Basic Books, November 2017. Trade Paperback. Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period. -- Alison Weir Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor..... More
Knopf, May 2023. Hardcover. An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live--and to create--with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War "Now, as certainly as never before, we are determined or compelled, to take sides." --Nancy Cunard An attempted insurrection..... More
University of Chicago Press, October 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Who was Theodore Roosevelt? Most of us think of him as one of America's greatest presidents, a champion of progressive politics, and a master statesman. But many feared the political power that Roosevelt wielded. Woodrow Wilson once called him the most..... More
Valley Publishers, January 1974. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handing, some scuffing present at front cover and spine; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Front fold-out present and completely intact; An excellent copy. More
University Press of Mississippi, August 2020. Paper Back. At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, March 2011. Hardcover. Watch a video From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates, " an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2008. Hardcover. Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, March 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Watch a video From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates, " an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the..... More
Vintage, April 2012. Trade Paperback. A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. - A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See Us On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, October 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Wordy Shipmates" is "New York Times"?bestselling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop's ?city upon a hill a shining example, a ?city that cannot be hid.? To this day, America..... More
University of North Carolina Press, September 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, October 2015. Hardcover. From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington's trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette. Chronicling General Lafayette's years in Washington's army, Vowell reflects on the ideals..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2006. Trade Paperback. New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR's This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation's ever-evolving political system and history..... More
Disc Us Books Inc, June 2001. Trade Paperback. Very minor shelf wear. Signed and dedicated on the title page. More
