HISTORY OF IRELAND 1798-1924--Volume I
George H Doran Co, 1926. Cloth. Octavo with heavily worn edges and a few spot of discoloration and a scuff mark or two. Tanned end pages. Volume one only. No dustjacket. [304 pages]. More
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Generation Rap an Anthology About Youth and the Establishment
Dell, July 1973. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound mass market paperback. Previous reader's name written in ink on verso of front cover panel. Textblock edge tinted a somewhat faded & dust stained teal. 'A Laurel Leaf Library original'. Third printing, Includes contributions by a motley crew including Kurt Vonnegut..... More
What Manner of Man, a Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pocket Books, January 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound, mass market paperback edition with slightly darkened margin. Rubber stamped names of previous owner's top right of title page. Textblock edges tinted rose red. Abridged Pocket edition/Memorial edition. Note in blue ink last page of textblock upper left at edge of..... More
Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
St. Martin's Press, February 2023. Hardcover. An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In..... More
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
William Morrow, April 2023. Hardcover. CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and post-Trump years, from its seismic shift to the Right to its controversial decisions, including its reversal of Roe v. Wade..... More
Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval 'Hindu-Muslim' Encounter
Princeton University Press, March 2018. Oversize Softcover. Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India. The book--which ranges in time from the early eighth to the early thirteenth centuries--challenges existing narratives that cast the..... More
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2023. Paper Back. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public..... More
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2023. Hardcover. The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship..... More
Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Picador USA, April 2023. Paper Back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our..... More
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
Simon & Schuster, April 2023. Hardcover. A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war. Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three..... More
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Little, Brown and Company, February 2023. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Welcome and necessary...illuminating and revelatory." - The New Yorker The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an "extraordinary"* story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative. (*Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author..... More
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in..... More
Negro's Civil War
Ballantine Books, April 1991. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length creased from use; Pages free of markings; A great reading copy. More
Denis Diderot's The Encyclopedia: Selections
Harper Torchbooks, January 1967. First Thus. Paper Back. First Edition: Harper Torchbooks, 1967; Covers moderately worn from handling, some creasing/chipping present; Spine-length faintly creased from use; Previous owner initials present at half-title along w/ previous seller stamp; Pages free of markings; An excellent reading/reference copy. More
Rodham: A Novel
Random House, May 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of American Wife and Eligible . . . He proposed. She said no. And it changed her life forever. "A deviously clever what if."--O: The Oprah Magazine "Immersive, escapist."--Good Morning America "Ingenious."--The New York Times..... More
Testament of Hope : The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Harpercollins, January 1991. Trade Paperback. An exhaustive collection of the speeches, writings, and interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning activist. Cover creasing. More
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Vintage, February 2002. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A landmark work of history explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals--Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison--confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation. "A splendid book--humane..... More
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Broadway, March 2011. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO(R) STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE - ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" (LITHUB), AND "BEST"..... More
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (Books of American Wisdom)
Applewood Books, March 2023. Hardcover. A rousing abolitionist speech with themes that still resonate today, from equality under the Constitution and God to a vision of America that defends freedom for all. One of the most memorable speeches in American history, Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth..... More
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
Simon & Schuster, September 2021. Paper Back. From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man..... More
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Simon & Schuster, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the..... More
Personal Memoirs
Modern Library, May 1999. Paper Back. "One of the most unflinching studies of war in our literature." --William McFeeley Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid..... More
In My Fathers House
Random House Inc, July 1992. Soft Cover. A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin--a respected minister and civil rights leader--comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person..... More
A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries)
Vintage, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial confrontation in..... More
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Vanguard Press, May 2007. Paper Back. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn't been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book sold over one million copies..... More
