Random House, May 2023. Hardcover. A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as "Black Wall Street," that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification "The scope, the elegance, and the power of Victor Luckerson's tale is simply..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), February 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, South Carolina, to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and 20 slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted for six..... More
Hanover Square Press, June 2023. Hardcover. Award-winning historian Cassandra A. Good shows how the outspoken stepgrandchildren of George Washington played an overlooked but important role in the development of American society and politics from the Revolution to the Civil War.While it's widely known in America that George and Martha Washington..... More
W.W. Norton, January 1965. Reprint. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Third Revised Edition. Clean & sound. [312 pages]. More
Random House, 1994-09-01. First Edition. Hardcover. {9 & 1/2' x 6 & 1/4'} In jacket slightly darkened at the margins. Black cloth covered spine with white lettering. Black paper covered boards with author's initials stamped in white. Stated, First Edition. With this number line: 98765432, which indicates first editions/first printing..... More
University of Chicago Press, 1977. Reprint. Trade Paperback. "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."-Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering. In stiff cardstock slipcase wrapped in black cloth. 'Of this first edition of Submarine three hundred copies, specially bound, have been signed by the author and numbered.' 203/300. Signed by Clancy on limitation page. [328..... More
Little Brown and Company, October 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Socrates Fortlow, an ex-convict forced to define his own morality in a lawless world, confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. It has been nine years since his release from prison..... More
Crown, December 1992. Hardcover. The former president's compelling account of his first political battle--a dramatic crossroads for his career and the future of American politics. Carter reveals how the famous one man, one vote Supreme Court ruling of 1962 set the stage for a battle that nearly strangled his early..... More
Pantheon, August 1982. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, sound with darkened internal margins/edges. [310 pages plus four page index] Uncommon title. More
Princeton University Press, February 1973. Reprint. Paper Back. The description for this book, Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, will be forthcoming. Octavo. 6th Princeton Paperback printing. Edgeworn. Sunned spine. Dust stained. [380 pages]. More
Shama Books, 2012. Reprint. Soft Cover. Octavo. Clean, sound, without interior markings. [371 pages]. More
Verso, May 2023. Paper Back. An unconventional history of homosexuality We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2023. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church and its conduct during World War II."--Daniel Silva "Kertzer brings all of his usual detective and narrative skills to [The Pope at War] . . . the..... More
Penguin Press, May 2023. Hardcover. A beautiful reckoning with the life and work of the legendary journalist Ernie Pyle, who gave World War II a human face for millions of Americans even as he wrestled with his own demons At the height of his fame and influence during World War..... More
One World, November 2021. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE - ONE..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1988. Hardcover. More
Mariner Books, January 2009. Paper Back. In this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan, former president of the American Historical Association, charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe's history: its transformation from war-torn battlefield to peaceful, prosperous society. For centuries, war was Europe's defining narrative, affecting every..... More
The Passenger, June 2023. Paper Back. Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Still Becoming by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?A Nation called Ineba by A. Igoni Barrett?The Niger Delta by Noo Saro-Wiwa?plus: independent cinema and the do-it-yourself society; indiscriminate..... More
Forefront Books, June 2023. Hardcover. Families trapped in poverty and systemic injustices. Children denied civil rights because of race. A nation with immense potential for freedom spiraling into prejudice, violence, and hate. The country Frederick Douglass knew over one-hundred years ago is strikingly similar to the one we live in..... More
Viking, November 2022. Hardcover. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for..... More
ACMRS Publications, January 2012. Hardcover. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm..... More
PublicAffairs, May 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Antonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller. The era, beginning with the accession..... More
