Cole Weston: At Home and Abroad (Aperture Monograph)
Aperture, September 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good all round. More
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Correspondence of James K. Polk, Vol. 11: Volume 11, 1846 (Utp Correspondence James Polk)
Univ Tennessee Press, January 2009. Hardcover. The eleventh volume of the Correspondence of James K. Polk contains some of the most consequential and interesting material in the series. Failure to restore diplomatic relations with Mexico, the advent of the Mexican-American war, British preparations for war over the Oregon country, the... More
Correspondence of James K. Polk: July - December 1845 (Correspondence of James K Polk)
University of Tennessee Press, April 2004. Hardcover. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk s correspondence shifted from those issues relating to the formation of his administration and distribution of part patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas... More
The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History
Bison Books, February 2001. Paper Back. On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory. A young man of... More
The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche (Modern Library of the World's Best Books)
Modern Library, September 1992. First Edition. Cloth. "Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing, " Monroe Beardsley writes in his introduction to this collection. "If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily... More
The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont Volume 2: Supplement Proceedings of the Court-Martial (Vol 2)
University of Illinois Press, December 1973. Hardcover. More
The Faces of Freedom: The Manumission And Emancipation of Slaves in Old World And New World Slavery (The Atlantic World)
Brill Academic Publishers, May 2006. Hardcover. This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern states of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of... More
Honor in Command: Lt. Freeman S. Bowley's Civil War Service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
University Press of Florida, December 2006. Hardcover. This memoir by Freeman Sparks Bowley, a young white officer who served as a lieutenant in a regiment of U.S. Colored Troops in the Union Army, is the work of a superb storyteller who describes how his Civil War experiences transformed him from... More
A Romance of Steel in California
Judson Pacific Murphy Corp, January 1946. Hardcover. More
Spirit, Blood and Treasure
Presidio Press, June 2001. Hardcover. In dust jacket. More
Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor
Cornell University Press, September 1991. Trade Paperback. In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here shed new... More
The Accidental President
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2017. Hardcover. The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters... More
The Life and Selected Writing of Thomas Jefferson
Modern Library, 1972. Cloth. More
Out of My Life and Thought
Mentor Books, 1949. Mass Market PaperBack. More
A Documentary History of the United States (Revised and Updated)
Signet Classics (TR), June 2018. Paper Back. Here, in a single volume, are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged American history, now updated with new content such as Trump's inaugural address. Accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian Richard D. Heffner and journalist Alexander Heffner, this... More
Old Regime and the French Revolution
Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1955. Trade Paperback. The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville. More
Chasing Hillary
Harper, April 2018. Hardcover. New York Times bestseller "The Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Bus"--New York Times The dishy, rollicking, and deeply personal story of what really happened in the 2016 election, as seen through the eyes of the New York Times reporter who gave eight years... More
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
Yale University Press, March 2018. Hardcover. A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence... More
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
Yale University Press, March 2018. Hardcover. A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence... More
The Secret Token
Doubleday, June 2018. Hardcover. *National Bestseller* A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of... More
The Poisoned City
Metropolitan Books, July 2018. Hardcover. When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's... More
The Poisoned City
Metropolitan Books, July 2018. Hardcover. When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's... More
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
W. W. Norton, September 2008. Hardcover. So begins this epic work--named a best book of the year by theWashington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times--Annette Gordon-Reed's "riveting history" of the Hemings family, whose story comes to... More
An Autobiography (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, August 2009. Trade Paperback. Trollope's "Autobiography" is fascinating not least for the information it gives about his dealings with publishers and periodicals and the sheer quantity of pages he determined to write each day. It records his unhappy youth and his progress to propserity and social recognition... More
