LEONARD BERSTEIN
NOTES FROM A FRIEND
By Schuyler Chapin

1992, First Edition, 179 pages, cover price $17.95. This library book is in nice, practically uncirculated condition.
"A conversational, intimate memoir" with a foreword by Sir Peter Ustinov. From the front flap: "Here is the story of a friendship, a remakable friendship between a great maestro and an administrative colleague who became his trusted confidante. The is not a biography of Leonard Berstein bu an informal portrait - a warm, personal glimpse of "Lenny" at the peak of his achievements and into his later years, when, even in declining health, he enthusiastically pursued dozens of projects."

Price:  $4.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:   $6.00

MEMOIRS BY HARRY S. TRUMAN
Vol. 2
YEARS OF TRIAL AND HOPE
1946-1952

1956 (Special Kansas City Edition, Limited To 11,500 Copies), 594 pages, cover price $5.00. This former library book is in decent enough condition. The binding is fine but the spine of the dust jacket is faded.
"Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed." From the inside flap: "The former Chief Executive begins the second volume of his memoirs with this graphic and trenchant description of the presidency. Not since the early days of our country has a President written a more detailed account of life in the nation's most important job - a job which has become to be one of the most important in the world as well."

Price:  $4.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:   $6.00

SECRECY AND POWER
THE LIFE OF J. EDGAR HOOVER
By Richard Gid Powers

1987, Softcover, 624 pages, cover price $12.95, B/W photographs. This book's in good shape with no real wear to speak of.
Some comments from the back cover:

"Secrecy and Power is the best biography of Hoover so far... a probing, balanced and lively analysis..." - The New York Times Book Review

"Compelling... The many facets of Hoover's lengthy career are probed as never before." - Newsweek

"Based on new material, this superb biography makes clear how Hoover became Public Hero number one and at the same time reveals the dark side of the man and the sinister aspects of his nearly 50-year directorship of the FBI." - Publishers Weekly

Price:   $9.00
Shipp:  $2.50
Total: $11.50

WHEN I THINK OF BOBBY
A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF THE KENNEDY YEARS
By Warren Rogers

1993 First Edition, Hardback, 193 pages, cover price $20.00, B/W photographs. This library book is in very good shape with little wear.
Selected by the Book of the Month Club, from the inside flap: "When I Think of Bobby is a warm, affectionate, and touching memoir of Robert and Ethel Kennedy - two strong and caring parents - and their family during the years Bobby was working in Washington for the government... The lightness of Roger's account is inevitably sobered by later events. First, he describes how Bobby received the news of his brother's assasination; and, at the end, he tells in excruciating and moving detail, from his own eyewitness observations of Bobby's last moments in Los Angeles."

Price:  $5.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:  $7.00

AS HE SAW IT
By Elliott Roosevelt

1946, Second Printing, Hardback, 270 pages. This old library book is showing a little wear, but is still in pretty good shape.
This is a biography about Franklin D. Roosevelt by his son, Elliott. It is primarily about FDR's last years, his presidency during the second world war.

Price:  $4.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:   $6.00

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