Nixon, Vol. 2: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972
Simon & Schuster, October 1989. Book Club. Hardcover. Shelf wear; otherwise, very good. More
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The Trial of Patty Hearst
The Great Fidelity Press, January 1976. Paper Back. Softcover quarto. Spine cracked & repaired with tape, heavy & darkening with age, sloppy but effective. There is also darkened tape and/or tape residue at bottom edge of front cover and first inside page. Previous owner's name & address top of same..... More
Race Course Against White Supremacy
Third World Press, February 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days--and that it is..... More
Look for Me in the Whirlwind: The Collective Autobiography of the New York 21
Random House, January 1971. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in clean, bright jacket with slight edgewear & tiny one-half inch closed tear bottom edge front panel. NOT price clipped; original price of $8.95 on flap. 3 unfortunate markings in red ballpoint & black marker by previous owner on front free end..... More
Peace: 50 Years of Protest
Readers Digest, April 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Light yellowing on the jacket spine. Mylar wrapped. More
Black Panthers 1968
Greybull Press, October 2002. First Edition. Cloth. In 1968, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover vilified the Black Panthers as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States." That same year photographers Pirkle Jones and wife, Ruth-Marion Baruch, documented the Black Panthers for an exhibition at the De..... More
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Easton Press
Easton Press, January 1976. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Previous owner's book plate affixed to front pastedown. More
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
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
Free Press: Underground and Alternative Publications, 1965-1975
Universe, September 2006. First American. Oversize Softcover. Taking its collective name from the wartime "underground press" of Europe's anti-Nazi resistance, the publications examined here were all members of the Underground Press Syndicate (later renamed the Alternative Press Syndicate), founded in 1967 so that member papers could freely share and reprint..... More
The Americans: The Democratic Experience (Vintage)
Vintage, August 1974. Trade Paperback. More
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2009. Trade Paperback. In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he..... More
Democracy from the Heart: Spiritual Values, Decentralism, and Democratic Idealism in the Movement of the 1960s
Communitas Press, April 1991. First Edition. Paper Back. Inscribed on first inside page/half title page: 'Best Wishes, Greg Calvert'. Gregory Nevala Calvert (1937 - 2005) was the National Secretary of SDS ( Students for a Democratic Society) 1966 to '67.This appears to have been released simultaneously in paperback & hardback..... More
Path to Power : The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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
Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Random House Inc, September 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the..... More
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
Simon & Schuster, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Acknowledged as having the most important and admirable post-presidential career in the nations history, Carter recounts his adventures over the last 25 years, including founding the Carter Center and his service on behalf of humanity. Photos throughout. More
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Simon & Schuster, November 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. In this book President Carter shares his intimate knowledge of the history of the Middle East and his personal experiences of the principal actors, and he addresses sensitive political issues many British and American officials shy from. This is a challenging and..... More
White House Diary
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter--filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several..... More
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press
Verso, 1998. First Edition. Cloth. In the late summer of 1996, a young reporter on a California newspaper electrified the United States with the charge that the CIA had conspired in the smuggling of cocaine into the US, subsequently disseminated in the form of crack into black urban neighbourhoods. In..... More
Strom Thurmond's America
Hill and Wang, September 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. "Do not forget that skill and integrity' are the keys to success." This was the last piece of advice on a list Will Thurmond gave his son Strom in 1923. The younger Thurmond would keep the words in mind throughout his long..... More
And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side
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
All the Gallant Men
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
Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality In Women's Narratives Of Slavery
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
Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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
Your Sick
Jellyfish Highway Press, Inc., February 2016. Trade Paperback. Fever dreams turn kids into parrots, lungs sprout seeds, and a lover's infection infuses into her name. In this collaborative collection by Elizabeth J. Colen, Carol Guess, and Kelly Magee, real contagions transform into magical kinds of sickness, from airborne amnesia to..... More
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Vintage)
Vintage, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his..... More
