books tagged “US History” (us history)

books tagged “US History”

via
America's Constitution: A Biography
by Akhil Reed Amar

ISBN 0812972724 (0-8129-7272-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Constitution: A Biography'
Book summary:
In America's Constitution, one of this era's most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world's great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this "biography" of America's framing document explains not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it.

We all know this much: the Constitution is neither immutable nor perfect. Amar shows us how the story of this one relatively compact document reflects the story of America more generally. (For example, much of the Constitution, including the glorious-sounding "We the People," was lifted from existing American legal texts, including early state constitutions.) In short, the Constitution was as much a product of its environment as it was a product of its individual creators' inspired genius.

Despite the Constitution's flaws, its role in guiding our republic has been nothing short of amazing. Skillfully placing the document in the context of late-eighteenth-century American politics, America's Constitution explains, for instance, whether there is anything in the Constitution that is unamendable; the reason America adopted an electoral college; why a president must be at least thirty-five years old; and why-for now, at least-only those citizens who were born under the American flag can become president.

From his unique perspective, Amar also gives us unconventional wisdom about the Constitution and its significance throughout the nation's history. For one thing, we see that the Constitution has been far more democratic than is conventionally understood. Even though the document was drafted by white landholders, a remarkably large number of citizens (by the standards of 1787) were allowed to vote up or down on it, and the document's later amendments eventually extended the vote to virtually all Americans. [via]
More editions of America's Constitution: A Biography:
- America's Constitution: A Biography: ISBN 0812972724 (0-8129-7272-4)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
by Gary Gerstle

ISBN 0691102775 (0-691-10277-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century'
More editions of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century:
- American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century: ISBN 069104984X (0-691-04984-X)
  Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
- American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century: ISBN 0691102775 (0-691-10277-5)
  Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
American Slavery 1619-1877
by Peter Kolchin

ISBN 0809016303 (0-8090-1630-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'American Slavery 1619-1877'
Book summary:
A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the context of a general trend toward use of forced labor on the periphery of an expanding Europe.This incisive synthesis fills a major gap for the general reader and for historians, who will find it both stimulating and appealing.
[via]
More editions of American Slavery 1619-1877:
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
by Jean Fritz, Margot Tomes

ISBN 0698113519 (0-698-11351-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?'
More editions of And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?:
via
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin

ISBN 0679726136 (0-679-72613-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography'
Book summary:
"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man."
-- From the Introduction

Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World.
Written initially to guide his son, Franklin's autobiography is a lively, spellbinding account of his unique and eventful life. Stylistically his best work, it has become a classic in world literature, one to inspire and delight readers everywhere. [via]
More editions of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:
via
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
by Stephen E. Ambrose

ISBN 074322454X (0-7432-2454-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest'
Book summary:
As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose tells the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from grueling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day, where a dozen of them turned German cannons into dynamited ruins resembling "half-peeled bananas," on to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of part of the Dachau concentration camp, and a large party at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest," where they drank the madman's (surprisingly inferior) champagne. Of Ambrose's main sources, three soldiers became rich civilians; at least eight became teachers; one became Albert Speer's jailer; one prosecuted Bobby Kennedy's assassin; another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic C.O. who first trained Easy Company (and to whose strictness many soldiers attributed their survival of the war) wound up a suicidal loner whose own sons skipped his funeral.
The Easy Company survivors describe the hell and confusion of any war: the senseless death of the nicest kid in the company when a souvenir Luger goes off in his pocket; the execution of a G.I. by his C.O. for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war ... the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle." --Tim Appelo [via]
More editions of Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest:
via
Black Elk Speaks
by John G. Neihardt

ISBN 0871296152 (0-87129-615-2)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'
Book summary:
The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish their way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.
Beautifully told through the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elks profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elks world, a reset text with Lakota words reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
[via]
More editions of Black Elk Speaks:
via
Black Elk Speaks
by Black Elk, John G. Neihardt

