Davy Crockett's Almanack, 1837
Huntington Library & Art Gallery, 1971. Trade Paperback.
Huntington Library & Art Gallery, 1971. Trade Paperback.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1912. Trade Paperback.
William D. Tichnor and Company, 1845. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 104 pages. Very good in printed wrappers (paperback). Covers darkened. Small edge chips. Closed tear of lower 5 inches of rear cover at spine edge.
J. Lewis, 1746. Pamphlet. 32 pages. Prince's sermon celebrates the capture of Louisbourg in 1745 by New England forces under the command of William Pepperell. It is dedicated to William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts, who was largely responsible for the formulation and promotion of the daring colonial expedition. Fifth edition.....
Pony Express History & Art Gallery, 1964. Hardcover.
Duke University Press, 1929. Hardcover. 250 pages.
Riverhead Books, September 2009. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the "exhilarating"( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, "a founding father long forgotten"(Newsweek) and a brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion.....
Arthur H. Clark Company, 1966. Hardcover. 328 pages; folding map. The eventful life of the man perhaps known by book collectors as the author of the Zamorano 80 title, Report of the Debates in the Convention of California.
Simon & Schuster, May 2009. Hardcover. By the author of The Summer of 1787, the bestselling and highly acclaimed account of the writing of the constitution, a dramatic re-creation of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, which became the central battle of the struggle over how to reunite a nation.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2019. Trade Paperback. Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore's one-volume history of America places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests.....
Mariner Books, August 2001. Trade Paperback. A landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (New York Times) In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in.....
PublicAffairs, July 2009. Trade Paperback. It is in the Middle East that the U.S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The history of the U.S. in the Middle East, then, becomes an especially revealing mirror on America's.....
artulano, January 2018. Unknown.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2014. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK Selected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book A Washington Post Best Political Book A New Republic Best Book.....
Penguin Press, May 2012. Hardcover. "A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missions" For a crucial period, Henry Crumpton led the CIA's global covert operations against America's terrorist enemies.....
Hanover Square Press, May 2019. Trade Paperback. Look for Dan Abrams and David Fisher's new book, Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.Instant New York Times bestseller!A Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln AwardA Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2018A Suspense Magazine Best Book of.....
Simon & Schuster, 1992. Trade Paperback. 315 pages. The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom"--by tracing its first birth to the.....
Picador, October 2001. Trade Paperback. In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza--a word that meant "big chief." The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His.....
Grand Central Publishing, June 2014. Trade Paperback. Read the bestselling book that inspired the ABC television series. As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. They.....
Liveright, April 2016. Hardcover. Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure--a riddle--a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom and equality, even as he held people--including his own family--in bondage, Jefferson is variably.....
Oxford University Press, December 2005. Hardcover. Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was born in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of 21. After several years of poverty, he found work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Appalled by the conditions.....
Penguin Press HC, The, May 2015. Hardcover. Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men--President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross--who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood.....
University Press of Kansas, June 2015. Trade Paperback. As "Savior of the Union" and the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for his courage, wisdom, and moral fiber. Yet Frederick Douglass's assertion that Lincoln was the "white man's president" has been used by some detractors as proof of his.....
Oxford University Press, February 2017. Hardcover. In 1912, a group of ambitious young men, including future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and future journalistic giant Walter Lippmann, became disillusioned by the sluggish progress of change in the Taft Administration. The individuals started to band together informally, joined initially by their.....
Harvard University Press, March 2012. Hardcover. Writing in "Life" magazine in February 1941, Henry Luce memorably announced the arrival of The American Century. The phrase caught on, as did the belief that America s moment was at hand. Yet as Andrew J. Bacevich makes clear, that century has now ended.....