Fort Bragg and Other Points South: Poems
Henry Holt & Co (P), July 1988. Paper Back. More
Thomas Lux Collection
Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union
William Morrow & Co, May 1987. Paper Back. Spine is creased. More
We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
Simon & Schuster, November 2003. Hardcover. ""We Are Lincoln Men"" examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless..... More
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Pantheon, April 1987. Paper Back. This book draws on American, English and Japanese songs, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports and official documents to show exactly what role racism played in the war. 20 pages of illustrations. Light shelf wear to cover and spine is sun-faded. More
The Academic Writer: A Brief Guide
Bedford/St. Martin's, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Much has changed since the first edition of Lisa Ede's "Work in Progress"; students need more rigorous help working with sources, creating effective arguments, and addressing the greater demands of academic writing in a digital age. Refocused on the kinds of academic writing students..... More
A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 1995. Trade Paperback. "Before electricity carved its blue path toward me, before the negative charge shot down from cloud to ground...before air expanded and contracted producing loud pressure pulses I could not hear because I was already dead, I had been walking." So opens Gretel Ehrlich's absorbing..... More
Two Lives of Charlemagne (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, July 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich..... More
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Vintage)
Vintage, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his..... More
Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Lincoln's Men: The President and His Private Secretaries
Collins Publishers, February 2009. Hardcover. Epstein presents a fresh angle on Abraham Lincoln as seen by his three young private secretaries--the men who knew him better than anyone outside his immediate family. More
Republic of Poetry
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2008. Paper Back. In his eighth collection of poems, MartÃn Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Here poets return from the dead..... More
Who Killed Joe McCarthy?
Simon & Schuster, June 1984. Hardcover. More
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
Metropolitan Books, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of "Backlash"--an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that..... More
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
Free Press, March 2005. Hardcover. On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into a roaring fire. The evidence would have been destroyed but for a rare act of God -- or, as some believed, of the Indian..... More
Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President
Palgrave MacMillan, October 2007. Hardcover. In 1856 a struggling young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln entered the national limelight through his involvement in the Anderson case in Springfield, Illinois. Julie Fenster's narrative describes how the case revealed Lincoln's potential. More
Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years
Scribner Book Company, October 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Boldly conceived and dazzlingly executed, this breathtaking work offers a unique retrospective on the last 1,000 years of world history. Epoch-making as well as epoch marking, Millennium is history on a grand scale--big but fluent, solid but exciting, scholarly and demanding but..... More
Dylan Thomas
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. More
The Forever War
Knopf, September 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures, in stunning vignettes, snapshots, and episodes, the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins's work in Iraq was hailed by..... More
The Last Tycoon
Charles Scribner's Sons, c. 1970. Trade Paperback. Shelf wear and creasing to the cover. More
Alexander Pope
Routledge and Paul, January 1978. Hardcover. More
Chronicles
Penguin Group USA Inc, March 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. One of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle at Sluys..... More
Mickelsson's Ghost
Vintage, April 1985. Paper Back. Cover is coming loose. More
Pleasure Wars
W. W. Norton & Company, January 1999. Trade Paperback. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of..... More
Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy
Houghton Mifflin, May 2006. Hardcover. A civil war is being waged among jihadists for the soul of Islam. While all Islamist radicals may share a vision of a purified and unified ummah, or Muslim community, few agree over how to bring it about. Ultra-militant wings, such as Al Qaeda, dominate..... More
