Simon & Schuster, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians. Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional.....
Vintage, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his.....
Horizon Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 285 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with light toning to spine.
Oxford University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 292 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine with review slip tipped in to front paste-down endpaper; in a near fine dust jacket with some toning. For decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest.....
Verso Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 479 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. With publisher's prosppectus and press release laid in.
Anchor, May 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as skilled as Anderson." --The New York Times Book Review A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE.....
Simon & Schuster, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May.....
Random House, 1952. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 128 pages. 4 page foreword by Steinbeck. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in photographically llustrated orange wappers (paperback). Covers mildly soiled with slight fading.
Liveright, May 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of.....
John M. Carroll, 1978. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 28 pages. Garlington was assigned to the 7th U.S. Cavalry and participated in several Indian Wars Campaigns and was the first historian of the history of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, having published a brief history in 1895. Signed by the editor. Limited.....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2015. Trade Paperback. THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future. -Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn's A People's History.....
Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 22 pages. Reprinted form The North American Review for October, 1867. 'The condition of the civil service of the United States is deplorable.' - opening sentence of the report. First edition thus. A near fine copy in orange wrappers (paperback). Slight.....
Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 238 pages. On 'the fateful relationship between the Cuban exiles of Miami and the larger body politic of the United States' -- from the front flap. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 162 pages. The first published collection of tributes to the late U. S. President. With contributions from E. B. White, Herb Caen, Norman Mailer and others. Illustrated. First edition (first printing). A fine copy; no dust jacket. In the publisher's slipcase with toned.....
Beacon Press, August 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen.....
New Press, The, July 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. First published ten years ago, award-winning historian Ray Raphael's Founding Myths has since established itself as a landmark of historical myth-busting. With Raphael's trademark wit and flair, Founding Myths exposed the errors and inventions in America's most cherished tales, from.....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2010. Trade Paperback. A classic since its original landmark publicationin 1980, Howard Zinn s A People sHistory of the United States is the firstscholarly work to tell America s story from thebottom up from the point of view of, and inthe words of, America s......
Weidenfeld And Nicolson, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. Describes the 1967 anti-war march on the Pentagon during which Mailer was arrested for civil disobedience. First British edition (first printing). A very good copy in a......
The New American Library, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. On the 1967 anti-war march on the Pentagon during which Mailer was arrested for civil disobedience. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a......
The Heritage Press, 1962. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two volume boxed set. Illustrated with water colors and drawings by Carl Bodmer and others. First edition thus. Near fine copies decorated paper over boards and gray cloth covers in very good slipcases.
Simon & Schuster, October 2019. Trade Paperback. Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)--a dazzling love letter to a beloved insti.
The McCall Publishing. Co, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 981 pages. With contributions from Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Timothy Leary, Gore Vidal, William Styron, Tom Wolfe and others. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a price clipped dust jacket.
Penguin Books, June 2019. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously.--The New York Times Book Review The thrilling.....
Simon & Schuster, May 2020. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal)--the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to.....
Ivan Deach, Jr., 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 210 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in red pebbled cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Mild scuffs to edges and corners. No dust jacket.