American History

Author: V.I. Lenin; comp by C. LeiteizenBinding: HardbackPublished: Progress Publishers • Moscow, 1975Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Blue cloth in good condition....

Author: Theodore DraperBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, London, 1968Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Markings in grey lead. Abuse of Power:...

Author: Bruce CattonBinding: HardbackPublished: Fairfax Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical work chronicles the pivotal campaigns and human drama of the American Civil...

Author: Lloyd Wendt, Herman KoganBinding: PaperbackPublished: Rand McNally, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover shows wear from general useSince its first publication in 1952, Give the...

Author: David E. CarterBinding: HardbackPublished: Art Direction Book Co, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling volume chronicles the evolution of visual branding...

Author: Gerald ClarkeBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, wear to cloth cover and light tanning along spine (see photo)This compelling biography, "Capote,"...

Author: Lord LongfordBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Very light wear to edges of dust jacket, price clipped, previous owner...

Author: Malcolm McConnellBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has very light tanning along spine, previous owner mark inside first pageThis gripping...

Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war. From September 11,...

The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the cataclysm and the long duration of the collapse scarred...

With images of 19th- and 20th-century New Mexico in hand, photographer William Stone set his tripod in the exact same spot as his predecessors to document the change (or lack...

EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUE ON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS. "A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine." What...

Winner of the Historical Society of Southern California's 2015 Neuerburg Award for the best book on Pre-Gold Rush California Finalist for the Southern California Independent Bookseller Association's Best Nonfiction Book...

America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling,...

On September 11,1973, a military coup in Chile overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende, beginning an era of political repression that lasted over sixteen years. Mary Helen Spooner takes...

An essential authoritative companion to Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol The secrets, the myths and the facts behind Washington, D.C.'s design and its Masonic significance. In this groundbreaking, original work,...

An intimate portrait of tragedy, hope and humour in a war zone. An intimate portrait of tragedy, hope and humour in a war zone. Working as a journalist at the...

The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist provides a provocative odyssey behind the scenes of the White House to reveal the inner operations of the administration of George W. Bush, furnishing a close-up...

The strength and prestige of democracy worldwide at the end of the twentieth century are due in good measure to the impact of America on international affairs, argues Tony Smith....

Anyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beats....

The bestselling single-volume history of California from the greatest historian of the Golden State. "A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild...

A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends...

Recounts the time the author spent with the former first lady, sharing such details as her experiences during the assassination attempt on her husband and the challenges she faces as...

In 1991, while one war was being waged against Iraq, another was being fought amongst the American generals leading the operation. The Generals' War offers unvarnished portraits of the top...

In 1876, at only 29 years old, Alexander Graham Bell completed the invention that would turn him into a household name: the telephone. What began as a tool for his...

In the early 19th century, a French sociologist and political scientist undertook a seven-month journey throughout the newly formed United States. Alexis de Tocqueville surveyed the young nation's religious, political,...

The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment in American history, and one with truly global resonance. Until now, no journalist...

Pinochet File reveals a record of complicity with atrocity by the U.S. government. The documents, first declassified for the original edition of the book, formed the heart of the campaign...

This book demonstrates how the course of the American Revolution and the creation of a national entity were influenced by the political, economic, and social diversity of the thirteen colonies....

"At last, a biography of Herbert Hoover that captures the man in full... [Jeansonne] has splendidly illuminated the arc of one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century."-David...

The essential historical references and documents in this volume reflect the character of the United States during the Revolutionary War. This compilation includes the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up...

With America more polarized than ever, the 2016 presidential election was one of the most heated in its history. Now just in time to provide some much needed comic relief...

This work untangles the intricacies of the US-Israeli-Palestinian relationship. Sixteen years after its first publication, Chomsky has revised and updated this corrosive study, hailed as a defining work on modern...

Updated to include events through the year 2000, the Millennial Edition of The Timetables of American History -- an entertaining, authoritative survey of our nation's history, presented in the popular...

This is an account of the collapse of Montezuma's great Mexican empire beneath the onslaught of Cortez's conquistadors. It considers the moral and political issues involved in this extraordinary clash...

A collection of essays on workers' efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to assert control over the processes of production in US. It describes the development of management techniques...

Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.

When C. Wright Mills published The New Men of Power in 1948, he thought labor leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were...

In a groundbreaking book that recasts the history of the Cold War, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan exposes, for the first time, the truth behind J. Robert Oppenheimer's 1954 trial...

This superb one-volume history--from early British colonization to the fall of President Nixon--captures all the vivid personalities and events as well as the broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Hugh...

At the beginning of the 18th century, America was a colonized land with European countries squabbling over its many natural resources. In 1754, the French-Indian War broke out as a...

This superb, fully illustrated reference offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on the identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics of some 400 separately identifiable peoples native to the...

In days of old a bard would have sung high ballads of the war hero, but here the task falls to the chief historian of the US Coast Guard. Browning...

Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) ranked among the most important generals who fought with Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. A brigade and corps commander, he played principal roles...

Jefferson Davis, captured, imprisoned, and charged with 1) conspiracy and culpability in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; 2) conspiracy to cause the deaths of Northern P.O.W.'s at Andersonville, Georgia, a...

When Union General George McClellan marched toward the Confederate capital of Richmond in 1862, he encountered the Warwick River -where it wasn't supposed to be.- McClellan was following a map...

A deep dive into how big business took over American politics, from the critically acclaimed author of Fantasyland NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER How an elite cabal rewrote the American dream...