capital sterling virginia (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Verygood condition, except part of back cover is pealed. ; 8.9 X 5.9 X 1.2 inches; 430 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. xviii, 191pp. Light wear and tiny stains and light soiling to lower boards, though this isn't terribly offensive. Tiny spot to first page; else, text clean. Binding sound. Light wear and mild creasing to dust-jacket, with light soiling to "inside" of jacket. Overall, a good, clean, sound copy.

Softbound. Condition: Good. Square octavo, paper covers covered in clear plastic, call letters on the spine, xvi, 248 pp., drawings, ink-stamp, paper label.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition First Printing. Inscribed by author on title page. v, 228 pp with illustrations. The son of Mexican American immigrants in El Paso, the author was confined to a Southern California orphanage at four years of age, that required him to abandon his language, religion, and culture to become a "real" American. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Z1 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Al Kuettner on the title page in very good condition in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, scattered light scratches, rubbing and scuffing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has bumped corners, a few tiny spot stains on the top page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Capital Current Series. 9.25"x6.25", 197 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. AL KUETTNER was a young, white Southern reporter when the civil rights struggle began in 1952, the year he was assigned to cover it by the wire service United Press. During those turbulent years that followed he traveled extensively throughout the U.S., talking with hundreds of people, black and white, witnessing the events that transformed American race relations. Kuettner covered all the key events - the integration of the South's public schools and universities; Rosa Parks and her famous bus ride; the great civil rights marches on Washington, D.C. and Montgomery, Alabama; the passage of the landmark Supreme Court rulings and civil rights and voting legislation; the assassinations of Evers, King, and Kennedy. He knew and interviewed all the key players - from Martin Luther King, Jr., whom he first met and interviewed in 1955 as a young preacher dressed in a blue work shirt and denims in the Sunday school room of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church; to John Lewis, now a congressman, who in 1965 was attacked as he led marchers from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.; to Medgar Evers, who paid with his life for his work in the black voter registration campaign. He knew them all. Now in this book, Kuettner retraces his steps, reexamining the history he witnessed in the making, and questioning blacks and whites about the legacy of change. While he traces the events he witnessed, his vision is informed by the future and by his own determination to present the events honestly. This book is dedicated to the UPI reporters and photographers who covered the civil rights story. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dyson, Kathleen (cover design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition glossy color illustrated softcover wraps. Includes List of Other Books by the Authors; Authors' Dedications; Foreword by Jack Kemp; Introduction; Data Sources; and About the Authors. Illustrated with graphs, charts and tables. "In this one book, the authors provide a comprehensive snapshot of where the nation stands in terms of government spending, taxes and debt, education, the economy and business, health care, the environment, and society in general. Their numbers tell the story for the nation as a whole, as well as for each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C." - from the foreword by Jack Kemp, co-director, Empower America. "I'm not a conservative, but I love this book for its exhaustive collection of data on everything from SAT scores to economic growth rates state by state. It's an encyclopedia on politics and the economy and every data junkie should own it." - Morton Kondracke, executive editor, Roll Call. "The Entrepreneurial Revolution that Keating and Edmonds refer to in U.S. By the Numbers will live or die by the future actions of our elected officials. Like D.C. By the Numbers, which helped to reshape policy in favor of entrepreneurial activity in our nation's capital city, this book wil be the bible for elected officials who are serious about nurturing an environment favorable to economic opportunity for all Americans in the 21st century." - Karen Kerrigan, chariman, Small Business Survival Committee. "For anyone truly concerned about how their own state and our nation are positioned for the 21st century's global economy, then the numbers, analysis and policy prescriptions presented by Keating and Edmonds in U.S. By the Numbers are must reading." - Lawrence Kudlow, chief economist, Schroder & Co., Inc. and CNBC dot com. "U.S. By the Numbers vividly demonstrates how taxpayers are being plundered on a state-by-state basis. Of course, the news isn't all bad -- the book carefully documents how low tax and low regulatory states prosper, and why it will be increasingly dangerous for politicians to even ponder the thought of tax increases in the new entrepreneurial economy." - Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform. "In U.S. By the Numbers, Keating and Edmonds not only tell the story of where our naton and the states stand today, but explain why a conservative agenda is critical to making sure the 21st century also will be America's century." - David Keene, chairman, American Conservative Union.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition photographic softcover wraps. Includes Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; Epilogue; Notes; Questions to Ponder and Index. Illustrated with sections of black-and-white photographs. "First Capital paperback edition, 2002." "Mrs. Ike is a work of solid scholarship, full of surprises and new documents - including never-before-seen letters from Ike (signed 'Your Lover') to Mamie.Ike and Mamie were married for a full half-century. For fifty years, except when he was off making war, they slept in the same bed. The marriage underwent such sever strains it seems almost a miracle that they stayed together, that their marriage grew stronger, that they became a team, each drawing on the other's strengths. Susan Eisenhower shows us how it was done. One is lost in admiration for both the subject and her granddaugher-biographer." - Stephen Ambrose "[Mrs. Ike] corrects the record about Mamie Eisenhower, who was a far stronger, more independent and more interesting woman than is now generally realized.It is no small measure of the love she lavished on each [family] member that one of them chose to be her biographer and to write a book as lovely and loving as this one." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "In Mrs. Ike Susan Eisenhower has written a vivid memoir.Mrs. Ike helps liberate Mamie Eisenhower's image from the shadow her husband cast and from the shadings of history." - Mark Marvel, New York Times The perception [of Mamie Eisenhower] has been distorted by prejudice against a woman whose life's ambition was simply to please her husband and enjoy family and friends.Difficult as it may be these days to portray such a person sympathetically, the task becomes doubly difficult if she was married to a man who achieved greatness in public life. But human character, multifarious as it is, has provided Mamie's granddaughter the chance to write a vivid and often poignant biography.Mamie Eisenhower's main goal was in perfecting the life she shared with the man she adored. He, loving her no less, strived for perfection in his work. In this he had the ideal partner." - Sylvia Jukes Morris, Los Angeles Times "There was more to her than just those bangs!.An enlightening biography." - Booklist.