Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Equal Justice Initiative, 2017. Reprint. Soft Cover. Third Edition. {8' x 9 & 3/4'}. Clean & sound. Black cardstock cover with red lettering along spine. [88 pages]. More
Equal Justice Initiative, 2017. Reprint. Soft Cover. Third Edition. {8' x 9 & 3/4'}. Clean & sound. Black cardstock cover with red lettering along spine. [88 pages]. More
Random House, May 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Second printing signed on the title page by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. More
McSweeney's, 2000. Novelty. More
Gallery Books, November 2023. Hardcover. Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller. On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President..... More
Back Bay Books, April 2003. Trade Paperback. This classic bestseller -- the inspiration for the PBS series -- is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles Times). This enthralling..... More
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, March 2005. Cloth. Among the most accomplished historians of his generation, John Lukacs has written more than twenty books and hundreds of essays and reviews. His scholarship encompasses the history of the modern age, focusing especially on the political, ideological, intellectual, and military struggles of the twentieth..... More
Crown, November 2023. Hardcover. The "fascinating" (The New York Times) true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. "A compelling real-life thriller."--The Telegraph (UK) Independent filmmaker Mary..... More
Knopf, October 2023. Hardcover. ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST - 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER - 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND AIR MAIL - 10 ESSENTIAL BOOKS..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2024. Paper Back. Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an undercurrent of reaction..... More
Pluto Press (UK), April 2020. Trade Paperback. "Looks back at the history of Posadism to explore why this largely discredited movement has elicited so much recent interest."--Art in America Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins, and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater..... More
Barnes & Noble, May 2008. Trade Paperback. Around the World in Eighty Days, published originally as a newspaper serial in 1872 and released as a book the following year was well received in both formats. Its hero, Phileas Fogg, is a leisured but taciturn Londoner of such mathematically precise habits..... More
Oxford University Press, July 1995. Trade Paperback. On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross..... More
Merrion Press, June 2021. Paper Back. This is the story of life in Ireland - a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions..... More
Viking. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, full number line; signed by author in blue ink of tipped-in page; publisher's 'signed copy' sticker affixed to front cover of dust jacket. More
Harper, November 2022. Hardcover. New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. "It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2023. Hardcover. When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as..... More
Modern Library, 1963. Reprint. Cloth. {4 & 7/8 x 7 & 1/8'} 12mo. In lightly edgeworn jacket with clipped flap. Toledano binding. Burgundy cloth covered boards with blind-stamped hexagon Modern Library logo on cover & gold lettering with line border and torchbearer on spine. Kent end pages. [756 pages]. More
Scribner, January 2024. Hardcover. A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history. Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some..... 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
W. W. Norton, January 2008. Trade Paperback. "My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in..... More
Houghton Mifflin, March 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one..... More
University of Minnesota Press, February 1996. Hardcover. Allen (Italian, French, women studies, comparative literature, Syracuse U.) learned about rape/death camps through a former student who supplied her with accounts from survivors in Bosnia and Croatia. This volume is a response in which she examines the regional complexities of identity, and..... More
Dover Publications, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Slave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the consistently high quality of their literary style. This book by Olaudah Equiano is one such story. A compelling account that..... More