Softcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, Softcover, 500 pages. A twentieth-century photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, Cecil Beaton was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. This book brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton's estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves. Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds, at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London. Clean copy.
Secaucus NJ, Lyle Stuart , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 301 pages. Will was Gene Fowler's son. Gene Fowler went from journalist in Denver to an in-demand scriptwriter in Hollywood, where he married. His "rat-pack" friends included John Barrymore and W. C. Fields. Here are his son's memoirs of life among such as Ring Lardner, W.C. Fields, William Faulkner, Damon Runyon, Jack Dempsey and others.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Ltd. Ed., 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY COWARD. Cream colored cloth with NC embossed on cover, black spine label with gilt lettering that has a narrow chip down the center. Spine darkened. No. 64 of 301 signed copies. Top edge gilt. Binding tight. Red slip case has light wear. The witty English playwright, composer, director and actor Noel Coward's autobiography. With b&w photos scattered throughout, including author frontispiece photo.
Hardcover. Charleston SC, Privately Published, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt. 211 pages, b&w frontispiece group portrait. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/COMPILER on the title page. The chronicle of a group of families associated for many generations with the Low Country of South Carolina. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket. 167 pages illustrated by Ruth Sheetz. The Morse's became innkeepers on Martha's Vineyards, leaving city life in New York. This is the story of Beach Plum Inn. Light tanning to front fly leaf where newspaper clipping was laid in, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Open Field, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Born in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova rose to prominence as a model, appearing on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 1984. As the face of Estee Lauder in 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world. When she was cast in the music video for the song "Drive" by The Cars, it was love at first sight for her and frontman Ric Ocasek. He was forty at the time, and Porizkova was nineteen. The decades to come would bring marriage, motherhood, a budding writing career; and later sadness, loneliness, isolation, and eventually divorce. Following her ex-husband's death--and the revelation of a deep betrayal--Porizkova stunned fans with her fierce vulnerability and disarming honesty as she let the whole world share in her experience of being a woman who must start over. Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise like new,
Hardcover. Hoboken NJ, Wiley, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 508 pages.Take a dazzling journey through the Gilded Age, the period from roughly the 1870s to 1914, when bluebloods from older, established families met the nouveau riche headlong-railway barons, steel magnates, and Wall Street speculators-and forged an uneasy and glittering new society in New York City. The best of the best were Caroline Astor's 400 families, and she shaped and ruled this high society with steel. A Season of Splendor is a panoramic sweep across this sumptuous landscape, presenting the families, the wealth, the balls, the clothing, and the mansions in vivid detail-as well as the shocking end of the era with the sinking of the Titanic. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket that's lightly soiled and spine faded, 277 pages. Eaton (b. 1764) was a flamboyant hero who was America's "Lawrence of Arabia" and defeated the Barbary Pirates at Derna. Front fly leaf with bookseller's old price in red pencil, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Southport CT, Sasco Associates, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages, b&w illustrations. With extensive disography, bibliography, and indexes of song titles and names. A biography of radio's first superstar, a singer and announcer. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt design on front cover. 589 pages, engraved portrait of Webster with tissue guard. VOLUME ONE ONLY. A comprehensive & complete history of Mr. Webster by his literary executor, George Ticknor Curtis. Faint pencil notation to blank prelim page otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, b&w photo illustrations, black cloth covers, gilt on spine faded. INSCRIBED BY SHAWN and dated Nov. 5 1960 on front fly leaf. No dust jacket. Ted Shawn was an American dancer and choreographer. Considered a pioneer of American modern dance, he created the Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis. After their separation he created the all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. Covers Shawn's travels and tours: with the army, in the Orient; and his creation of the Denishawn Dancers with the male athletes at Springfield College. Clean copy.
