Bloomsbury Press, June 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother, had been shot. JFK would not survive. In..... More
Viking Books, May 2003. Hardcover. By June 1944 there were hundreds of thousands of American and British prisoners of war in camps across Nazi-controlled Europe. News of the D-Day landings, heard on secret camp radios, filled the prisoners with both hope and dread. Amid this confusion and fear, the POWs..... More
Harper, October 2023. Hardcover. "A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne's triumph and tragedy." --Tina Brown, New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history..... More
Palgrave MacMillan, March 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. A timely rags-to-riches story, "The Merchant of Power" recounts how Sam Insull--right hand to Thomas Edison--went on to become one of the richest men in the world, pivotal in the birth of General Electric and instrumental in the creation of the modern metropolis..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2023. Hardcover. In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity's inhumanity to itself. Where did it come from? Why has it..... More
Liveright, November 2023. Paper Back. Years before Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competing in the sensational transcontinental air race of 1919. The contest awakened..... More
Popular Library, October,1967. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Bright clean, sound very good+/fine mass market. Tight & square. With almost as new coral tinted textblock. [190 pages]. More
University of Nebraska Press, August 1988. Trade Paperback. "A North American bible of all tribes."-Vine Deloria Jr. "The experience of Black Elk . . . is a key statement to the understanding of myth and symbols."-Joseph Campbell. More
Praeger, September 1985. Trade Paperback. The author describes his experiences as a member of the American battalion of volunteers fighting in the Spanish Civil War. More
A Spectrum Book / Prentice-all, 1968. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Sun bleached spine. Foxing & dust staining of textblock edges, as well as interior pages. [214 pages]. More
Chicago Review Press, August 2005. Trade Paperback. This book combines two survivors' vivid accounts of the greatest maritime disaster in history: the sinking of the Titanic. The information contained in Colonel Archibald Gracie's Titanic: A Survivor's Story is available from no other source. He provides details of those final moments..... More
N/A, August 1989. Trade Paperback. More
New American Library. Mass Market PaperBack. Mentor Book edition in fair condition. Covers are lightly creased, with wear on both edges. Spine is creased. A good reading copy. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006-12-26. Trade Paperback. "Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written." --The Boston Globe "Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject." --The New York Times The "dean of Cold War historians" (The New York Times) now presents the..... More
Vintage, May 2012. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American..... More
William Morrow & Company, November 2017. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER The "riveting" (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the ashes "Enthralling. ... Gripping. ... A captivating and emotionally investing..... More
Tarcher, December 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn jacket. Turquoise cloth wrapped spine with blue foil lettering. Black paper covered boards. Foxing and stains on fore-edge and top edge. Complete number string. [216 pages]. More
Longman, May 1999. Paper Back. Warfare dominated the long reign of the `Sun-king', Louis XIV. For forty years from 1672, France was continuously at war and had one of the largest armies seen in the West since the fall of imperial Rome. The campaigns secured little territory, but almost bankrupted..... More
University of California Press, March 1985. Reprint. Cloth. John A. Crow updates and expands his classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people. The scope of this richly textured book is remarkable and includes chapters on Roman Spain, the Jews in Spain, the Moors, life in medieval..... More
Shama Books, 2012. Reprint. Soft Cover. Octavo. Clean, sound, without interior markings. [371 pages]. More
Gill and MacMillan, 1981. Reprint. Paper Back. 12mo. Mild soiling/staining. [180 pages]. More
Bookmarks Publications, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Very minor shelf wear. Seemingly unread copy. More
Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1989. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Sparse pencil markings present; An excellent copy. More
Simon & Schuster, April 1998. Trade Paperback. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known-- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes..... More
Hachette Books, August 2017. Paper Back. Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging..... More
