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COLEY, Nathan ] Fiona Bradley, Susanne Gaensheimer (essays)Biblio.com

Nathan Coley - There Will Be No Miracles Here Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh 22 May - 19 July 2004

Bradley, BillBiblio.com

We Can All Do Better

201270098New York NY: Vanguard Press 2012. First edition. First printing stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xiii 1 191 3 p. Notes. Suggested Reading. Index. Signed by author. Inscribed on t-p. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "William Warren "Bill" Bradley born July 28 1943 is an American Hall of Fame basketball player Rhodes scholar and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He was offered 75 college scholarships but declined them all to attend Princeton University. He earned a gold medal as a member of the 1964 Olympic basketball team and was the NCAA Player of the Year in 1965. He spent his entire ten-year professional basketball career playing for the Knicks winning two championship titles. Retiring in 1977 he ran for a seat in the United States Senate the following year from his adopted home state of New Jersey. He was re-elected in 1984 and 1990 left the Senate in 1997 and was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination. Bradley is the author of seven non-fiction books most recently We Can All Do Better and hosts a weekly radio show." Derived from a Kirkus review: The three-term Democratic senator shares his political perspective and concerns for the United States. Bradley is concerned about the contempt for Congress and the increasing tendency for the concept of public service to be replaced by a sense of entitlement and the perpetuation of elites. The author focuses on the economy discussing what has gone wrong and offering his own views on possible solutions-not only through investment in infrastructure but also through imaginative reforms of the tax code. He engages in a broad-ranging discussion of how recent transformations in domestic and foreign policy have begun to weaken the American way of life which has been based on upward mobility. Bradley is clear that government is not the problem and that there can be no prosperity without government. He affirms the bipartisan political tradition of promotion of the general welfare and highlights what he calls "horse-trading for a noble purpose." The author does not support the automatic recourse to military force to solve international problems and he believes the challenge from China will depend more on economic competition than military conflict. An important contribution to the national discussion. Vanguard Press hardcover

Ground Zero Books · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €

Bradley, JamesBiblio.com

FLYBOYS. A True Story of Courage

200315435Boston: Little Brown 2003. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared. When the war was over the American government along with the Japanese covered up everything that had happened on Chichi Jima. The records of a top-secret military tribunal were sealed the lives of the eight Flyboys were erased and the parents brothers sisters and sweethearts they left behind were left to wonder. Flyboys reveals for the first time ever the extraordinary story of those men. Bradley’s quest for the truth took him from dusty attics in WAmerican small towns to untapped government archives containing classified documents to the heart of Japan and finally to Chichi Jima itself. What he discovered was a mystery that dated back far before World War II-back 150 years to America’s westward expansion and Japan’s first confrontation with the western world. Bradley brings into vivid focus these brave young men who went to war for their country and through their lives he also tells the larger story of two nations in a hellish war. With no easy moralizing Bradley presents history in all its savage complexity including the Japanese warrior mentality that fostered inhuman brutality and the U.S. military strategy that justified attacks on millions of civilians. And after almost sixty years of mystery Bradley finally reveals the fate of the eight American Flyboys all of whom would ultimately face a moment and a decision that few of us can even imagine. Flyboys is a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor. It is about how we die and how we live-including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture a young Navy pilot named George H. W. Bush who would one day become president of the United States. A masterpiece of historical narrative Flyboys will change forever our understanding of the Pacific war and the very things we fight for. 398 pages illustrated from photographs. Includes acknowledgments notes bibliography and Index. Little Brown hardcover

Ed Smith Books · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €