Category: American

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South

By: Agee, James; Evans, Walker

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books : August 2001

Seller ID: 4421

ISBN-13: 9780618127498

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (New York Times) In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly...
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

By: Andersen, Kurt

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Random House : September 2017

Seller ID: 78904

ISBN-13: 9781400067213

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year."--Lawrence O'Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what's happening in our country today--this post-factual, "fake news" moment we're all living through--is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and tru...
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

By: Beals, Melba Pattillo

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Washington Square Press : February 1995

Seller ID: 83718

ISBN-13: 9780671866396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement's most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, but the ability of young people to change ideas of race and identity. In 1957, well before Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock's Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Br...
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American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

By: Beam, Alex

Price: $10.95

Publisher: PublicAffairs : April 2014

Seller ID: 56007

ISBN-13: 9781610393133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood. At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting his own religion and creating his own "Golden Bible"--the Book of Mormon--he had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter. He'd led his people to Ohio, then Missouri, then Illinois, where he founded a city larger than fledgling Chicago....
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Old Deadwood Days

By: Bennett, Estelline

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Bison Books : March 1982

Seller ID: 43630

ISBN-13: 9780803260658

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For roughnecks in search of trouble, Deadwood was the place to go. An outlaw town--its very beginnings as a mining camp violated government treaties with the Sioux--Deadwood soon acquired a reputation that dime novels could hardly exaggerate. It attracted both the great and the gritty. Calamity Jane lived there, Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back there and Buffalo Bill was an irregular visitor, not to mention Seth Bullock, Mineral Jack, Slippery Sam, Cold Deck Johnny, and Belle Haskell, the best-known madam in town. To reform the town's notorious habits, Federal Judge Granville G. Bennett m...
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The Antietam Campaign: August-September 1862: Revised and Expanded Edition (Great Campaigns)

By: Cannan, John

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Combined Books : June 1994

Seller ID: 56005

ISBN-13: 9780938289364

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

John Cannan places the Civil War's single bloodiest day of battle in the broader context of grand strategy and command personality. Cannan's classic work has undergone extensive revision under the editorial direction of renowned Civil War historian David G. Martin to reflect new information and new interpretations of recent years.
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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

By: Carroll, Andrew

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Scribner : May 2001

Seller ID: 23234

ISBN-13: 9780743202947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project with the goal of remembering Americans who have served this nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, more than 50,000 war letters discovered in basements, attics, scrapbooks, and old trunks have poured in from around the country. The best of these letters are assembled in this extraordinary collection, offering unprecedented insight into the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Korea, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf, and even the fighting in Somalia and the Balkans.Featured here are dramatic accounts of combat written ...
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England

By: Cronon, William

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Hill and Wang : July 1983

Seller ID: 51193

ISBN-13: 9780809001583

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
"Changes in the Land" offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist, Cronon constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.

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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

By: Dickstein, Morris

Price: $14.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2009

Seller ID: 15089

ISBN-13: 9780393072259

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Now, in this timely and long-awaited cultural history, Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called "one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature," explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of a traumatized nation. Dickstein's fascination springs from his own childhood, from a father who feared a pink slip every Friday and from his own love of the more exuberant side of the era: zany screwball comedies, witty musicals, and the lubricious choreography of Busby Berkeley. Whether analyzing the influence of film, design, literature, theater, or musi...
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Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case

By: DiEugenio, James

Price: $33.95

Publisher: Skyhorse : November 2012

Seller ID: 44213

ISBN-13: 9781620870563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Thrilling and informative guide to the life and death of JFKIdeal for fans of In Cold Blood and Oliver Stone's JFKRevised and expanded version of DiEugenio's original book Twenty years ago, before the ages of Obama and Trump, James DiEugenio wrote the first edition of Destiny Betrayed. In this second edition of Destiny Betrayed, he returns to familiar topics and introduces new information. What was the truth, and what were the lies? What were the inside politics of Kennedy's America? This book is an investigative look at these questions and more. The author focuses equally on Kennedy and Garri...
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Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

By: Eichenwald, Kurt

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Broadway : March 2005

Seller ID: 71037

ISBN-13: 9780767911788

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In a study of the Enron scandal, the author goes behind the scenes to profile the players and expose business practices involved in the financial and political debacle that had a profound impact on both Washington and Wall Street.
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Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)

By: Finkelman, Paul

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's : March 2003

Seller ID: 1742

ISBN-13: 9780312133276

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Offering invaluable insights into how slavery shaped American history and continues to affect American society, Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South shares viewpoints from proslavery, Southern thinkers based on religion, politics and law, economics, history, philosophy, expediency, and science.
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Next Stop Grand Central: A Trip Through Time on New York's Metropolitan Area Commuter Railroads

By: Fischler, Stan

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Boston Mills Pr : June 1986

Seller ID: 55440

ISBN-13: 9780919783225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From Slavery Freedom--Volume Two A History of African Americans

By: Franklin, John Hope,Moss, Alfred

Price: $14.95

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages : December 1999

Seller ID: 58094

ISBN-13: 9780072393620

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Eight Edition has been thoroughly revised to include expanded material on Africa, the history of African Americans in the Caribbean and Latin America, the current situation of African Americans in the United States, popular culture, and much more. It has also been redesigned with new charts, maps, photographs, paintings, illustrations, and color inserts. Written by distinguished and award-winning authors, retaining the same features that have made it the most popular text on African American History ever, and with fresh and appealing new features, From Slavery to Freedom remains the leadin...
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William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from The Liberator (Bedford Series in History & Culture)

By: Garrison, William Lloyd

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's : November 1994

Seller ID: 1744

ISBN-13: 9780312103866

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Look To Earth: Historical Archaeology American Civil War

By: Geier, Clarence R. Jr.

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press : October 1996

Seller ID: 55996

ISBN-13: 9780870499548

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sagebrush, Buttes, and Buffalo: Williston, Dickinson, and the Badlands (North Dakota Centennial Series)

By: Hanson, Nancy Edmonds

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Prairie House : October 1987

Seller ID: 4420

ISBN-13: 9780911007084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Women's America, Volume 2: Refocusing the Past

By: Kerber, Linda K., Hart, Jane Sherron De, H., Cornelia Dayton

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : July 2010

Seller ID: 10154

ISBN-13: 9780195388343

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its seventh edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history.
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

By: Larson, Erik

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Vintage : July 2000

Seller ID: 82370

ISBN-13: 9780375708275

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in...
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Death of a President

By: Manchester, William

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Harper & Row : 1967

Seller ID: 47054

ISBN: 281BQL1002387

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: American