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New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, (1976). Near fine.. Trade paperback. Includes readings from Richard Hofstadter, Richard Harris, Joe McGinnis, Jessica Mitford, the Watergate tapes, Lewis Wolfson, Studs Terkel, Dave Dellinger and much more. Footnotes, 385 pp.

New York & Boston:: Twelve,, (2021). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (a few corners creased). First printing. A book which focuses on the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court - but also looks at it as part of a larger story of the Republican Party's move to the right. Illustrated with full color photographs. Notes, index. xv, 477 pp.

New York:: Avon,, (1991.). Very good (usual light toning to the pages.). Trade paperback. Everything you need to know about American history but never learned. Selected readings, index. 462 pp.

New York:: Atria (Simon & Schuster),, (2021). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Publisher's letter laid in. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Named one of Ten Best History Books of 2021. by the Smithsonian Magazine, this is a book which honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in "a country losing its moral way." "In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, they established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators--yet there was little hope. That is, until the fall of 1943, when the camp's high school… Leer más

New York:: Harper & Row,, 1962.. VG (some underlining). Trade paperback.

Washington, D.C.:: Smithsonian Institution Press,, (1985). Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback. The De Soto expedition of 1539-1543 was the first major European expedition to penetrate deep into what is now the Southeastern United States. This reprints the 1938 commission report (along with a substantial new introdution) of the attempt, 400 years after he landed in Florida, to determine his route from Florida, through Georgia and eastern highlands (South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Northern Alabama) and on to Louisiana, the Mississippi and more. This covers previous attempts to locate the route of De Soto and Moscoso, as well as information about the original expedition. New introduction by Jeffrey Brain which includes an update of De Soto studies. A title in the Classics of Smithsonian Anthropology series. Several appendices with maps, bibliography, list of participants in the original expedition and more. lxxi, xvi, 400

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1979). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, some minor edgewear to dj. original price of 14.95 on dj flap). First printing. Although written about a period in US history more than 50 years ago, these comments on the dust jacket flap are still relevant: "A people who had taken for granted a collective commitment to public order was suddenly stunned by the fragility of its institutions and the assaults on the values they represented. This is the story of how Americans for the first time took to the streets, sometimes the tens of thousands, to resolve disputes once left to the established governmental process." This book recreates the era. in all its contradictions, through interviews with fourteen men, Including Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Black activists likes E.D. Nixon, John Lewis, James Farmer, Stokely Carmichael, and more. The fact that all of those interviewed were men highlights one difference between… Leer más

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1979). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (some minor edgewear to dj, creasing on dj flap, original price of 14.95 on dj flap). First printing. Although written about a period in US history more than 50 years ago, these comments on the dust jacket flap are still relevant: "A people who had taken for granted a collective commitment to public order was suddenly stunned by the fragility of its institutions and the assaults on the values they represented. This is the story of how Americans for the first time took to the streets, sometimes the tens of thousands, to resolve disputes once left to the established governmental process." This book recreates the era. in all its contradictions, through interviews with fourteen men, Including Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Black activists likes E.D. Nixon, John Lewis, James Farmer, Stokely Carmichael, and more. The fact that all of those interviewed were men highlights one difference… Leer más

New York:: Doubleday,, (1988.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (small sketch on front pastedown, some toning to the pages.). First printing. Written by a former firefighter, and based on dozens of interviews across the country, this tells the stories of the men and women who fight urban building fires, who battle sweeping forest fires, who perform emergency rescues, and who face extreme danger as part of their daily lives. Illustrated with photographs. 320 p

New York:: Dutton,, (2021). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. \A story that starts out with "a platoon of mostly 19-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an experience that ends abruptly in catastrophe. Their part of the story folds into the next: inexorably linked to those soldiers and never comprehensively reported before is the U.S. Department of Defense's quest to build the world's most powerful biometrics database, with the ability to identify, monitor, catalog, and police people all over the world. . . Part war story, part legal drama, it is about identity in the age of identification. . .And about the power of a burgeoning surveillance state." Illustrated with color photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. 387 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (appears unread, prev owner's name.). First printing. On November 16, 1776, a ship flying the flag of the Continental Congress entered the port of St. Eustatius in the West Indies and was greeted with a salute, recognizing the authority of the government whose flag the ship carried. Noted military historian uses this salute as the starting point of her examination of the next 5 years, and the effects the American Revolution had, not just on American and England, but on Holland, France and the entire Old World. Illustrated. 347 pp including bibliography, notes and index. Map endpapers.

