Crown Publishing Group (NY), February 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2023. Hardcover. The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this..... More
Crown, September 2018. Hardcover. A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses--and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled..... More
Garden City Books, January 1943. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In tattered & torn jacket with chips & tears and staining. Damp stains & bubbling heavy especially along spine. Front flap is clipped. Red cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine and black decorations on spine and front panel. Non authorial..... More
Praeger Publishers, January 1974. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from handling; Significant sun-fading at spine; Spine-length creased from use; Mild to moderate markings/highlighting present; A great reading copy. More
Avon, March 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd printing; Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Spine top edge bumped; Mild foxing present; Previous owner name present at author page; Text free of markings; A solid copy of this unique edition. More
Lyons Press, April 2019. Cloth. The most compelling and exciting tales of lost and buried treasures associated with the Civil War have been collected, extensively researched and investigated, and are included in this entertaining book from one of America's foremost treasure hunters. They represent fortunes that have been lost for..... More
Abrams Press, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR... SO FAR by The New Yorker The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the..... 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
Doubleday, March 2008. Hardcover. In this groundbreaking book, Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--the re-enslavement of black Americans from the Civil War to World War II--in a moving, sobering account that explores the insidious legacy of white racism that reverberates today. More
UPNE, April 2016. Trade Paperback. History is right under our feet; we just need to dig a little to find it. Though not the most popular construction project, Boston's Big Dig has contributed more to our understanding and appreciation of the city's archaeological history than any other recent event. Joseph..... More
Harry N. Abrams, March 2020. Trade Paperback. From award-winning author Tonya Bolden comes the fascinating story of one of America's most influential African American voices Teacher. Self-emancipator. Orator. Author. Man. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is one of the most important African American figures in US history, best known, perhaps, for his..... More
Yale University Press, September 1981. First Edition. Cloth. An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy. First/first. {9 & 1/2' x 6 & 1/2'} In tattered, torn and darkened at spine and margins. Tanned..... More
Berkley Books, January 2007. Mass Market PaperBack. Robert Graysmith's New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California's unsolved Zodiac murders. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple..... More
Harper, October 2022. Hardcover. "A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information--and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" -- Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History..... More
Texas A & M Univ Pr, January 1990. Hardcover. Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards, spine-length faintly creased from use; Significant highlighting and pencil markings present; Dust jacket mildly edge-worn; A solid reading/research copy. More
Indiana University Press, March 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the army of the Democratic Peoples..... More
Springer, October 1988. Hardcover. Lautensach[s "Korea" is a regional geography, the most comprehensive one ever written on Korea in a western language. It was written before the country was divided and provides a waelth of information on the entire country, particularly on the north, something that has been difficult toobtain..... More
Naval Institute Press, January 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Joe Owen tells it like it was in this evocative, page-turning story of a Marine rifle company in the early days of the Korean War. His powerful descriptions of close combat in the blizzard-blown mountains of the Chosin Reservoir and of the..... More
Beacon Press, August 2022. Paper Back. Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many..... 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
Hachette Books, March 2023. Hardcover. The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted..... More
Beacon Press, May 2011. Trade Paperback. A lively history of Boston's emergence as a world-class city--home to the likes of Frederick Douglass and Alexander Graham Bell--by a beloved Bostonian historian "It's been quite a while since I've read anything--fiction or nonfiction--so enthralling."--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1998. Trade Paperback. I am always asked to explain what it felt like to grow up black under South Africa's system of legalized racism known as apartheid, and how I escaped from it and ended up in America. This book is the most thorough answer I...... More
W. W. Norton, September 2008. Trade Paperback. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these guests, and human names for the animals, it's no..... More
