Ben-Veniste, Richard (signed):The Emperor's New Clothes : Exposing the Truth from Watergate to 9/11
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Hodder, UK, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Good. A Novel of the Life and Times of William Harvey. 455 pages, size 8.75 inches tall by 5.5 inches' The compelling, … More...
Hodder, UK, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Good. A Novel of the Life and Times of William Harvey. 455 pages, size 8.75 inches tall by 5.5 inches' The compelling, compassionate story of the man who discovered the nature of the human body...William Harvey as a young medical student at Cambridge discovers at his first dissection that the corpse of a boy just hanged for stealing bread is still alive, and by testing his own heretical theory that the blood circulates from the heart succeeds in reviving him. The very thought that the blood flows through the body and the use of the heart as a pump was against all teaching in Harvey's lifetime - sacrilege! blasphemy! - yet out of his discovery grew medicine as we now know it. From his early obsession with the study of anatomy to the publication of his famous work, De Mortu Cordis, Harvey's life makes fascinating reading. While studying medicine at Padua, he lived in the home of his teacher, Galileo. Did you learn anything from the cadaver ? Anything worth-the risk ? asked Galileo. I learned that Aristotle could be wrong about the heart. Essentially a revolutionary, Harvey continued to challenge man's view of the universe and of himself, and risked privation and even death to pursue the necessary experiments. A passionate man, yet one who never lost sight of his goal, he abandoned the beautiful Nina of his intern days to return to London where he could best seek proof of his ideas. His marriage to the daughter of his London sponsor grew increasingly disappointing, even as his love for a longtime friend Rachel deepened and sustained him through his lonely struggles toward the truth. Despite his illegal, undercover experiments, William Harvey earned a respected position among the high personalities of the court for his unusual understanding of the human body and his brilliance at diagnosis. He served the aging Queen Elizabeth, cured the sickly King James and was appointed private physician to King Charles I. John Donne, Bacon, Buckingham trusted him; he prescribed for the headaches and insomnia of Shakespeare. A new view of history, PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY is a dramatic adventure in scientific discovery in 17th-century London - a novel of consequence '. Book - in Fine [much better than Very Good] bright black boards with gilt lettering. Contents, fine, clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - Near Fine [better than Very Good] - a nice bright jacket with just light rubbing to the extreme corners. A Nice Copy. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Hardbacks; Inventory No: A296-1006. This item is potentially heavy when packed and may require more postage than the rates shown. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost.., Hodder, 1976, 3.75, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. [10], 354, [2] p. Notes. Index. . Signed by author. Nice inscription on front end paper. Gene B. Sperling (born December 24, 1958) is an American lawyer and Democratic Party political figure, currently serving as Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama. Sperling was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he attended the alternative Community High School. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School, and attended The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In the 1990s Gene Sperling worked for New York Governor Mario Cuomo. During Bill Clinton's first term as President, from 1993 1996, Sperling served as deputy director of the National Economic Council while the Council was directed by Robert Rubin, who was promoted to Treasury Secretary. Sperling became National Economic Adviser to Clinton and director of the National Economic Council from 1996 to 2000. Sperling wrote The Pro-Growth Progressive, a book arguing that liberals should seek to harness market forces in pursuing progressive goals, and co-author of What Works In Girls' Education? As director of the NEC, Sperling, who had played a key role in the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act, was a key negotiator of the 1997 bipartisan Balanced Budget Act. Sperling was a principal negotiator with then-Treasury Secretary Summers of the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Gramm-Leach-Bliley repealed portions of the depression-era Glass-Steagall Act allowing banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge. After two consecutive elections in which Democratic candidates failed to turn clear economic advantages into electoral victory, a debate is raging over what the Democrats should do now. The narrow, red state-blue state argument between chest-beating populists and soulless centrists offers the answer to neither the country's economic future nor the political future of the Democrats. In "The Pro-Growth Progressive, " President Clinton's longest-serving national economic advisor, Gene Sperling, argues that the best economic strategy for our nation--and the best strategy for progressives whether they be Democrat, Republican, or Independent--is to pursue policies that are both progressive and pro-growth, that promote progressive values of upward mobility, fair starts, and economic dignity as well as embrace markets and innovation. Sperling describes how both parties offer the American public impoverished choices: Democrats in the-sky-is-falling party too often pretend that the way to promote progressive values and expand the American middle class is to slow the pace of the global economy, stop all outsourcing, and intervene in the market. Republicans of the don't-worry-be-happy party hold fast to the bankrupt vision that the best thing for economic growth is the smallest government possible, and have made the conservative deficit hawks of the 1990s an endangered species. But "The Pro-Growth Progressive" is neither an all-out assault on the Bush agenda nor a partisan call for Democrats to move further left. Both conservatives and progressives have to accept hard truths about the limitations of their approaches. Drawing on his years of policy experience, Sperling lays out a third way on the issues that are dominating the news and Bush's second term: social security, ownership, globalization, and deficit reduction. He explains the policy alternatives that respect the power of free markets while giving government a role in ensuring that the markets benefit all working families. Focused and timely, "The Pro-Growth Progressive" offers a realistic vision of free enterprise and economic growth in which government can improve education, reduce poverty, and restore the country to fiscal sanity., Simon & Schuster, 2005, 3, Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2006. Reprint. 