The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
Vintage, October 1983. Paper Back. More
Vintage, October 1983. Paper Back. More
Harper Torchbooks / The Academy Library / Harper & Row, 1964. Soft Cover. Octavo. Darkening/soiling to cover front and back. Heavily darkened spine. Internior pages curled from moisture exposure. Cover design by Ted Bernstein. [242 pages plus ten page list of Harper Torchbook titles.]. More
Bloomsbury Academic, April 2019. Hardcover. Victims of Nazi Persecution from the Channel Islands explores the fight and claims for recognition and legitimacy of those from the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the Second World War. The struggle to have resistance recognised by the local governments..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1996. Hardcover. "Le Carre remains far in front in his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive." -Publishers Weekly Le Carre's Panama is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and..... More
Easton Press, January 1992. Leather. Brown leather bound with gold lettering and gold decorations. with raised Kit Carson portrait front in gold tooled oval. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker. Moire end pages. 250 pages. More
Simon & Schuster, November 2003. Hardcover. The first work of fiction by a President of the United States -- a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence In his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country. In what is sure to become a classic, the bestselling author of "Living Faith" and..... More
Crown, October 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. For almost three decades, President Carter has regularly spent part of each Sunday reading from scripture and sharing his personal faith with neighbors, friends, and visitors at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia. In "Living Faith," he draws on this experience, exploring the values closest..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. The former president shares his personal views on moral values as they relate to key issues today, evaluating the controversial and increasing intersection between religious and political arenas. First printing. Includes a Carter Presidential Library bookplate on front free endpaper with a...... More
Crown, November 1997. Hardcover. "I think the audio version brings a human touch..It permits me to communicate in a much more intimate fashion." --President Jimmy Carter For decades, President Jimmy Carter has been an avid student and teacher of the Bible. In recent years, the adult Sunday school classes he..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East -- and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do..... More
Random House, May 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Second printing signed on the title page by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. More
B&H Books, August 2017. Hardcover. Thomas Johnson and Charles Spurgeon lived worlds apart. Johnson, an American slave, born into captivity and longing for freedom--- Spurgeon, an Englishman born into relative ease and comfort, but, longing too for a freedom of his own. Their respective journeys led to an unlikely meeting..... More
Picador, October 2019. Trade Paperback. The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1924. Hardcover. Atomic atheism in verse. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded..... More
Vintage Books USA, January 2007. Trade Paperback. As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as complex as it is compelling. In..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, March 1991. Hardcover. In a strong, often funny, and revealing narrative, Lorene Cary recounts how she found herself suddenly catapulted into a world of privilege, when she left a black section of Philadelphia to attend a New Hampshire boarding school in 1971. Cary also describes returning to..... More
J.M. Richardson, 1826. First Edition. Cloth. First English language edition (U.K.) edition, translated from the French of Niccolao Manucci (1638–1720) and 'founded on the memoirs of Signore Manouchi, a Venetian'; according to title page of this volume. I would be guessing to assume 'Manouchi' is alternate spelling of 'Manucci', another..... More
Mariner Books, December 2004. Trade Paperback. "Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton." --Baltimore Sun Infinitely readable and absorbing, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton's The Civil War is one of the most widely read general histories of the war available in a...... More
Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1989. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Sparse pencil markings present; An excellent copy. More
The Kent State University Press, November 2022. Paper Back. Signed on the title page. More
Ecco, October 2018. Trade Paperback. "Drawing upon his unique and deep academic work and policy experience, Victor Cha has produced one of the most astute, insightful, and lucid texts on North Korea. Simply put, this book is a must-read for all--experts and casual observers alike--interested in developments on the Korean..... More
Dial Press, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Octavo in sun-bleached dustjacket with darkening of margins. Maroon cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Burgundy end pages. Moderately duststained top edge. Foxed fore-edge. [347 pages]. More
Anchor, November 2006. Trade Paperback. The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before -- and with virtually everyone outside China who..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2023. Hardcover. One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots--three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured..... More