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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 318 pp. Fiction. Howie Traveler never made it as a player---one major league hit and a lifetime .091 batting average. Now, after years of struggling up the coaching ladder, Howir gets his big shot---as manager of the Cleveland indians. His biggest problem? managing his superstar outfielder Jay Alcazar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. Fine, fresh, unread copy inequally fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Jeffrey manber on the title page. First printing. Hardcover. 356 pp. with index. Illustrations. True story of a hidden chapter of the Civil War. In the blistering summer of 1861, the North was ablaze after the formal start of armed conflict. Thuggish mobs entered newspaper offices, buring papers and tossing printing presses out the windows; in some places army units attacked their fellow townsmen, threatening the lives of publishers and their families. In Baltimore, a prison housed governors, memb rs of Congress, mayors, and editors. The common thread? They had publicly opposed Lincoln and the dawning Civil War. The supression of a free press by the government is highlighted through the focus on John Hodgson, an angry bigot so hated that a competing local newspaper gleeful;ly reported his defeat in a bar fight. He was firmly against Lincoln and loudly proclaimed the fact through his opposition newspaper. His press was destroyed first by a mob, then by U.S. Marshalls but Hodgeson chose to fight back in a dramatic courtroom battle. As the trial pproceeded, questions loomed: how far did the government plot against the press go? Was it the work of locl and state officials? Or did the orders come directly from the Executive Mansion in Washington from Lincoln himself?