9th printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xv, [1], 223, [1] p. Notes. Some measure success by the heights reached, but Black evaluates his life by the obstacles that catapulted him to stand on higher ground. From the ghettos of Baltimore to the hallowed halls of Congress, this unlikely admiral reveals how God can bring deliverance to captives and let the oppressed go free. From Wikipedia: "Rear Admiral Barry C. Black, USN (Ret. ) (born November 1, 1948) is the 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate. He was elected to this position on June 27, 2003, becoming the first African American and the first Seventh-day Adventist to hold this office. The Senate elected its first chaplain in 1789. He served for over 27 years as a chaplain in the United States Navy, rising to the rank of rear admiral and ending his career as the Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy, the senior chaplain of the United States Navy Chaplain Corps. He officially retired from the Navy on August 15, 2003. Commissioned as a Navy chaplain in 1976, Black s first duty station was the Fleet Religious Support Activity in Norfolk, Virginia. Subsequent assignments included Naval Support Activity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland; First Marine Aircraft Wing, Okinawa, Japan; Naval Training Center, San Diego, California; USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3), Long Beach, California; Naval Chaplains School Advanced Course, Newport, Rhode Island; Marine Aircraft Group Thirty-One, Beaufort, South Carolina; assistant staff chaplain, Chief of Naval Education and Training, Pensacola, Florida; and fleet chaplain, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, Virginia. As a rear admiral, his personal decorations included the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit Medal, twice awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, twice awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, and twice received the Navy Commendation Medal, and the Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and numerous unit awards, campaign, and service medals. On June 27, 2003, Black was elected the 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate. He began working in the Senate on July 7, 2003. During the 16 day United States federal government shutdown of 2013, his invocations began to garner widespread national attention. On Oct. 1, the first day of the shutdown, he prayed for divine guidance to, strengthen our weakness, replacing cynicism with faith and cowardice with courage. On Oct. 3, he prayed, Save us from the madness. We acknowledge our transgressions, our shortcomings, our smugness, our selfishness and our pride...Deliver us from the hypocrisy of attempting to sound reasonable while being unreasonable. During his prayer, on Oct. 4, 2013, the day after officers from the U.S. Capitol Police shot and killed a woman who had used her car in an attempt to breach federal grounds, Black noted that the officers were not being paid because of the government shutdown. Like other government workers, he too is unpaid during the shutdown, stating, I m being remunerated from above. And that s pretty special. On the fourth day of the shutdown, he also prayed, regarding the senators, Remove from them that stubborn pride which imagines itself to be above and beyond criticism, he said. Forgive them the blunders they have committed. On day nine, prompted by news of the delay of death benefits for military families, Black prayed, It s time for our lawmakers to say Enough is enough', and asked that God, cover our shame with the robe of Your righteousness. On day eleven, Black prayed to, give our lawmakers the wisdom to distinguish between truth and error...Give them a hatred of all hypocrisy, deceit and shame as they seek to replace them with gentleness, patience and truth, he prayed. The U.S. House of Representatives, which has its own chaplain, also invited him to deliver an invocation in their Chamber. In 1995, Black was chosen from 127 nominees for the NAACP Renowned Service Award, for his contributions to equal opportunity and civil rights. In 2002, he received the Benjamin Elijah., Thomas Nelson, 2006, 3, New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2009. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the half title page. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket would also be FINE but for one short closed tear to its rear panel. NOT price clipped ($27.95). NO chips. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright, square and tight. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean, and unmarked. First printing with "First Edition: June 2009" so stated and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Illustrated with 8 pages of photos. Index. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in bright silver on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Richard Ben-Veniste doesn't like being lied to. And he especially hates it when officials lie to the American people without consequences. Widely respected as a trial lawyer, Ben-Veniste delivers a fascinating insider's tale in his memoir of a career spent fighting hypocrisy and seeking accountability from those within the highest ranks of government. A legal wunderkind, Ben-Veniste was hired at age thirty by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox to investigate the Watergate cover-up. As chief of the Watergate Task Force at the time of the infamous 'Saturday Night Massacre,' the author played an important role in prosecuting the case and revealed the extent of Richard Nixon's involvement with his top lieutenants in a conspiracy to obstruct justice and commit perjury. Prior to Watergate, Ben-Veniste had investigated and prosecuted corruption in the office of Speaker of the House John W. McCormack. In 1980 the author served as a defense lawyer in the controversial Abscam case, delving into a flawed sting operation that pushed the boundaries of legality and tested due process of law. In the Senate Whitewater hearings, Ben-Veniste helped expose the partisan agenda behind the effort to take down President Clinton. The author gained further national prominence as a member of the 9/11 Commission, in which his artful questioning of Condoleeza Rice revealed how ill-prepared the Bush Administration had been in the weeks leading up to 9/11. A lifelong devotee to the principles of an open democracy, the author argues that the pursuit of truth is not one that should depend on party affiliations -- that we should all seek to be partisans for the truth. Ben-Veniste recounts a remarkable career spent at the center of the most poignant public investigations of the last half century, fighting the abuse of power by those who wielded it most.". INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 340pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2009, 4<
