Windsor Publications, 1974. Cloth. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Quarto. In edgeworn dustjacket, marginally darkened & darkened spine. Flap is not clipped. Off white cloth covered spine with red lettering upon spine & red torch design centered front board. Heavy foxing & dust stained. Grey end pages. [302 pp.]. More
Riverhead Books, February 2010. Hardcover. The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution. Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas Deane was a Connecticut merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American..... More
Penguin Press, October 2017. Hardcover. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating..... More
Crowell-Colllier, January 1971. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Complete number string. [9' x 10 & 3/4'] In very good dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards with white stamped lettering. DJ is edgeworn with one & one-half inch tear top of front panel at spine. Flap is not clipped. Complete number string. [134..... More
Hill & Wang, January 2003. Trade Paperback. A newly revised version of a classic in American history When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synthesis of the Revolutionary War to use the new social history. Edward Countryman offered a balanced view of..... More
Perseus Books Group, May 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the..... More
Collins Publishers, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The author of 'Washingtons Secret War' presents a dramatic new look at the Revolution after the last battle had been won, when the former colonies fate remained dangerously unsettled. 8-page insert. First edition with full number line. Very lightly bruised at the ends..... More
Bloomsbury Press, June 2013. First American. Hardcover. Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America--an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the "first Drudgery" of settling the American colonies now well and truly past, Franklin announced in 1743, it was high..... More
Mariner Books, February 2022. Hardcover. Based on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish refugee couple who escaped famine, created a life together in a city hostile to Irish, immigrants, and Catholics, and launched the Kennedy dynasty..... More
Penguin USA, September 1990. Hardcover. Hailed as prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, William Tecumseh Sherman is the most controversial general of the American Civil War. "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it," he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, October 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Wordy Shipmates" is "New York Times"?bestselling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop's ?city upon a hill a shining example, a ?city that cannot be hid.? To this day, America..... More
Graywolf Press, March 2012. Trade Paperback. *Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism* *A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012* The Grey Album, the first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction..... More
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, February 2022. Hardcover. Rediscover the forgotten story of how President Lincoln welcomed African Americans to his White House during America's most divided and war-torn era. Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women to the White House transformed the trajectory of..... More
Taylor Trade Publishing, April 2004. Trade Paperback. History classes reduce America's story into a dry litany of dates, names, and places. That's Not in My American History Book tackles the messy details, reclaims disregarded heroes, and sets the record straight. This book explains why July 4th isn't really Independence Day..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 2000. Trade Paperback. "In Lies Across America," James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning "Lies My Teacher Told Me," of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. "Lies Across America" is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over..... More
Yale University Press, September 1964. Trade Paperback. Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklin's autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, the autobiography..... More
Crown, October 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. For almost three decades, President Carter has regularly spent part of each Sunday reading from scripture and sharing his personal faith with neighbors, friends, and visitors at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia. In "Living Faith," he draws on this experience, exploring the values closest..... More
Penguin Books, November 2007. Trade Paperback. A New York Times bestseller! "Beautifully crafted and fun to read." --Louis Galambos, The Wall Street Journal "Nasaw's research is extraordinary." --San Francisco Chronicle "Make no mistake: David Nasaw has produced the most thorough, accurate and authoritative biography of Carnegie to date." --Salon.com The..... More
Picador, August 2011. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter kept a private diary. In it, he supplied unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, and narrated the progress of secret negotiations; he recorded his thoughts and his impressions of White..... More
Vintage, May 2013. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that..... More
Penguin Books, June 2018. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's Most Valuable Book "[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2014. Hardcover. An "inside the room" memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who--in a career of service to the country--was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to..... More
Knopf, November 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president--no era of American politics--has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and..... More
Little, Brown and Company, August 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell. In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento..... More
William Morrow, February 2022. Hardcover. In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy takes readers inside the life and..... More