New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press,, 1990.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (some wear/damage to the lower edge of the bottom board and to the fold of the rear flap of the dj, but otherwise tight and clean.) Uncommon signed. . First printing. A study which "identifies fleeting moments of concord between nature and culture in the course of American history. During the search for the Wilderness Passage, the progress of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the building of park cemeteries and big city parks, Americans realized that nature was not merely a force to be reckoned with, not merely a resource to be exploited, but also an integral component of their lives. Through the engineering of nature and culture in the urban environment, the energetic attempts to conserve large-scale nature in the United States emerged as an offspring of the big city." INSCRIBED (in French) on the title page by the author. Sources, notes, index. 220 pp.

Athens, OH: : Swallow Press / Ohio University Press,, (2006). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A book which examines how the cause of animals rights has shaped and reshaped itself as it has evolved within the broader social context of the shift from an industrial to a postindustrial society. Today there are thousands of organizations which lobby and educate the public on issues concerning the rights and treatment of nonhumans. Photographs. Extensive notes, bibliography. xvi, 294 pp. 

Boulder:: University Press of Colorado,, (2006). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) "Continuous expansion of executive power is igniting national debate: Is the administration authorized to detain people without charges or access to counsel, due process, or a fair trial? Is torture acceptable as long as it doesn't happen on U.S. soil? In a new study of the use of plenary power - the doctrine under which U.S. courts have allowed the exercise of U.S. jurisdiction without concomitant constitutional protection - Natsu Taylor Saito puts contemporary policies in historical perspective, illustrating how such extensions of power have been upheld by courts from the 1880s to the present.. .Saito explains how the rights of individuals and groups deemed Other by virtue of race or national origin have been violated under both the Constitution and international law." Extensive notes. 390 pp.

New York:: Time Incorporated,, 1965.. Very good+. (prev owner's name inside front cover). Trade paperback. The story of the making and the ratifying of the US Constitution, with a new introduction by D. W. Brogan.

New York:: PublicAffairs,, (2002). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A blend of travelogue, history and biography, this is an account of how "Rushmore was conceived and built, and why controversy surrounded the project from the start. [It] is about the meaning of public art, the rise of automobile tourism, and the development of kitsch culture. At its center is Rushmore's feisty sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who waged an energetic campaign on behalf of his artistic vision and then carved the faces of four presidents into a mountainside. Taliaferro discusses every conceivable aspect of the monument, from the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (a minor hullabaloo) to the Native American activists who have threatened it." Photographs, bibliographic notes. 440 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (2011). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A sweeping account of the American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900. Among them were Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, and Charles Sumner, whose experience with black students at the Sorbonne, led to his becoming a powerful voice for abolition in the U.S. Senate. Others included James Fenimore Cooper and his friend Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, the writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Henry James as well as Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was able to escape from the notoriety Uncle Toms Cabin had brought her, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent, and more. Illustrated with both color and black and white photographs and maps. Source notes, bibliography, index. 557 pp. Photographic endpapers.

Petaluma, CA / San Francisco: : Jabberwocky / AVC / Cassettes Classics, , (1977.). First edition -. Fine in stiff orange, blue and white covers with cassette tape. . First edition. Dramatization of the life of this innovative industrialist and automobile manufacturer. A title in the Great American Series. Includes a cassette tape and a stapled booklet with a brief introduction and a transcription of the tape. 18 pp. Other titles in this series also available.

Westfield, MA: : Westfield State College,, 1995.. First edition -. Fine in glossy white printed wrappers.. First printing. Includes articles on the Hoosac Tunnel, William Lloyd Garrison, Boston's Back Bay and the Puritan missions to the Indians of Thomas Mayhew, Jr and John Eliot plus book reviews and book notes. 103 pp .

New York:: Doubleday,, (2019). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which begins with "describing the iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon: desperate Vietnamese scrambling to board a helicopter evacuating the last American personnel from Vietnam. It is an image of U.S. failure and shame. Or is it? By unpacking the surprising story of heroism that the photograph actually tells, Clarke launches into a narrative that is an important corrective to the historical record. For what is less known is that during those final days, scores of Americans - diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, contractors, and spies - risked their lives to assist their current and former translators, drivers, colleagues, neighbors, friends, and even perfect strangers in escape. By the time the last U.S. helicopter left Vietnam on April 30, 1975, these righteous Americans had helped to spirit 130,000 South Vietnamese to U.S. bases in Guam and the… Leer más