the twilight of his incredible life. Whether it was touring underground gold and copper mines, learning to carry water on her head, filing stories by flashlight or dodging gunmen, Duke's tour of Africa reveals not only the spirit and travails of an amazing but troubled continent--it also explores the heart and fearlessness of a dedicated journalist. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].