1994, ISBN: 9780385413480

New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, [4], 512 pages. Minor soiling to bottom edge. Includes Illustr… More...

New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, [4], 512 pages. Minor soiling to bottom edge. Includes Illustrations, Footnotes, Acknowledgments, Prelude, Notes, Appendix, and Index. Chapters include Searching for Root; The Free State of Winston; The Growing-Up Years; Manhood Responsibilities; Off to the War; A Good Life in Jasper; Road to Montgomery; A Long Row to Hoe; Johnson and Rives; Early Years in Montgomery; A Trailblazing Court; The Evolving Storm; Freedom Riders; The Break with Little George; Close to Home; Ticking the Last Tick; Selma; Family Sorrows; Neighborhood Schools; Justice Johnson--Almost; The Right to Treatment; A Hell of a Day; Unfit for Human Habitation; Going to the FBI; Putting My Hay Down; Troopers; Overcoming Discrimination; Recognition and Acclaim; Appellate Judge; An Onerous Job; The Death Penalty; and Mark of a Man. Jack Bass is an American author and journalist. He was born in 1934. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1956 with a degree in journalism. He worked at The News and Courier, a co-owned weekly paper, The West Ashley Journal, and The State (Columbia). He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for 1965-66. From 1966 to 1973 Bass worked as the Columbia Bureau Chief for The Charlotte Observer and was a lecturer for journalism at the University of South Carolina. He was named South Carolina Newspaperman of the Year in 1968 and 1972. His The Transformation of Southern Politics was on the American Library Association's "Notable Books for Adults List" for 1976, and he received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "Taming the Storm" in 1994. Thrust by fate into the center of a raging storm of controversy, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., at thirty-seven the youngest federal judge in the country, would turn the tide of white resistance to integration with a stream of decisions that upheld the claims of black Southerners to their civil rights. In his twenty-fur years on the District Court, Judge Johnson declared segregated public transportation unconstitutional, ordered the integration of public facilities, and required that blacks be registered to vote. He ordered Governor George Wallace, his former law school classmate, to allow the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, and brought about comprehensive statewide school desegregation. Judge Johnson paid heavily for his judicial vision. Ostracized from his community,subjected to death threats by the Ku Klux Klan, and labeled by George Wallace as "an integrating, scalawagging, carpet-bagging, race-mixing, bald-faced liar" who should be given "a barbed-wire enema," he was called by some "the most hated man in the South." Despite it all, he did not waver in administering justice by applying his concept of the Constitution as a charter of liberty. Martin Luther King, Jr, called him a man who "gave true meaning to the word Justice." Derived from a Kirkus review: Bass, using extensive quotes from taped interviews with his subject and others, tells the story of an outstanding and heroic federal judge: Frank M. Johnson of Alabama, who, despite the constant threat of violence in the explosive 1960's South, contributed to the achievement of racial justice in numerous landmark civil-rights cases. Johnson was a typically ornery product of the ``free state of Winston,'' as northern Alabama's Winston County was known (out of Unionist and antislavery sentiment, Winston attempted to secede from Alabama in 1862). Aside from his fiercely independent personality, there was little in Johnson's upbringing to suggest that he would become a champion of civil rights: He received a conventional legal education at the Univ. of Alabama-where he graduated first in his class-and, after WW II combat service in Europe, he returned to a legal practice in Alabama. But Johnson apparently had an innate sense of justice that, after his appointment to the federal bench in 1955, led to frequent confrontations with Alabama's political culture. Bass describes how Johnson's attempts to enforce Brown v. Board of Education resulted in dramatic and vituperative showdowns with Wallace and finally ended segregation in the Alabama schools, and how Johnson's decisions allowed the historic Selma march to go forward, and punished violence directed against African-Americans. Together with judges of the Fifth Circuit, who affirmed Johnson's progressive decisions, Johnson had a pervasive effect on the eradication of racial discrimination in the South. A vivid, first-rate biography of a judicial hero., Doubleday, 1993, 3<

1994, ISBN: 9780385413480

New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. viii, [4], 512, [4] pages. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Minor corner bum… More...

New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. viii, [4], 512, [4] pages. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Minor corner bumping. Includes Acknowledgments and Prelude, Illustrations, as well as Notes, Appendix, and Index. Chapters include Searching for Roots; The Free State of Winston; The Growing-Up Years; Manhood Responsibilities; Off to the War; A Good Life in Jasper; Road to Montgomery; A Long Row to Hoe; Johnson and Rives; Early Years in Montgomery; A Trailblazing Court; The Evolving Storm; Freedom Riders; The Break with Little George; Close to Home; Ticking the Last Tick; Selma; Family Sorrows; Neighborhood Schools; Justice Johnson--Almost; The Right to Treatment; A Hell of a Day; Unfit for Human Habitation; Going to the FBI; Putting My Hay Down; Troopers; Overcoming Discrimination; Recognition and Acclaim; Appellate Judge; An Onerous Job; The Death Penalty; and Mark of a Man. Jack Bass is author or co-author of eight nonfiction books about the American South. His works have focused on Southern politics, race relations, and the role of law in shaping the civil rights era. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Bass studied as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University. In 13 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, he was twice named South Carolina "journalist of the year." He taught for 11 years as a professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Constitution, and Washington Post. In announcing Bass the winner of the 1994 Robert Kennedy Book Award grand prize for Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Arthur Schlesinger Jr. acclaimed it as "a strong and evocative work that illuminates the struggle for racial justice." Judge Frank Johnson endured the outrage of a society that felt itself and its allies under siege, and he prevailed, eventually winning honor even in his home state. In his twenty-four years on the District Court of Montgomery, Judge Johnson declared segregated public transportation unconstitutional, Judge Johnson paid heavily for his judicial vision. Ostracized from his community, subjected to death threats by the Ku Klux Klan, and labeled by George Wallace as "an integrating, scalawagging, carpet-bagging, race-mixing, bald-faced liar" who should be given "a barbed-wire enema," he was called by some "the most hated man in the South." Judge Frank Johnson endured the outrage of a society that felt itself and its values under siege, and he prevailed, eventually winning honor even in his home state. Taming the storm is the story of an authentic American hero, and the era that he did so much to define. Derived from a Kirkus review: Bass, using extensive quotes from taped interviews with his subject and others, tells the story of an outstanding and heroic federal judge: Frank M. Johnson of Alabama, who, despite the constant threat of violence in the explosive 1960's South, contributed to the achievement of racial justice in numerous landmark civil-rights cases. Johnson was a typically ornery product of the ``free state of Winston,'' as northern Alabama's Winston County was known. Aside from his fiercely independent personality, there was little in Johnson's upbringing to suggest that he would become a champion of civil rights: He received a conventional legal education at the Univ. of Alabamawhere he befriended his future adversary George Wallace and graduated first in his classand, after WW II combat service in Europe, he returned to an ordinary legal practice in Alabama. But Johnson apparently had an innate sense of justice that, after his appointment to the federal bench in 1955, led to frequent confrontations with Alabama's reactionary political culture. Bass describes how Johnson's attempts to enforce Brown v. Board of Education resulted in dramatic and vituperative showdowns with Wallace and finally ended segregation in the Alabama schools, and how Johnson's decisions allowed the historic Selma march to go forward, and punished violence directed against African-Americans. Together with judges of the Fifth Circuit, who affirmed Johnson's progressive decisions, Johnson had a pervasive effect on the eradication of racial discrimination in the South. A vivid, first-rate biography of a judicial hero., Doubleday, 1993, 2.75<

ISBN: 9780385413480

New York. 1961. Signet/New American Library. 3rd Signet Classic Paperback Printing. Previous Owner’s Name Embossed on Top Corner of Title Page, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 04515… More...

New York. 1961. Signet/New American Library. 3rd Signet Classic Paperback Printing. Previous Owner’s Name Embossed on Top Corner of Title Page, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0451503082. Afterword by Lawrence Clark Powell. 216 pages. paperback. CD308. . keywords: Signet Classic Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER - We Are Coming! There was a war to be fought with Spain in 1898,. and so they volunteered. Choctaws, Creeks, Cherokees from the newly tamed Indian Territory. Cowpunchers, stage drivers, government scouts from the Great Plains states. Riflemen, trappers, miners from the Rocky Mountain West. As Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders they rode and fought to fame and glory at Las Guasimas, Santiago. and San Juan Hill. More than a chronicle of a war and men in battle, The Rough Riders endures as a living record of a time, a personality, and a legend. Reading it, we become witnesses to a young America emerging as a great power. . a dynamic Roosevelt rushing to fulfill his destined place in her future. , and the cowboy hero's last glorious fling in tribute to her colorful past. inventory #38906 ISBN: 0451503082., 0, Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The, 2.5<

2003, ISBN: 9780385413480

New York: Harper Collins, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Book. It is True Dickinson's birthday and her best friends havegathered on this snowy night to celebra… More...

New York: Harper Collins, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Book. It is True Dickinson's birthday and her best friends havegathered on this snowy night to celebrate. True has never felt more alone. Though her small business is thriving and her young son is happy, the death of her husband eight years ago has left an empty space in her life that friends and family cannot fill. Are youth and beauty slipping away while True is busily taking care of everyone else? An accident the night of her birthday will answer that question and give True the opportunity to let love back into her life -- that is, if she can overcome her own fears and if these two spirits can find a way to tame each other's wild hearts.A story of transformation and an unforgettable tale of the perils and pleasures of modern love, Twelve Times Blessed is a powerful, moving novel of the heart from one of our most gifted and best-loved storytellers, Harper Collins, 2003, 3.5, The Japan Times. Good. Good. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported, The Japan Times, 2.5, Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects., Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The, 3<

1992, ISBN: 9780385413480

Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by n… More...

Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The, 1992, 3<