Makeba: My Story
Plume, March 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Plume, March 1989. Trade Paperback. More
University of Chicago Press, April 2012. Trade Paperback. Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2024. Paper Back. Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the..... More
Harpercollins, January 1991. Trade Paperback. An exhaustive collection of the speeches, writings, and interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning activist. More
Scribner, February 2024. Hardcover. In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between Indians and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded, written by acclaimed historian..... More
Penguin USA, February 1998. Cloth. A few pages have underlining and marginal notes; else, fine. More
PublicAffairs, April 2023. Hardcover. The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express-style adventure, set in China's republican era. In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the..... More
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, November 1997. Hardcover. It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and..... More
W. W. Norton, January 2008. Trade Paperback. "My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, December 2023. Hardcover. Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops..... More
Riverhead Trade, February 2006. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a...... More
Vintage, December 2014. Trade Paperback. From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale. At the center, the tumultuous life of Seneca, ancient Rome's preeminent writer and philosopher, beginning with banishment..... More
The Folio Society, January 1992. Reprint. Hardcover. Three volume set. {6 & 1/4'} Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine and gold emblem on front, In stiff cardstock pictorial paper covered slipcase. Third printing. [470 pages; 408 pages;. More
Sheridan Square Press, August 1992. Hardcover. An up-to-date and clear analysis that furthers our understanding of the assassination of JFK, arguing that the evidence relied upon by the Warren Commission was smothered by the military-industrial complex and its civilian allies. A comprehensive study of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's..... More
Discus Avon, February 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for..... 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
Laurel Leaf, March 1983. Mass Market PaperBack. Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops..... More
Princeton University Press, February 1973. Reprint. Paper Back. The description for this book, Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, will be forthcoming. Octavo. 6th Princeton Paperback printing. Edgeworn. Sunned spine. Dust stained. [380 pages]. More
Mariner Books, January 2009. Paper Back. In this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan, former president of the American Historical Association, charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe's history: its transformation from war-torn battlefield to peaceful, prosperous society. For centuries, war was Europe's defining narrative, affecting every..... More
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
Simon & Schuster, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts..... More
Indiana University Press, April 1994. First Edition. Cloth. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with mild edgewear. Likewise slight curl of jacket edge. Black cloth covered boards with stamped silver lettering along spine. Previous owner's name & web address in black ink upper right corner of fep. Underlining in..... More
Meredith Press, January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in well worn dustjacket with edgewear & chipping. Front flap is clipped. Top right corner of FFEP is also clipped. Black cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. Corners bumped. Heavy wear top & bottom of spine with small tears..... More
Indiana Historical Society, January 1983. Paper Back. Solid stapled binding w/ minimal wear at spine; Mild fading present at front and rear covers; Some foxing at outer edge text block; Text free of markings; An excellent copy for reading/research and collectors alike. More