The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
Twelve Tables Press, January 2009. Trade Paperback. More
Twelve Tables Press, January 2009. Trade Paperback. More
Liveright, February 2024. Paper Back. Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today..... More
Knopf, February 2024. Hardcover. An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today--by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize "It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy and its..... More
Vintage / Random House, February 1977. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. Heavy darkening of interior margins and gutters. [343 pages plus XVII pagessupplemental material & six page list of Vintage title then available.]. More
Western Reserve Historical Society, January 1979. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling w/ mild foxing present; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2024. Hardcover. A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking "That's not us." But..... More
Random House Inc., New York, September 1972. Hardcover. An account of American power and politics in the 1950s and 1960s highlights the political and military figures who shaped domestic and foreign policy and who orchestrated America's involvement in Vietnam. More
Hyperion, September 2007. Hardcover. "In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home." --The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his..... More
Knopf, April 1979. Hardcover. significant damage to dust jacket, but it is still intact. More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace..... More
Columbia University Press, January 1974. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily foxed, discolored with edgewear and chipping. Front flap not clipped. Previous owner's name inked front DJ panel top right corner. Red cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Foxing/dust stains top textblock edge. Some moderate staining to fore-edge. Previous..... More
New American Library. Mass Market PaperBack. Mentor Book edition in fair condition. Covers are lightly creased, with wear on both edges. Spine is creased. A good reading copy. More
Grosset's Universal Library / Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Well worn, especially top & bottom of spine. Dust staining. Darkening & dust stains to textblock edges. Interior text not marked. Gutter prior to half title page is split and bound in place only by threads. At top..... More
Cameron Books, December 1989. First Edition. Cloth. With beautiful laser scanner duotones and 365 previously unpublished photographs, this is a fascinating study of the great quake in San Francisco in 1906--and of the likelihood of a similar quake today. Folio in very good dustjacket. Heavy foxing to verso of DJ..... More
Gibbs Smith, June 1992. Trade Paperback. More
University of Texas Press, May 2017. Hardcover. In the fall of 2018, the University of Texas Press will publish the inaugural volume of the Texas Bookshelf, a major new history of Texas by Stephen Harrigan, the New York Times best-selling author. The Texas Bookshelf promises to be the most ambitious..... More
Back Bay Books, March 2024. Paper Back. Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE - THE NEW REPUBLIC - DAZED - WIRED - BLOOMBERG - ESQUIRE - SALON - THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an "extraordinary" story of..... More
Tarcher, December 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Profiles some 200 lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and human torso Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how..... 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
University of Chicago Press, 1966. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 10th printing. Mild user wear. [210 pages]. More
The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Eleventh Impression married to a dustjacket which says; 9th printing. Octavo. In moderately edgeworn DJ with toning. Marginal darkening and stains.Two and one-half inch tear along front fold. Front flap is not clipped. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. Foxing to verso. Cobalt..... More
Hachette Books, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances..... More
Hachette Books, January 2024. Paper Back. The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world. Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of..... More
Dover Publications, March 2002. Trade Paperback. This remarkable study rescues from undeserved obscurity the name and reputation of Sacajawea -- a true Native American heroine. The volume also unravels the tangled threads of her family life and traces the career of her son Baptiste (the papoose of the Lewis and..... More