Broadway Books, January 2016. Trade Paperback. The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ - Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina--and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. In the..... More
University of Texas Press, January 1983. Trade Paperback. The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive..... More
Riverhead Books, April 2019. Trade Paperback. Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism... King tells this... story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags. --Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times Book Review From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove comes the story of a...... More
Oxford University Press, March 1988. Hardcover. Woodrow Wilson described them as men bent on an expedition of profit, who used the negroes as tools for their own selfish ends. Horance Greeley, while running for President, said they were fellows who crawled down south in the track of our armies, generally..... More
New York University Press, November 1980. Cloth. {7' x 10 & 1/2'} In edgeworn/rubbed dustjacket with darkened edges. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards. Cobalt blue end pages. Dust stained top textblock edge. [334 pages]. More
Vintage, July 1975. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's..... More
Pantheon, June 2022. Hardcover. A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we got to this moment--from the Founding Fathers to today's high-tech manipulation of election districts--and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person..... More
Atria/One Signal Publishers, April 2022. Hardcover. "Kelly unearths the stories of the people-farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees--behind some of the labor movement's biggest successes." --The New York Times A revelatory and inclusive history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly. Freed..... More
Crown, December 2020. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come--with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast "Both a thriller and a history book, Bag..... More
The New Home Library, 1943. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn heavily dust stained dustjacket. Brick red cloth covered boards with black lettering and decorative border. Dust stained textblock edges. Non-authorial gift inscription ffep. More
Crown, December 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come--with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast "Both a thriller and a history..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2003. Trade Paperback. Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums;..... More
Atria / 37 INK, February 2017. Hardcover. Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction "A fascinating and moving account of a courageous and resourceful woman. Beautifully written and utilizing previously untapped sources it sheds new light both on the father of our country and on the intersections of slavery..... More
Beacon Press, August 2022. Hardcover. An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with..... More
Knopf, August 2022. Hardcover. The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author's life and perception of home. In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home..... More
Anchor, November 2013. Trade Paperback. A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the Year Nearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen, inventing the breakthrough technology of moving pictures. Yet the visionary inventor Muybridge was also..... More
William Morrow & Company, August 2022. Hardcover. From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America. [A] brilliant and courageous book. --Dr. Cornel West Dangerous Rhythms tells the..... More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, August 2022. Paper Back. In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually..... More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, June 2019. Paper Back. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2022. Paper Back. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal person to lead the country. He had already cast himself as a...... More
Liveright, June 2022. Hardcover. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet--and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President..... More
Gateway Editions; distributed by H. Regnery Co., January 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Yale University Press, February 2014. Trade Paperback. A biography that restores /robert Ingersoll--America's foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism--to our still-contested twenty-first-century public square "Jacoby makes the case that Americans are dearly indebted to Ingersoll, and would be well-served to revisit his life and writings at a time when..... More
Hanover Square Press, June 2022. Hardcover. *A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post "Book to Read This Summer"**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2022**A USA Today "Book to Celebrate Pride Month"**A New York Times "Editor's Pick"**A Kirkus Reviews Hottest Book of Summer*A..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2019. Trade Paperback. Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore's one-volume history of America places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests..... More
