One World, November 2021. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. "[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing..... More
Pantheon, September 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Bison Books, February 2001. Paper Back. On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory. A young man of..... More
Potomac Books Inc, May 2001. Hardcover. A multi-disciplinary group of distinguished scholars explores the rich diversity of the early republic's seafaring heritage. This unique volume constitutes a powerful statement about the current strength and potential of early American naval and maritime studies. More
Yale University Press, December 2010. Oversized Hardcover. A newly updated, expanded edition of the most comprehensive one-volume reference work on New York City ever compiled Covering an exhaustive range of information about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City..... More
Russell Sage Foundation, November 1991. First Edition. Cloth. Times Square, in its heyday, expressed American culture in the moment of vivid change. A stellar group of critics and scholars examines this transitional moment in Inventing Times Square, a study of the development of New York's central entertainment district. A fascinating..... More
Nova Science Pub Inc, April 2015. Hardcover. Book looks unread. Very good all round. Includes a review copy letter. More
Grosset & Dunlap, 1981. Hardcover. Frank Abagnale wrote $2.5 million in bad checks, practiced law without a license, practiced medicine with no medical training, co-piloted a Pan Am jet with a fake license, taught at a college though he was actually a high-school dropout, and managed to outwit and outrage..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 1977. Hardcover. More
Simon & Schuster, October 1991. Hardcover. An unflinching portrait of the man, his presidency, his accomplishments, his thwarted ambitions, and the tragic consequences--by the man who served as his closest domestic advisor. Califano has written a book that will stand as one of the great backstage stories in American politics..... More
Grove Press, March 2021. Trade Paperback. A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000..... More
Cornell Univ Pr, June 1955. Paper Back. The United States in 1800 by Henry Adams comprises the first six chapters of his magnum opus, History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In this volume, Adams explains how personalities and events of..... More
Deep Cover Books, 1982. Paper Back. Octavo. Mild wear. Lightly sunned spine. More
Abrams Press, November 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. A based-on source for the Warner Bros. film Richard Jewell, starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, and Paul Walter Hauser? "Meticulously reported, bracingly written, full of memorable and bizarre characters, the book casts a wary eye on the worlds of..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1993. Hardcover. The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline..... More
Oxford University Press, July 2015. Paper Back. Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new..... More
White Mane Pub, April 1989. Hardcover. A factual account of how Lincoln's lack of management skills, his vacillation over decisions of military justice, and his complete disregard for the Constitution caused the deaths of many Union soldiers off the battlefield. This book is not another biography of Lincoln, nor is..... More
Pelican Publishing Company, April 2007. Trade Paperback. This book includes difficult-to-find information about significant Oklahoma outlaws who lived and worked during the 100-year period 'from horseback to Cadillac.' While criminal history within Oklahoma is the focus, famous crimes committed elsewhere by Oklahomans, such as the Barker Gang, Wilbur Underhill, and..... More
Naval Inst Pr, June 1998. Hardcover. In the hot and humid summer of 1814 British troops completed a fifty-mile march to capture the young American capital, putting to rout along the way pitiful citizen militiamen (some in winter gear, others barefoot) while President James Madison galloped out of town to..... More
Gallery Books, May 2023. Hardcover. An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera..... More
Dover Publications, June 1980. Oversize Softcover. Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the..... More
Dover Publications, June 1980. Oversize Softcover. Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the..... More
Three Leaves Publishing, April 2007. Trade Paperback. No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings--especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century's bestselling..... More
Henry Holt & Company, May 2019. Hardcover. Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy..... More
Easton Press, 1989. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather bound with gold lettering and gold decorative panels front and rear cover. Gold textblock edges. Light scuff marks along fore-edge amidst the gilt. Bottom corners of pages 151 - 154 folded. Otherwise overall like new. Silk ribbon marker. Moire end pages..... More