ISBN 0803233019 (0-8032-3301-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'
Book summary:
The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish their way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.
Beautifully told through the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elks profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elks world, a reset text with Lakota words reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
[via]
More editions of Black Elk Speaks:
- Black Elk Speaks: ISBN 0803233019 (0-8032-3301-9)
  Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
via
Black Elk Speaks
by Vine Deloria, Black Elk, John G. Neihardt, Lori Utecht, Alexis N. Petri, Standing Bear

ISBN 0803283857 (0-8032-8385-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'
Book summary:
Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elks experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind.
When Black Elk received his great vision, white settlers were invading the Lakotas homeland, decimating buffalo herds, and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas way of life. The Lakotas fought fiercely to retain their freedom and way of life, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee. Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time, however. As related by Neihardt, Black Elks searing visions of the unity of humanity and the earth have made this book a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, a history of a Native nation, or an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This new edition features two additional essays by John G. Neihardt that further illuminate his experience with Black Elk; an essay by Alexis Petri, great-granddaughter of John G. Neihardt, that celebrates Neihardts remarkable accomplishments; and a look at the legacy of the special relationship between Neihardt and Black Elk, written by Lori Utecht, editor of Knowledge and Opinion: Essays and Literary Criticism of John G. Neihardt.
For more information on John G. Neihardt, visit www.neihardt.com
[via]
More editions of Black Elk Speaks:
- Black Elk Speaks: ISBN 0803283857 (0-8032-8385-7)
  Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
via
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux
by Black Elk, John G. Neihardt

ISBN 0803261705 (0-8032-6170-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux'
Book summary:
Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.
Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
[via]
More editions of Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux:
via
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by John G. Neihardt, Deloria, Vine, Jr.

ISBN 0803283598 (0-8032-8359-8)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux'
Book summary:
Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.
Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
[via]
More editions of Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux:
- Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux: ISBN 0803213093 (0-8032-1309-3)
  Hardcover, University of Nebraska Press
- Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux: ISBN 0803283598 (0-8032-8359-8)
  Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
via
Black Hawk Down
by Mark Bowden

ISBN 0871137380 (0-87113-738-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hawk Down'
Book summary:
Journalist Mark Bowden delivers a strikingly detailed account of the 1993 nightmare operation in Mogadishu that left 18 American soldiers dead and many more wounded. This early foreign-policy disaster for the Clinton administration led to the resignation of Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and a total troop withdrawal from Somalia. Bowden does not spend much time considering the context; instead he provides a moment-by-moment chronicle of what happened in the air and on the ground. His gritty narrative tells of how Rangers and elite Delta Force troops embarked on a mission to capture a pair of high-ranking deputies to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid only to find themselves surrounded in a hostile African city. Their high-tech MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters had been shot down and a number of other miscues left them trapped through the night. Bowden describes Mogadishu as a place of Mad Max-like anarchy--implying strongly that there was never any peace for the supposed peacekeepers to keep. He makes full use of the defense bureaucracy's extensive paper trail--which includes official reports, investigations, and even radio transcripts--to describe the combat with great accuracy, right down to the actual dialogue. He supplements this with hundreds of his own interviews, turning Black Hawk Down into a completely authentic nonfiction novel, a lively page-turner that will make readers feel like they're standing beside the embattled troops. This will quickly be realized as a modern military classic. --John J. Miller [via]
More editions of Black Hawk Down:
- Black Hawk Down: ISBN 0871137380 (0-87113-738-0)
  Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
via
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by Neil Sheehan

ISBN 0679724141 (0-679-72414-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam'
Book summary:
This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centers on Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures and disillusionment in Southeast Asia. Vann was a field adviser to the army when American involvement was just beginning. He quickly became appalled at the corruption of the South Vietnamese regime, their incompetence in fighting the Communists, and their brutal alienation of their own people. Finding his superiors too blinded by political lies to understand that the war was being thrown away, he secretly briefed reporters on what was really happening. One of those reporters was Neil Sheehan. This definitive expose on why America lost the war won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989. [via]
More editions of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam:
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: ISBN 0679724141 (0-679-72414-1)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
via
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
by William Cronon

