The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
Vintage, October 1983. Paper Back. More
Vintage, October 1983. Paper Back. More
Random House Inc, March 1990. Book Club. Hardcover. In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson's almost mythic personality--part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating--is seen at its most..... More
Knopf, May 2012. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led..... More
Harper Perennial, September 1989. Mass Market PaperBack. John F. Kennedy's spirited words and devotion to courage live on in this edition of his Pulitzer Prize-winning portraits of Americans. "Thoughtful and persuasive."-- "New York Times" "This book is not just the stories of the past but a book of hope and..... More
Vintage, February 1990. Trade Paperback. The story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill country. Reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition that set LBJ apart. More
Harper, January 2024. Hardcover. A deeply researched, narrative history recounting the little-known late-Reconstruction era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union Army hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black citizens, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups..... More
Vintage, July 1975. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's..... More
Vintage, July 1975. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's..... More
Vintage, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of..... More
Back Bay Books, May 2004. Trade Paperback. Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and..... More
Three Rivers Press, January 2003. Trade Paperback. In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA's efforts to root out the world's deadliest terrorists, allowing..... More
White Mane Pub, April 1989. Hardcover. A factual account of how Lincoln's lack of management skills, his vacillation over decisions of military justice, and his complete disregard for the Constitution caused the deaths of many Union soldiers off the battlefield. This book is not another biography of Lincoln, nor is..... More
Brevet Press, January 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. {7' x 9'} In dustjacket with sunned spine and margins and rough edged tears. Rubbing. Red textured paper covered boards. Silver lettering on spine and front panel. Also front panel has silver stamped emblem. Sound binding. Front flap is not clipped. [281 pages]..... More
University of Chicago Press, March 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. In a bravura performance that ranges from Aaron Burr to O. J. Simpson, Robert A. Ferguson traces the legal meaning and cultural implications of prominent American trials across the history of the nation. His interdisciplinary investigation carries him from courtroom transcripts..... More
Anchor Books, January 1967. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First paperback edition. Mass market paperback with red ink underlining scattered through text. top right corner of first inside page is clipped. [500 pages plus four page list of Anchor editions then available.]. More
Oxford University Press, July 2015. Paper Back. Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new..... More
St. Martin's Press, June 2003. Hardcover. Robert Meeropol was six years old in 1953 when his parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed after being convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union at the height of the McCarthy era. Just before they were put to..... More
Arcadia Publishing, July 2006. Trade Paperback. What was once home to the native tribe known as the Ohlone, and functioning as guardian of the San Francisco Bay under Spanish, Mexican, and American flags, the Presidio has served as outpost as well as cultural barometer of the vast changes this country..... More
Arcadia Pub, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Very minor shelf wear on the cover. More
Heinle & Heinle Pub, June 1981. Trade Paperback. More
GROVE PRESS INC, January 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. More