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Abraham Lincolnby Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'AulaireISBN 0440406900 (0-440-40690-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abraham Lincoln'Book summary:From his humble beginnings in the Kentucky wilderness to the peak of his career as President, this picture biography brings Lincoln to life for first-time readers. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0439099404 (0-439-09940-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0451526538 (0-451-52653-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0486400778 (0-486-40077-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0448405601 (0-448-40560-1)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0425122417 (0-425-12241-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0440900301 (0-440-90030-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0448110024 (0-448-11002-4)
Softcover, Price Stern Sloan - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0451523555 (0-451-52355-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0448032643 (0-448-03264-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0439099404 (0-439-09940-4)
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0451526538 (0-451-52653-8)
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The Amen Cornerby James BaldwinISBN 0440206626 (0-440-20662-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amen Corner'Book summary:One of James Baldwin's two plays produced on Broadway, The Amen Corner pulses with the music and energy of America's black church and bristles with the pain and anger of racial injustice. Ties in to the February mass market release of James Baldwin: Artist on Fire. HC: Doubleday. [via]
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America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956-1980by Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 0446375594 (0-446-37559-4)
Hardcover, Warner Books
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America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, 1956-1980by Theodore H. WhiteISBN 0446370983 (0-446-37098-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The American Heritage Short History of the Civil Warby Bruce CattonISBN 0440301238 (0-440-30123-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Eraby E. Anthony RotundoISBN 0465001696 (0-465-00169-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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American Notes and Pictures from Italy: For General Circulationby Charles Dickens, Leonee Ormond, Marcus Stone, Samuel PalmerISBN 0460876856 (0-460-87685-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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"Pictures from Italy" is a colourful account of a tour made in 1844.
This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860s. [via]
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Andersonvilleby MacKinlay KantorISBN 0452269563 (0-452-26956-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Battle--The Story of the Bulgeby John TolandISBN 0452007747 (0-452-00774-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Battles and Leaders of the Civil Warby Ned BradfordISBN 0452010047 (0-452-01004-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Calico Bushby Rachel FieldISBN 0440403685 (0-440-40368-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Chesapeakeby James A. MichenerISBN 0449211584 (0-449-21158-4)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Brilliantly written."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Once again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America's great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times. [via]More editions of Chesapeake:
The Civil War: A Historyby Harry Hansen, Gary Gallagher, Richard S. WheelerISBN 0451528492 (0-451-52849-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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"A fact-based review of the battles and leaders of the eighteen sixties...The political and historical background make the military action meaningful." (New York Times Book Review) [via]More editions of The Civil War: A History:
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Compact History of the Civil Warby R. Ernest Dupuy, Trevor N. DupuyISBN 0446394327 (0-446-39432-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Compact History of the Civil War'Book summary:Two of America's most esteemed military historians present a concise, fascinating one-volume encyclopedia of the Civil War which covers all the important aspects of the War from the brilliant campaigns and strategies to the mistakes that cost the South the war. Includes portraits of the great leaders. [via]
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Manby John PerkinsISBN 0452287081 (0-452-28708-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man'Book summary:John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Think John Le Carré, except it's a true story.
Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies, perhaps that's not surprising considering the life he's led. --Alex Roslin [via]
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Crime and Punishment in American Historyby Lawrence M. FriedmanISBN 0465014879 (0-465-01487-9)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectationsby Christopher LaschISBN 0446974951 (0-446-97495-1)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc
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The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History, 1775+1864by John GraftonISBN 0486411249 (0-486-41124-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Deerslayerby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0451524845 (0-451-52484-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'Book summary:In this final volume in the Leatherstocking saga, the Indian-raised Deerslayer has become a man of courage and moral certainty-and he emerges from tribal warfare with nobility as pure and proud as the wilderness whose fierce beauty and freedom have claimed his heart. [via]
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Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the Africanby Olaudah Equiano, Paul Geoffrey EdwardsISBN 0435906003 (0-435-90600-3)
Softcover, Heinemann
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A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Warsby Robert LeckieISBN 0471390208 (0-471-39020-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars'Book summary:Historian Robert Leckie is renowned for his combative prose and pugnacious opinions concerning the major triumphs and tragedies of the U.S. armed forces, and fans will not be disappointed in A Few Acres of Snow, in which he tackles Britain's conquest of North America. Beginning with Europe's first contact with the Americas, Leckie lays a solid geopolitical foundation for his discussion of the various conflicts that tore across Canada and the northern American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. Leckie betrays his Francophilia with extensive court gossip and decadent anecdotes of the European elite; the most detailed accounts of colonialism concern New France and the efforts of its military governors, traders, and priests to wrest order from a landscape imperiled by Iroquois attackers, British invaders, and, perhaps most fatally, corruption from within the governing body itself. (In his concluding chapter on Montcalm's defeat on the Fields of Abraham, Leckie speculates that Quebec's governor, Vaudreuil, might have deliberately sabotaged his nation's defenses out of monetary self-interest.)
