books tagged “u.s. history” (U.S. HISTORY)

books tagged “u.s. history”

›
› Find signed collectible books by ''

English

via
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Thomas Cooley

ISBN 0393966402 (0-393-96640-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
Book summary:
"One can read it at ten and then annually ever after, and each year find that it is as fresh as the year before, that it has changed only in becoming somewhat larger."--Lionel Trilling [via]
More editions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0393091465 (0-393-09146-5)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0393966402 (0-393-96640-2)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Sculley Bradley, Mark Twain, E. Hudson Long, Thomas Cooley, Richmond Croom Beatty

ISBN 0393044548 (0-393-04454-8)
Softcover, Norton

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
More editions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0393044548 (0-393-04454-8)
  Softcover, Norton
via
After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture
by Joseph J. Ellis

ISBN 0393322335 (0-393-32233-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture'
Book summary:
Through portraits of four figuresCharles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah WebsterJoseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations.
Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context. [via]
More editions of After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture:
America a Narrative History
by Tindall

ISBN 039396874X (0-393-96874-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'America a Narrative History'
More editions of America a Narrative History:
- America a Narrative History: ISBN 039396874X (0-393-96874-X)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
America: A Narrative History Single-volume
by David E. Shi, George Brown Tindall

ISBN 0393924262 (0-393-92426-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'America: A Narrative History Single-volume'
Book summary:
This work is the second of a two-volume set that presents a chronological, narrative history of America, with a blend of political, social, cultural and economic history. The fourth edition devotes more attention to the theme of the frontier in American history. [via]
More editions of America: A Narrative History Single-volume:
America: A Narrative History Single-volume
by George Brown Tindall

ISBN 0393953564 (0-393-95356-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'America: A Narrative History Single-volume'
Book summary:
A chronological history of American history which has been revised to emphasize immigration and its impact on the evolution of American society and culture. Biographical details of major political figures have been included, as well as a chapter on the Reagan and Bush presidencies. [via]
More editions of America: A Narrative History Single-volume:
America in Vietnam: A Documentary History
by Thomas McCormick, Lloyd Gardner, William Appleman Williams, W Lafeber

ISBN 0393305554 (0-393-30555-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'America in Vietnam: A Documentary History'
More editions of America in Vietnam: A Documentary History:
- America in Vietnam: A Documentary History: ISBN 0393305554 (0-393-30555-4)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
by George Herring

ISBN 0394345002 (0-394-34500-2)
Softcover, Knopf

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975'
Book summary:
Widely recognized as a major contribution to the study of American involvement in Vietnam, this comprehensive and balanced account analyzes the ultimate failure of the war, and the impact of the war on US foreign policy. The book seeks to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical perspective and to offer answers to vital questions. This new edition has been necessitated not only by the development in the field, but also by dramatic change in the world in the time since the last edition. [via]
More editions of America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975:
- America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975: ISBN 0394345002 (0-394-34500-2)
  Softcover, Knopf
American Violence: A Documentary History
by Michael Wallace, Richard Hofstadter

ISBN 0394414861 (0-394-41486-1)
Hardcover, Knopf

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'American Violence: A Documentary History'
More editions of American Violence: A Documentary History:
- American Violence: A Documentary History: ISBN 0394414861 (0-394-41486-1)
  Hardcover, Knopf
Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power
by Robert V. Remini

ISBN 0393097579 (0-393-09757-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power'
More editions of Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power:
- Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power: ISBN 0393097579 (0-393-09757-9)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn

ISBN 0393020398 (0-393-02039-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Huckleberry Finn'
Book summary:
A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
More editions of The Annotated Huckleberry Finn:
- The Annotated Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0393020398 (0-393-02039-8)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates, Hollis Robbins, Karen C.C. Dalton

ISBN 0393059464 (0-393-05946-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin'
Book summary:
Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel.
Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom's Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852, galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. The editors animate pre-Civil War life with rich insights into the lives of slaves, abolitionists, and the American reading public. Examining the lingering effects of the novel, they provide new insights into emerging race-relation, women's, gay, and gender issues. With reproductions of rare prints, posters, and photographs, this book is also one of the most thorough anthologies of Uncle Tom images up to the present day. [via]
More editions of The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin:
- The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin: ISBN 0393059464 (0-393-05946-4)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
Ar'N't I A Woman?
by Deborah White

ISBN 0393314812 (0-393-31481-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Ar'N't I A Woman?'
Book summary:
"This is one of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field. Professor White has done justice to the complexity of her subject."Anne Firor Scott, Duke University
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds. [via]
More editions of Ar'N't I A Woman?:
via
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin, Margo Culley

ISBN 0393960579 (0-393-96057-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'
Book summary:
242 pages, Dimensions: 8.3 x 5 x .5 inches [via]
More editions of The Awakening:
via
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion
by Peter H. Wood

ISBN 0393314820 (0-393-31482-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion'
Book summary:
A groundbreaking study of two cultures in early America.
Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. [via]
More editions of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion:
- Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion: ISBN 0393314820 (0-393-31482-0)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
The Boston Massacre
by Hiller B. Zobel

ISBN 0393314839 (0-393-31483-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boston Massacre'
Book summary:
Reissued in new paperback format and design Reissued in new paperback format and design.
[via]
More editions of The Boston Massacre:
- The Boston Massacre: ISBN 0393053768 (0-393-05376-8)
  Hardcover, W. W. Norton
- The Boston Massacre: ISBN 0393314839 (0-393-31483-9)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder
by Mark Crispin Miller

ISBN 0393322963 (0-393-32296-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder'
Book summary:
"They misunderestimated me."President George W. Bush
It seems like too easy a target, too cheap a laugh, but Mark Crispin Miller, with the deftly trenchant wit that always distinguishes his writing, uses the blunders and malapropisms of George W. Bush to make a larger point about the way in which we elect our presidents. Miller places Bush in the context of other notorious dunces-in-chief, and shows him indisputably in a league of his own. The book is a raucously funny ridewhether it's Bush envisioning "a foreign-handed foreign policy" or Miller skewering vociferous cultural conservatives like William Bennett and Lynne Cheney for their silence on Bush's particular "West Texas version of Ebonics"but there is also a strong undercurrent of outrage. Only because our elections have become so dependent on television and its emphatic emptiness, Miller argues, can a man of such sublime and complacent ignorance assume the highest office in the land. To quote Bush himself, "It's not the way America is all about." [via]
More editions of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder:
- The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder: ISBN 0393041832 (0-393-04183-2)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder: ISBN 0393322963 (0-393-32296-3)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
The Crucial Decade--And After: American 1945-1960
by Eric Frederick Goldman

ISBN 0394420888 (0-394-42088-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucial Decade--And After: American 1945-1960'
More editions of The Crucial Decade--And After: American 1945-1960:
- The Crucial Decade--And After: American 1945-1960: ISBN 0394420888 (0-394-42088-8)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc
via
Democracy in America
by Thomas Bender, Alexis De Tocqueville

ISBN 039432675X (0-394-32675-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'
Book summary:
Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
More editions of Democracy in America:
- Democracy in America: ISBN 039432675X (0-394-32675-X)
  Hardcover, Modern Library
Eleanor: The Years Alone
by Joseph P. Lash

ISBN 0393073610 (0-393-07361-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor: The Years Alone'
More editions of Eleanor: The Years Alone:
- Eleanor: The Years Alone: ISBN 0393073610 (0-393-07361-0)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Everybody Says Freedom
by Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan, Bob Reiser

ISBN 0393026469 (0-393-02646-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Everybody Says Freedom'
More editions of Everybody Says Freedom:
- Everybody Says Freedom: ISBN 0393026469 (0-393-02646-9)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
Everybody Says Freedom : The Civil Rights Movement in Words, Pictures and Song
by Pete Seeger, Robert S. Reiser

ISBN 0393306046 (0-393-30604-6)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Everybody Says Freedom : The Civil Rights Movement in Words, Pictures and Song'
Book summary:
Filled with beautiful music, glorious lyrics, and the soul of one of the most important historical and social revolutions of our history. Judy Collins
In words, photographs, and music, Pete Seeger and Bob Reiser tell the story of the civil rights movement, building their narrative around the accounts of people involved and the songs that inspired their struggle. It documents the sit-ins, freedom rides, and marches that occurred along the long path to triumph in an uncertain age.

This narrative scrapbook collects forty songs and includes profiles of activists and a chronological outline of the extraordinary events from 1955 to 1968. It is a story of courage and resilience on the part of ordinary people. From This Little Light of Mine to We Shall Overcome, the music of the time was both encouragement and catharsis for those who struggled against adversity in an effort to change the world.

79 photos [via]
More editions of Everybody Says Freedom : The Civil Rights Movement in Words, Pictures and Song:
- Everybody Says Freedom : The Civil Rights Movement in Words, Pictures and Song: ISBN 0393306046 (0-393-30604-6)
  Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
via
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans
by Alfred A. Moss, John Hope Franklin

ISBN 0394370139 (0-394-37013-9)
Softcover, Knopf

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans'
Book summary:
From Slavery to Freedom Text in great shape [via]
More editions of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans:
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans: ISBN 0394370139 (0-394-37013-9)
  Softcover, Knopf
via
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans
by John Hope Franklin

ISBN 0394322568 (0-394-32256-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans'
Book summary:
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN 5TH EDITION 1980 [via]
More editions of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans:
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans: ISBN 0394322568 (0-394-32256-8)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
via
Globalization and Its Discontents
by Joseph E. Stiglitz

ISBN 0393324397 (0-393-32439-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Globalization and Its Discontents'
Book summary:
Due to massive media coverage, many people are familiar with the controversy and organized resistance that globalization has generated around the world, yet explaining what globalization actually means in practice is a complicated task. For those wanting to learn more, this book is an excellent place to start. An experienced economist, Joseph Stiglitz had a brilliant career in academia before serving for four years on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors and then three years as chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. His book clearly explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization--the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization--along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. He strongly believes that globalization can be a positive force around the world, particularly for the poor, but only if the IMF, World Bank, and WTO dramatically alter the way they operate, beginning with increased transparency and a greater willingness to examine their own actions closely. Of his time at the World Bank, he writes, "Decisions were made on the basis of what seemed a curious blend of ideology and bad economics, dogma that sometimes seemed to be thinly veiling special interests.... Open, frank discussion was discouraged--there was no room for it." The book is not entirely critical, however: "Those who vilify globalization too often overlook its benefits," Stiglitz writes, explaining how globalization, along with foreign aid, has improved the living standards of millions around the world. With this clear and balanced book, Stiglitz has contributed significantly to the debate on this important topic. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
More editions of Globalization and Its Discontents:
- Globalization and Its Discontents: ISBN 0393051242 (0-393-05124-2)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Globalization and Its Discontents: ISBN 0393324397 (0-393-32439-7)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

ISBN 0394429869 (0-394-42986-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Book summary:
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
More editions of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: ISBN 0394429869 (0-394-42986-9)
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
via
The Jungle
by Upton Beall Sinclair, Clare Virginia Eby

ISBN 039397779X (0-393-97779-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'
Book summary:
The Jungle's influence has been extraordinary for a literary work. Upton Sinclair's 1906 landmark novel is widely credited with awakening the public fury that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), a watershed in consumer protection and government legislation.
This story of the immigrant experience in the harrowing Chicago stockyards has drawn comment from historians, policymakers, and literary critics, and it is a widely assigned teaching text. The novel is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations.

"Contexts and Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of The Jungle's disparate social, historical, political, and literary dimensions. Included are autobiographical selections by the author; contemporary perspectives on the meatpacking industry, including writings by Theodore Dreiser, Adolphe Smith, and J. Ogden Armour; and commentary on the living conditions of immigrant workers. Historical studies by Jimmy Skaggs, Rick Halpern, James Barrett, Robert M. Crunden, John Braeman, William Cronon, and Eric Schlosser address the central issues: slaughterhouse abuses, protectionism and The Beef Trust, muckraking, Progressivism, and consumer rights.

"Criticism" collects eight provocative readings of The Jungle as a literary text, as a historical document in its own right, as a contribution to Progressive-era muckraking, and as an important work in urban, economic, and labor history. Contributions include Jack London, Edward Clark Marsh, Winston Spencer Churchill, Walter Rideout, June Howard, Scott Derrick, Michael Brewster Folsom, and Christopher P. Wilson.

A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]
More editions of The Jungle:
- The Jungle: ISBN 039397779X (0-393-97779-X)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields
by Simon Louvish

ISBN 0393318400 (0-393-31840-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields'
More editions of Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields:
- Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields: ISBN 0393041271 (0-393-04127-1)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields: ISBN 0393318400 (0-393-31840-0)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States
by Melvin I. Urofsky

ISBN 0394374355 (0-394-37435-5)
Hardcover, Knopf

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States'
More editions of A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States:
- A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States: ISBN 0394374355 (0-394-37435-5)
  Hardcover, Knopf
via
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford

ISBN 0393972836 (0-393-97283-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'
Book summary:
In this adaptation of Melville's masterpiece, McCaughrean recounts the tale of the obsessed Captain Ahab, as he pursues the great white whale--a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea itself. 55 illustrations, 25 in color. [via]
More editions of Moby Dick:
Nixon's Shadow: The History Of An Image
by David Greenberg

ISBN 0393326160 (0-393-32616-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Nixon's Shadow: The History Of An Image'
More editions of Nixon's Shadow: The History Of An Image:
- Nixon's Shadow: The History Of An Image: ISBN 0393048969 (0-393-04896-9)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Nixon's Shadow: The History Of An Image: ISBN 0393326160 (0-393-32616-0)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
by Henry Louis Gates, Nellie Y. McKay

ISBN 0393040011 (0-393-04001-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of African American Literature'
Book summary:
A whopping 2,665 pages, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was 10 years in the making, and it proves to have been well worth the wait. Beginning with vernacular forms such as the spirituals and the blues, it encompasses the whole history of black writing from the poems of Phillis Wheatley to the work of contemporary writers such as Terri McMillan, Toni Morrison, and Charles Johnson. Each section includes an introductory essay, and there is a brief biographical essay for each writer. The anthology includes an audio CD containing recorded examples of many of the songs and speeches. [via]
More editions of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature:
- The Norton Anthology of African American Literature: ISBN 0393959082 (0-393-95908-2)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Norton Anthology of African American Literature: ISBN 0393040011 (0-393-04001-1)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647
by William Bradford

ISBN 0394326024 (0-394-32602-4)
Softcover, Modern Library

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647'
More editions of Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647:
- Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647: ISBN 0394326024 (0-394-32602-4)
  Softcover, Modern Library
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
by Timothy J. Naftali, Aleksandr Fursenko

ISBN 0393317900 (0-393-31790-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964'
Book summary:
The Berlin Wall has been rubble for a decade and the memories of the cold war are growing dim. And yet no one is ever likely to forget the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962, when the world stood on the brink of full-scale nuclear war as the Soviet Union and America locked horns off the coast of Florida. The Soviet navy set sail for Cuba loaded with nuclear warheads for their newly constructed missile bases, precipitating the crisis. After 10 days of high tension, the Soviet Union backed down and the warheads were sent back home. War was averted, but up until now, no one has ever been too certain just how close the world came to catastrophe. Kennedy was assassinated long before he could write his memoirs, Castro's lips are sealed, and the Soviet archives were a closed book.
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali have taken advantage of recent unrestricted access to Soviet records and performed painstaking detective work to fill the gaps in the historical record. Some of the tension of the narrative is lost, because we know the outcome; even so, they give penetrating insights as they reconstruct the drama step by step. We learn that the Kremlin did seriously consider launching a nuclear attack on the U.S.: the appropriate orders were discussed and Khrushchev spent the night of October 22 in his office so he could be on hand to cable his authorization. Some of the most interesting facts to emerge, however, are those concerning John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. JFK had always previously been portrayed as something of a parochial gung-ho type, but this, it emerges, was merely a public persona designed to appease the Pentagon hawks. At the same time JFK was talking about a Cuban invasion, he and his brother were engaging in a more secret policy of appeasement through the Soviet ambassador. Fortunately for all of us, diplomacy won the day. In recent years, JFK has been somewhat discredited as a leader for his unpleasant sexual carryings-on and corruption. It may just be that this view is as incomplete as his portrayal as the saintly "King of Camelot". If so, One Hell of a Gamble could be the first stage in his partial rehabilitation. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
More editions of One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964:
- One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: ISBN 0393040704 (0-393-04070-4)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: ISBN 0393317900 (0-393-31790-0)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
by Dean Acheson

ISBN 0393304124 (0-393-30412-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department'
Book summary:
Dean Acheson joined the U.S. Department of State in 1941 as an assistant secretary for economic affairs. Shortly after the end of World War II, he attempted to resign, but was persuaded to come back as under secretary of state; Harry Truman eventually rewarded Acheson's loyalty by picking him to run the State Department during his second term (1949 to 1953).
"The period covered in this book was one of great obscurity to those who lived through it," Acheson wrote at the beginning of his memoirs, first published in 1969. "The period was marked by the disappearance of world powers and empires ... and from this wreckage emerged a multiplicity of states, most of them new, all of them largely underdeveloped politically and economically. Overshadowing all loomed two dangers to all--the Soviet Union's new-found power and expansive imperialism, and the development of nuclear weapons." Present at the Creation is a densely detailed account of Acheson's diplomatic career, delineated in intricately eloquent prose. Going over the origins of the cold war--the drawing of lines among the superpowers in Europe, the conflict in Korea--Acheson discusses how he and his colleagues came to realize "that the whole world structure and order that we had inherited from the nineteenth century was gone," and that the old methods of foreign policy would no longer apply. Among the accolades Acheson garnered for his candid self-assessment was the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for history. [via]
More editions of Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department:
- Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department: ISBN 039307448X (0-393-07448-X)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department: ISBN 0393304124 (0-393-30412-4)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
by Mark Twain, Sidney E. Berger

ISBN 0393925358 (0-393-92535-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins'
Book summary:
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain's most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America. This Norton Critical Edition remains the only edition available that is based on completely re-edited texts, accounting for all versions that Twain might have written or influenced. All substantive variants in the two separate "first editions," one printed in Britain and the other in the United States, have been reconciled in this collated edition, with all rejected variants tabulated. Dozens of additional illustrations accompany the text, and all textual variants, accepted or rejected, are included. "Criticism" includes twenty-three reviews and interpretive essays, eight of them new to the Second Edition, including those by Andrew Jay Hoffman, Myra Jehlen, and John Carlos Rowe. A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]
More editions of Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins:
- Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins: ISBN 0393950271 (0-393-95027-1)
  Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins: ISBN 0393925358 (0-393-92535-8)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane

ISBN 0393319547 (0-393-31954-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'
Book summary:
First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by me under fire. Ernest Hemingway called the novel an American classic, and Crane's genius is as much apparent in his sharp, colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episode of war so intense, so immediate, so real that the terror of battle becomes our own ... in a masterpiece so unique that many believe modern American fiction began with Stephen Crane.
"The Red Badge Of Courage" has long been considered the first great 'modern' novel of war by an American--the first novel of literary distinction to present war without heroics and this in a spirit of total irony and skepticism." -- Alfred Kazin [via]
More editions of The Red Badge of Courage:
The Red Badge of Courage
by Sculley Bradley, Stephen Crane, E. Hudson Long, Donald Pizer, Richmond Croom Beatty

ISBN 0393044351 (0-393-04435-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'
Book summary:
Stephen Crane's classic work [via]
More editions of The Red Badge of Courage:
- The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0393091821 (0-393-09182-1)
  Hardcover, Norton
- The Red Badge of Courage: ISBN 0393044351 (0-393-04435-1)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes
by Christopher Hibbert

ISBN 0393322939 (0-393-32293-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes'
Book summary:
Historian Hibbert corrects many fallacies that exist in the history of the American Revolution and portrays the realities of a war in which the British rarely lost a battle until the French helped the rebels defeat Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. Captures the flavor, energy, and language of the period with colorful anecdotes and quotations. 16 pages of illustrations and maps. [via]
More editions of Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes:
- Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes: ISBN 039302895X (0-393-02895-X)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes: ISBN 0393322939 (0-393-32293-9)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
by Sean Wilentz

ISBN 0393329216 (0-393-32921-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln'
Book summary:
Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental&a tour de force&awesome in its coverage of political events."Gordon Wood, New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. Ferocious clashes among the Founders over the role of ordinary citizens in a government of "we, the people" were eventually resolved in the triumph of Andrew Jackson. Thereafter, Sean Wilentz shows, a fateful division arose between two starkly opposed democraciesa division contained until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its bloody resolution. Winner of the Bancroft Award, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005 and best book of New York magazine and The Economist. [via]
More editions of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln:
- The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln: ISBN 0393058204 (0-393-05820-4)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln: ISBN 0393329216 (0-393-32921-6)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
by James Oakes

ISBN 0393317056 (0-393-31705-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders'
Book summary:
"A sweeping and spirited history of Southern slaveholders."David Herbert Donald
This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they were committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. The Civil War was not an inevitable conflict between civilizations on different paths but the crack-up of a single system, the result of people and events. [via]
More editions of Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders:
- Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders: ISBN 0393317056 (0-393-31705-6)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.s.navy
by Ian W. Toll

ISBN 0393058476 (0-393-05847-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.s.navy'
More editions of Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.s.navy:
- Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.s.navy: ISBN 0393058476 (0-393-05847-6)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920
by George Frost Kennan

ISBN 0393302148 (0-393-30214-8)
Softcover, Norton

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920'
Book summary:
In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable storythe arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of Czechoslovak troops in central Siberia which threatened to overturn the Bolsheviks, the acquisitive ambitions of the Japanese in Manchuria, and finally the decision by President Wilson to intervene with American troops. Of this period Kennan writes, "Never, surely, in the history of American diplomacy, has so much been paid for so little."
[via]
More editions of Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920:
- Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920: ISBN 0393302172 (0-393-30217-2)
  Softcover, Norton
- Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920: ISBN 0393302148 (0-393-30214-8)
  Softcover, Norton
via
Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877-1919
by Nell Irvin Painter

ISBN 0393305880 (0-393-30588-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877-1919'
Book summary:
Winner of the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Prize.
[via]
More editions of Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877-1919:
- Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877-1919: ISBN 0393024059 (0-393-02405-9)
  Hardcover, W.W. Norton
- Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877-1919: ISBN 0393305880 (0-393-30588-0)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression
by Spencer Overton

ISBN 0393061590 (0-393-06159-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression'
More editions of Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression:
- Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression: ISBN 0393061590 (0-393-06159-0)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
The Story of American Freedom
by Eric Foner

ISBN 0393319628 (0-393-31962-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of American Freedom'
Book summary:
Freedom, Eric Foner writes, is "the oldest of clichés and the most modern of aspirations." But what does it mean to be free? For the people of the United States, the concept of "freedom"--and its counterpart, "liberty"--have had widely differing meanings over the centuries. The Story of American Freedom, therefore, "is not a mythic saga with a predetermined beginning and conclusion, but an open-ended history of accomplishment and failure, a record of a people forever contending about the crucial ideas of their political culture."
Foner begins with the colonial era, when the Puritans believed that liberty was rooted in voluntary submission to God and civil authorities, and consisted only in the right to do good. John Locke, too, would argue that liberty did not consist of the lack of restraint, but of "a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power." Foner reveals the ideological conflicts that lay at the heart of the American Revolution and the Civil War, the shifts in thought about what freedom is and to whom it should apply. Adeptly charting the major trends of 20th-century American politics--including the invocation of freedom as a call to arms in both world wars--Foner concludes by contrasting the two prevalent movements of the 1990s: the liberal articulation of freedom, grounded in Johnson's Great Society and the rhetoric of the New Left, as the provision of civil rights and economic opportunity for all citizens, and the conservative vision, perhaps most fully realized during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, of a free-market economy and decentralized political power. The Story of American Freedom is a sweeping synthesis, delivered in clearheaded language that makes the ongoing nature of the American dream accessible to all readers. --Ron Hogan [via]
More editions of The Story of American Freedom:
- The Story of American Freedom: ISBN 0393046656 (0-393-04665-6)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- The Story of American Freedom: ISBN 0393319628 (0-393-31962-8)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
by Noel Riley Fitch

ISBN 0393302318 (0-393-30231-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties'
More editions of Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties:
- Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties: ISBN 0393017133 (0-393-01713-3)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties: ISBN 0393302318 (0-393-30231-8)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
The Time of Illusion
by Jonathan Schell

ISBN 0394402243 (0-394-40224-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time of Illusion'
More editions of The Time of Illusion:
- The Time of Illusion: ISBN 0394402243 (0-394-40224-3)
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
via
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
by Stanley L. Engerman, Robert William Fogel

ISBN 0393312186 (0-393-31218-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery'
Book summary:
First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).
In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.
[via]
More editions of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery:
- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery: ISBN 0393306208 (0-393-30620-8)
  Hardcover, Norton
- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery: ISBN 0393312186 (0-393-31218-6)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons

ISBN 0393963039 (0-393-96303-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'
Book summary:
In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.
It was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had a far-reaching impact and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America. The Norton Critical Edition text is that of the 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston; original illustrations are included. Annotations are provided to assist the reader with obscure historical terms and biblical allusions. Backgrounds and Contexts includes a wealth of historical material relevant to slavery and abolitionism. Among the documents presented are Josiah Henson's 1849 slave narrative (named by Stowe as one of the sources for the novel); Solomon Northup's eyewitness account of an 1841 slave auction; Harriet Jacobs's narrative of her life as a fifteen-year-old slave; two epistolary accounts by ex-slave and abolitionist William Wells Brown, which document events in Uncle Tom's Cabin; two crucial excerpts from Stowe's Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin " which provide the real-life basis for characters and events in the novel; and accounts of Tom-Shows and the anti-Uncle Tom literature that sprang up in response to the novel's publication. Illustrative material includes slave advertisements, runaway slave posters, and illustrations for the first British edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Britain's premier illustrator, George Cruikshank, as well as popular illustrations from American editions of the novel. Criticism is arranged under two headings. "Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reception" includes critiques by George Sand, William G. Allen and Ethiop (both from Frederick Douglass' Paper), George F. Holmes, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others. Twentieth-Century Criticism collects five of the best critical assessments of the novel's continuing impact on American society. With the exception of James Baldwin's groundbreaking essay, "Everybody's Protest Novel," the critical essays date from the years 1985 to 1992. Jane P. Tompkins investigates why the text was excluded from the canon for most of the twentieth century. Robert S. Levine provides an overview of the text's popular reception and influence since publication, including current critical schools and critics. Hortense J. Spillers takes a textual/linguistic view in her comparison between Stowe and Ishmael Reed as "impression points in the literary imagination of slavery." And Christina Zwarg traces the influence Stowe's feminism had on her treatment of fatherhood and its effect on the home. A Chronology of Stowe's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]
More editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: ISBN 0393963039 (0-393-96303-9)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal And the Making of a Great Nation
by Peter L. Bernstein

ISBN 0393327957 (0-393-32795-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal And the Making of a Great Nation'
Book summary:
Begun in 1817 and completed in 1825, the Erie Canal stretches 363 miles across upstate New York from Buffalo on Lake Erie to Albany on the Hudson River. A stunning achievement, the canal was hacked through a densely forested pass in the Appalachian Mountains using only axes, shovels, low-grade explosive power, beasts of burden, and some ingenious devices. The engineers and workers created locks, bypassed rapids and waterfalls, and adjusted to countless changes in elevation. When the canal was completed it became one of the wonders of the world. But the canal was much more than a spectacular construction project; it also served to bind a young United States to itself and the rest of the world in one bold stroke. In this thoroughly absorbing book, Peter Bernstein describes in vivid detail how the Erie Canal helped to shape the United States into a great nation by connecting the eastern seaboard and western expanses of America, as well as propel the Industrial Revolution and stimulate global trade, economics, and immigration. It was so important to the development of the U.S., argues Bernstein, that without the canal the detached western territories "would in all likelihood have broken away" and created another, if not several, separate countries. Manifest Destiny would have been denied.
In telling this gripping tale, the author offers a brief history of canals through the ages, explains the foresight exhibited by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson regarding the need for a waterway to the west, and outlines the political wars, financing challenges, and seemingly endless delays and false starts to the project. He also reveals much about the political landscape of early America through his profiles of the personalities and visionaries who devoted their lives to the project, along with the engineers and surveyors, most of whom had little experience designing or constructing a canal of any kind, much less such a massive undertaking. Wedding of the Waters succeeds brilliantly in bringing this rich story to life. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
More editions of Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal And the Making of a Great Nation:
- Wedding of the Waters : The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation: ISBN 0393052338 (0-393-05233-8)
  Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
- Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal And the Making of a Great Nation: ISBN 0393327957 (0-393-32795-7)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth-century America
by Ira Katznelson

ISBN 0393052133 (0-393-05213-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth-century America'
Book summary:
A study on the lesser-known origins of affirmative action argues that key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were purposefully discriminatory, revealing how Southern democrats widened the gap between black and white Americans through specific restrictions in social security, the GI bill, and landmark labor [via]
More editions of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth-century America:
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth-century America: ISBN 0393052133 (0-393-05213-3)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
via
Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature
by Hampton Sides, Jason Schneider

ISBN 0393321509 (0-393-32150-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature'
Book summary:
Join longtime Outside editor and contributor Hampton Sides as he rollicks through the fascinating, quirky questions readers ask about the world around them.
Do beavers ever get squashed by the trees they're gnawing down? Why are there so many worms writhing on the sidewalk after a storm? What good are goosebumps? Why do llamas spit? What is the oldest living creature on earth? Focusing on natural history and outdoor lore, this collection ranges from the gothic to the comic to the cosmic. It includes the sorts of questions that most of us stopped asking (at least out loud) when we were eight years old. "The Wild File" is what question-and-answer columns should be but seldom are: an often surprising, sometimes zany, always insightful and informative back-and-forth between a devoted readership and its publication. The result is an enchanting and enriching collection of answers that open windows to more questions.
60 black and white illustrations [via]
More editions of Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature:
- Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature: ISBN 0393321509 (0-393-32150-9)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

French

via
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Phillips Bradley

ISBN 0394421868 (0-394-42186-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'
Book summary:
Volume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley.

From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
More editions of Democracy in America:
- Democracy in America: ISBN 0394421868 (0-394-42186-8)
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 NEXT