ISBN 0809001586 (0-8090-0158-6)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England'
Book summary:
The book that launched environmental history now updated.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
[via]
More editions of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England:
via
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
by Gordon S. Wood

ISBN 0807847232 (0-8078-4723-2)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787'
Book summary:
Gordon S. Wood--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of American history at Brown University--had no idea what he was getting into when he began this 653-page book. Innocently, he wanted to write a "monographic analysis of constitution-making in the Revolutionary era." Little did he know he would discover an intellectual world where a complete transformation of political thought was occurring, one that would create "a distinctly American system of politics." As Wood explains, "Beneath the variety and idiosyncrasies of American opinion there emerged a general pattern of beliefs about the social process--a set of common assumptions about history, society, and politics that connected and made significant seemingly discrete and unrelated ideas. Really for the first time I began to glimpse what late eighteenth-century Americans meant when they talked about living in an enlightened age." This original study of the American political system is a strong contribution to the scholarly studies of the events surrounding the nation's independence. [via]
More editions of The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787:
- The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787: ISBN 0807847232 (0-8078-4723-2)
  Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
The Creation of the American Republic, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six Thru Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Seven
by Gordon S. Wood

ISBN 0807811041 (0-8078-1104-1)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creation of the American Republic, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six Thru Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Seven'
More editions of The Creation of the American Republic, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six Thru Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Seven:
- The Creation of the American Republic, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six Thru Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Seven: ISBN 0807811041 (0-8078-1104-1)
  Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
Dixie Rising : How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture
by Peter Applebome

ISBN 0812926536 (0-8129-2653-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Dixie Rising : How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture'
More editions of Dixie Rising : How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture:
- Dixie Rising : How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture: ISBN 0812926536 (0-8129-2653-6)
  Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
via
The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams, Edmund Morris

ISBN 067964010X (0-679-64010-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Education of Henry Adams'
Book summary:
Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James. But young Henry, born in Boston in 1838, was destined for a walk-on role in his nation's history--and seemed alarmingly aware of the fact from the time he was an adolescent.
It gets worse. For the author could neither match his exalted ancestors nor dismiss them as dusty relics--he was an Adams, after all, formed from the same 18th-century clay. "The atmosphere of education in which he lived was colonial," we are told,
revolutionary, almost Cromwellian, as though he were steeped, from his greatest grandmother's birth, in the odor of political crime. Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with evil forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged.
Here, as always, Adams tells his story in a third-person voice that can seem almost extraplanetary in its detachment. Yet there's also an undercurrent of melancholy and amusement--and wonder at the specific details of what was already a lost world.
Continuing his uphill conquest of the learning curve, Adams attended Harvard, which didn't do much for him. ("The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.") Then, after a beer-and-sausage-scented spell as a graduate student in Berlin, he followed his father to Washington, D.C., in 1860. There he might have remained--bogged down in "the same rude colony ... camped in the same forest, with the same unfinished Greek temples for workrooms, and sloughs for roads"--had not the Civil War sent Adams père et fils to London. Henry sat on the sidelines throughout the conflict, serving as his father's private secretary and anxiously negotiating the minefields of English society. He then returned home and commenced a long career as a journalist, historian, novelist, and peripheral participant in the political process--a kind of mouthpiece for what remained of the New England conscience.
He was not, by any measure but his own, a failure. And the proof of the pudding is The Education of Henry Adams itself, which remains among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. It contains thousands of memorable one-liners about politics, morality, culture, and transatlantic relations: "The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest." There are astonishing glimpses of the high and mighty: "He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism..." (That would be Abraham Lincoln; the "melancholy function" his Inaugural Ball.) But most of all, Adams's book is a brilliant account of how his own sensibility came to be. A literary landmark from the moment it first appeared, the Autobiography confers upon its author precisely that prize he felt had always eluded him: success. --James Marcus [via]
More editions of The Education of Henry Adams:
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
by Herbert Asbury

ISBN 0880294299 (0-88029-429-9)
Softcover, Dorset Press

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld'
More editions of The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld:
- The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld: ISBN 0880294299 (0-88029-429-9)
  Softcover, Dorset Press
via
George Washington
by Willard S. Randall

