Thomas Lux Collection
Poet Prints
Scottish Poetry Library, 2005. Postcards. More
Aguirre: The Re-Creation of a Sixteenth-Century Journey Across South America (American)
Henry Holt & Company, June 1994. First American. Hardcover. In 1560, Lope de Aguirre joined the search for El Dorado, the expedition that would cross a continent--and which experienced a mutiny led by Aguirre himself. Now, sifting through source materials, Stephen Minta offers his own adventurous re-creation of Aguirre's legendary..... More
Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy
Pantheon, January 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. For nine months in 1963, Mrs. Paine was so deeply involved in..... More
Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
Random House (NY), June 1990. Hardcover. After eight years of economic polarization under Ronald Reagan, during which armies of the homeless took to city streets and hordes of the newly superrich took to yachts and country clubs, preeminent political consultant Kevin Phillips assesses the political consequences. Illustrated. Fading to the..... More
An Apology For Poetry
Bobbs-Merrill, January 1983. Paper Back. More
Dreaming:: Hard Luck and Good Times in America
Random House (NY), March 1995. Hardcover. The award-winning author of Golden Days and The Rest Is Done With Mirrors now tells her life story and that of her family--one in which heavy drinking and, later, recreational drugs, were something of a family tradition. A fiercely funny and deeply empathetic book..... More
Cannibals and Missionaries
Harcourt, June 1979. Hardcover. Chipping to one edge of dust jacket. More
Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (Belknap Press)
Harvard Univ Press, October 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Some small closed tears, chipping and rubbed corners on the jacket. Two bumped corners on the boards. More
Aaron Burr: the Conspiracy and Years of Exile 1805-1836
Farrar, 1982, January 1982. Trade Paperback. More
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
Knopf, September 1996. Hardcover. 4 cassettes / 4 hours Read by the author, Paul Hendrickson A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism "Meticulous in detail, epic in scope, psychologically sophisticated and spiritually rich, it ranks with The Best..... More
End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. But, as the Romans of the fifth century knew, Attila did more than just terrorize villages on the edge of an empire. Drawing on..... More
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire (American)
Henry Holt & Company, April 1999. Hardcover. Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it..... More
Mid-Course Correction Toward a Sustainable Enterprise : The Interface Model
Chelsea Green Pub Co, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Of value to business people, environmentalists, and educators alike, "Mid-Course Correction" is a business book about the environment that's written from a personal perspective. With passion and pride, Ray Anderson, founder, Chairman, and CEO of one of the world's largest interior furnishings..... More
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America (Warner Books)
Grand Central Publishing, December 1994. Paper Back. The best-selling author of The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and Barcelona here delivers a withering polemic aimed at the heart of recent American politics and culture. Culture of Complaint is a call for the reknitting of a fragmented and over-tribalized..... More
Murdering Mr. Lincoln: A New Detection of the 19th Century's Most Famous Crime
New Millennium (GB), February 2004. Hardcover. More
Book of War
Viking Books, November 1999. Hardcover. From Thucydides' classic account of ancient Greek phalanx warfare to a blow-by-blow description of ground-fighting against the Iraqi forces during the Gulf War, The Book of War presents the face of battle over the course of more than 2,000 years. Acclaimed historian John Keegan brings..... More
God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Prometheus Books, January 2007. Hardcover. Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology, while science has sat on the sidelines. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly clarified our understanding of the world..... More
The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War
Oxford Univ Pr, September 1975. Paper Back. Light shelf wear and some stains to the cover. More
The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier
Simon & Schuster, June 1989. Hardcover. Jacket is faded. Some stains to the text block. More
A Long Sound
Granite Press, January 1986. Trade Paperback. More
The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, August 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three years of..... More
Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph (Penguin Literary Biographies)
Puffin, July 1986. Trade Paperback. More
The Arabs: Journey Beyond the Mirage
Random House, February 1987. Hardcover. More
Last 100 Days
Bantam, July 1985. Paper Back. Shelf wear and creasing to the cover. More