A Few Acres of Snow also rejects recent scholarship on the French-Indian Wars by Richard White and Robert Merrill, which has revised traditional Native American roles from that of bloodthirsty savages to active participants in the Northwest Territory's political economy. Leckie's account often reads like a cantankerous, politically incorrect throwback to an era of historical writing where the Iroquois spent most of their time torturing Jesuits and roasting babies while the European civilizations, corrupt and flawed as they were, ultimately claimed an unruly empire. --John M. Anderson [via]
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The Fire Next Timeby James BaldwinISBN 0440325420 (0-440-32542-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Fires of Jubileeby Stephen B. OatesISBN 0451623088 (0-451-62308-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumterby W.A. SwanbergISBN 0452010977 (0-452-01097-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slumby Tyler AnbinderISBN 0452283612 (0-452-28361-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum'Book summary:All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. It housed America's most impoverished immigrants-the Irish, Jews, Germans, Italians, and African-Americans. Located in today's Chinatown and Little Italy, Five Points played host to more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But it was also crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, prizefighting venues, and political arenas that would one day dominate the national scene. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points horrified and enthralled everyone who saw it.
Drawing from letters, diaries, newspapers, bank records, police reports, and archeological digs, award-winning historian Tyler Anbinder has written the first history of this remarkable neighborhood. Beginning with the Irish potato famine influx in 1840 and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early 20th century, the story of Five Points serves as a microcosm of the American immigrant experience. [via]More editions of Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum:
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Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officersby Joseph T. GlatthaarISBN 0452010683 (0-452-01068-3)
Softcover, E P Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers'Book summary:The definitive work on one of the least explored aspects of Civil War history--the 180,000 enlisted African-Americans who fought for the Union. "One of the most revealing contributions to the literature of the Civil War . . . fascinating."--New York Times. [via]
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Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusementsby David NasawISBN 0465026540 (0-465-02654-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Leftby Maurice IssermanISBN 0465031978 (0-465-03197-8)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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If You Lived When There Was Slavery in Americaby Pamela Johnson, Anne KammaISBN 0439567068 (0-439-56706-8)
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The Illusion of Victory: America in World War Iby Thomas FlemingISBN 0465024696 (0-465-02469-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I'Book summary:The political history of the American experience in World War I is a story of conflict and bungled intentions that begins in an era dedicated to progressive social reform and ends in the Red Scare and Prohibition. Thomas Fleming tells this story through the complex figure of Woodrow Wilson, the contradictory president who wept after declaring war, devastated because he knew it would destroy the tolerance of the American people, but who then suppressed freedom of speech and used propaganda to excite America into a Hun-hating mob. This is tragic history: inexperienced American military leaders drove their troops into gruesome slaughters; progressive politics were put on hold in America; an idealistic president's dreams were crushed because of his own negligence. Wilson's inability to convince Congress to ratify U.S. membership in the League of Nations was one of the most poignant failures in the history of the American presidency, but even more heartrending were Wilson's concessions to his bitter allies in the Treaty of Versailles. In exchange for Allied support of the League of Nations, he allowed an unfair peace treaty to be signed, a treaty that played no small role in the rise of National Socialism and the outbreak of World War II. Thomas Fleming has once again created a masterpiece of narrative American history. This incomparable portrait shows how Wilson sacrificed his noble vision to megalomania and single-mindedness, while paying homage to him as a visionary whose honorable spirit continues to influence Western politics.[via]More editions of The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I:
In Search of Historyby Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 0446346578 (0-446-34657-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Jefferson Bible: The Life And Morals of Jesus of Nazarethby Thomas JeffersonISBN 0486449211 (0-486-44921-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriotby Harlow Giles UngerISBN 0471332097 (0-471-33209-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The Africanby Olaudah EquainoISBN 048640661X (0-486-40661-X)
