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A walker, a reader and a gazer, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is also a skilled talker whose impromptu kerbside exchanges with Harlem's most colourful residents are transmuted into a slippery, silky set...

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS EDITOR' S CHOICE 'Essential...

A DOCUMENT THAT SHAPED A NATION An authoritative analysis of the Constitution of the United States and an enduring classic of political philosophy. Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and...

The untold story of OC punk-the loud, rebellious force behind the '90s explosion of the Orange County music scene, featuring stories about legendary bands like Social Distortion, The Offspring, No...

With British politicians and army officers, their French and American equivalent, and the German hierarchy, forecasting the continuation of World War I, how did its end come so suddenly and...

A cinematic memoir of justice and redemption that traces a former Black Panther's tumultuous life from gang member to Black liberation leader. Russell Shoatz was a gang member from age...

America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of...

Originally a self-published sensation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, 1 Dead in Attic captures the heart and soul of New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 1 Dead...

The first hundred years of the American Mafia's existence would come to be seen as a golden age. From small-town Sicily to glittering Las Vegas, the mob had carefully expanded...

"Clearly the definitive book of Eleanor Roosevelt quotes. Albion does excellent work weeding out all the apocryphal quotes so often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, giving us only the real thing."--Christy...

As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social...

Five hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever. Among the first-and...

The book titled Trozas by the author B. Traven. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course...

Has liberalism lost its way--or merely its voice? This book by one of the nation's most insightful, articulate, and powerful Democrats at last breaks the silence that has greeted the...

MO' META BLUES is a punch-drunk-on-culture memoir in which Ahmir tells his own story while tackling the greats, the lates, the fakes, the headliners, and the almost-weres of music, as...

Space expert David West Reynolds takes you on a historical journey through the worlds most renowned space program. Featuring a wealth of rare photographs, artwork, and cutaway illustrations, Apollo recaptures...

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the...

This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolution It begins in 1511 with the shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in Yucatan. Only ten...

One of the greatest works of the American West - 'A new American classic.' Time On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne...

This beautiful book gives new life to the values and thinking of the Che Guevara behind the legend, a man who was at once sensitive, passionate and determined to pursue...

Gifted writer and reporter Robert Poole opens Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery with preparations for Memorial Day when thousands of families come to visit those buried in the 624-acre cemetery,...

In these provocative and engaging writings, Mr. Kramer explores, in effect, the intellectual history of the cold war and its divisive impact on our politics and culture. Tracing the critical...

The first hundred years of the American Mafia's existence would come to be seen as a golden age. From small-town Sicily to glittering Las Vegas, the mob had carefully expanded...

Tall and powerfully built, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of conflicting insecurities and ambitions - a white Southerner who championed civil rights and a self-made rich man who declared...

The book titled Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker . Now writers...

"What We've Lost "addresses the fragile state of U.S. democracy with a critical review of the Bush administration" "by one of our leading magazine editors, Graydon Carter. Carter has expressed...

As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of...

This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a...

Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...

The book titled The Brothers' War: Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue by the author Annette Tapert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...

This fully updated third edition of a vital text on the history of indigenous peoples comes from the thorough research of a First Nations descendent. By turns revealing and deeply...

The book titled Death Dreams & Dancing in Nicaragua by the author Penny O'Donnell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues...

Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest, and provides a long summary of Maya civilization. 4 maps, and over 120...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece- 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the...

Class is an emotive subject, and never more so than today. It is part of the very fabric of our contemporary society and Professor Marwick's major historical study of the...

While women's experience encompasses all that is human, while women have participated in history and the making of history through all time, until very recently they have been largely excluded...

"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd...

Argues that the ambitious social programmes of the Great Society designed to help the poor and disadvantaged not only did not accomplish what they set out to do, but often...

The world's longest mountain chain, the Andes, dominates western South America from north to south, and for millennia has been home to the continent's richest civilisations. Only in the past...

The book titled Wilderness Empire by the author Allan W Eckert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...