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
Crown, January 2024. Hardcover. This "brilliant and gut-wrenching" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms--and that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat..... More
WestWinds Press, December 1981. First Thus. Paper Back. First paperbak edition; First printing; Covers moderately worn from handling; Spine length creased from use; Text free of markings; A great reading copy. More
Chronicle Books Llc. Paper Back. Interior flap clipped. Some foxing on half-title page and interior covers. More
Vintage, May 2012. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American..... More
Nan A. Talese, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. In the tradition of 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' and 'In Cold Blood' comes a riveting novel of love, betrayal, and murder, based on true events from America's past. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Basic Books (AZ), October 2009. Trade Paperback. No two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. Buckley's writings provided the intellectual underpinnings, while Reagan brought the conservative movement into the White House. They met in 1961 when Reagan..... More
University of Chicago Press, March 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. In a bravura performance that ranges from Aaron Burr to O. J. Simpson, Robert A. Ferguson traces the legal meaning and cultural implications of prominent American trials across the history of the nation. His interdisciplinary investigation carries him from courtroom transcripts..... More
Pegasus Books, January 2024. Hardcover. A riveting history of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America--as narrated by a former heist expert and Gambino family mobster. The culmination Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why..... More
Vintage, July 1989. Trade Paperback. As is. Underlining in pencil. More
Collins Publishers, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The author of 'Washingtons Secret War' presents a dramatic new look at the Revolution after the last battle had been won, when the former colonies fate remained dangerously unsettled. 8-page insert. First edition with full number line. Very lightly bruised at the ends..... More
Little, Brown, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. Four First Editions in dust jackets all. Various conditions in the neighborhood of Good; Volume I is ex-library with most of the usual ex-library defects: stamps, sticker, pockets plus heavy foxing discoloration to textblock edges. NOT price clipped; Volume II in..... More
Praeger Publishers, January 1974. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from handling; Significant sun-fading at spine; Spine-length creased from use; Mild to moderate markings/highlighting present; A great reading copy. More
Amistad, October 2023. Hardcover. An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball," the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years--a glamorous event rivalling today's Met..... More
University of Oklahoma Press, March 1971. Trade Paperback. Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed against the tribes of the prairies, both breaking the soil..... More
University of Oklahoma Press, January 1974. Trade Paperback. It is unlikely that any single book or document will ever earn a more firmly-fixed position of respect and authority than this distinguished volume by Grant Foreman. Originally published in 1932, on the date of the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in..... More
Yale University Press, September 1964. Trade Paperback. Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklin's autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, the autobiography..... More
Bedford Books, January 1993. Trade Paperback. This new edition of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is built around J.A. Leo Lemay and P.R. Zall's text. Louis Masur's introduction sets the work in its historical context. Masur also discusses America after Franklin and why the autobiography has had such a tremendous..... More
Easton Press, 1976. Leather. Dark red full leather cover with gilt lettering and design on spine and front and back covers; gilt page edges; tan/orange silk endpages in front and back; tan/gold satin ribbon bookmark; Easton Press bookplate personalized and affixed on inside of front free endpage; printed from the..... More
Franklin Library, January 1984. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. More
The Franklin Library, January 1977. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Cover and edges significantly faded. Embossed stamp on title page. Limited edition. More
Charles Scribners' Sons, 1970 / 1971. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in heavily chipped & torn dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. In black cloth covered boards with gold lettering & horizontal devices. Volume one has two inch tear in front pastedown midway in front end pages hinge. Volume two is starting..... More
Knopf, April 1995. Hardcover. Coming of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men--FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into a global superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of A Peace..... More
Penguin Books, November 2023. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld..... More
NewSouth Books, November 2023. Paper Back. "There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Frye Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner..... More