University of Tennessee Press, April 2004. 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..... More
The Easton Press, January 1988. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. More
University of Texas Press, January 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is a tribute to "an incomparable triumvirate." "One was a naturalist, one a historian, and one a chronicler, but each of them was each of these. The manly love between them, a handsome thing in times and places blighted..... More
Louisiana State University Press, April 1988. Hardcover. Examines President Carter's relationship with Congress, discusses his antipolitical approach to reform, and assesses the accomplishment of his administration. Light shelf wear and edge wear on the jacket. Small water stain on one corner of the back board. More
Harper Perennial, September 1988. Paper Back. Still the most penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written, Tocqueville's complete, two-volume masterwork is as relevant today as in the mid-nineteenth century. More
Bantam Classics, April 2000. Mass Market PaperBack. From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it "among the most remarkable..... More
Readers Digest, April 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Light yellowing on the jacket spine. Mylar wrapped. More
Easton Press, January 1976. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Previous owner's book plate affixed to front pastedown. More
Bedford/St. Martin's, April 2003. Trade Paperback. This second edition of Franklin's famous autobiography is accompanied by a portfolio of illustrations and an introduction that provides background for students and invites them to think about the work's lasting impact on American society and culture. More
Knopf, June 2004. Hardcover. President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It shows us the progress of a remarkable American..... More
Hakluyt Society, January 1988. Hardcover. In 1845 Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic forever. Three years later HMS Plover's was the first departure of 21 expeditions searching for Franklin. Although most of the analyses of the Franklin Search have focused..... More
Smithsonian, March 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Two lightly bumped corners (book and jacket). Library stamp on the front free endpaper. Address label on the half title page. Mylar wrapped. More
Arcadia Publishing, August 2005. Trade Paperback. Metropolitan New York s Third Avenue Railway System features never-before-published photographs documenting the final years of this streetcar system, from 1940 to 1957. Chartered as the Third Avenue Railroad Company in 1853, the system provided streetcar service on Third Avenue from Ann Street to..... More
Knopf, January 1969. Hardcover. More
Twelve, April 2015. Hardcover. #1 "New York Times" Bestseller#1 "Wall Street Journal" Bestseller From her years as the presidential press secretary to her debates with colleagues on Fox News' "The Five," Dana Perino reveals the lessons she's learned that have guided her through life, kept her level-headed, and led to..... More
The New Press, November 2017. Paper Back. NOW IN PAPERBACK The "gripping" (New York Times) and "Hitchcockian"(Publishers Weekly) story of how a nurse, a car dealership worker, and a forensic expert took on the nation's largest banks A Kirkus Reviews and The Week best book of the year, David Dayen's..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1978. Trade Paperback. "The Path Between the Seas" tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous..... More
William Morrow Paperbacks, November 2017. Paper Back. The most gripping, intimate, and inspiring account of Pearl Harbor. The first memoir ever published by a USS Arizona survivor. At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had..... More
Viking Adult, May 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. It is not a stretch to argue that history will remember Jimmy Carter for his post-presidential works long after his tenure in the White House has been forgotten. But as Douglas Brinkley points out in this absorbing study, it took such presidential accomplishments..... More
State Univ of New York Pr, January 2006. Hardcover. In Speaking Power, DoVeanna S. Fulton explores and analyzes the use of oral traditions in African American women s autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery. African American women have consistently employed oral traditions not only to relate the pain and degradation..... More
Arcadia Publishing, June 2004. Trade Paperback. When driving into San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge, the sweeping vistas and greenery gradually give way to the city's charming and inviting Marina District. This area is undoubtedly one of San Francisco's most picturesque and best-known neighborhoods and is famous for its..... More
Little, Brown and Co., January 1948-1981. Cloth. Very good throughout. A six volume set of books with cloth boards and gilt lettering. Minor shelf wear on the mylar wrapped jackets. More
Ramparts Press/random House, January 1969. Hardcover. More
Modern Library, October 2002. Trade Paperback. Theodore Rex is the story--never fully told before--of Theodore Roosevelt's two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, "TR" succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all..... More
Twelve, April 2011. Trade Paperback. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. TRUE COMPASS The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose..... More
