Washington: The Making of the American Capital
Amistad. Trade Paperback. More
Amistad. Trade Paperback. More
Yale University Press, April 2011. Hardcover. An accomplished Italianist looks beyond Rome's storied facades to offer insight into the many histories of one of the world's best-loved cities In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as "not a human dwelling place but a mental..... More
Grove Press, June 2013. Trade Paperback. From Mark Bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, comes The Finish, a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground..... More
Grove Press, March 2024. Paper Back. "A gripping ground-level narrative...a marvel of reporting: tightly wound... but also panoramic."--Washington Post "A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks."--New York TimesIn The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by week, state-by-state account of the effort..... More
Arcadia Publishing, July 2006. Trade Paperback. What was once home to the native tribe known as the Ohlone, and functioning as guardian of the San Francisco Bay under Spanish, Mexican, and American flags, the Presidio has served as outpost as well as cultural barometer of the vast changes this country..... More
PM Press, May 2023. Paper Back. Portland, Oregon, 1988: the brutal murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads shocked the city. In response disparate groups quickly came together to organize against white nationalist violence and right-wing organizing throughout the Rose City and the Pacific Northwest. It Did Happen..... More
Doubleday Books, October 2003. Hardcover. Many regard basketball and hip hop to be the only viable options in a society where many other opportunities continue to be closed off. This book discusses how both forms of culture have gone from being dismissed, reviled, and rejected by the mainstream, to being..... More
Henry Holt & Company, September 2004. Hardcover. An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the..... More
William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First Edition. Cloth. Green cloth cover with mildly rubbed gold lettering on spine. Gold illustration of tiger with elephant & rider in background between gold lettered title & author's name on front board. Slight brush of wear to edges and raised lip at spine. Beautiful..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2007. Trade Paperback. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 'At Canaan's Edge' chronicles dramatic campaigns in Mississippi and Alabama, King's tormented alliance with Lyndon Johnson, his painful break with Stokey Carmichael over black power, and persecution by Hoover's FBI. This book brings the decades of the Civil Rights struggle alive and..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1988. Hardcover. More
Simon & Schuster, January 1999. Trade Paperback. In "Pillar of Fire," the second volume of his "America in the King Years" trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters," won the Pulitzer Prize for History. "Pillar of Fire" covers the far-flung..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1998. Hardcover. In "Pillar of Fire", the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters", won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a...... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In "Pillar of Fire", the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters", won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle..... More
Anchor, September 2009. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War "It may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. "It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. "It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their..... More
Free Press, November 1999. Hardcover. Who is Slobodan Milosevic? Is he the next Saddam Hussein, the leader of a renegade nation who will continue to torment the United States for years to come? Or is he the next Moammar Qaddafi, an international outcast silenced for good by a resolute American..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, March 1979. Paper Back. "In this concise book... Braudel summarizes the broad themes of his three-volume Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400-1800 and offers his reflections on the historian's craft and on the nature of the historical imagination... Taken as a whole, the book is provocative and..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 1995. Trade Paperback. Fernand Braudel was one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. A leading member of the Annales school, he rejected a narrow focus on Western warfare, diplomacy, and power politics, and opened up economic and social history to influences from anthropology, sociology, geography..... More
Grand Central Publishing, January 2024. Hardcover. A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era..... More
Knopf : distributed by Random House, January 1980. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. Small tear at bottom corner of jacket. More
Ravan, January 1984. Paper Back. Previous owner's address stamp inside half title page. More
Oxford University Press, June 1968. Trade Paperback. More