Popular Library, October,1967. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Bright clean, sound very good+/fine mass market. Tight & square. With almost as new coral tinted textblock. [190 pages]. More
Spiegel & Grau, August 2015. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one..... More
NYU Press, September 2023. Hardcover. Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of a massive..... More
PublicAffairs, October 2023. Hardcover. The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as..... More
Liveright, October 2023. Hardcover. In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard..... More
Liveright, September 2023. Hardcover. The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if they didn't..... More
Atria Books, September 2023. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I--this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of..... More
University of Nebraska Press, August 1988. Trade Paperback. "A North American bible of all tribes."-Vine Deloria Jr. "The experience of Black Elk . . . is a key statement to the understanding of myth and symbols."-Joseph Campbell. More
Univ Pr of Kentucky, January 1989. Cloth. Examines Hitler's role in bringing Franco to power, explains how the Spanish Civil War strengthened Hitler's power, and traces German-Spanish relations during the period. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In lightly shelf worn jacket. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with..... More
Facts on File, December 1995. Oversized Hardcover. This new atlas joins a distinguished and critically acclaimed series that has won several awards. Like its companion volumes, this book includes a wealth of maps, text, and illustrations that re-create Russia's historical culture. 50 maps, 200 full-color photographs. More
Back Bay Books, September 2016. Trade Paperback. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year..... More
Knopf, October 2023. Hardcover. A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil--when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history,"..... More
BOYE6, June 2009. Trade Paperback. The dramatic story of a Jewish child's rescue at Buchenwald and its use as propaganda in both East and united Germany. At the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, communist prisoners organized resistance against the SS and even planned an uprising. They helped rescue a three-year-old Jewish..... More
Penguin Books, June 2018. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" "[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually..... More
Vintage, August 2005. Trade Paperback. In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era--from ancient times through the Renaissance--when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible..... More
Saqi Books, April 2005. Trade Paperback. "The Shadow of God on Earth," Suleiman presided over an empire of over thirty million inhabitants representing nearly all races and religions. Since God had invested him with power, he felt obliged to ensure justice and see to the well-being of his subjects. André..... More
Random House, June 2021. Hardcover. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2019. Hardcover. A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner One of NPR's Best Books of 2019 Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making..... More
Random House, May 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP..... More
Holt Paperbacks, July 2009. Trade Paperback. Published with a new afterword from the author--the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts--including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2023. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how--and why--he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. "Meacham has given us the Lincoln for..... More
Crown, October 2023. Hardcover. The acclaimed author of Code Girls returns with a "rip-roaring" (Steve Coll), "staggeringly well-researched" (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, "electric with revelations" (Booklist) about the women who fought to become operatives, transformed spycraft, and tracked down Osama bin Laden. "This..... More
Ballantine Books, October 1979. Trade Paperback. "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony..... More
Back Bay Books, May 2004. Trade Paperback. Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and..... More
Anchor, June 2014. Trade Paperback. A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days..... More
