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The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration...
The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest
"The Lies of Sarah Palin" is the first full-scale critical biography of the former vice-presidential candidate, up through her resignation as Alaska governor, and as a potential presidential candidate in...
1861: The Lost Peace
From award-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author of April 1865: The Month That Saved America Jay Winik, a gripping account of the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln's...
A Woman Named Jackie
The book titled A Woman Named Jackie by the author C.David Heymann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin
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...
Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County
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...
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a
From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall. 1935 ....
I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner
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...
1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
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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...
Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia
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...
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service
For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB...
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth
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...
The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account
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...
Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy
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...
1959
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...
Mexico: A History
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...
Son Of The Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of Little
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...
The Che Handbook
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...
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery: Where War Comes Home
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,...
Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia
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...
LBJ: Architect of American Ambition
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...
Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years
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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...
A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations
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: How the Bush Administration Has Curtailed Our
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"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...
The Long Affair
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...
Ezra Pound: Poet: I: The Young Genius 1885-1920
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...
A Question of Character: John F. Kennedy in Image and Reality
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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 Brothers' War: Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue
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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...
Survivors in Mexico
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...
We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History ? Collision Between
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...
Death Dreams & Dancing in Nicaragua
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.
Outrage, Passion, And Uncommon Sense
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...
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
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...
Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
JFK: Volume 1: John F Kennedy: 1917-1956
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: Image and Reality: In Britain, France and the USA Since 1930:
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...
JFK: Volume 1: John F Kennedy: 1917-1956
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...
The Female Experience: An American Documentary
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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...
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader
"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...
A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and
"Scott Jennings is a Patriot from the Great State of Kentucky... A Revolution of Common Sense was directly inspired by my Inaugural Address and the many Common Sense actions we...
Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980
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...
Treasures of the Incas New Edn
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...
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
"Reading Nick Corasaniti's delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories." - Rolling...
Presidents of the United States
From George Washington to Bill Clinton, this book contains a collection of portraits and potted biographies of 42 of America's Presidents. The pictures have all been taken from the National...
A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and
"Scott Jennings is a Patriot from the Great State of Kentucky... A Revolution of Common Sense was directly inspired by my Inaugural Address and the many Common Sense actions we...
God's Ghostwriters
'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan 'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent '[A] massive achievement' Spectator 'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and...