ISBN 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: ISBN 0805027793 (0-8050-2779-3)
  Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
via
The Great Bridge
by David G. McCullough

ISBN 0671212133 (0-671-21213-3)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Bridge'
Book summary:
In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence. [via]
More editions of The Great Bridge:
- The Great Bridge: ISBN 0671212133 (0-671-21213-3)
  Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
via
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David Willis McCullough

ISBN 067145711X (0-671-45711-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge'
Book summary:
In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence. [via]
More editions of The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge:
- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge: ISBN 0743217373 (0-7432-1737-3)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge: ISBN 067145711X (0-671-45711-X)
  Softcover, Touchstone Books
Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt
by John C. B. Gordon

ISBN 0802713238 (0-8027-1323-8)
Hardcover, Walker & Company

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt'
More editions of Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt:
- Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt: ISBN 0802713238 (0-8027-1323-8)
  Hardcover, Walker & Company
via
Isabella Lucy Bird's "a Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains": An Annotated Text
by Ernest S. Bernard, Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

ISBN 0806131128 (0-8061-3112-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Isabella Lucy Bird's "a Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains": An Annotated Text'
More editions of Isabella Lucy Bird's "a Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains": An Annotated Text:
- Isabella Lucy Bird's "a Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains": An Annotated Text: ISBN 0806131128 (0-8061-3112-8)
  Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
via
Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara

ISBN 0679643249 (0-679-64324-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Killer Angels'
Book summary:
This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine regiment of volunteers held the Union's left flank on the second day of the battle. This unit's bravery at Little Round Top helped turned the tide of the war against the rebels. There are also plenty of maps, which convey a complete sense of what happened July 1-3, 1863. Reading about the past is rarely so much fun as on these pages. [via]
More editions of Killer Angels:
Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
by Isabella L. Bird

ISBN 0806113286 (0-8061-1328-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains'
More editions of Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains:
- Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: ISBN 0860682676 (0-86068-267-6)
  Softcover, Virago Pr
- Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: ISBN 0806113286 (0-8061-1328-6)
  Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Lee Takes Command: From 7 Days to 2nd Bull Run
by Time Life Staff

ISBN 0809448041 (0-8094-4804-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Lee Takes Command: From 7 Days to 2nd Bull Run'
More editions of Lee Takes Command: From 7 Days to 2nd Bull Run:
- Lee Takes Command: From 7 Days to 2nd Bull Run: ISBN 0809448041 (0-8094-4804-1)
  Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
Lee Takes Command: From Seven Days to Second Bull Run
by Time-Life Books

ISBN 080944805X (0-8094-4805-X)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Lee Takes Command: From Seven Days to Second Bull Run'
More editions of Lee Takes Command: From Seven Days to Second Bull Run:
- Lee Takes Command: From Seven Days to Second Bull Run: ISBN 080944805X (0-8094-4805-X)
  Hardcover, Time-Life Books
Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History
by Richard Shenkman

ISBN 0688065805 (0-688-06580-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History'
More editions of Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History:
- Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History: ISBN 0688065805 (0-688-06580-5)
  Hardcover, Harpercollins
Making of the President 1964
by White th

ISBN 0689102925 (0-689-10292-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Making of the President 1964'
More editions of Making of the President 1964:
- Making of the President 1964: ISBN 0689102925 (0-689-10292-5)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
The Making of the President, 1972
by Theodore Harold White

ISBN 0689105533 (0-689-10553-3)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of the President, 1972'
More editions of The Making of the President, 1972:
- The Making of the President, 1972: ISBN 0689105533 (0-689-10553-3)
  Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
Mapping America's Past : A Historical Atlas
by Mark C. Carnes, John A. Garraty, Patrick Williams

ISBN 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:
- Mapping America's Past : A Historical Atlas: ISBN 0805049274 (0-8050-4927-4)
  Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
via
Momentous Events, Vivid Memories
by David B. Pillemer