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Lincolnby Gore VidalISBN 0434830771 (0-434-83077-1)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln'Book summary:Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, including personal secretary John Hay and scheming cabinet members William Seward and Salmon P. Chase, as well as his wife, Mary Todd. It is a book monumental in scope that never loses sight of the intimate and personal in its depiction of the power struggles that accompanied Lincoln's efforts to preserve the Union at all costs--efforts in which the eradication of slavery was far from the president's main objective. As usual, there's plenty of room for Vidal's wickedly humorous deflation of American icons, including a comic interlude in a Washington bordello in which Lincoln's former law partner informs Hay that Lincoln had contracted syphilis as a young man and had, just before marrying Mary Todd, suffered what can only be described as a nervous breakdown. (Protestors should note that Vidal is only passing along what that former partner had written in his own biography of Lincoln.) Don't be intimidated by the size of Lincoln; if you like historical fiction, you should read this book at the first opportunity. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Lindberghby A. Scott BergISBN 0425170411 (0-425-17041-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Living My Lifeby Emma GoldmanISBN 0486225437 (0-486-22543-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living My Life'Book summary:Forget all those New Left memoirs: for readers who want to know what it is to be a revolutionary in America, this is the book to read. At the turn of the 20th century, Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was probably the most hated woman in her adopted country. (She emigrated from Russia at age 17.) It was bad enough that she was an anarchist, accused of complicity in the 1901 assassination of President McKinley. But her vehement espousal of women's rights--including birth control--really enraged upright citizens. Goldman's marvelously militant autobiography gives ample evidence of her gift for bearing a grudge and inability to mince words--she decries fellow leftists at least as often as the bourgeoisie, especially after she is deported to the Soviet Union in 1919 and discovers that the Bolshevik Revolution is not what she hoped for. But Goldman's blazing honesty and unflinching commitment to unpopular causes make her a larger-than-life heroine. She does display the occasional human weakness, including a lengthy romance with a man whose infidelities torment this advocate of free love, but they're less interesting than her heroic challenge to America to live up to its ideals. Whether or not she was literally a bomb thrower remains a matter of debate. For posterity, her words are incendiary enough. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Living U. S. Constitutionby Saul K. Padover, Jacob W. LandynskiISBN 0452011477 (0-452-01147-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Living U.S. Constitutionby Jacob W. Landynski, Saul K. Padover, United States ConstitutionISBN 0451621743 (0-451-62174-3)
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Looking Backwardby Edward BellamyISBN 0451527631 (0-451-52763-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward Bellamy, Erich FrommISBN 0451524128 (0-451-52412-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward, 2000-1887'Book summary:Originally published in 1888, Looking Backward is Edward Bellamy's most famous work. The story revolves around Julian West, a man who falls asleep near the end of the 19th century and wakes up in the year 2000. During the time he slept, the United States became a socialist utopia. The majority of the book is a vehicle for Bellamy to expound upon his ideas about societal improvement. Americans in his year 2000 work fewer hours, retire early, and receive all they need from the government. Entertaining and oddly prophetic in some ways, Bellamy's vision of the future from the perspective of the late 19th century is highly engaging. American author EDWARD BELLAMY (1850-1898) also wrote Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880), Equality (1897), and The Duke of Stockbridge (1900). [via]
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Making of the President, 1964by Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 045161190X (0-451-61190-X)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Elizabeth RenkerISBN 0451526996 (0-451-52699-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:[via]A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul. A literary classic first published in 1851, Moby-Dick represents the ultimate human struggle.More editions of Moby Dick:
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Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Moby Dick: ISBN 0460871625 (0-460-87162-5)
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Moby-Dick, Or, The White Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 0451524551 (0-451-52455-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby-Dick, Or, The White Whale'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Mr. Revere and Iby Robert LawsonISBN 0440458978 (0-440-45897-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Museum Of Early American Toolsby Eric SloaneISBN 0486425606 (0-486-42560-6)
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The New Dealers' War: FDR & the War Within World War IIby Thomas FlemingISBN 0465024653 (0-465-02465-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Dealers' War: FDR & the War Within World War II'Book summary:Always fiercely contested on matters of domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt faced even more opposition when it came to international relations. His first two terms in office coincided with the rise of a powerful isolationist movement that urged the government not to involve itself in foreign entanglements. That movement, coupled with strongly anti-British sentiment that owed much to America's large Irish and German populations, hampered Roosevelt's efforts to set the nation on the side of England when it became apparent in the late 1930s that a European war loomed.
