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A Nation Rising
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"History in Davis's hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent--and memorable." -- San Francisco Chronicle Following on his New York Times bestsellers America's Hidden History and Don't Know Much About...
The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad The Loss of El Dorado exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of...
Little Gloria... Happy At Last
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Author: Barbara GoldsmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book chronicles the life of a prominent figure, detailing her journey through significant personal and societal...
Twenty-Five Best Plays Of The Modern American Theatre: Early Series
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Author: John GassnerBinding: HardbackPublished: Crown Publishers, 1963Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a curated collection of twenty-five significant plays from the modern American theatre. This...
American Primitive Painting
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Author: Jean LipmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, London, 1942Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents a comprehensive study of American primitive painting, showcasing the...
Mary Curzon: The Story Of The Heiress From Chicago Who Married Lord Curzon Viceroy Of India
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Author: Nigel NicolsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row, 1977Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book chronicles the life of Mary Curzon, an American heiress from Chicago. She embarked...
Advise And Consent
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Author: Allen DruryBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1960Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAllen Drury's seminal novel plunges readers into the intricate world of Washington D.C. A controversial presidential nomination...
The New World Of The Gothic Fox: Culture And Economy In English And Spanish America
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Author: Claudio VélizBinding: HardbackPublished: University of California Press, 1994Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic work examines the intricate relationship between cultural development and economic structures across...
Harvest
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Author: Belva PlainBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing, London, 1990Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis novel follows the fortunes of the Werner family, German Jewish immigrants in New York....
Jeffersonian Legacies
On the occasion of Thomas Jefferson's 250th birthday, a number of today's leading historicans take a fresh look at our third president, architect of democracy for his time and still...
The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
The story of Fray Servando's life in exile recounst the adventures of one of the most original ideologues of Latin American independence. On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando preached a...
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire
Examines every aspect of government, attending a political convention, the presidential election and inauguration, Congress, the Supreme Court and a small town meeting in New Hampshire. He examines the budget,...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent' The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with hope' Zadie Smith We are living in the...
A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada
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In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Metis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance...
Alistair Cooke's America
First published in 1973, this follow-up to Alistair Cooke's acclaimed 1972 television documentary series America: A Personal History of the United States has sold almost two million copies. From the...
My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the
As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief...
Lessons from an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life
A lifelong Emerson lover, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that...
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly
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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to...
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A...
I've Been to the Mountaintop
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. On April 3, 1968, Dr....
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey-featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van...
On the Trail of Lewis and Clark: Yesterday and Today
Follow in the footsteps of the famed explorers, from Washington DC to Washington state It has been 200 years since their epic trek across Western America, yet Lewis and Clark...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered...
Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American
This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author...
Gadsden: The First 100 Years
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Author: Jules FeldmannBinding: HardbackPublished: J. Gadsden Australia Ltd., Melbourne, May, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical account chronicles the evolution of Gadsden over its formative...
The Broadview Book Of Canadian Anecdotes
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Author: Douglas FetherlingBinding: HardbackPublished: Broadview Press, 1988Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a collection of anecdotes that offer insights into Canadian history and culture....
A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains
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Author: Isabella L. BirdBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1988Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains recounts the travels and experiences of...
Specimen Days In America
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Author: Walt Whitman; Gavin Ewart (introduction by)Binding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents a collection of observations and reflections. The author...
They Came In The Brilliant: A History Of The Melaurin, Memeekin And Paton Families
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Author: J. O. RandellBinding: HardbackPublished: Brown Prior Anderson, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the history of the McLaurin, McMeekin, and Paton families. It traces...
Colonial Ladies
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Author: Maggie WeidenhoferBinding: HardbackPublished: Currey O'Neil Melbourne, 1985Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a collection of stories and insights into the lives of women during...
Our God Is Marching On
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At the end of the march...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
Gettysburg in Color: Volume 2: The Peach Orchard to Falling Waters
This book is a collection of color images that tells the story of the battle revealing an entirely new way of seeing and experiencing the high-water mark of the Civil...
Monica's Untold Story: An Amorality Tale
"For Vanity Fair, I'll pose like Monroe the beauty who fell so far and so low As for me, I can handle the fame and the glamour Make the damn...
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture
Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally happened about 1860....
Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876
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Out of the Wilderness: The LIFE of ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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Through The Children's Gate: A Home in New York
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The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II
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Going Rogue: An American Life
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Capote: A Biography
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Author: Gerald ClarkeBinding: SoftbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, New York - BOMC, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography provides a comprehensive look into the life of Truman...
Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate (SIGNED)
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Author: Eli N. EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: Free Press, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionJudah P. Benjamin served as the Confederacy's Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary...
The American Jury
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Author: Harry Kalven, Jr., And Hans ZeiselBinding: HardbackPublished: The Legal Classics Library, 1993Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis special edition of the book examines the American...
Simple Justice
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Author: Richard KlugerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Legal Classics Library, 1994Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis special edition tells of a pivotal moment in American legal history. It...
Jew or Juif? Jews, French Canadians and Anglo-Canadians, 1759-1914
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Author: Michael BrownBinding: HardbackPublished: Jewish Pubn Society, 1987Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the intricate relationships between Jews, French Canadians, and Anglo-Canadians from 1759 to...
Tyntyndyer: A Pioneering Homestead And Its Families (SIGNED)
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Author: Alice M. CeruttyBinding: HardbackPublished: Lowden, 1977Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book tells the story of Tyntynder, a pioneering homestead, and the families who lived...
Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy-An Illustrated History
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Author: Dan Van Der VatBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen & Unwin / Madison Press Books, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis illustrated history delves into the events of Pearl Harbor,...
The Making Of The President 1972
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Author: Theodore H. WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, London, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into the intricacies of the 1972 presidential election, offering...