ISBN 0674004183 (0-674-00418-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Momentous Events, Vivid Memories'
Book summary:
The bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger: every generation has unforgettable events, the shared memory of which can create fleeting intimacy among strangers. These public memories, combined with poignant personal moments--the first day of college, a baseball game with one's father, praise from a mentor--are the critical shaping events of individual lives.
Although experimental memory studies have long been part of empirical psychology, and psychotherapy has focused on repressed or traumatizing memories, relatively little attention has been paid to the inspiring, touching, amusing, or revealing moments that highlight most lives. What makes something unforgettable? How do we learn to share the significance of memories?
David Pillemer's research, brought together in this gracefully written book, extends the current study of narrative and specific memory. Drawing on a variety of evidence and methods--cognitive and developmental psychology, cross-cultural study, psychotherapy case studies, autobiographies and diaries--Pillemer elaborates on five themes: the function of memory; how children learn to construct and share personal memories; memory as a complex interactive system of image, emotion, and narrative; individual and group differences in memory function and performance; and how unique events linger in memory and influence lives. A provocative last chapter, full of striking examples, considers potential variations in memory across gender, culture, and personality. Momentous Events, Vivid Memories is itself a compelling and memorable book.
[via]
More editions of Momentous Events, Vivid Memories:
- Momentous Events, Vivid Memories: ISBN 0674582055 (0-674-58205-5)
  Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
- Momentous Events, Vivid Memories: ISBN 0674004183 (0-674-00418-3)
  Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
via
Naked Pictures of Famous People
by Jon Stewart

ISBN 0688171621 (0-688-17162-1)
Softcover, Rob Weisbach Books

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Pictures of Famous People'
Book summary:
Sometimes it seems like every standup comedian worth his or her salt just has to do the book thing, and you might feel that yet another warmed-over stage routine is the last thing you need taking up valuable bookshelf space. Jon Stewart's book will come as an extremely pleasant surprise. He eschews the standard standup patter and instead gives us 18 short comic essays in a variety of styles that recall the prose work of Woody Allen, only with a few more references to genitals. Stewart proves himself a remarkably nimble humorist with a sharp eye for parody, whether he's writing "A Very Hanson Christmas" or "Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview."

HITLER: ...Larry, look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don't know ... I was a very angry guy.
KING: And this ... new Hitler?
HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will.... Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg... When you stop having to control everything it's very freeing.

Stewart is not afraid to flirt with bad taste, in fact, some of the pieces in this collection do for "flirting with bad taste" what Bill Clinton did for "not having sexual relations." But it's wonderful to see an edgy comedian taking on the traditionally cozy genre of the humorous essay, creating work that combines the wit of Robert Benchley with the energy and attitude of the best modern standup. Naked Pictures of Famous People proves that Jon Stewart is as comfortable, and accomplished, in front of a word processor as he is in front of an audience. --Simon Leake [via]
More editions of Naked Pictures of Famous People:
- Naked Pictures of Famous People: ISBN 0688171621 (0-688-17162-1)
  Softcover, Rob Weisbach Books
The Name of War : King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
by Jill Lepore

ISBN 0679446869 (0-679-44686-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Name of War : King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity'
More editions of The Name of War : King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity:
- The Name of War : King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity: ISBN 0679446869 (0-679-44686-9)
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
via
No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

ISBN 0684804484 (0-684-80448-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II'
Book summary:
A compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. With an uncanny feel for detail and a novelist's grasp of drama and depth, Doris Kearns Goodwin brilliantly narrates the interrelationship between the inner workings of the Roosevelt White House and the destiny of the United States. Goodwin paints a comprehensive, intimate portrait that fills in a historical gap in the story of our nation under the Roosevelts. [via]
More editions of No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II:
- No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II: ISBN 0671642405 (0-671-64240-5)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II: ISBN 0684804484 (0-684-80448-4)
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster
via
The Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman, Anthony Brandt

ISBN 0792266404 (0-7922-6640-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oregon Trail'
Book summary:
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians. [via]
More editions of The Oregon Trail:
via
Our Dumb Century

