Henry Holt & Company, September 2019. Hardcover. The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1974. First Edition. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with sunned spine. Flap not clipped. Navy blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine. Spine tightly bound, yet somewhat cocked. Remainder mark bottom textblock. Textblock top edge moderate foxing and darkening top and fore-edge. Sky blue end..... More
Louisiana State UP, January 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn DJ , sunned spine and toning. Front flap is not clipped. Lime geen cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Heavy tanning to end pages. Previous owner's name inked upper right corner of FFEP. Foxing textblock top edge..... More
Prentice-Hall, Inc., January 1965. Paper Back. Octavo. Creased & worn cover. Considerable underlining scattered through text. 2nd printing. [402 pp.]. More
Columbia University Press, January 1974. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily foxed, discolored with edgewear and chipping. Front flap not clipped. Previous owner's name inked front DJ panel top right corner. Red cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Foxing/dust stains top textblock edge. Some moderate staining to fore-edge. Previous..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2014. Trade Paperback. This acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is "a page-turner with remarkable immediacy...and the narrative sweep of a great Western" (The Boston Globe). Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), August 2012. Trade Paperback. A selection of nineteen essential essays from The Federalist Papers in their original lengths by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, with notes by Richard Beeman Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and--above all--essential reads from American political history, selected by..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1961. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Damp stained/creased back cover. Mild tanning & darkeding of testblock esdges. Interior text unmarked. [358 pp.]. More
The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Reprint. Soft Cover. Octavo. Heavy scuffed, edgeworn cover with large superficial scar to front cover top right corner. Spine creased, but remains intact and sound. Foxing and soiling to fore-edge. [264 pp.]. More
Harper Torchbooks, 1969. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Reprint trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Reprint of 1960 edition. Heavily darkened cover at margins and especially dark along spine. Previous owner's name ink top right corner of half title page. Underlining & notes scattered about within text. [303 pp. plus four page list..... More
Louisiana State Univeristy Press, June 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In dust jacket with slight edgewear. Front flap is not clipped. Lime green cloth wrapped boards. Spine has pine green field containing lime green letters. Boards are dark stained along edges with a thin scattering of brown spotting & foxing..... More
Pelican / Penguin, January 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Marginal darkening and dust staining to cover. Large green rubber stamped previous bookseller advertisement on verso of front cover: 'The Bargain Bookshelf:... of ....'Decatur, GA'. Previous owner's name & other markings inked front cover and half title page. Scattered about within..... More
David McKay and Company, Inc., January 1974. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Nineth printing, paperback with mild edgewear to cover. Curled cover at fore-edge. Darkening and foxing of textblock edges. [364 pp.]. More
Univ Pr of Kansas, June 1993. Hardcover. "This very important book is original, sweeping, and wise about the relation between education and liberal democracy in the United States. The Pangles reconsider superior ideas from the founding period in a way that illuminates any serious thinking on American education, whether policy-oriented..... More
Oxford University Press, August 1991. First Thus. Hardcover. Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged..... More
Holt Paperbacks, May 2007. Trade Paperback. The landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century, now on its 50th Anniversary. First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during..... More
Hill and Wang, April 2002. Trade Paperback. ... imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography. --Elizabeth Sherman, The Boston Sunday Globe Her rallying cry was famous: Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 2003. Trade Paperback. "Who Owns History? testifies to Eric Foner's lifelong personal commitment to writing histories that advance the struggle for racial equality and economic justice." --David Glassberg, The Sunday Star-Ledger History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things..... More
Broadway Books, June 2014. Trade Paperback. The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets..... More
Flatiron Books, December 2021. Paper Back. New York Times Bestseller "This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin . . . Tubbs's book stands against the women's erasure, a monument to their historical importance." --The New Yorker Tubbs' connection to these women..... More
Thames & Hudson, October 2021. Hardcover. The most sensational and intriguing murders from across the United States are reexamined in this disquieting volume, which introduces readers to the most lethal killers from every state. Uncovering homicides from a seminal period of American criminal history, this compendium covers from the end..... More
Scribner, April 2022. Paper Back. A "riveting and enlightening account" (Bookreporter) of a mostly unknown chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt--when she moved to New York's Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America's First Lady. Hundreds of books have..... More
The Experiment, November 2021. Hardcover. The Maps for Curious Minds series is back--with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and geographical wonders of North America No matter how well you think you know North America, the 100 infographic maps in this singular atlas uncover..... More
Pantheon, January 2022. Hardcover. With the US Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, "it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker Motley" (CNN). The first major biography of one of our most influential judges--an activist lawyer who..... More
Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition. Leather. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. Gilt-decorative full leather binding. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and silk ribbon marker. More
