John C Calhoun American Portrait
Houghton Mifflin Co. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Houghton Mifflin Co. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Simon & Schuster, November 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Scribner, April 1993. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Mountain Pr, July 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Sergeant Patrick Gass was one of the few members of the Lewis and Clark expedition to keep a continuous log of the entire epic journey. His simple and direct writing style, along with his emphasis on the daily activities of.....
University of Chicago Press, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this collection of his speeches, opinions, and letters, Richard Posner reveals the fullness of Holmes' achievements as.....
Cambridge University Press, August 1998. Hardcover. A very good copy with no dust jacket. A Cross of Iron provides the fullest account yet of the national security state that emerged in the first decade of the Cold War. Michael J. Hogan traces the process of state-making through struggles to unify.....
Simon & Schuster, October 2010. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. From the distinguished historian of Revolutionary-era America and author of the acclaimed American Scripture comes this fresh and surprising account of a pivotal moment in American history--the ratification of the Constitution. When the delegates.....
Little, Brown and Company, October 2011. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010) -- only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the.....
Knopf, February 2001. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Fifteen years after he became the first sitting Chief Justice to write a book about the United States Supreme Court, William H. Rehnquist has added new chapters and substantially revised his classic work. "The Supreme Court.....
W. W. Norton & Company, April 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Shares President Madison's account of the debates that shaped the Constitutional Convention as well as the U.S. Constitution.
Free Press, February 2002. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Richard Brookhiser has won a wide and loyal following for his stylish, pointed, and elegant biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. In "America's First Dynasty," Brookhiser tells the story of America's longest and still.....
W. W. Norton, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders--particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams--debated fiercely. Would a standing army be the thin end.....
Warner Books Inc, October 1989. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Simon & Schuster, May 2007. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. From the author Newsweek called the nations leading presidential historian comes an inspiring narrative chronicling the crucial moments when a courageous president has dramatically changed the future of the United States. of full-color photos.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the.....
NYU Press, May 1994. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The 1960s left us with some striking images of American universities: Berkeley activists orating about free speech atop a surrounded police car; Harvard SDSers waylaying then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; Columbia student radicals occupying campus buildings; and black militant Cornell.....
Viking Adult, September 2014. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he s famous for, celebrated biographer Paul Johnson offers a fascinating portrait of.....
Simon & Schuster, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his.....
Harcourt, Brace & Company. Trade Paperback. A very good copy with no dust jacket.
Simon & Schuster, January 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The stunning story of one of America's great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with.....
The Bancroft Company, 1915. Hardcover. 562 pages. 'An analytical review of the Century. All interested in the opening of the Panama canal, or in the development of California and the countries around the Pacific, or in civic purity and the prosperity of the United States will find this book of.....
Bloomsbury Press, October 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic. The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders.....
William Morrow, January 2003. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born.Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base.....
Smithsonian Books, October 2014. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The American Vice Presidency is an all-inclusive examination of the vice presidency throughout American history. Acclaimed political journalist and author Jules Witcover chronicles each of the 47 vice presidents, including their personal biographies and their.....