ISBN 0762418664 (0-7624-1866-4)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub

Find This Book

Book summary:
Every Wednesday, work at Amazon.com--along with just about every other company connected to the fantastical "information superhighway" invented by Vice President Al Gore and actress Hedy Lamarr--grinds to a halt as employees hasten to read the latest issue of The Onion, America's most popular newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin. But most of the paper's fans have started reading it only within the last few years, and are sadly unaware of The Onion's mighty journalistic legacy. To combat this cultural illiteracy, Editor in Chief Scott Dikkers and his writing staff have assembled this collection of great front pages from the last hundred years. Here is just a sampling of the headlines:
A New Century Dawns! McKinley Ushers in Bold New "Coal Age"
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Boasts: "No Man Can Stop Me"
AWESOME! Nation Wowed by Tremendous Hindenburg Explosion
Martin Luther King: "I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night"
Clinton Denies Lewinsky Allegations: "We Did Not Have Sex, We Made Love," He Says
And those are just the headlines; the stories themselves are all masterpieces of the journalist's trade. Of course, readers with delicate sensibilities may find some of these accounts a bit too risqué, and perhaps even tasteless. (Among the potential offenders: Rosa Parks's decision to "screw this bus shit" and take a cab.) But if you're looking for an antidote to all the 20th-century hoopla promulgated by stuffed shirts like Peter Jennings and Harold Evans--not to mention the best history book since 1066 and All That--then Our Dumb Century is the one for you. --Ron Hogan [via]
More editions of Our Dumb Century:
- Our Dumb Century: ISBN 0762418664 (0-7624-1866-4)
  Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro

ISBN 0679729453 (0-679-72945-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson'
More editions of The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson:
- The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: ISBN 0679729453 (0-679-72945-3)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant

ISBN 0831706783 (0-8317-0678-3)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant'
More editions of Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant:
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant: ISBN 0831706783 (0-8317-0678-3)
  Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
Profiles in Courage/Large Print
by John F. Kennedy

ISBN 0816158878 (0-8161-5887-8)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Profiles in Courage/Large Print'
More editions of Profiles in Courage/Large Print:
- Profiles in Courage/Large Print: ISBN 0816158878 (0-8161-5887-8)
  Softcover, G K Hall & Co
via
Roots
by Alex Haley

ISBN 0808511033 (0-8085-1103-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots'
Book summary:
From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. It's hard to believe that it has been 30 years since Alex Haley's groundbreaking historical novel (based on his own family's history) was first published and became a worldwide phenomenon. Millions have read the story of the young African boy named Kunte Kinte, who in the late 1700s was kidnapped from his homeland and brought to the United States as a slave. Haley follows Kunte Kinte's family line over the next seven generations, creating a moving historical novel spanning 200 years..... Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. [via]
More editions of Roots:
- Roots: ISBN 0808511033 (0-8085-1103-3)
  Hardcover, Bt Bound
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
by Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul Boyer

ISBN 0674785258 (0-674-78525-8)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft'
More editions of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft:
- Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft: ISBN 0674785258 (0-674-78525-8)
  Hardcover, Harvard University Press
Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft
by Paul S. Boyer

ISBN 0674785266 (0-674-78526-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft'
More editions of Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft:
- Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft: ISBN 0674785266 (0-674-78526-6)
  Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
via
Thomas Jefferson : A Life
by Willard S. Randall

ISBN 0805015779 (0-8050-1577-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Jefferson : A Life'
Book summary:
A biography of Thomas Jefferson, who despite his legendary intelligence and political savvy, could be ruthless, not to mention lawless, in his efforts to preserve his causes. Jefferson operated on two levels, as his opposition to slavery as a slaveowner attests. But as Willard Sterne Randall argues, this duality is what made him so effective. Whether Jefferson's 1784 draft of Virginia's constitution "prefigured the founding documents of republics in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, as well as the Confederate States of America," as Randall claims, is questionable, but his impact on international trade, diplomatic discussions and the success of the state of Virginia cannot be disputed. [via]
More editions of Thomas Jefferson : A Life:
- Thomas Jefferson : A Life: ISBN 0805015779 (0-8050-1577-9)
  Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
via
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
by Stephen Ambrose

