Little, Brown and Company, May 2023. Hardcover. In this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. For decades now, America's national security..... 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
International Marine Publishing, May 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. An epic story of one man's devotion to the American cause In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold's treasonous attempt to hand control of the Hudson River to the British, his patch-work fleet on Lake Champlain was all that stood between..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, May 1992. Trade Paperback. James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called "history writing of the highest..... 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
Lyons Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. New York City experts James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of two dozen iconic New Yorkers, including Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, Central Park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, business titan JP Morgan, and music legend Bob Dylan. Beginning with the oldest..... More
Free Press, March 2009. Trade Paperback. How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 1982. Reprint. Cloth. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket with small tears. Front flap is not clipped. Burgundy cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine. 4th printing. Previous reader's name, location and a date inked upper right corner of ffep. Dust stains..... 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
Berkley Publishing Group, August 1995. First Thus. Paper Back. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates the life of John Wesley Hardin, from his youth to his final days. An ingenious reconstruction.--Dale L. Walker, Rocky Mountain News. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates..... More
Mariner Books, March 1997. Paper Back. In this dramatic, intimate, and tragic memoir, James Carroll recovers a time that none of us will ever forget - a time when parents could no longer understand their sons and daughters and when young people could no longer recognize the country they had..... More
Random House Value Publishing, December 1988. Hardcover. {8 & 3/4' x 10 & 3/4'} In clean dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering and black faux-leather boards with blind stamped lettering. Tight binding. [342 pp.]. More
Quadrangle Books, January 1972. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily foxing/marginally darkened dustjacket with edgewear and small tears. Front flap is not clipped. Navy blue cloth. Tanned end pages. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. Darkened/dust stained textblock edges. [336 pp.]. More
Louisiana State UP, January 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn DJ , sunned spine and toning. Front flap is not clipped. Lime geen cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Heavy tanning to end pages. Previous owner's name inked upper right corner of FFEP. Foxing textblock top edge..... More
Random House, April 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine & black lettering on front board. Tight binding, despite slight give. Top textblock edge tinted black. Textblock fore-edge is soiled. [559 pp.]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, February 1991. Hardcover. James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called history writing of the highest order..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 2000. Trade Paperback. "In Lies Across America," James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning "Lies My Teacher Told Me," of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. "Lies Across America" is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over..... More
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Easton Press, January 1989. Leather. Gilt-decorative brown leather binding with raised spine bands. Silk endapers and ribbon marker. All edges gilt. Unread; near flawless. More
P.W. Ziegler, 1881. Reprint. Cloth. Brown cloth with gold and black decorations and borders. Portrait of Garfiled in circlular emblem. Raised brown lettering in rectangular gold backgrounds. Floral designs in black. End pages are chocolate brown. Heavily worn ato top and bottom of spine with frayed edge. Front end page..... More
Little, Brown, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. Four First Editions in dust jackets all. Various conditions in the neighborhood of Good; Volume I is ex-library with most of the usual ex-library defects: stamps, sticker, pockets plus heavy foxing discoloration to textblock edges. NOT price clipped; Volume II in..... More
Univ Tennessee Press, May 1975. Hardcover. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk's correspondence shifted from those issues relating, to the formation of his administration and distribution of party patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas, preparation for..... More
Univ Tennessee Press, December 1969. Hardcover. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk's correspondence shifted from those issues relating to the formation of his administration and distribution of part patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas, preparation for..... More
Univ Tennessee Press, June 1989. Hardcover. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk's correspondence shifted from those issues relating, to the formation of his administration and distribution of party patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas, preparation for..... More
Univ Tennessee Press, May 1972. Hardcover. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk's correspondence shifted from those issues relating, to the formation of his administration and distribution of party patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas, preparation for..... More
