| LC control no. | n 80144890 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3573.E1955 |
| Personal name heading | Webb, James, 1946 February 9- |
| Variant(s) | Webb, James H. Webb, Jim, 1946- ווב, ג׳יימס, 1946- Webb, James, Jr., 1946- Webb, James H., Jr., 1946- Webb, James H., Jr Webb, Henry, Jr |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Virginia |
| Birth date | 1946-02-09 |
| Place of birth | Saint Joseph (Mo.) |
| Field of activity | Journalism Motion picture plays Motion picture authorship Motion pictures--Production and direction Novels Fiction |
| Affiliation | Democratic Party (U.S.) United States. Congress. Senate United States. Department of the Navy United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs United States Naval Academy |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators--United States Politicians Public officers Journalists Novelists Screenwriters Motion picture producers and directors Literature teachers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. Writer. Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection. |
| Found in | Micronesia and the U.S. Pacific strategy, 1974. A country such as this, 1983: t.p. (James Webb) Something to die for, c1991: t.p. (James Webb) jkt. (Marine Corps service in Vietnam, journalist; former Assistant Secretary of Defense) Contemporary authors on CD, June 1999 (Webb, James H(enry) Jr., b. Feb. 9, 1946) A time to fight, 2008: t.p. (Jim Webb) Wikipedia, October 14, 2015 (Jim Webb; James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946); American politician and author; he has served as a United States Senator from Virginia, Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Counsel for the United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Marine Corps officer; Emmy Award winning journalist, a filmmaker, and the author of ten books (six novels). In addition, he taught literature at the United States Naval Academy and was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics; member of the Democratic Party; U.S. Senator in office January 3, 2007-January 3, 2013; United States Secretary of the Navy in office May 1, 1987-February 23, 1988; born St. Joseph, Missouri) His website, October 14, 2015: home page (Jim Webb; books: I Heard My Country Calling (2014); Fields of Fire (1978); A Sense of Honor (1981); A Country Such as This (1983); Something to Die For (1991); The Emperor's General (1999); Lost Soldiers (2001); Born Fighting (2004); A Time to Fight (2008)) about Jim (former Senator from Virginia, has been a combat Marine, a counsel in the Congress, an assistant secretary of defense and Secretary of the Navy, an Emmy-award winning journalist, a film-maker, and the author of ten books; graduated from the Naval Academy in 1968; graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1975; counsel to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs from 1977 to 1981; in 1984 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, and in 1987 became Secretary of the Navy; traveling widely as a journalist, he received an Emmy Award for his PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983, and in 2004 was embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan. A screenwriter and producer, his original story "Rules of Engagement" held the top slot in U.S. box offices for two weeks in April 2000) <http://www.jameswebb.com/> OCLC, October 14, 2015 (access points: Webb, James H.; Webb, James H., Jr; Webb, Jim; usage: Jim Webb; James Webb; James Webb, Jr.; James H. Webb, Jr.; predominant usage: James Webb) Dance magazine. June 1974, p. 3, 64. |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 97866267 |
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