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A Biography- Signed Justice Clarence Thomas

By: Clarence THOMAS [signed], Andrew Peyton THOMAS [inscribed]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Encounter Books: 2001

Seller ID: 45xlo

ISBN: 1893554368

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Justice Thomas's Supreme Court carte-de-visite, signed by Justice Thomas is laid in. Biographer, Andrew Peyton's inscription on the front free endpaper.
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Call the Briefing!

By: Marlin FITZWATER [signed]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, Crown: 1995

Seller ID: 11qm

ISBN: 0812922964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

For ten years, Marlin Fitzwater was White House spokesperson for Presidents Reagan and Bush-- longer than any other spokesperson. This vivid memoir offers Fitzwater's clear-eyed, often astounding account of how the White House-- and the press-- works.
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

By: Nelson Mandela

Price: $2,200.00

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Co: 1994

Seller ID: Xvm382

ISBN: 0316545856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nelson Mandela Is One Of The Great Moral And Political Leaders Of Our Time: An International Hero Whose Lifelong Dedication To The Fight Against Racial Oppression In South Africa Won Him The Nobel Peace Prize And The Presidency Of His Country. Since His Triumphant Release In 1990 From More Than A Quarter-Century Of Imprisonment, Mandela Has Been At The Center Of The Most Compelling And Inspiring Political Drama In The World. As President Of The African National Congress And Head Of South Africa's Anti Apartheid Movement, He Was Instrumental In Moving The Nation Toward Multiracial Government An...
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My War

By: Andy ROONEY [signed]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, Crown: 1995

Seller ID: cs11

ISBN: 0812925327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White

By: Brent STAPLES [signed]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, Pantheon: 1994

Seller ID: vv11

ISBN: 0679421548

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

In his memoir, Brent Staples poses some compelling questions: Where does the family end the self begin? What do we owe our families and what do we owe ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? As the eldest son among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. Scholarship opportunities pulled him out of the black world where he had grown up into a world largely defined by whites. Meanwhile, as the industries that supported his hometown failed, and drug dealing rushed in to fill the economic void, news of arrests and premature deaths amon...
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Simone WEIL (Signed)

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

Price: $150.00

Publisher: NY, Viking Press: 2001

Seller ID: lg0a

ISBN: 0670899984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

In Simone Weil, du Plessix Gray vividly evokes the life of a complex and intriguing figure. A patriot and a mystic, an unruly activist plagued by self-doubt, a pampered intellectual with a credo of manual labor, an ascetic who craved sensuous beauty, Simone Weil died at the age of thirty-four prematurely after a long struggle with anorexia. But her tremendous intellectual legacy foresaw many of the twentieth century's great changes and continues to influence philosophy today. Simone Weil traces this seminal thinker's transformation from privileged Parisian student to union organizer, activist,...
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Underwriting Democracy

By: George Soros

Price: $600.00

Publisher: NY, Free Pr: 1991

Seller ID: 43ou

ISBN: 0029302854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

NY, Free Press, 1991, Hardcover George Soros figures hugely in global politics-- thru his foundations, action commitees, organizations & affiliations-- Mr. Soros' politics and financial backings have shaped public opinion in the US and Europe. Book topics cover the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Eastern European history, questions of freedoms and values, philosophical writings by a major world leader- George Soros. Inscribed by Author on front-free end paper. Book is clean & unmarked; unclipped jacket in mylar cover. In good as new condition.
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Category: Biography & Autobiography

A Biography- Signed Justice Clarence Thomas

Call the Briefing!

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

My War

Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White

Simone WEIL (Signed)

Underwriting Democracy