PublicAffairs, April 2021. Trade Paperback. The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning..... More
I.B. Tauris, May 2021. Paper Back. Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2005. Paper Back. New York Times Bestseller In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery-and make history..... More
E.P. Dutton, January 1978. First Edition. Oversized Clothbound. Bound in royal blue cloth with bright gold lettering along the spine. Light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Univ of Tennessee Pr, March 1987. Trade Paperback. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ignited the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, has always been vitally important in southern and black history. With the publication of this book, the boycott becomes a milestone in the history of American women..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In "Pillar of Fire", the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters", won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle..... More
PERENNIAL, January 1970. Paper Back. First mass market, Perennial Library edition. Clean, sound, without interior markings. (233 pages). More
Ace, January 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound, without markings. Red (somewhat faded) stained textblock edges top & bottom and fore-edge. A decent anthology that includes Paul Goodman, Michael, McClure, Berkeley Barb, Allen Ginsberg, Toms Robbins, William S. Burroughs, Tomothy Leary, Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, Tuli Kupferberg, Ralph Gleason, Paul..... More
Pantheon, March 2021. Hardcover. At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes..... More
Beacon Press, October 2012. Paper Back. #26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African..... More
Vintage, September 2007. Trade Paperback. An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press--and the journalists responsible for them--profoundly changed the nation's thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and '60s. Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings..... More
Harper Perennial, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human..... More
Monthly Review Press, January 1997. Hardcover. The classic survey of Latin America's social and cultural history, with a new introduction by Isabel Allende Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political..... More
