Generous Jr., William Thomas

SWEET PEA AT WAR: A HISTORY OF THE USS PORTLAND (CA-33) [Signed]

Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xiii, 290 pages. In Very Good plus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In blue cloth quarter binding with gray paper boards. Jacket is red and blue with white lettering, wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket shows very light shelving wear, with a small patch of wrinkling at the corner of the head. Boards show minimal wear, with shallow bumping to the corner of the head of the spine and a small bump to the fore edge of the rear board. Text block clean. Inscribed on the half title page to Neil and Susan Sheehan by Generous: "For Neil and Susan Sheehan, / Who probably helped to save the republic and certainly saved my life when my shipmates and I could not find a friend in the world. / I hope you enjoy this book half as much as I thrill in giving it to you. / As always / Tim Generous / September 2003". Shelved in Room F.

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Price: $125

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Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.