Plume, October 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The mass market edition of the New York Times Bestseller. This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation.....
Penguin Books, September 2012. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). - A New Republic Best Book of the Year - The Globalist Top Books of the Year - Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction - Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election.....
University of New Mexico Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. Third printing. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The quarter-century of Mexican sovereignty over the land that is today the American Southwest was a period of turmoil and transition. Between 1821 and 1846, Mexico City's ties to the far northern frontier were steadily.....
Scribner, June 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before.....
The University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). A gently used copy. In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged.....
Truth to Power, June 2021. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Thought-provoking--a must read for [everyone] seeking a firm grasp of accurate American history. --Kirkus (starred review) Brilliant, readable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West.....
Doubleday, November 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent. "Gripping...Brands' writing style.....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
Liveright, May 2017. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and.....
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, March 2017. Trade Paperback. First paperback edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Winner of the SHEAR Book Prize Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award "Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully." --Ari Kelman, Times.....
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, August 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Audacious...Life on the Mississippi sparkles." --The Wall Street Journal * "A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch * "Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about.....
Puck, 1881. Print. Lithograph print, 11 x 18.5 inches, on sheet 13.4 x 20 inches. Double-fold color lithograph. Print shows President Arthur as King, with his cape carried by Gould and Vanderbilt, with Jones behind him and with Conklin, Platt, Dorsey and Brady to Arthur's left and Grant to his.....
Puck, 1881. Print. Lithograph print, 11.25 x 18.5 inches, on sheet 13.5 x 20 inches. Double-fold color lithograph. Print shows Charles J. Guiteau at a road sign pointing in four directions labeled 'To the Gallows, To Judge Lynch, To the Lunatic Asylum, [and] To Suicide'; he is confronted by three.....
Puck, 1882. Print. Lithograph print, 11.25 x 18.5 inches, on sheet 13.4 x 20 inches. Double-fold color lithograph. Cartoon showing Chester Arthur and cabinet members, wearing nightcaps, sleeping around table, on which are papers, 'no ill-will to anyone,' 'we need no Navy,' 'Indians provided for till summer,' etc. with painting.....
Puck, 1881. Print. Lithograph print, 11.4 x 18.5 inches, on sheet 13.5 x 20 inches. Double-fold lithoraph print in color. Print shows Puck sitting on a wooden cut-out Pegasus reviewing a procession of soldiers, among whom are John A. Logan, Roscoe Conkling carrying a flag labeled 'Third Term', Joseph W......
Puck, 1881. Print. Lithograph print, 11.25 x 18.5 inches, on sheet 13.5 x 20 inches. Double-fold lithograph in color. Shows President Chester A. Arthur seated with members of his cabinet, as James G, Blaine, Secretary of State under the late President Garfield, having been replaced by Arthur, departs on the.....
Puck, 1881. Print. Lithograph print, 11.4 x 18.6 inches, on sheet 13.4 x 20 inches. Double-fold lithograph in color. Shows the late James A. Garfield's cabinet looking at Chester Arthur. On wall behind are portraits of Johnson, Fillmore and Tyler, each with label, third, second and first failure. First edition.....
Puck, 1881. Print. Print, 11.25 x 18.5 inches, on sheet 13.5 x 20 inches. Double-fold lithograph print in color. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy. Previously folded in half.
Puck, 1881. Print. Print, 11.3 x18.6 inches, on sheet 13.4 x 20 inches. Double-page lithograph in color. Highlighting the scandal over pensions for the wounded soldiers who fought in the Civil War and their widows. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy previously folded in half. Closed 1 inch.....
Puck, [1881]. Print. Print, 11.5 x 18.5 inches on sheet, 13.4 x 19.75 inches. Double-panel lithograph in color with portrait of Garfield uncovered by drape to right with scenes from his life in background. 8, 4-line stanza poem below. First edition (first printing). Very good copy previously folded with water.....
United Citizens for Nixon-Agnew, 1968. Ephemera. 6-3/4 by 6-3/4 inches, with speech excerpt text printed on verso. Issued as suitable for mailing with stamp and address area. Near fine playable record. Previous owner's note of '1968 campaign' on verso. Postally unused.
Howell-North Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 229 pages. The author lived and worked in Tonopah, Bodie, and other Nevada and California mining camps and knew them well for nearly five decades since then. A very good copy; no dust jacket.
Vintage, October 2011. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize-winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who.....
Bridge House Books, January 2001. Trade Paperback.
Liveright, May 2018. Trade Paperback. Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William Julius.....