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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition (Scribner's A on verso). xiii, [1], 529, [1] pages. Illustrations, Notes. Author's Notes. Index. William Andrew Swanberg (November 23, 1907 in St. Paul, Minnesota - September 17, 1992 in Southbury, Connecticut) was an American biographer. He is known for Citizen Hearst, a biography of William Randolph Hearst, which was recommended by the Pulitzer Prize board in 1962 but overturned by the trustees. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his 1972 biography of Henry Luce, and the National Book Award in 1977 for his 1976 biography of Norman Thomas. He followed a college friend to New York City in September 1935. After months of anxious job-hunting he secured an interview at the Dell Publishing Company with president George T. Delacorte Jr., and was hired as an assistant editor of three lowbrow magazines. When the United States entered World War II, Swanberg was 34 years old, father of two children, and suffering from a hearing disability. Rejected by the U.S. Army, in 1943 he enlisted in the Office of War Information and, after training, was sent to England following D-Day. In London, amid the V-1 and V-2 attacks, he prepared and edited pamphlets to be air-dropped behind enemy lines in France and later in Norway. With the end of the war he returned in October 1945 to Dell and the publishing world. Swanberg did not return to magazine editing but instead did freelance work within and without Dell. By 1953, he began carving out time for researching his first book (Sickles), which Scribner's purchased, beginning a long association. By the 1950s he had established himself as a biographer. Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 February 28, 1967), an American magazine magnate, was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day". He launched and closely supervised a stable of magazines that transformed journalism and the reading habits of upscale Americans. Time summarized and interpreted the week's news; Life was a picture magazine of politics, culture and society that dominated American visual perceptions in the era before television; Fortune explored in depth the economy and the world of business, introducing to executives avant-garde ideas such as Keynesianism; and Sports Illustrated which probed beneath the surface of the game to explore the motivations and strategies of the teams and key players. Add in his radio projects and newsreels, and Luce created the first multimedia corporation. Luce envisaged that the United States would achieve world hegemony, and in 1941 he declared the 20th century would be the "American Century'. It is impossible not to feel Luce's influence on his biographer W. A. Swanberg, whose concise writing holds the attention. With Swanberg's clean-swept prose, there's not a dull sentence to be found. Christopher Lukas (author photograph) (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. xix, [1], 700 pages. DJ has some wear, tears and soiling. Abbreviations and Acronyms. The Evolution of the KGB, 1917-1991. The Transliteration of Russian Names. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Christopher Maurice Andrew, FRHistS (born 23 July 1941) is an Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge with an interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services. Andrew is a former Chair of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 (VR) Intelligence Squadron in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Chairman of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, and former Visiting Professor at Harvard. Andrew served as co-editor of Intelligence and National Security, and a presenter of BBC radio and TV documentaries. His twelve previous books include a number of studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history. Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (March 3, 1922 January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, who defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 after providing the British embassy in Riga with a vast collection of his notes purporting to be written copies of KGB files. These became known as the Mitrokhin Archives. The intelligence files given by Mitrokhin to the MI6 exposed an unknown number of Soviet agents, including Melita Norwood. He was co-author with Christopher Andrew of The Mitrokhin Archive. The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB's secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network. Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident who worked in the KGB archive, smuggled out copies of its most highly classified files every day for twelve years. In 1992, a U.S. ally succeeded in exfiltrating the KGB officer and his entire archive out of Moscow. The archive covers the entire period from the Bolshevik Revolution to the 1980s and includes revelations concerning almost every country in the world. But the KGB's main target, of course, was the United States. Though there is top-secret material on almost every country in the world, the United States is at the top of the list. As well as containing many fascinating revelations, this is a major contribution to the secret history of the twentieth century. Among the topics and revelations explored are: The KGB's covert operations in the United States and throughout the West, some of which remain dangerous today. KGB files on Oswald and the JFK assassination that Boris Yeltsin almost certainly has no intention of showing President Clinton. The KGB's attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader. The KGB's use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., in the 1970s to intercept high-level U.S. government communications. The KGB's attempts to steal technological secrets from major U.S. aerospace and technology corporations. KGB covert operations against former President Ronald Reagan, which began five years before he became president. KGB spies who successfully posed as U.S. citizens under a series of ingenious disguises, including several who attained access to the upper echelons of New York society. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Jerry Bauer (Author photograph) (illustrator).…

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1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly-aged. Folded three times. Sixteen-line poem, neatly typed (with one error overtyped an autograph proof mark separating two words) titled 'For Andrew Young. 1885-1971.' Signed at bottom 'Richard Church.' A charming poem, which was published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1971. In two sections, the first of which reads: 'Dour old Scot from Edinburgh, | Whose theology was thorough | From Presbyterian first stage, | Then gentle in a vicarage.' (Young was a Church of England minister.) In the second section of the poem Church presents Young as 'A mystic amongst flowers and birds', who 'would turn | To worship at a wayside burn | Where some water-weed might serve | As thurible', and who 'could observe | His Maker in a buttercup, | And hold a humble daisy up | To bless his congregation'. From the papers of Christopher Fry, a friend of Young's son-in-law Edward Lowbury, poet and physician.…

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