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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0020747403. Trade Paperback. Springer-Verlag Very small ink name on the front inside cover, Otherwise a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Printing [Stated]. 192 pages. Index. Ex-library marking on fep and verso. Elizabeth Drew's 1979 book Senator is a behind-the-scenes journalistic profile of U.S. Senator John C. Culver (D-Iowa). Through tracking Culver for ten days on Capitol Hill and in Iowa, the book captures the exhausting pace, legislative process, and political negotiations involved in day-to-day Senate life. Elizabeth Drew is an acclaimed American political journalist and author, best known for her coverage of Washington, D.C. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1935, she served as the Washington correspondent for The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and is widely recognized for her authoritative books chronicling the Nixon and Clinton impeachments. She was Washington correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly (19671973) and The New Yorker (19731992). She hosted her own interview program, Thirty Minutes With. for PBS between 1971 and 1973, for which she won an Alfred I. duPontColumbia University Award. Drew was a panelist for Meet the Press for many years and made frequent appearances on the PBS News Hour and other radio and television programs. Drew was a panelist for the first debate in the 1976 U.S. Presidential election, and moderated the debate between the Democratic candidates for the nomination in the 1984 race. Drew has published 14 books, including Washington Journal: The Events of 1973-74, an account of the Watergate scandal; Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign; On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency, Citizen McCain, George W. Bush's Washington, and Richard M. Nixon. John Chester Culver (August 8, 1932 December 26, 2018) was an American politician, writer, and lawyer who was elected to both the United States House of Representatives (19651975) and United States Senate (19751981) from Iowa. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the military as a captain in the United States Marine Corps from 1955 to 1958. Culver became active in politics, working as a legislative assistant for Senator Ted Kennedy, his former Harvard classmate, in 1962. He began his law practice in Iowa a year later. In 1964, he ran against Republican U.S. Representative James E. Bromwell. With President Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide victory, many Democrats, including Culver, were carried to victory. In 1974, Culver ran for the U.S. Senate, narrowly defeating David M. Stanley with 52% of the vote for the seat left open by the retirement of Harold E. Hughes. Culver served one term in the U.S. Senate, from 1975 until 1981. With Ronald Reagan's national victory as president, Culver was defeated in 1980 by Republican Chuck Grassley, taking 46% of the vote to Grassley's 53%. In 2000, Culver co-wrote American Dreamer, the first comprehensive biography of Henry A. Wallace. Culver was a featured speaker at the August 28, 2009, memorial service for Ted Kennedy, speaking as his Harvard classmate and teammate, Senate colleague, and longtime friend. Derived from a Kirkus review: When Elizabeth Drew unveiled John C. Culver, Democrat of Iowa, in The New Yorker last year, he was next to unknown nationwide; yet she called him "one of the most effective members of the Senate." Culver, 46, is a big, expansive man, quick to laugh or show anger; a highly intelligent, thorough, principled political operative. Leadership, he tells Drew, is pursuing objectives, however "uncomfortable" or unsexy. He takes on only a limited number of issues, "ones that make an important point. . . and on which he has a reasonable chance of winning." During the ten days Drew spends with him he is very much involved in managing his first major bill, an amendment to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 providing for arbitration in ease of conflicts between environmentalists and builders. As a supporter of SALT and a critic of nuclear "deterrence," he is angling for the release of an intelligence report on Russian civil defense: do they feel that they can safely lunch a nuclear war or do they simply "have their signs in t. Stanley Tretick (Author photograph) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition black boards, black cloth spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Thomas Paine; Author's Note; Discography; Filmography; Author's Chapter Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "This is the book that Frank Sinatra tried to stop with a two-million-dollar lawsuit: the unauthorized biography of one of the most controversial yet elusive public figures of our time - a fully documented, highly detailed, and penetrating portrait of the man behind the voice. Kitty Kelley, celebrated investigative journalist and author of Jackie Oh! and Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star, spent three years researching her subject. She has had access to never-before-published government documents, including Mafia-related material obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, wiretaps and secret testimony before crime commissions. She has interviewed more than eight hundred people who have been important in Sinatra's life - family members, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, and people never interviewed before about him - men and women who have known Sinatra in and out of the spotlight. Frank Sinatra has dominated the entertainment industry for more than fifty years. The skinny kid crooner who caused the bobby sox craze in 1942 has thickened in the middle and lost his hair, but even now, at age seventy, he continues to excite interest in his music, his life, his women, his money, his politics, and - most of all - his Mafia connections. Now, Kitty Kelley draws an unforgettable, vivid portrait of Sinatra from his earliest years: the childhood in Hoboken, New Jersey, that was far different from the one he invented; the mother he adored but seemed deeply ashamed of; his beginnings as a singer; his relationships with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey; his climb to the top as a singer then movie star, and the violence of the moodswings that followed it, leaving a trail of broken friendships and broken marriages - to Nancy Sinatra, Ava Gardner, and Mia Farrow. From the beginning, marriage didn't stop his womanizing. The list and variety of women in his life are formidable. And though he himself was no athlete, he always admired fighters - force of any kind. Sometimes his bodyguards did his beatings for him; sometimes they just held his victims while Sinatra punched. There are many who have taken his insults, threats, and even physical abuse quietly, because they fear his power and wrath. And yet there are many who can testify to his wildly lavish generosity and charitable pursuits. A complex man who plays by his own rules, Frank Sinatra still draws huge audiences wherever he performs. His influence extends even into the White House - today more than ever before. Here, in a biography filled with anecdotes and revealing behind-the-scenes accounts, Kitty Kelley gives us a non-holds-barred inside look at the man, the legend, and the life of Frank Sinatra." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Tretick, Stanley (cover photograph and author photograph); Cohen, Barbara N. (book design) (illustratore). …