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Walter Cronkite A Reporter's Life
Knopf 0394578791 / 9780394578798 First Edition Hardcover Fine
0394578791 0394578791 An excellent copy! First edition. From Publishers WeeklyWritten with wry, self-deprecating humor, Cronkite's memoir gives us the veteran TV newscaster at his most relaxed and ingratiating as he recounts dozens of his scoops: for example, tracking down and interviewing Takeo Yoshikawa, the Japanese spy who was strategic to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Daniel Ellsberg when he was in hiding after stealing the Pentagon's secret Vietnam War plans (the Pentagon Papers). Tough-minded, Missouri-born Cronkite, who apprenticed on Houston papers, has been eyewitness to, or participant in, many of the century's momentous events. As United Press war correspondent, he covered D-Day, the Allied air war and the Nuremberg trial. He joined CBS as a Korean War correspondent, and as CBS Evening News anchor for almost two decades (he retired in 1981, pushed out, he says, by a new management more interested in infotainment than substance), he reported on the civil rights movement, NASA's first moon walk, the John Kennedy assassination, freedom struggles in South Africa. Peppered with personal encounters with presidents from FDR to Nixon, plus close-ups of Nazi Hermann Goring, Douglas MacArthur, Castro, Begin and many others, Cronkite's crisp narrative charts the metamorphosis of network television into the defining medium of American consciousness. He also lets loose brickbats on the contemporary scene, bemoaning the "ridiculously small" volume of television news and the superficial quality of political coverage ("The debates are a part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become, and it is a wonder that the networks continue to cooperate in their presentation"). Photos not seen by PW. BOMC main selection. Available on cassette and CD from Random House Audio. (Dec.) FYI: On November 4, the date this review is appearing, Cronkite celebrates his 80th birthday.
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Wagner, Walter, Hull, Clarence J. & Markle, Gerald Advanced Analytical Chemistry by Wagner, Walter, Hull, Clarence J. & Markle, Gerald
New York Reinhold Publishing Corporation 1956 Hardcover Good
Good/No Jacket c. 1955, brown bds., illus., 282pp., (wear to head+heel of spine+edges+corners bumped, covers soiled, previous price written inside front cover, some underlining in pencil to first section, some crinkling in marginal area from page turning, binding good)
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Walter McDonald After the Noise of Saigon
Univ of Massachusetts Pr 1988 0870236016 / 9780870236013 Paperback Good
0870236016 0870236016 Ex-library. From Library Journal The Vietnam War lingers like a shadow behind these tough but gentle poems about hardscrabble life in Texas. Hunting owls, loading a shotgun, and ranching are all made poignant by memories of the terror in Saigon. "We believe/ we will know what we need when we find it," he says about "regions under seige"the mind of the veteran. Psychic disability from mortar attacks must be resolved by a lonely pilgrimage amid cactus and rattlers "like tribal gods." Although a Jack London view predominates, ("Living on hardscrabble, a man is less/ than a wolf and knows it, carries a rifle/ in season or not"), McDonald's is a triumph not merely of survival but of remaining decent in the face of adversity. Frank Allen, Allentown Coll., Center Valley, Pa. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Review After The Noise Of Saigon Backpacking The San Juan Balance Between The Moon And Me Between Two Shores Of Toledo Breathe Deeply, And Relax Bull Caught In A Storm On Hardscrabble The Children's Hour Christmas Bells, Saigon Cousin Billy And The Weather Crashes Real And Imagined Crawling Through Caverns Crosswind Landings Estacado The Eyes In Joe Hall's Shed Fathers And Sons (5) Flood Fishing The Food Pickers Of Saigon For Friends Missing In Action Goat Ranching Graves Of Unknown Soldiers The Guilt Of Survivors In Green Pastures Jet Flight, The Early Years Living On Buried Water Loading A Shotgun, At Twelve The Middle Years My Father Quits Another Job Nearing The End Of A Century New Guy Night Missions The Night Of Rattlesnake Chili Nothing To Do But Start Over An Object Set In Motion Old Men Fishing At Brownwood The One That Got Away Praise Reasons For Taking Risks Rig-sitting The Rodeo Fool Setting The Torch To Stubble Sundown War Games Watching For Ships Off Padre Island The Way The World Ends We Called It Entering Heaven When Children Think You Can Do Anything The Winter They Bombed Pearl Harbor With A Woman Who Looks Like Crystal Gayle -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder?
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Walter Mosley Bad Boy Brawly Brown (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Macmillan Audio 20020701 1559277157 / 9781559277150 CD Very Good
1559277157 1559277157 Amazon.com Review Racial tensions and America's civil rights movement have previously figured into Walter Mosley's series about sometimes-sleuth Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins. But Bad Boy Brawly Brown turns what had been a background element into compelling surface tension. The year is 1964, and though Easy seems settled into honest work as a Los Angeles custodian, he's having other problems--notably, his adopted son's wish to quit school and lingering remorse over the death (in A Little Yellow Dog) of his homicidal crony, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander. Yet he remains willing to do "favors" for folks in need. So, when Alva Torres comes to him, worried that her son, Brawly Brown, will get into trouble running with black revolutionaries, Easy agrees to find the young man and "somehow ... get him back home." His first day on the job, however, Rawlins stumbles across Alva's ex-husband--murdered--and he's soon dodging police, trying to connect a black activist's demise to a weapons cache, and exposing years of betrayal that have made Brawly an ideal pawn in disastrous plans. Mosley's portrayal of L.A.'s mid-20th-century racial divide is far from simplistic, with winners and sinners on both sides. He also does a better-than-usual job here of plot pacing, with less need to rush a solution at the end. But it is Easy Rawlins's evolution that's most intriguing in Brawly Brown. A man determined to curb his violent and distrustful tendencies, Easy finds himself, at 44, having finally come to peace with his life, just when the peace around him is at such tremendous risk. --J. Kingston Pierce --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Finally. Five years after the last taste (1997's Gone Fishin') and six years after the last full meal (1996's A Little Yellow Dog), Easy Rawlins makes a very welcome return. Now 44 years old, Easy no longer makes a living from doing people "favors." Now he owns a house, works for the Board of Education in Los Angeles and is father to a teenage son, Jesus, and a young daughter, Feather. It's 1964, and while some things have changed, the process is slow and uncertain. Too slow for some, including Brawly Brown, the son of Alva, the girlfriend of Easy's friend, John. Hotheaded Brawly has become involved with a group calling itself the Urban Revolutionary Party, and John and Alva fear the group's unspoken aim is violence and revenge. Friendship and loyalty being still sacred to Easy, he agrees, as a favor, to try to locate and talk to Brawly. As usual, Easy's path is not easy. When a body surfaces, Easy finds himself in the middle of a vicious puzzle where lives are cheap and death the easiest solution. As always, Mosley illuminates time and place with a precision few writers can match whatever genre they choose. He also delivers a rousing good story and continues to captivate with characters readers have grown to love, including the now "dead" Mouse, who still plays an important role in Easy's chronicle. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Walter Riezler Beethoven
Horizon Pr 0844300764 / 9780844300764 PAPERBACK Very Good
0844300764 0844300764 Trade Paperback. Very Good. Clean, tight and unmarked. Some cover wear.
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