To placate his opposition, Thomas Fleming charges in The New Dealers' War, Roosevelt promised "that he would never send American soldiers to fight beyond America's shores." Yet, Fleming continues, on December 4, 1941, the Chicago Tribune revealed the existence of elaborate war plans involving the landing of an American force 5 million strong in Europe by 1943. The revelation gave isolationists fits, of course, but their criticism was effectively silenced three days later when a Japanese force attacked Hawaii. In declaring war on Japan and its allies, Roosevelt's New Deal administration imposed what Fleming considers to have been an unreasonable demand for the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. That demand, he believes, compromised internal resistance to the enemy regimes. Its prosecution also legitimized the use of what Fleming calls "hateful tactics" such as the bombing of civilian targets and the use of nuclear weapons.
Fleming's revisionist study will be of greatest interest to those already inclined to the view that Franklin Roosevelt tricked his country into fighting Fascism. Other readers may take issue with his ad hominem, ideological arguments. Either way, his provocative thesis is sure to promote debate. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Northwest Passageby Kenneth RobertsISBN 0449213838 (0-449-21383-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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October 1964by David HalberstamISBN 0449983676 (0-449-98367-6)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'October 1964'Book summary:Heroes have a habit of growing larger over time, as do the arenas in which they excelled. The 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals was coated in myth from the get-go. The Yankees represented the establishment: white, powerful, and seemingly invincible. The victorious Cards, on the other hand, were baseball's rebellious future: angry and defiant, black, and challenging. Their seven-game barnburner, played out against a backdrop of an America emerging from the Kennedy assassination, escalating the war in Vietnam, and struggling with civil rights, marked a turning point--neither the nation, nor baseball, would ever be quite so innocent again. Halberstam, one of the great reporters of the '60s, looks back in this marvelous and spirited elegy to the era, the game, and players such as Mantle, Maris, Ford, Gibson, Brock, and Flood with a clear eye in search of the truth that time has blurred into legend. His confident prose, diligent reporting, and deft analysis make it clear how much more interesting--and forceful--the truth can be. [via]
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Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership from FDR to Carterby Richard E. NeustadtISBN 0471059889 (0-471-05988-9)
Hardcover, Wiley
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Rabble in Armsby Kenneth Lewis RobertsISBN 0449244261 (0-449-24426-1)
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Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 0440840007 (0-440-84000-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah, Plain and Tall'Book summary:MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. The children fear that she will not stay, and when she goes off to town alone, young Caleb--whose mother died during childbirth--is stricken with the fear that she has gone for good. But she returns with colored pencils to illustrate for them the beauty of Maine, and to explain that, though she misses her home, "the truth of it is I would miss you more." The tale gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. [via]
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Scarlettby Alexandra RipleyISBN 0446363251 (0-446-36325-1)
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Scarlett Pt. B: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Windby Alexandra RipleyISBN 0446517186 (0-446-51718-6)
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The Seasons Of America Pastby Eric SloaneISBN 0486442209 (0-486-44220-9)
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The Sherwood Ringby Elizabeth Marie PopeISBN 0441761119 (0-441-76111-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sherwood Ring'Book summary:Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her familys ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British scholar, then leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of mysteriesand ghosts. Soon Peggy becomes involved with the spirits of her own Colonial ancestors and witnesses the unfolding of a centuries-old romance against a backdrop of spies and intrigue and of battles plotted and foiled. History has never been so excitingespecially because the ghosts are leading Peggy to a romance of her own![via]More editions of The Sherwood Ring:
Sixty Miles from Contentment: Traveling the Nineteenth-Century American Interiorby M. H. DunlopISBN 0465033652 (0-465-03365-2)
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The Story of D-Dayby R. Conrad Stein, Tom DunningtonISBN 0516046098 (0-516-04609-8)
