Simon & Schuster, June 2006. Trade Paperback. America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions. More
Vintage, April 2005. Trade Paperback. In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we..... More
Crown, November 1997. Hardcover. "I think the audio version brings a human touch..It permits me to communicate in a much more intimate fashion." --President Jimmy Carter For decades, President Jimmy Carter has been an avid student and teacher of the Bible. In recent years, the adult Sunday school classes he..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 2022. Paper Back. The "superb" (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. They say that history is written by the victors. But not..... More
Crown, December 2020. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come--with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast "Both a thriller and a history book, Bag..... More
Hanover Square Press, June 2022. Hardcover. *A Washington Post "Book to Read This Summer"**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2022*A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past centuryFire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long..... More
E. P. Dutton, July 1981. First Thus. Paper Back. Quarto. First paperback edition. Complete number string. Light user wear. A bit dog-eared top corner. [90 pages]. More
Crown, November 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. In this moving, wide-ranging, and intensely personal collection of poems - his first - President Jimmy Carter opens to us his very private and reflective world. Always a Reckoning is sparked with wry and sometimes bitter humor, warmed with tenderness, and glowing with an intense..... More
Bantam Books (Mm), October 1982. Reprint. Cloth. Jacket is quite chipped. and edge worn. Book is clean and solid. Signed by Jimmy Carter on title page. More
Basic Books (AZ), June 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. The 1925 Scopes Trial marked a watershed in our national relationship between science and religion and has had tremendous impact on our culture ever since, even inspiring the play and movie, both titled "Inherit the Wind." In addition to symbolizing the evolutionist..... More
Mariner Books, June 2022. Hardcover. Fast-paced and highly absorbing. --Wall Street Journal A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, April 1998. Hardcover. Dallek takes us through Johnson's tumultuous years in the White House, his unprecedented accomplishments there, and the tragic war that would be his downfall. Drawing on hundreds of newly released tapes and extensive interviews with those closest to LBJ - including fresh insights..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1991. Hardcover. An unflinching portrait of the man, his presidency, his accomplishments, his thwarted ambitions, and the tragic consequences--by the man who served as his closest domestic advisor. Califano has written a book that will stand as one of the great backstage stories in American politics..... More
Basic Books (AZ), June 1997. Hardcover. The 1925 Scopes Trial marked a watershed in our national relationship between science and religion and has had tremendous impact on our culture ever since, even inspiring the play and movie, both titled "Inherit the Wind." In addition to symbolizing the evolutionist versus creationist..... More
St. Martin's Press, June 2003. Hardcover. Robert Meeropol was six years old in 1953 when his parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed after being convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union at the height of the McCarthy era. Just before they were put to..... 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
Bantam, February 1991. Trade Paperback. In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series "Eyes On The Prize," and Steven Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who..... More
Penguin Press, October 2017. Hardcover. The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 "Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge." --Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with..... More
Atria/One Signal Publishers, April 2022. Hardcover. "Kelly unearths the stories of the people-farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees--behind some of the labor movement's biggest successes." --The New York Times A revelatory and inclusive history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly. Freed..... More
University Alabama Press, September 2013. Oversized Hardcover. A handsome, richly illustrated guide to the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama, From a Love of History introduces one of the most important archives of southern history and literature ever gathered in one place. A. S. Williams..... More
Library of America, July 2009. Trade Paperback. The most essential writings of America's heroic Civil War president, complete with detailed notes, a chronology of Lincoln's life and political career, and an introduction by the novelist Gore Vidal Ranging from finely honed legal argument to wry and some sometimes savage humor..... More
Hill & Wang, August 1978. Trade Paperback. Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows..... More
Perennial (HarperCollins), March 1989. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1988 Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Bancroft Prize, The Parkman Prize, The Avery O. Craven Prize, and The TriIling Prize Nominated for the 1988 National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. More
Ebsco Publishing, January 2009. Oversized Hardcover. More