ISBN 0743252128 (0-7432-5212-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian'
Book summary:
"I am a storyteller by training and inclination," writes the late Stephen Ambrose in To America, his final book. And what a storyteller. One of the most respected and popular historians of his era, Ambrose had a passion for making the events of the past both relevant and entertaining. In these pages, he touches on many of the subjects that he devoted his career to, including presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, the journey of Lewis and Clark, the building of the transcontinental railroad, and the citizen soldiers of World War II. He also writes about his own personal story and his role as a historian. In detailing a family camping trip to Wounded Knee (an outing which directly led to his dual biography of Crazy Horse and George Armstrong Custer) or offering tips on vivid historical writing (keep your narration in chronological order; keep the reader guessing; and never use the passive voice), he shares what it is like to reflect upon the triumphs and mistakes of the past and why it is so important to pass those stories on to the next generation.
In this brief yet satisfying book, Ambrose moves seamlessly from one topic to the next with contagious enthusiasm and unapologetic optimism. Along the way he points out the inherent absurdity of political correctness, and even takes himself to task for past biases and for sometimes failing to consider his subjects within the context of their own times and not his own. He does not shy away from writing about America's sins, both past and present, but Ambrose's undying faith in his country and his fellow citizens is inspiring. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
More editions of To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian:
- To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian: ISBN 0743202759 (0-7432-0275-9)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
- To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian: ISBN 0743252128 (0-7432-5212-8)
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster
To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents
by Society of American Historians, James M. McPherson, David Rubel

ISBN 0789481561 (0-7894-8156-1)
Softcover, Dk Pub

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents'
Book summary:
From the beginning, Americans have loved and hated their presidents, and memorialized them both for their achievements and their foibles. In this collection of essays, written by members of the prestigious Society of American Historians, we're gifted with a lively interpretive history of the 41 presidents to date with an emphasis on their dominant themes and achievements as influenced by their personalities and ideologies.
With the focus on presidential style, Joseph J. Ellis examines the ironies in Thomas Jefferson's ideals and actions, as well as his inveterate shyness (imagine a modern-day president who only spoke at his inauguration and presented all legislative proposals in writing). Robert Dallek discusses Lyndon B. Johnson's contradictions as evidenced in his significant domestic achievements and the terrible failure of the Vietnam War. And in the pieces on also-rans like Grant and Coolidge and the disgraced such as Nixon, these historians often use the benefit of hindsight and scholarship to focus on the more redeeming features of each man. The most recent president covered does not get off so lightly, however, as Evan Thomas devotes an inordinate amount of space to Bill Clinton's philandering and slams him with such adjectives as "calculating, shrewd and slovenly."
The book is packed with photographs, illustrations, inaugural addresses, and memorable quotes ("When Theodore attends a wedding, he wants to be the bride, and when he attends a funeral, he wants to be the corpse"). A light sense of humor is even displayed, as in a photograph of William Howard Taft's mammoth bathtub, specially built after the 355-pound man got stuck in an ordinary tub, and the story of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign captured in two campaign photos--one of a sexy, bare-chested JFK in his PT-109 and the other of a stiff Nixon in his Navy dress blues. It's also a treasure trove of presidential trivia--which presidents proposed to their wives on the first date? Who were the only three vice presidents to be successfully promoted by election? This is a terrific reference book--an informative, revealing, and fun way to learn about America's chosen few. --Lesley Reed [via]
More editions of To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents:
- To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents: ISBN 0789450739 (0-7894-5073-9)
  Hardcover, Dk Pub
- To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents: ISBN 0789481561 (0-7894-8156-1)
  Softcover, Dk Pub
via
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David Von Drehle