Softcover. Gwinn MI, Avery Color Studios, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 201 pages, b&w illustrations. The Reverend Law was in peril on the Great Lakes and was rescued by a U.S. Life-Saving Service Station crew. As a result of that rescue, seeing their heroic efforts first hand, Reverend Law dedicated the rest of his life to the men and women stationed at Light and Life-Saving stations throughout the United States. Whether it was bringing his "Floating Library" to stations located on the Great Lakes, regular correspondence with the crews of stations far too remote for a personal visit, or his relentless pursuit of Congress to approve a bill to provide better pay and pensions, Reverend Law became a fast friend to those serving in the Lighthouse and Life-Saving services. "Sky Pilot" was sailors' slang for a chaplain. To the men and women he served, Reverend Law was lovingly known as "The Sky Pilot of the Great Lakes." A true tale of unconquerable optimism,
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 381 pages. From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn't touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the Second World War. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army and across the Sierra Maestra Mountains with Castro. She was the first reporter accredited with the Algerian National Liberation Front, and survived torture in a communist Hungarian prison. She dove out of planes, faked her own kidnapping, and endured the mockery of male associates, before ultimately dying on assignment in Vietnam with the Marines in 1965, the first American female journalist killed while covering combat. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Black jockeys were internationally famous - the first African American superstar athletes--and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. At the same time, he lived through the seismic events of Emancipation and Reconstruction and formative conflicts over freedom and equality in the United States. And inevitably he was drawn into those conflicts, with devastating consequences. Katherine C. Mooney uncovers the history of Murphy's troubled life, his death in 1896 at age thirty-five, and his afterlife. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages. When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. In between, he worked as a fruit peddler, a banana hauler, a dockside hustler, and a plantation owner. He battled and conquered the United Fruit Company, becoming a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. Rich Cohen's brilliant historical profile unveils Zemurray as a hidden kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary, driven by an indomitable will to succeed. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Light rubbing, soiling to price-clipped dust jacket. Light foxing to edges. Else a clean, tight copy. The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal.
Hardcover. San Juan, P.R., Fundacion El Nuevo Dia, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 375 pages, Spanish text with copious photographs throughout. Volume 1 only. Light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MICHAEL TUCKER AND JILL EIKENBERRY (Author dedicated book to wife, Jill) on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. Black & white line drawings by Shepard. Black & white photo on frontispiece. Blue cloth binding with gold spine lettering. English artist Shepard's (1879-1976) life story from 1890 on, a sequel to Drawn from Memory. The famed illustrator of the Winnie-the-Poo stories tells his story, with many vignettes of Milne and his books. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1st, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 493 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white engravings. Foxing to frontis, title page, and occurring to pages surrounding illustrated pages. Brown cloth covers with fading, rubbing moderate wear. Binding is firm. Good + condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Crisp photographs throughout. Some black and white, some color. Internally clean. Tight and clean copy. The noted designer shares his opinions on and memories of fifty years of fashion and its driving forces as well as Hollywood, men, women, and friendship.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, AND CONTAINS SIGNED LETTERS AND NOTES. 456 pages. Blue cloth cover, some fading and wear to edges. Dust jacket has bumped bottom edge, small chip missing from top edge of spine. Light foxing on fore edge, but inside is very bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Newmarket Press, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An tour of Buster Keaton's life and art. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Creasing to dust jacket front flap. Includes 40 black-and-white photographs. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Recounts the life of the prolific author, inveterate explorer, pioneer feminist, and world authority on Tibetan Buddhist tantric rites.
Hardcover. South Windsor, CT, Barney E. Daley, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300+ pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Bound in green cloth; gilt lettering & design on spine and front cover. From the introduction (Evan Lawn): "Whether one reads straight through or reads here and there in a checkered fashion, every reader will enjoy meeting Barney. ...And if the reader happens to be an historian, these memoirs will be prized as a treasure trove of living information about rural, daily life before electricity and indoor plumbing."
Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career teaching literature in Istanbul; from a victory over the chaos of drink to a life-affirming surrender to the majesty of the Matterhorn; and from a foundering friendship to the transcending love of family.
Hardcover. London, England, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 574 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf with small notations (pencil) throughout. Black cover boards (some light chipping), gilt title on spine. Spine slightly cocked, doesn't affect binding. Dust jacket unclipped, has agewear: chipping, fading, some small tears (see image). This book provides an intellectual biography of Hegel from the Gymnasium years until he went to his first academic post at Jena.
Hardcover. New York , Twayne, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 133 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A beautifully produced monograph devoted to the paintings and drawings of John Altoon, a central figure in the Los Angeles art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Haunting and erotic, Altoon's colorful paintings and intimate drawings capture the magical moment in postwar California between the Beat Generation and the sexual and psychedelic revolution of the late '60s.
Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with slip case. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color/ Black and white pictures throughout. Coinciding with renewed interest in James Ensor, this catalogue raisonne comes as an essential and definitive volume for Ensor buffs and all serious libraries of modern art. A legend in his own lifetime, Ensor (1860-1949) was--alongside Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch--a fearless independent whose work led directly to the development of German Expressionism and French Surrealism. Ensor achieved fame as the "painter of masks," and for his bizarre still lifes and grotesque carnival scenes, in harsh, contrasting, brilliant colors, evolving out of the traditional Flemish dance of death. Now, the reader can explore the Belgian painter's oeuvre thoroughly, in this opulently illustrated, full-color, slipcased catalogue raisonne. A comprehensive illustrated chronology offers additional details about the artist's life and work, and forms an integral part of this splendid, highly valuable contribution to art historical research, ensuring the legacy of a great artist who continues to inspire contemporary art.
Hardcover. London, Titan Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures in center, black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photographs of President Abraham Lincoln spanning over 20 years. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 460 pages, gray cloth covers. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. SIGNED BY NIXON on tipped-in page. Xerox of dealer's letter laid in on the authenticity of Nixon's autograph. (He suggests it's authentic).
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED AND NUMBERED #90/150 opposite title page. Moderate wear to page edges,. gutter cracked on page 161.
Hardcover. NY, Evans & Company, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 334 pages. Ghostwriter par excellence, Dody "lived" five lives and here, with wit and style, writes about them all. Includes Bette Davis, Elaine Barrymore, Dagmar Godowsky, Robert Merrill and Helen Hayes.
Softcover. NY, Harper Design, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 308 pages. Eleanor Dwight delivers the definitive biography of Diana Vreeland, the twentieth century's most influential fashion editor. Lavishly illustrated with exclusive photographs and personal materials from the legendary style maker's private collection, and featuring a new preface from Vogue's Andre LeonTalley, Diana Vreeland is an indispensible look at a grand dame of great couture. Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred drawings and photographs, many by the best fashion photographers of the time: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, and Brassai. Here, too, are the trendsetters, artists, models, and celebrities with whom Vreeland worked and played, including Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Elsie de Wolfe, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, and Jacqueline Kennedy.
Softcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 5th pr., 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Softcover with minior wear to paper wrappers. Gutter glue slightly dry, cracking on rear hinge and page 120. Otherwise clean. Cover features Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 687 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on page block, otherwise clean, tight copy. Minor, if any, wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt stamping, 220 pages including index. Reproduced in facsimile from the 1882 edition. One of Trollope's scarcer titles, especially in hardcover. No dust jacket issued.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages. In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi produced over the past forty years as well on as his own expertise in medieval hagiography to tell the most comprehensive and authoritative version of Francis's life and afterlife published in the past half century. After a detailed and yet engaging reconstruction of Francis's life and work, Vauchez focuses on the myriad texts--hagiographies, chronicles, sermons, personal testimonies, etc.--of writers who recorded aspects of Francis's life and movement as they remembered them, and used those remembrances to construct a portrait of Francis relevant to their concerns. We see varying versions of his life reflected in the work of Machiavelli, Luther, Voltaire, German and English romantics, pre-Raphaelites, Italian nationalists, and Mussolini, and discover how peace activists, ecologists, or interreligious dialogists have used his example to promote their various causes. Particularly noteworthy is the attention Vauchez pays to Francis's own writings, which strangely enough have been largely overlooked by later interpreters. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 601 pages. B&w photos. The definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend ( 1920 - 2014 ) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on exclusive interviews with those who knew him best. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Illustrated London News , 1954, Original printed red card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, some thumbing of the leading edge; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. 68 pages. Gilt decorated red cover, color frontispiece portrait, gravure and color plates, photographs, illustrations, genealogical table. Contributors include Cyril Falls (Sir Winston Churchill in War), E.D. O'Brien (Sir Winston Churchill- the Man), Charles Petrie (Sir Winston Churchill's Place in History), Edward Winterton (Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament). Frontispiece by Yousuf Karsh.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 361 pages. During the Cold War years of the 1950s, William F. Knowland was one of the most important figures in American politics. As the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, the wealthy California newspaper heir was recognized and respected by millions. His influence with President Eisenhower led to Earl Warren's appointment as chief justice, and Knowland set in motion a U.S.-China policy that remains part of our international direction today. Yet he committed suicide in 1974, following a personal decline that included political humiliation, a ruined marriage, and the loss of his family fortune. This is the first full-scale biography of Bill Knowland, written by two journalists who came to know him after he left Washington in 1958. Gayle B. Montgomery was a political editor at the Oakland Tribune, the newspaper owned by Knowland's father, the power-wielding Joseph R. Knowland. James W. Johnson was a Tribune editorial writer. Both men worked with Knowland when he returned to the newspaper after giving up his Senate seat in a failed bid to become governor of California. Knowland lost the governorship race to Edmund G. (Pat) Brown; had he won, many observers felt Knowland would have had a clear shot at the White House. This is a book not only about Mr. Republican, but also one that illuminates the strengths and deficiencies of Republican party politics during the years when the party was at its zenith. In portraying the life of Bill Knowland, the authors cast a glaring light both on the machinations of political power and on the Republican establishment's aspirations in the Warren-Eisenhower era. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Dent / Everyman's Library, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn blue dust jacket with fading to spine. 302 pages. The author was an actor, dramatist and theatrical manager and gives an account of the British stage in the first half of the Eighteenth century. First published in 1740. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An Armenian national raised in Russia, Rouben Mamoulian (1897--1987) studied in the influential Stanislavski studio, renowned as the source of the "method" acting technique. Shortly after immigrating to New York in 1926, he created a sensation with an all-black production of Porgy (1927). He then went on to direct the debut Broadway productions of three of the most popular shows in the history of American musical theater: Porgy and Bess (1935), Oklahoma! (1943), and Carousel (1945). Mamoulian began working in film just as the sound revolution was dramatically changing the technical capabilities of the medium, and he quickly established himself as an innovator. Not only did many of his unusual camera techniques become standard, but he also invented a device that eliminated the background noises created by cameras and dollies. Seen as a rebel earlier in his career, Mamoulian gradually gained respect in Hollywood, and the Directors Guild of America awarded him the prestigious D. W. Griffith Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1983. In this meticulously researched biography, David Luhrssen paints the influential director as a socially conscious artist who sought to successfully combine art and commercial entertainment. Luhrssen not only reveals the fascinating personal story of an important yet neglected figure, but he also offers a tantalizing glimpse into the extraordinarily vibrant American film and theater industries during the twenties, thirties, and forties.
Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 597 pages, b&w illustrations. Demagogue is a masterful portrait of a human being capable of immense evil, yet beguiling charm. McCarthy was a tireless worker and a genuine war hero. His ambitions knew few limits. Neither did his socializing, his drinking, nor his gambling. When he finally made it to the Senate, he flailed around in search of an agenda and angered many with his sharp elbows and lack of integrity. Finally, after three years, he hit upon anti-communism. By recklessly charging treason against everyone from George Marshall to much of the State Department, he became the most influential and controversial man in America. His chaotic, meteoric rise is a gripping and terrifying object lesson for us all. Yet his equally sudden fall from fame offers reason for hope that, given the rope, most American demagogues eventually hang themselves.