Beard, Patricia:Growing Up Republican: Political Odyssey of Christie Whitman
- edition reliée, livre de poche 2009, ISBN: 9780060183615
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1997. Reprint edition, presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/Good. [10], 342, [6] pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. The… Plus…
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1997. Reprint edition, presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/Good. [10], 342, [6] pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. The New York Times sports columnist, Ira Berkow, describes Baseball America as "part history, part biography, part drama, and a complete pleasure. Donald Martin Honig (born 1931 in New York City) is a novelist, historian and editor who mostly writes about baseball. While a member of the Bobo Newsom Memorial Society, an informal group of writers, Honig attempted to convince Lawrence Ritter to write a sequel to his 1966 book The Glory of their Times. Pleading time limitations, Ritter declined to attempt such a book himself, but gave Honig his blessing, leading to the books Baseball When the Grass Was Real (1975) and Baseball Between The Lines (1976). Over the next 19 years, Honing produced 40 books about baseball. He collaborated with Ritter on The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time in 1981. He also published several illustrated histories of long-standing franchises. Honig published his most recent baseball book, The Fifth Season, in 2009. Honig was also a frequent contributor of short stories to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews with players from all eras of the game, Baseball America is a warm, nostalgic, yet keenly analytical look ad our nation and its National Pastime. In Baseball America, Donald Honig casts his discerning eye on this national within a nation. In vivid, unforgettable prose he portrays the lives of the game's greatest starts; how they were shaped by their times, and how their lives and legends reflect the changes in our society over the past hundred years. Every great player represents his unique time and place in American history: Christy Mathewson, the gentlemanly scholar-athlete, provided an idealized hero for a time of innocence; Ty Cobb, unreconstructed southern firebrand, avenged the honor of Dixie on the playing fields of the North; Babe Ruth, big and brassy, roared with the best of them in the Roaring Twenties; Dizzy Dean, child of the vanishing rural heartland, was the pure dumb rube who outsmarted the slickest city slicker; Joe DiMaggio, aloof and perfect, was the pride of the rising urban immigrant population; Ted Williams, a true John Wayne character with swagger to match, slammed line drives and dodged real bullets over the Pacific with equal and absolute confidence; Jackie Robinson, progressing from silent, stoic symbol to outspoken leader, foreshadowed the shifts in the civil right movement in the decade to follow; Mickey Mantle, America's Hero, fell under the time of his injuries and the spell of the Big City; and Pete Rose, embodiment of the contradictions of our age of celebrity, became a symbol of the work ethic wile earning a million a year playing a boys' game., Barnes and Noble, 1997, 2.75, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Inscrived by Christine Whitman on half-title. DJ has slight wear and soililng.. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Illustrations. Index. This first and only authorized biography of the most exciting, dynamic, and visible woman in the Republican Party--New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman--is based on extensive, exclusive interviews with Whitman herself. A must-read for all who believe themselves politically savvy, and everyone concerned with the future of women in politics. Introduction by Christie Whitman. From the publisher's website: "Patricia Beard is the author of nine nonfiction books and hundreds of nationally published magazine articles. She is the former features editor of Town & Country, former editor-at-large of Elle, and the former style features editor of Mirabella magazine. Beard is also the founder and president of Willowbrook Partners, LLC, for which she writes, oversees the design, and produces privately commissioned books." From WIkipedia: ""Christie" Todd Whitman (born September 26, 1946) is an American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. She was New Jersey's first, and to date, only female governor. She was the second woman and first Republican woman to defeat an incumbent governor in a general election in the United States. She was also the first Republican woman to be reelected governor. Whitman was born Christine Todd in New York City, and grew up in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, the daughter of Eleanor Prentice Todd (née Schley) and businessman Webster B. Todd, both interested in New Jersey Republican politics. She attended Far Hills Country Day School and the Chapin School in Manhattan. She graduated from Wheaton College in 1968, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in government. After graduating, she worked on Nelson Rockefeller's presidential campaign. Whitman is a descendant of two New Jersey political families, the Todds and the Schleys, and related by marriage to New York's politically active Whitmans. She is married to John R. Whitman, a private equity investor. They have two children. She is the granddaughter-in-law of former Governor of New York Charles S. Whitman. Her maternal grandfather, Reeve Schley, was a member of Wolf's Head Society at Yale and the vice president of Chase Bank. He was also a longtime president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. Whitman has been a resident of Tewksbury Township, New Jersey. During the Nixon administration, Whitman worked in the Office of Economic Opportunity under the leadership of Donald Rumsfeld. She conducted a national outreach tour for the Republican National Committee, was Deputy Director of the New York State Office in Washington, and worked on aging issues for the Nixon campaign and administration. She was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Somerset County College (now Raritan Valley Community College). Elected to two terms on the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders, she served as Deputy Director and Director of the Board. Among her accomplishments as freeholder was construction of a new county courthouse. From 1988 to 1990 she served as President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities in the cabinet of Gov. Thomas Kean. In 1990, Whitman ran for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Bill Bradley, and lost a close election. She was considered a longshot candidate against the popular Bradley. During her campaign, Whitman criticized the income tax hike proposed by then Gov. James Florio, which Bradley did not take a stance on. In 1993, Whitman helped to found the Committee for Responsible Government (CRG), a political advocacy group espousing moderate positions in the Republican Party. (In 1997, the CRG softened its pro-choice stance and renamed itself the Republican Leadership Council. ) Whitman ran against incumbent James Florio for governor in 1993, and defeated him by one percentage point to become the first female governor in New Jersey history. She was the., HarperCollins Publishers, 1996, 3<
