Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
Simon & Schuster, November 1988. Hardcover. More
Simon & Schuster, November 1988. Hardcover. More
Mariner Books, January 2009. Paper Back. In this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan, former president of the American Historical Association, charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe's history: its transformation from war-torn battlefield to peaceful, prosperous society. For centuries, war was Europe's defining narrative, affecting every..... More
Forefront Books, June 2023. Hardcover. Families trapped in poverty and systemic injustices. Children denied civil rights because of race. A nation with immense potential for freedom spiraling into prejudice, violence, and hate. The country Frederick Douglass knew over one-hundred years ago is strikingly similar to the one we live in..... More
PublicAffairs, May 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Antonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller. The era, beginning with the accession..... More
Cambridge University Press, March 2015. Trade Paperback. This book looks beyond the familiar history of former empires and new nation-states to consider newly transnational communities of solidarity and aid, social science and activism. Shortly after independence from France in 1960, the people living along the Sahel - a long, thin..... More
Vintage, March 2000. Paper Back. An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." --The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the..... More
Little, Brown and Company, November 2010. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else..... More
Barnes & Noble, December 2013. Hardcover. When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally..... More
Viking, June 2016. Hardcover. The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics' Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016's Great Reads..... More
Modern Library, October 2002. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension."--San Francisco Chronicle WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY - "[Theodore Rex] is one..... More
Anchor, June 1969. Trade Paperback. Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 1983. Trade Paperback. The National Book Award-winning novel--and contemporary classic--that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones "[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to..... More
Basic Books, June 2021. Trade Paperback. This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it..... More
Syracuse University Press, June 1996. Trade Paperback. This is the entertaining story of New York City's social life and customs over the period 1850 to 1950. More
Vintage, February 2010. Trade Paperback. In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of..... More
Holt Paperbacks, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read. --Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain..... More
Scribner Book Company, July 2000. Trade Paperback. In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy..... More
William Morrow Paperbacks, December 2016. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space--a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1987. Trade Paperback. The stunning story of one of America's great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for..... More
Algonquin Books, September 2019. Trade Paperback. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." --Dan Rather "A tonic for our times . . . Rather's writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new..... More
Random House, September 1988. Cloth. Fourteen years in the making, this story of a man and a war is so mesmerizing and monumentalze winner, is scheduled to appear on Good Morning America this fall. The New Yorker will feature this book in three installments this summer. 16 pages of photos..... More
The Johnson-Dallis Co, 1924. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8'} Brown umber cloth covered boards with gold tooled lettering upon front panel. Much faded spine with gold lettering. Heavily foxed & tanned end pages front and rear. Moderate edgewear to boards. Textblock edges are deeply foxed & dust stained top..... More
Penguin Books, September 1985. Trade Paperback. From the renowned historian and author of The Death of Woman Wang, a vivid and gripping account of the 16th-century missionary's remarkable sojourn to Ming China In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought..... More
Pimlico, April 2010. Trade Paperback. Using a handful of lives and a specific location to exemplify 200 years of history, Gillian Tindall focuses on a few of the oldest streets in Pariss Latin Quarter. Her study shows how Paris has drawn into its magnetic field people who have variously found..... More