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
Simon & Schuster, October 1989. Book Club. Hardcover. Shelf wear; otherwise, very good. More
Library of America, February 2000. First Edition. Cloth. The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. Included in the..... More
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
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
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
Readers Digest, April 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Light yellowing on the jacket spine. Mylar wrapped. More
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
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
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
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
Vintage, August 1974. Trade Paperback. More
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
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
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
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
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
Twelve, October 2015. First Edition. Cloth. In Drinking in America, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American..... More
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
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
Twelve, March 2010. Trade Paperback. Ten years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset. The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror..... 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
Collins, May 2008. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to jacket. 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
