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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
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One of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages...
Hopes and Prospects
A breath of optimism and hope from one of the world's most respected political commentators In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the threats and prospects of our early...
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of
"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in...
Three Days in January
The blockbuster #1 national bestseller, now updated with a new preface and postcript: Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of...
To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a
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New York Times Bestseller "This captivating portrayal of Teddy is Bret Baier's gift to us. From Roosevelt's resilience over tragedy to his heroism in war, from his midnight rambles as...
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife
'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Ethel sings...
The Longest Line on the Map
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From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world's longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic...
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA
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This illustrated pocket encyclopedia, which includes photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries, traces the history of the Indians from the voyage across the Bering Strait from Asia to...
Close to Shore
As the idle rich thronged the palatial hotels of the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1916, America was at its most self-confident. But the world's first industrial superpower was...
The Incas: Empire of Blood and Gold
When Francisco Pizarro landed in Peru in 1532 he found a vast empire seemingly overflowing with gold and silver. Ruled by monarchs claiming direct descent from the sun itself, its...
Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years
The book titled Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years by the author Philip B. Kunhardt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail
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The dramatic story of the first daredevil pilots of the U.S. Air Mail Service who risked their lives daily to map new aviation routes, which are still in use today,...
The Professional Soldier: A Social And Political Portrait
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of power, duty, and national identity stands the American military officer — and Morris Janowitz's...
A Curtain Of Ignorance: China: How America Is Deceived
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, when American public opinion on China was shaped almost entirely by...
Jackie Oh!: An Intimate Biography
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in American public life have captivated the imagination quite like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — First Lady, fashion icon, widow, and enigma —...
This Peculiar Colony
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the late eighteenth century, a ragged fleet of British ships deposited a cast of convicts, marines, and administrators onto the sun-scorched shores of...
A Life In Two Centuries
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markFew lives have intersected with the great upheavals of the twentieth century as dramatically as that of Bertram D. Wolfe...
Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, no betrayal shook the Western world quite like that of Klaus Fuchs — a brilliant German-born physicist who...
Behind The Urals: An American Worker In Russia's City Of Steel
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodIn the turbulent 1930s, a young American idealist named John Scott packed his bags and journeyed deep...
The Creative Present: Notes On Contemporary American Fiction
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt a pivotal moment in American literary culture, The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction assembles some of the sharpest critical...
Freedom And The Foundation: The Fund For The Republic In The Era Of Mccarthyism
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the shadow of America's most paranoid decade, Freedom and the Foundation: The Fund for the Republic in the Era of McCarthyism...
Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedOn the sweltering morning of August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew and Abby Borden were...
The Company She Kept: Mary Mccarthy Herself & Her Writing
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat happens when one brilliant literary mind turns its unflinching gaze upon another? The Company She Kept is a penetrating critical biography...
The Closed Corporation: American Universities In Crisis
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of America's cultural upheaval, investigative journalist James Ridgeway turned his unflinching gaze on the hallowed halls of higher education, exposing a...
Economic Backwardness In Historical Perspective
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Spine What separates the industrialized world from those left behind — and why does that gap prove...
Washington Plans An Aggressive War: A Documented Account Of The United States' Adventure In Indochina
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most unflinching indictments of American foreign policy ever committed to print, Washington Plans an...
War And Social Change In The Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study Of Britain, France, Germany, Russia And The United States
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. fep clipped. Few forces in modern history have reshaped the fabric of society as profoundly...
Naming Names
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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of America's Red Scare, Hollywood became a battleground where careers, friendships, and consciences were destroyed by a single act:...
New York Jew
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the vibrant, turbulent world of mid-twentieth-century New York, Alfred Kazin chronicles his life as a preeminent literary critic, writer, and intellectual in New...
This Is Our World
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedAt a pivotal moment in the mid-twentieth century, journalist and political analyst Louis Fischer cast a penetrating eye over the fractured landscape of global...
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography Of John Reed
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingHe was a Harvard-educated poet, war correspondent, and radical agitator who witnessed the birth of Soviet Russia and became the only American...
Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American In The Gulag
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn December 1948, a young American embassy clerk named Alexander Dolgun was snatched off the streets of Moscow by Soviet secret police,...
The Age Of The Democratic Revolution: A Political History Of Europe And America, 1760-1800: The Challenge
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Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of revolution and reform, R. R. Palmer's The Age of the Democratic Revolution:...
The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters And Diaries Of John Dos Passos
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacketA literary treasure trove...
Out Of Step: An Unquiet Life In The 20Th Century
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew intellectual lives of the twentieth century were as turbulent, courageous, or consequential as that of Sidney Hook — philosopher, pragmatist, and...
The Life Of Dashiell Hammett
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every hard-boiled detective story lies the man who invented the genre — and Diane Johnson's The Life of Dashiell Hammett is the definitive portrait...
Go Slow Now: Faulkner And The Race Question
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of one of America's most turbulent social debates stands William Faulkner, a literary giant whose complex and often contradictory pronouncements on race...
The Collapse Of The Third Republic: An Inquiry Into The Fall Of France In 1940
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Loose binding at FEP - pages still intact....
The Fifties: From Notebooks And Diaries Of The Period
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew American literary figures possessed the intellectual range and unflinching honesty of Edmund Wilson, and The Fifties stands as a remarkable testament to both...
The Forties: From Notebooks And Diaries Of The Period
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century possessed the penetrating intellect and restless curiosity of Edmund Wilson, and The Forties stands as a remarkable...
One Long Summer Day In Alaska: A Documentation Of Perspectives In The Wrangell Mountains
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, untamed wilderness of Alaska's Wrangell Mountains, where summer days stretch into an...
Visions Of History
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to write history from the margins — from the factory floor, the enslaved quarters,...
Collected Plays: With An Introduction
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew voices in American theatre have cut as deeply into the nation's conscience as Arthur Miller's, and Collected Plays...
The Celebrated Jumping Frog And Other Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFrom the pen of America's most beloved humorist comes a riotous collection that launched a literary legend —...
The Norton History Of Modern Europe
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the Renaissance to the age of revolutions, The Norton History of Modern Europe stands as a monumental collaborative chronicle of the...
Emerson: The Mind On Fire
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the crossroads of American intellectual life stands Ralph Waldo Emerson — poet, philosopher, and prophet — whose restless,...
The Making Of The Modern Family
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingWhat transformed the cold, utilitarian household of pre-modern Europe into the emotionally charged, child-centred sanctuary we recognise today? Edward Shorter's landmark work, The...
The Necessity For Choice: Prospects Of American Foreign Policy
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of the Cold War, when the free world stood at a crossroads between accommodation and...