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
Atlantic Monthly Press, January 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history, recounting the little known story of the first white man to champion the voiceless Native American cause. Son of a Scottish trader and a quarter-Cherokee..... More
Penguin Press, April 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll's My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2022. Paper Back. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence..... More
Haymarket Books, November 2012. Trade Paperback. Howard Zinn has illuminated our history like no other US historian. This collection of his speeches on protest movements, racism, war, and US history, many never before published, covers more than four decades of his active engagement with the audiences he inspired with his..... More
Library of America, January 2010. Hardcover. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department, John Marshall wrote in Marbury v. Madison, to say what the law is. As its Chief Justice from 1801 to 1835, Marshall made the Supreme Court a full and equal branch of the..... More
Transaction Publishers, January 1997. Hardcover. The Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews has been called one of the most serious anti-Semitic manuscripts published in years. This work of so-called scholars received great celebrity from individuals like Louis Farrakhan, Leonard Jeffries, and Khalid Abdul Muhammed who used the..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1996. Trade Paperback. David Herbert Donald's "Lincoln" is a stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2001. Trade Paperback. In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside..... More
Routledge, December 2003. Trade Paperback. In this volume, some of the best figures in the field have come together to write on preservation movements across the country, from New York to Atlanta to Santa Fe and others. Giving Preservation a History also touches on the European roots of the historic..... More
Claitors Publishing, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. In very good dustjacket with mild wear. Damp staining across bottom. Flap not clipped. Tear to back panel of DJ next to spine bottom: one inch. Black cloth covered boards with white lettering. Slightly leaning spine. [174 pp.]. More
Riverhead Hardcover, October 2015. Hardcover. From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington's trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette. Chronicling General Lafayette's years in Washington's army, Vowell reflects on the ideals..... More
Ballantine Books, June 2008. Hardcover. From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster comes the colorful story of a way of life that for hundreds of years has defined much of America's coastlines but is slowly disappearing. Illustrated. From the 'New York Times'-bestselling author of..... More
Henry Holt & Company, May 2019. Hardcover. Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2022. Hardcover. An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should..... More
March 1992. Hardcover. Here is a selection of statements and writings which illuminate the course of Indian history and the abiding values of Indian life -- living in harmony with nature. Previous owner's name/address label on front free endpaper. More
Grove Press, March 2021. Trade Paperback. A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000..... More
Ecco, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration." --Isabel Wilkerson An essential, surprising journey through the history..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, October 2005. Trade Paperback. It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous..... More
Spiegel & Grau, August 2015. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one..... More
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., January 1930. Reprint. Cloth. {6 & 1/2' x 9& 1/2'} Navy blue cloth covered boards with coat of arms embossed front panel. Gold lettering along spine. Board edges worn. Cloth is slightly loose at top of spine both volumes. Library markings/stamps front end pages and..... More
Bedford/st Martins, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, first published in 1682, is an English Puritan woman's account of her captivity among Native Americans during Metacom's War (1675-76) in southeastern New England. In this volume, 17 related documents support Rowlandson's text, which is reprinted..... More
Bedford Books, February 1998. Trade Paperback. This is the story of a two-year journey in the time of President Thomas Jefferson along the Missouri and Columbia rivers, and over the Rocky Mountains, in search of a navigable waterway to the Pacific Ocean. This selection of journal entries provides insight into..... More
Walker and Company, January 1973. Cloth. Small quarto. [7' x 10'} In edgeworn dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Yam colored cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Clean interior pages. [602 pages.]. More
Crown Publishers, January 1971. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with edgewear & darkened spine. Heavy wear top & bottom of spine. DJ flap is not clipped. Coffee cloth covered boards with silver & black lettering. Faded at top edge. Robin egg blue end pages. [278 pp.]. More