ISBN 080214151X (0-8021-4151-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Triangle: The Fire That Changed America'
Book summary:
A New York Times Bestseller
On March 25, 1911, at quitting time, a fire broke out in the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes the building's upper three stories were consumed. Firemen's ladders weren't tall enough to rescue those trapped inside. In the worst workplace disaster in the city's history, 146 died - 123 of them women. This harrowing yet compulsively readable chronicle of that tragedy is also a vibrant portrait of an entire age. [via]
More editions of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America:
via
The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared The Early Years of the CIA
by Evan Thomas

ISBN 0684825384 (0-684-82538-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared The Early Years of the CIA'
Book summary:
Evan Thomas recreates the personal drama of four figures who risked everything to keep America out of war. They were Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes and Desmond FitzGerald. Within the inner circles of Washington, at the high point of American power in the world, they planned and acted to contain the Soviet threat - by stealth and "political action", and to do by cunning and sleight of hand what great armies could not be allowed to do. The fall of each man had momentous consequences for the CIA. Thomas draws on the CIA's own secret histories, as well as extensive interviews. [via]
More editions of The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared The Early Years of the CIA:
- The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared The Early Years of the CIA: ISBN 0684810255 (0-684-81025-5)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
- The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared The Early Years of the CIA: ISBN 0684825384 (0-684-82538-4)
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster
via
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
by David Halberstam

ISBN 0743223233 (0-7432-2323-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals'
Book summary:
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of 17 books, David Halberstam has a gift for bringing current events alive and putting them into historical perspective in an engaging way. In many respects, War in a Time of Peace serves as a sequel to his classic The Best and the Brightest in its examination of how the lessons of Vietnam have influenced American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Beginning with the Persian Gulf War, Halberstam discusses the political shift in emphasis from foreign to domestic issues that ushered in the first Clinton administration. Despite the fact that Clinton, along with much of the country, preferred to focus on the home front, the U.S. nonetheless found itself drawn into conflicts in Haiti, Somalia, and the Balkans--events that reflected American discomfort with the use of its military forces abroad while at the same time acknowledging that much of the world is dependent upon the U.S. for both guidance and support. The book also highlights the many nonpolitical factors that have influenced these political changes, including a generational shift in national leadership, the modern media's emphasis on entertainment over foreign news, a leap in military technology, and American economic prosperity that has rendered foreign policy largely irrelevant to many citizens.
Halberstam is a master at presenting well-rounded portraits and telling anecdotes of the personalities that have created U.S. policy, casting new light on well-known figures such as Clinton, Colin Powell, and George H.W. Bush, as well as supporting players such as Anthony Lake, Richard Holbrooke, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, General Wesley Clark, Al Gore, and many other influential American leaders of the past decade. Having covered many aspects of American history and foreign policy since the early 1960s, Halberstam is uniquely qualified to report on an era in which the U.S., and the world, has changed so dramatically. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
More editions of War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals:
via
Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?
by Jean Fritz, Trina Schart Hyman

ISBN 0698114167 (0-698-11416-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?'
Book summary:
Let the others wear the ruffled shirts and ride grandly on horseback; Sam Adams, Massachusetts rebel leader, was a plain and plain-spoken fellow, both in history and in Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? Adams, it turns out, was horseless for a good reason. On the way to figuring out just what that reason was, the reader gets a nice, personal look at a leader and his times.
In this book, as in the rest of her series of histories, Jean Fritz sneaks plenty of information into her story about Adams, the American Revolution, and the answer to the title question. (For ages 7 and up) [via]
More editions of Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?:
The Yellowstone Story: A History of Our First National Park
by Aubrey L. Haines

ISBN 0870811045 (0-87081-104-5)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Find This Book

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellowstone Story: A History of Our First National Park'
Book summary:
The Yellowstone Story traces the history of the Yellowstone region from the time when hunters and gatherers migrated into the Rocky Mountains thousands of years ago to the post-World War II era when tourists began inundating Yellowstone National Park. Volume I takes the account from prehistoric times through the mid-1880s, with emphasis on the park's exploration and its trouble-filled early years under federal management. Volume II covers the years of military administration of the park and the more recent developments under the National Park Service.
[via]
More editions of The Yellowstone Story: A History of Our First National Park: