| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “United States”
books tagged “United States”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
American Architecture and Urbanismby Vincent Joseph ScullyISBN 0805008136 (0-8050-0813-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Architecture and Urbanism'More editions of American Architecture and Urbanism:
-
An American Dreamby Norman MailerISBN 0805003495 (0-8050-0349-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Dream'Book summary:Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of his existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a fashionable New York high-rise, and it is urging him to kill himself. It is almost as a defense against that infinitely seductive voice that Rojack murders his wife.
In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner's Song. As Rojack runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. Sensual, horrifying, and informed by a vision that is one part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go. [via]More editions of An American Dream:
-
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943by Rick AtkinsonISBN 0805062882 (0-8050-6288-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943'Book summary:In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the "Axis ... forever lost the initiative" and the "fable of 3rd Reich invincibility was dissolved." Additionally, it forestalled a premature and potentially disastrous cross-channel invasion of France and served as a grueling "testing ground" for an as-yet inexperienced American army. Lastly, by relegating Great Britain to what Atkinson calls the status of "junior partner" in the war effort, North Africa marked the beginning of American geopolitical hegemony. Although his prose is occasionally overwrought, Atkinson's account is a superior one, an agile, well-informed mix of informed strategic overview and intimate battlefield-and-barracks anecdotes. (Tobacco-starved soldiers took to smoking cigarettes made of toilet paper and eucalyptus leaves.) Especially interesting are Atkinson's straightforward accounts of the many "feuds, tiffs and spats" among British and American commanders, politicians, and strategists and his honest assessments of their--and their soldiers'--performance and behavior, for better and for worse. This is an engrossing, extremely accessible account of a grim and too-often overlooked military campaign. --H. O'Billovich [via]
More editions of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943:
The Biology of Doom: The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Projectby Ed RegisISBN 0805057641 (0-8050-5764-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Biology of Doom: The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project'More editions of The Biology of Doom: The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project:
-
Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependencyby Michael T. KlareISBN 0805073132 (0-8050-7313-2)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency'Book summary:From the author of Resource Wars, a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America's actions abroad[via]
In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer.
Since September 11th and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement.
With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.More editions of Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency:
Blue Frontier : Saving America's Living Seasby David HelvargISBN 0805071350 (0-8050-7135-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Frontier : Saving America's Living Seas'More editions of Blue Frontier : Saving America's Living Seas:
-
Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Beforeby Tony HorwitzISBN 0805065415 (0-8050-6541-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before'Book summary:Captain James Cook's three epic 18th-century explorations of the Pacific Ocean were the last of their kind, literally completing the map of the world. Yet despite his monumental discoveries, principally in the South Pacific, Cook the man has remained an enigma. In retracing key legs of the circumnavigator's journey, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the cultural and environmental havoc wrought by the captain's opening of the unspoiled Pacific to the West, as well as the alternately indifferent and passionate reactions Cook's name evokes during the writer's journeys through Polynesia, Australia, the Aleutians, and the explorer's native England. Horwitz skillfully weaves a biography and travel narrative with warm humor that is natural and human-scale, and his restless inquisitiveness quickly infects the reader. While striking dichotomies abound throughout that journey--Maori toughs who adopt Nazi imagery to symbolize their own fight against white domination, millennia-old Polynesian sexual mores that would shame the Reeperbahn, a sense that Christianity decimated native cultures at least as effectively as Western venereal diseases did--few are more poignant than the ones that abound in Cook's own life. This fine work is an adventurous reminder that answers to historical riddles are elusive at best--and seldom as compelling as the myriad new questions they pose. --Jerry McCulley [via]
More editions of Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before:
Celebration, U.S.A: Living in Disney's Brave New Townby Douglas Frantz, Catherine CollinsISBN 0805055614 (0-8050-5561-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Celebration, U.S.A: Living in Disney's Brave New Town'More editions of Celebration, U.S.A: Living in Disney's Brave New Town:
The Cold War: A Historyby Martin WalkerISBN 0805034544 (0-8050-3454-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cold War: A History'More editions of The Cold War: A History:
-
Crossing Over : A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trailby Ruben Martinez, Joseph RodriguezISBN 0805049088 (0-8050-4908-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossing Over : A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail'Book summary:Not since Ted Conover's Coyotes has a book revealed the underground culture of illegal immigration from Mexico as well as Crossing Over by Rubén Martínez. This up-and-coming author writes of what he calls "a Mexican Manifest Destiny" that continually pierces the southern borderline of the United States--a "line [that] is still more an idea than a reality." Martínez begins with the awful story of the three Chávez brothers, all killed when a truck carrying them and some two dozen other illegal aliens tried to outrace border patrol agents and flipped. Martínez learns of their fate and travels to their peasant hometown in southern Mexico to distil the motives of migrants. Then he follows the rest of the family north as they fan into the United States. Crossing Over is written in the first person and is highly anecdotal, but Martínez constantly makes observations that break free from these narrow confines. "Mexicans have always had an uncanny instinct for finding the soft spots of the American labor economy," he notes at one point, explaining how it is that millions of poor people who barely speak English can thrive, in their way, north of the border. Crossing Over is an outstanding book, and required reading for anyone interested in Hispanics and the new America. --John Miller [via]
More editions of Crossing Over : A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail:
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneerby John MacK FaragherISBN 0805030077 (0-8050-3007-7)
Softcover, Owlet
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer'Book summary:The legend of the American frontier is largely the legend of a single individual, Daniel Boone, who looms over our folklore like a giant. Boone figures in other traditions as well: Goethe held him up as the model of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "natural man," and Lord Byron devoted several stanzas of his epic poem Don Juan to the frontiersman, calling Boone "happiest of mortals any where." But folklore is not history, and we are fortunate to have a reliable and factual life of Boone through the considerable efforts of John Mack Faragher. The contradictory admirer of Indians who participated in their destruction, the slaveholder who cherished liberty, the devoted family man who prized solitude and would disappear into the woods for years at a time--the real Boone is far more interesting than the mythical image, and in this book we finally catch sight of him. [via]
More editions of Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer:
-
Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hillby Richard M. KetchumISBN 0805060995 (0-8050-6099-5)
Softcover, Owl Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill'Book summary:On the morning of June 17, 1775, British troops moved to secure the heights around Boston. Marching up an incline called Breed's Hill, they engaged a battered gathering of farmers and tradesmen who, the night before, had hastily constructed a defensive wall within range of the Royal Navy's artillery. Richard M. Ketchum tells the story of the ensuing fight in his breathtaking Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill.
Ketchum explores what made that bloody, but relatively small, action decisive by probing the deteriorating relationships between New England and Britain during the months before the battle. He forcefully argues that both the British and American commanders were still seeking ways to make peace even as the guns began to fire. After June 17, 1775, the Americans and the British could view each other only as enemies.
The author of two other books on the Revolutionary War (Saratoga and The Winter Soldiers), Ketchum has written an authoritative history of how Americans--especially the rank-and-file soldiers--won their nation through combat. In Decisive Day he argues that the remarkable transformation of American rebels into soldiers was a crucial, if intangible, episode within the battle. Indeed, as those tired and shell-shocked colonials waited on their ramparts for some of the most disciplined fighters in the world, they did not shoot haphazardly, but held their fire until they saw the whites of British eyes. --James Highfill [via]
More editions of Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill:
Dwight D. Eisenhowerby Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Tom WickerISBN 0805069070 (0-8050-6907-0)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dwight D. Eisenhower'More editions of Dwight D. Eisenhower:
The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of Public Relationsby Larry TyeISBN 0805067892 (0-8050-6789-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of Public Relations'More editions of The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of Public Relations:
-
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularismby Susan JacobyISBN 0805074422 (0-8050-7442-2)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism'Book summary:An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination (The New York Times)[via]
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason.
In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby paints a striking portrait of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth centurys civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who, allied with liberal and tolerant religious believers, have stood at the forefront of the battle for reforms opposed by reactionary forces in the past and today.
Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Clarence Darrowas well as once-famous secularists such as Robert Green Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic Freethinkers restores to history generations of dedicated humanists. It is they, Jacoby shows, who have led the struggle to uphold the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system.More editions of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism:
-
"G" Is for Gumshoeby Sue GraftonISBN 0805004610 (0-8050-0461-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: '"G" Is for Gumshoe'Book summary:"G" is for Gumshoe is:[via]
A rich, complex, and gripping tale in which Kinsey's grit is tested to its utmost as she unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "G" is for guilt and guile, for greed and grief and the Grim Reaper. And "G" is for good: very, very good indeed.More editions of "G" Is for Gumshoe:
The Game of their Livesby Geoffrey DouglasISBN 0805038752 (0-8050-3875-2)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Game of their Lives'More editions of The Game of their Lives:
Gay Marriage : Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for Americaby Jonathan RauchISBN 0805076336 (0-8050-7633-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gay Marriage : Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America'More editions of Gay Marriage : Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America:
-
George Washingtonby Willard S. RandallISBN 0805027793 (0-8050-2779-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'George Washington'Book summary:To most people George Washington is a mysterious icon, the man on the dollar who we know about mostly because of mythical exploits. This substantial biography of the first American president succeeds in portraying Washington as a man with a keen mind and sharp temper who overcame great adversity. In particular, George Washington is valuable for its telling of the story of Washington's early life. How the frontier surveyor took to a military career, failed at it, and eventually redeemed himself as a great leader of the American Revolution is an engrossing story that may be surprising to many who think they know about Washington, but mostly know just the myths. [via]
More editions of George Washington:
George Washington : A Lifeby Willard S. RandallISBN 080505992X (0-8050-5992-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'George Washington : A Life'More editions of George Washington : A Life:
George Washington, 1789-1797by James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn, Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0805069364 (0-8050-6936-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'George Washington, 1789-1797'More editions of George Washington, 1789-1797:
-
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Storiesby Robert Olen ButlerISBN 0805019863 (0-8050-1986-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories'Book summary:The Vietnam War continues to play itself out in fiction, autobiography, and history books, but no American author has captured the experiences of the Vietnamese themselves--and caught their voices--more tellingly than Robert Olen Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain. The 15 stories collected here, all written in the first person, blend Vietnamese folklore, the terrible, lingering memories of war, American pop culture and family drama. Butler's literary ventriloquism, as he mines the experiences of a people with a great literary tradition of their own, is uncanny; but his talents as a writer of universal truths is what makes this a collection for the ages. [via]
More editions of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories:
-
A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of Americaby Stacy SchiffISBN 0805066330 (0-8050-6633-0)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America'Book summary:Benjamin Franklin began the "the most taxing assignment of his life" at the age of 70: to secure the aid of the French monarchy in helping the fledgling United States establish their republic. The job required tremendous skill, finesse, and discretion, and as Stacy Schiff makes clear in this brilliant book, Franklin was the ideal American, perhaps the only one, to take on the task, due in large part to his considerable personal prestige. One of the most famous men in the world when he landed in France in December 1776, his arrival caused a sensation--he was celebrated as a man of genius, a successor to Newton and Galileo, and treated as a great dignitary, even though the nation he represented was less than a year old and there were many doubts as to whether it would see its second birthday. Though he had no formal diplomatic training and spoke only rudimentary French, Franklin managed to engineer the Franco-American alliance of 1778 and the peace treaty of 1783, effectively inventing American foreign policy as he went along, in addition to serving as chief diplomat, banker, and director of American naval affairs.
Franklin recognized and accepted the fact that French aid was crucial to American independence, but some Founding Fathers resented him for making America dependent on a foreign power and severely attacked him for securing the very aid that saved the cause. Schiff offers fascinating coverage of this American infighting, along with the complex political intrigue in France, complete with British spies and French double agents, secret negotiations and backroom deals. A Great Improvisation is an entertaining and illuminating portrait of Franklin's seven-year adventure in France that "stands not only as his greatest service to his country but the most revealing of the man." --Shawn Carkonen [via]
More editions of A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America:
Grover Cleveland: The American Presidentsby Henry F. Graff, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069232 (0-8050-6923-2)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents'More editions of Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents:
Historical Atlas of New York Cityby Eric Homberger, Alice Hudson, Cartographic Consultant StaffISBN 0805026495 (0-8050-2649-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Historical Atlas of New York City'Book summary:Eric Homberger's The Historical Atlas of New York City shows what can be achieved within a very narrow frame of discussion. With just one city to depict, Homberger explores the rich variety of details in the city's 400-year history with vivid drawings and illustrations as well as beautifully rendered maps. The atlas takes on the geologic history of New York, major eras (Indian, Dutch, and British), and the formative 19th century, as well as the consolidation of Greater New York, neighborhood histories of Coney Island and Greenwich Village, and the Big Apple exploits of 1945 through 1996. But there's room for the small stuff, too, such as the political and cultural role of New York's taverns in the late 1700s. --Stephanie Gold [via]
More editions of Historical Atlas of New York City:
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Cultureby Kathy PeissISBN 0805055517 (0-8050-5551-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture'More editions of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture:
-
I Thought My Father Was God : And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Projectby Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler, National Story Project StaffISBN 0805067140 (0-8050-6714-0)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'I Thought My Father Was God : And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project'Book summary:When the call went out to listeners of National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered to submit stories about their personal experiences, the results were overwhelming. I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project contains editor Paul Auster's pick of the best submissions. The stories, whether fact or fiction, all exhibit a heartfelt earnestness to be heard, and share similar themes of bizarre coincidences, otherworldly intervention, love and loss, life-changing experiences, and mundane pleasures. Some are deeply moving, most are not. But it is uplifting and well worth the time to sift through these brief snapshots of our collective human experience.
To give the book shape, Auster has done his best to categorize the material by subject, such as Animals, Families, War, Love, Dreams, and the like. These categories hold true to the submission criteria: "[I was most interested in] stories that defied our expectations about the world, anecdotes that revealed the mysterious and unknowable forces at work in our lives, in our family histories, in our minds and bodies, in our souls.... I was hoping to put together ... a museum of American reality." I Thought My Father Was God is a testament that, despite what on a bad day we may think is a drab existence, we all have a few good stories in us. --Michael Ferch [via]
More editions of I Thought My Father Was God : And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project:
I'm Ok, You're My Parents: How to Overcome Guilt, Let Go of Anger, and Create a Relationship That Worksby Dale Atkins, Nancy HassISBN 0805073531 (0-8050-7353-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'I'm Ok, You're My Parents: How to Overcome Guilt, Let Go of Anger, and Create a Relationship That Works'More editions of I'm Ok, You're My Parents: How to Overcome Guilt, Let Go of Anger, and Create a Relationship That Works:
-
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combatby Rick AtkinsonISBN 0805075615 (0-8050-7561-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat'Book summary:The advent of embedded reporters in the opening days of the 2003 US war on Iraq meant a more direct and personal point of view than battlefield coverage has historically offered. Rick Atkinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for An Army at Dawn, an account of combat in North Africa during World War II, traveled with the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army from its deployment out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky through its entry into Baghdad. The result, In the Company of Soldiers, is a thoroughly engrossing look at the strategies, personalities, and struggles of waging modern warfare. Much of Atkinson's focus falls on the division's leader, the hugely competitive and charismatic Major General David Petraeus, who seems to guide his troops through Iraq by sheer force of will. Atkinson devotes most of his time to the senior commanders, but the loss of the G.I. perspective, while disappointing, is outweighed by Atkinson's access to the minds of the brass who must navigate an Iraq whose citizens were not nearly as happy as military planners had hoped and who offered resistance in ways other than what the Americans had prepared for. While plenty has been written about the American military effort in Iraq, Atkinson's perspective, combined with a direct, economical writing style, allows him to present sides to the war not often seen or considered: long periods of waiting punctuated with mad scrambles to apply gas masks, fretting over how to pack all necessary supplies into tiny kits, dealing with dust storms that can ground state of the art attack helicopters, and reading the irreverent yet shrewdly observant graffiti left by American soldiers. In the Company of Soldiers lionizes the American military officers but it neither condemns nor offers unqualified praise to the US effort in Iraq. Indeed, the disturbing omens of chaos hinted at soon after the invasion began in the spring of 2003 would come into sharper relief when the book was published a year later. --John Moe [via]
More editions of In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat:
The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readersby Liz RosenbergISBN 0805038361 (0-8050-3836-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers'More editions of The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers:
-
Iwo Jimaby Richard F. Newcomb, Harry SchmidtISBN 0805070710 (0-8050-7071-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Iwo Jima'Book summary:From the author of the bestselling Abandon Ship! comes aclassic work of World War II history.[via]
Richard F. Newcomb is one of the true masters of military storytelling. In researching Iwo Jima he interviewed hundreds of Iwo veterans, both American and Japanese; read the diaries and letters of fighting men; and combed through masses of official navy and marine records to write the full story of one of the most famous battles in U.S. history. With exceptional depth, intelligence, and emotional power, Newcomb recounts the events of February 19, 1945, in which common men were thrust into impossible circumstances, demonstrating valor and even humor amid the horror and chaos of war.More editions of Iwo Jima:
James Buchananby Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jean H. BakerISBN 0805069461 (0-8050-6946-1)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'James Buchanan'More editions of James Buchanan:
James K. Polkby John SeigenthalerISBN 0805069429 (0-8050-6942-9)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'James K. Polk'More editions of James K. Polk:
-
James Madisonby Garry WillsISBN 0805069054 (0-8050-6905-4)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'James Madison'Book summary:A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father.[via]
Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress.
Madison oversaw the first foreign war under the constitution, and was forced to adjust some expectations he had formed while drafting that document. Not temperamentally suited to be a wartime President, Madison nonetheless confronted issues such as public morale, internal security, relations with Congress, and the independence of the military. Wills traces Madison's later life during which, like many recent Presidents, he enjoyed greater popularity than while in office.More editions of James Madison:
John Adamsby John Patrick Diggins, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069372 (0-8050-6937-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Adams'More editions of John Adams:
John Adams: A Lifeby John FerlingISBN 0805045767 (0-8050-4576-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Adams: A Life'More editions of John Adams: A Life:
John Marshall : Definer of a Nationby Jean E. SmithISBN 080501389X (0-8050-1389-X)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Marshall : Definer of a Nation'More editions of John Marshall : Definer of a Nation:
-
John Marshall: Definer of a Nationby Jean Edward SmithISBN 080505510X (0-8050-5510-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Marshall: Definer of a Nation'Book summary:It's taken for granted today that the Supreme Court has final say on how the Constitution is interpreted, but this principle--hotly debated in the republic's early years -- was established by John Marshall (1755-1835), the fourth Chief Justice. Historian Smith's definitive biography, detailed and lucid, is a model of scholarly writing for the general public. The author claims our admiration for the justice and sparks affection for the man: warm, gregarious, fond of drink, a Federalist with the common touch, a seasoned political infighter who remained on good terms with his opponents. [via]
More editions of John Marshall: Definer of a Nation:
John Quincy Adams: The American Presidentsby Robert V. Remini, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069399 (0-8050-6939-9)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Quincy Adams: The American Presidents'More editions of John Quincy Adams: The American Presidents:
A Life Wild and Perilous : Mountain Men and the Path to the Pacificby Robert Marshall UtleyISBN 080505989X (0-8050-5989-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Life Wild and Perilous : Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific'More editions of A Life Wild and Perilous : Mountain Men and the Path to the Pacific:
Making Tracks: An American Rail Odysseyby Terry PindellISBN 0805017402 (0-8050-1740-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Tracks: An American Rail Odyssey'More editions of Making Tracks: An American Rail Odyssey:
Mapping America's Past : A Historical Atlasby Mark C. Carnes, John A. Garraty, Patrick WilliamsISBN 0805049274 (0-8050-4927-4)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mapping America's Past : A Historical Atlas'More editions of Mapping America's Past : A Historical Atlas:
Martin Van Buren: The American Presidentsby Ted Widmer, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069224 (0-8050-6922-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents'More editions of Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents:
-
Mason and Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 0805058370 (0-8050-5837-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mason and Dixon'Book summary:A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon's personality in the novel's first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow. [via]
-
Never Done: A History of American Houseworkby Susan StrasserISBN 0805066179 (0-8050-6617-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Done: A History of American Housework'Book summary:Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the "women's separate sphere," and the respective influences of advertising, home economics, and women's entry into the workforce. Never Done begins by describing the household chores of nineteenth-century America: cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with boilers and flatirons, endless water-hauling and fire-tending, and so on. Strasser goes on to explain and explore how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Easing some tasks and eliminating others, new commercial processes inexorably altered women's daily lives and relationshipswith each other and with those they served.[via]More editions of Never Done: A History of American Housework:
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People In The Shadow Of America's Warby Anthony ShadidISBN 0805076026 (0-8050-7602-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Draws Near: Iraq's People In The Shadow Of America's War'More editions of Night Draws Near: Iraq's People In The Shadow Of America's War:
-
Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbineby Elliot AronsonISBN 0805070990 (0-8050-7099-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine'Book summary:On April 20, 1999, the halls of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, reverberated with the sound of gunshots as two students, highly armed and consumed with rage, killed thirteen students and seriously injured twenty-three before turning the guns on themselves. It was the worst school massacre in out nation's history. Can we prevent a tragedy like this from happening again?[via]
In Elliot Aronson's Nobody Left to Hate, on of our nation's leading social psychologists argues that the negative atmosphere in our schools--the exclusion, taunting, humiliation, and bullying--played a major role in triggering the pathological behavior of the shooters. At the very least, such an atmosphere makes schools an unpleasant experience for most normal students.
But it doesn't have to be. Nobody Left to Hate offers concise, practical, and easy-to-apply strategies for creating a more supportive, stimulating, and compassionate environment in our schools. Based on decades of scientific research and classroom testing, these strategies explain how students can be taught to control their own impulses, how to respect others, and how to resolve conflicts amicably. In addition, they show teachers how to structure classes to promote cooperation, rather than competition, without sacrificing academics. On the contrary, education is greatly enhanced.
For parents, teachers, or anyone concerned with what is happening in our schools, Nobody Left to Hate provides a simple and effective plan of action that will make their children's school not only a safe place, but a more humane place of learning.More editions of Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine:
Philadelphia Fireby John Edgar WidemanISBN 0805012664 (0-8050-1266-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Philadelphia Fire'More editions of Philadelphia Fire:
-
The Poetry of Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Edward Connery LathemISBN 0805069860 (0-8050-6986-0)
Softcover, Owl Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetry of Robert Frost'Book summary:Listening to these time-honored poems, it's difficult to imagine the young Frost struggling to find a publisher for his work. In fact, he was nearly 40 (and living in England, of all places) when A Boy's Will, his first collection, appeared. Over the next 50 years he would become the quintessential American poet, securing a well-cushioned catbird seat in the literary canon.
Performers Susan Anspach, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Elliott Gould, among others, heighten the conversational cadences of a writer who seldom strayed from his beloved iambs. Included are "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Fear," and much more, all complete and unabridged. (Running time: 1 hour, 1 cassette) --Martha Silano [via]
More editions of The Poetry of Robert Frost:
- The Poetry of Robert Frost: ISBN 0805005021 (0-8050-0502-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - The Poetry of Robert Frost: ISBN 0805005013 (0-8050-0501-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - The Poetry of Robert Frost: ISBN 0805073655 (0-8050-7365-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - The Poetry of Robert Frost: ISBN 0805069860 (0-8050-6986-0)
Softcover, Owl Books
- The Poetry of Robert Frost: ISBN 0805005021 (0-8050-0502-1)
-
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valuedby Ann CrittendenISBN 0805066195 (0-8050-6619-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued'Book summary:Many mothers have long suspected that they're getting the short end of the deal--and finally, a highly respected economics journalist proves they're not just griping. Despite all the lip service given to the importance of motherhood, American mothers are not only not paid for all the work they do, but also penalized for it. "The gift of care can be both selfless and exploited," writes Ann Crittenden in this intrepid and groundbreaking work. Motherhood is dangerously undervalued--it's now the single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age. Mothers lose out in forgone income if they stay at home, an inflexible job market makes part-time work scarce or inadequately paid, and in the case of divorce, they're refused family assets by divorce laws that don't count their unpaid work.
Crittenden is fond of pointing out the hypocrisies plaguing America, and one is the belief in a welfare state enabling single mothers. The true welfare state, she says, protects paid workers from unforeseen risks through social security, unemployment insurance, and workman's compensation. Mothers who work part-time or not at all have no such safety net and typically take a nosedive into poverty, along with their children, after divorce or the death of their spouse. Married working moms are also punished--they pay the highest taxes on earned income in America. Crittenden's impassioned argument is based on research in a variety of fields, from economics to child development to demography. She shows how mothers were demoted from an economic asset to dependents, why welfare for only a certain group of mothers bred bitterness among the rest, and why there is currently an exodus of highly trained women from the work force.
Crittenden also travels far and wide for solutions. She finds them not only in such European nations as Sweden--which has abolished child poverty by giving mothers a year's paid leave, cash subsidies, and flexible work schedules--but in the U.S. military, which runs the best subsidized child-care program in the country and knows the value of providing special benefits to those who selflessly serve their country. Ultimately, Crittenden insists, the equality women have been fighting for will only be achieved when mothers are recognized as productive citizens creating a much-needed public good--human capital, or in layman's terms, well-raised children who grow into productive, law abiding citizens (and who pay into social security). This is an admirable--and charged--defense of motherhood, reminding us that unpaid female labor is "the priceless, invisible heart of the economy," and those who engage in this labor deserve the same rights, and the same respect, as other workers. --Lesley Reed [via]
More editions of The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued:
- The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued: ISBN 0805066187 (0-8050-6618-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry - The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued: ISBN 0805066195 (0-8050-6619-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
- The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued: ISBN 0805066187 (0-8050-6618-7)
-
Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceshipby George B. DysonISBN 0805059857 (0-8050-5985-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship'Book summary:Like cheap, shiny space suits and bug-eyed rubber monsters, nuclear-powered spaceships today seem like little more than laughably naïve 1950s science fiction tropes. It might have been otherwise--and still could be. George Dyson, son of supergenius physicist Freeman Dyson, wrote Project Orion to share some of his father's amazing research with the world. Much had been kept secret for years, but Dyson's unique insider status permits great depth and breadth on this important tale. Conceived in the wake of Sputnik, Project Orion was a true vision of '50s engineering: a huge 40-person ship powered by hundreds of tiny atomic bombs, capable of much greater lift and efficiency than chemically driven rockets. Struggles between NASA, the military, Congress, and other parties doomed Orion, but Dyson has gathered hundreds of documents and interviewed most of the researchers and engineers who worked together, trying to reach "Saturn by 1970." His knack for storytelling makes the book a quick, delightful read; even the staunchest anti-nuke activist has to admit that lighting a cigarette off a parabolic mirror facing a bomb test is pretty cool. By the end of the 20th century, technology had caught up with the vision of Orion--it's considered one of our best bets for long-distance space transit. Whether or not that could ever happen politically, Project Orion is a compelling exploration of scientific imagination. --Rob Lightner [via]
More editions of Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship:
Puzzle Maps U. S. A.by Nancy L. ClouseISBN 0805035974 (0-8050-3597-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Puzzle Maps U. S. A.'
Rachel Carson: Witness for Natureby Linda LearISBN 0805034285 (0-8050-3428-5)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature'More editions of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature:
Raising Holy Hellby Bruce OldsISBN 0805038566 (0-8050-3856-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Raising Holy Hell'More editions of Raising Holy Hell:
-
Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflictby Michael T. KlareISBN 0805055762 (0-8050-5576-2)
Softcover, Owl Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict'Book summary:From the oilfields of Saudi Arabia to the Nile delta, from the shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the pipelines of Central Asia, Resource Wars looks at the growing impact of resource scarcity on the military policies of nations.[via]
International security expert Michael T. Klare argues that in the early decades of the new millennium, wars will be fought not over ideology but over access to dwindling supplies of precious natural commodities. The political divisions of the Cold War, Klare asserts, have given way to a global scramble for oil, natural gas, minerals, and water. And as armies throughout the world define resource security as a primary objective, widespread instability is bound to follow, especially in those areas where competition for essential materials overlaps with long-standing territorial and religious disputes. In this clarifying view, the recent explosive conflict between the United States and Islamic extremism stands revealed as the predictable consequence of consumer nations seeking to protect the vital resources they depend on.
A much-needed assessment of a changed world, Resource Wars is a compelling look at warfare in an era of rampant globalization and intense economic competition.More editions of Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict:
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politicianby Roger MorrisISBN 0805018344 (0-8050-1834-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician'More editions of Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician:
Rutherford B. Hayesby Hans A. Trefousse, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069089 (0-8050-6908-9)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rutherford B. Hayes'More editions of Rutherford B. Hayes:
-
Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary Warby Richard M. KetchumISBN 0805061231 (0-8050-6123-1)
Softcover, Owl Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War'Book summary:A New York Times Notable Book[via]More editions of Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War:
-
The Second World War: A Complete Historyby Martin GilbertISBN 0805076239 (0-8050-7623-9)
Softcover, Owl Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second World War: A Complete History'Book summary:It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day--August 14, 1945--it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be, in both human terms and material resources, the costliest war in history, taking the lives of forty million people. In this complete one-volume account of the war, Gilbert weaves together political, military, diplomatic, and civilian elements to provide a global perspective on the war, creating a work that is both a treasure trove of information and a dramatic narrative.[via]More editions of The Second World War: A Complete History:
-
Still Life in Harlemby Eddy L. HarrisISBN 0805048529 (0-8050-4852-9)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Still Life in Harlem'Book summary:That Still Life in Harlem can bring to mind the words of W. E. B. DuBois illustrates the deeply thoughtful nature of this book written by Eddy L. Harris. "Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question," W. E. B. DuBois wrote in The Souls of Black Folk, "How does it feel to be a problem?" This question is central to Harris's book, and he asks it of both Harlem and himself.
Harris lived in Harlem until he was ten years old, when his family moved to the suburbs. This separation enhances Harris's ability to write a critical memoir of Harlem, which he later describes as a "metaphor for black America," but this distance comes at a price. Much of Still Life in Harlem is concerned with the author's own alienation from the neighborhood, and at a deeper level, his alienation from himself. Harris returned to Harlem by choice, yet he cannot help but find the place in many ways disagreeable and disheartening. The situation again calls to mind the resounding words of DuBois, "Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?" Harris is possessed with the second sight DuBois called "double-consciousness" the means to know the world through the judgments of others, or the habit "of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt." Harris's book is not without its flaws in execution, but it tells an important story in a strong and moving voice. [via]
Theodore Rooseveltby Louis Auchincloss, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069062 (0-8050-6906-2)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Theodore Roosevelt'More editions of Theodore Roosevelt:
Thomas Jeffersonby Joyce Appleby, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069240 (0-8050-6924-0)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Jefferson'More editions of Thomas Jefferson:
The Torahby Rodney MarinerISBN 0805048200 (0-8050-4820-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Torah'More editions of The Torah:
Ulysses S. Grantby Bunting, Josiah, III, Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.ISBN 0805069496 (0-8050-6949-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses S. Grant'More editions of Ulysses S. Grant:
The Vital Touch: How Intimate Contact With Your Baby Leads to Happier, Healthier Developmentby Sharon HellerISBN 0805053549 (0-8050-5354-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vital Touch: How Intimate Contact With Your Baby Leads to Happier, Healthier Development'More editions of The Vital Touch: How Intimate Contact With Your Baby Leads to Happier, Healthier Development:
W.E.B. Dubois: A Readerby W. E. B. Du Bois, David L. LewisISBN 0805032649 (0-8050-3264-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'W.E.B. Dubois: A Reader'More editions of W.E.B. Dubois: A Reader:
Warren G. Hardingby John W. DeanISBN 0805069569 (0-8050-6956-9)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Warren G. Harding'More editions of Warren G. Harding:
The Weight Of It: A Story Of Two Sistersby Amy WilenskyISBN 0805073124 (0-8050-7312-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Weight Of It: A Story Of Two Sisters'More editions of The Weight Of It: A Story Of Two Sisters:
-
The White Boy Shuffle : A Novelby Paul BeattyISBN 0805053514 (0-8050-5351-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Boy Shuffle : A Novel'Book summary:This is a laugh-out-loud first novel, but be forewarned: Paul Beatty's humor is literate, but in- your-face outrageous. The faint of heart (or politically correct) should stay away. The White Boy Shuffle is a gleefully satiric gloss on black history and culture, featuring a main character named Gunnar (as in Myrdal) Kaufman, descendant of Euripides Kaufman, who stood aside and let Crispus Attucks get shot during the Boston Massacre, and Swen Kaufman, who--in an unfortunate reversal-- escaped south from freedom into slavery. Elsewhere, it features a character who attends Dred Scott High School, and another who works for the Department of Visual Segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, painting "Whites Only" and "Colored Only" signs. [via]
More editions of The White Boy Shuffle : A Novel:
Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of America in the Twenty-first Centuryby Sam RobertsISBN 080507080X (0-8050-7080-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of America in the Twenty-first Century'More editions of Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of America in the Twenty-first Century:
-
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Timeby Michael ShermerISBN 0805070893 (0-8050-7089-3)
Softcover, Owl Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time'Book summary:Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is "Cognite tute--think for yourself." This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: "Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
More editions of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time:
-
William McKinley, 1897-1901: The American Presidentsby Kevin Phillips, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069534 (0-8050-6953-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'William McKinley, 1897-1901: The American Presidents'Book summary:A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacy[via]
By any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic and military debut as a world power. McKinley was one of eight presidents who, either in the White House or on the battlefield, stood as principals in successful wars, and he was among the six or seven to take office in what became recognized as a major realignment of the U.S. party system.
Phillips, author of Wealth and Democracy and The Cousins' War, has long been fascinated with McKinley in the context of how the GOP began each of its cycles of power. He argues that McKinley's lackluster ratings have been sustained not by unjust biographers but by years of criticism about his personality, indirect methodologies, middle-class demeanor, and tactical inability to inspire the American public. In this powerful and persuasive biography, Phillips musters convincing evidence that McKinley's desire to heal, renew prosperity, and reunite the country qualify him for promotion into the ranks of the best chief executives.More editions of William McKinley, 1897-1901: The American Presidents:
-
The Wing-and-Wingby James Fenimore Cooper, Dean King, Thomas PhilbrickISBN 0805055681 (0-8050-5568-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wing-and-Wing'Book summary:A classic story of love and sea warfare from one of America's greatest novelists.[via]
The year is 1799. Admiral Caraccioli is about to be executed on Lord Nelson's flagship. Young and in love with Carracioli's daughter, the spirited French privateer Raoul Yvard and his wily American sailing master Ithuel Bolt harass the British fleet. Yvard is captured but cunningly escapes, setting up a showdown at sea.
Originally published in 1846, The Wing-and-Wing is a captivating novel of seafaring adventure, romance, and Napoleonic history, from the masterful author of The Leatherstocking Tales.More editions of The Wing-and-Wing:
Woodrow Wilsonby H. W. Brands, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069550 (0-8050-6955-0)
Hardcover, Times Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Woodrow Wilson'More editions of Woodrow Wilson:
You Come Tooby Robert FrostISBN 0805069852 (0-8050-6985-2)
Softcover, Owl Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'You Come Too'
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 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-168 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}