I R Butts, January 1856. Hardcover. 1857 Edition; Solid binding; Clean, sturdy boards, not without general age wear, wrapped in clear archival mylar; Mild foxing present; Pencil markings present at front free end-page, text free of markings; An excellent copy, considering age. More
Penguin Classics, 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome -..... More
Random House Inc, July 2004. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. "A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide..... More
Nan A. Talese, October 2003. Book Club. Hardcover. The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas..... More
Batam, January, 1967. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened margins within internal pages. [325 pages]. More
Vintage, May 2013. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that..... More
Knopf, April 2002. Reprint. Hardcover. Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of..... More
Random House Inc, March 1990. Book Club. Hardcover. In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson's almost mythic personality--part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating--is seen at its most..... More
Vintage, July 1975. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's..... More
Harper Torchbooks / The Academy Library / Harper & Row, 1964. Soft Cover. Octavo. Darkening/soiling to cover front and back. Heavily darkened spine. Internior pages curled from moisture exposure. Cover design by Ted Bernstein. [242 pages plus ten page list of Harper Torchbook titles.]. More
Bloomsbury Academic, April 2019. Hardcover. Victims of Nazi Persecution from the Channel Islands explores the fight and claims for recognition and legitimacy of those from the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the Second World War. The struggle to have resistance recognised by the local governments..... More
Mariner Books, March 1997. Paper Back. In this dramatic, intimate, and tragic memoir, James Carroll recovers a time that none of us will ever forget - a time when parents could no longer understand their sons and daughters and when young people could no longer recognize the country they had..... More
Easton Press, January 1992. Leather. Brown leather bound with gold lettering and gold decorations. with raised Kit Carson portrait front in gold tooled oval. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker. Moire end pages. 250 pages. More
Crown, October 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. For almost three decades, President Carter has regularly spent part of each Sunday reading from scripture and sharing his personal faith with neighbors, friends, and visitors at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia. In "Living Faith," he draws on this experience, exploring the values closest..... More
Crown, November 1997. Hardcover. "I think the audio version brings a human touch..It permits me to communicate in a much more intimate fashion." --President Jimmy Carter For decades, President Jimmy Carter has been an avid student and teacher of the Bible. In recent years, the adult Sunday school classes he..... More
Ballantine Books, October 1998. Soft Cover. 'As we've grown older, the results have been surprisingly good, ' writes former President Jimmy Carter in this wise, deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. Now in his 70s, President Carter has never enjoyed more prestige or..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East -- and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do..... More
B&H Books, August 2017. Hardcover. Thomas Johnson and Charles Spurgeon lived worlds apart. Johnson, an American slave, born into captivity and longing for freedom--- Spurgeon, an Englishman born into relative ease and comfort, but, longing too for a freedom of his own. Their respective journeys led to an unlikely meeting..... More
Riverhead Books, November 2023. Hardcover. "Devastatingly compelling. . . a work of rare vividness and authority. . . [and] sometimes heart-aching tenderness." --Financial Times A journalist's spellbinding account of the shocking murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reverberated far beyond their tiny homeland An..... More
Vintage Books USA, January 2007. Trade Paperback. As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as complex as it is compelling. In..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, March 1991. Hardcover. In a strong, often funny, and revealing narrative, Lorene Cary recounts how she found herself suddenly catapulted into a world of privilege, when she left a black section of Philadelphia to attend a New Hampshire boarding school in 1971. Cary also describes returning to..... More
J.M. Richardson, 1826. First Edition. Cloth. First English language edition (U.K.) edition, translated from the French of Niccolao Manucci (1638–1720) and 'founded on the memoirs of Signore Manouchi, a Venetian'; according to title page of this volume. I would be guessing to assume 'Manouchi' is alternate spelling of 'Manucci', another..... More
Mariner Books, December 2004. Trade Paperback. "Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton." --Baltimore Sun Infinitely readable and absorbing, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton's The Civil War is one of the most widely read general histories of the war available in a...... More
Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1989. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Sparse pencil markings present; An excellent copy. More
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 2013. Trade Paperback. A Memoir Beginning in 1918 - A profile in courage: the life of Cecil Alexander, Jr., a hero in war and a visionary in peace. In World War II, Alexander flew 60 bombing missions and was twice honored with the Distinguished Flying..... More