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The Story of the Battle of the Bulgeby R. Conrad SteinISBN 051604608X (0-516-04608-X)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0446310786 (0-446-31078-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Tom Sawyer: Library Editionby Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486291561 (0-486-29156-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Sawyer: Library Edition'Book summary:Specially abridged version of the beloved classic about a mischievous but well-meaning young lad who barely avoids calamity as he bounds along from one adventure to another. Memorable cast of characters includes Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, Huck Finn, Injun Joe, and others. 31 black-and-white illustrations. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Tom Sawyer: Library Edition:
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Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry DanaISBN 0451527593 (0-451-52759-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrativeby Richard Henry DanaISBN 0486458024 (0-486-45802-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative'Book summary:In 1834, a Harvard student enlisted as a common seaman--the result was this adventure classic. Crackling with realism, it offers memorable views of a dangerous voyage, vividly describing storms, whales, an insane captain, excruciating hardships, and magical beauty, as well as fascinating historical detail, including a portrait of California before the gold rush.[via]More editions of Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative:
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Walden And Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Miller, Perry (AFT), W.S. MerwinISBN 0451529456 (0-451-52945-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musingsas well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil libertyhave inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.
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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"by Henry David ThoreauISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
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Washington's Godby Michael Novak, Jana NovakISBN 046505126X (0-465-05126-X)
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Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Countryby Michael Novak, Jana NovakISBN 0465051278 (0-465-05127-8)
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trapby Stephanie CoontzISBN 0465090974 (0-465-09097-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap'Book summary:Did you ever wonder about the historical accuracy of those "traditional family values" touted in the heated arguments that insist our cultural ills can be remedied by their return? Of course, myth is rooted in fact, and certain phenomena of the 1950s generated the Ozzie and Harriet icon. The decade proved profamily--the birthrate rose dramatically; social problems that nag--gangs, drugs, violence--weren't even on the horizon. Affluence had become almost a right; the middle class was growing. "In fact," writes Coontz, "the 'traditional' family of the 1950s was a qualitatively new phenomenon. At the end of the 1940s, all the trends characterizing the rest of the twentieth century suddenly reversed themselves." This clear-eyed, bracing, and exhaustively researched study of American families and the nostalgia trap proves--beyond the shadow of a doubt--that Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary.
Gender, too, is always on Coontz's mind. In the third chapter ("My Mother Was a Saint"), she offers an analysis of the contradictions and chasms inherent in the "traditional" division of labor. She reveals, next, how rarely the family exhibited economic and emotional self-reliance, suggesting that the shift from community to nuclear family was not healthy. Coontz combines a clear prose style with bold assertions, backed up by an astonishing fleet of researched, myth-skewing facts. The 88 pages of endnotes dramatize both her commitment to and deep knowledge of the subject. Brilliant, beautifully organized, iconoclastic, and (relentlessly) informative The Way We Never Were breathes fresh air into a too often suffocatingly "hot" and agenda-sullied subject. In the penultimate chapter, for example, a crisp reframing of the myth of black-family collapse leads to a reinterpretation of the "family crisis" in general, putting it in the larger context of social, economic, and political ills.
The book began in response to the urgent questions about the family crisis posed her by nonacademic audiences. Attempting neither to defend "tradition" in the era of family collapse, nor to liberate society from its constraints, Coontz instead cuts through the kind of sentimental, ahistorical thinking that has created unrealistic expectations of the ideal family. "I show how these myths distort the diverse experiences of other groups in America," Coontz writes, "and argue that they don't even describe most white, middle-class families accurately." The bold truth of history after all is that "there is no one family form that has ever protected people from poverty or social disruption, and no traditional arrangement that provides a workable model for how we might organize family relations in the modern world."
Some of America's most precious myths are not only precarious, but down right perverted, and we would be fools to ignore Stephanie Coontz's clarion call. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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