Search Results: History / Americas from Infinity Books Japan

US: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Paperback. Good. America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breath taking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the ye ar of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic , the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war again st her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America's survival in t he hands of George Washington. In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declar ation of Independence-when the whole American cause was riding on their suc cess, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and th e noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than w ords on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the s tory of… Read More

US: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Connecting the debates of 1912 to some of the most pressing issues of the Progressive Era, 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism presents selected sensational speeches, correspondence between the presidential candidates and their allies and opponents, and 12 lively political cartoons illustrating the relation between the state and society that still controls our thinking about market regulation today.

US: Progressive Press, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The thesis of Webster Tarpley's 911 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA has been enthusiastically received with its working model of the 9/11 plot: a covert network of moles, patsies, and a commando cell in the privatized intellige nce services, backed by corrupt political and corporate media elites. Buttressed by historical examples like the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the Gunp owder Plot, this model makes it clear how such a monstrous false-flag or se lf-terror exploit is possible even under a largely benign government. That paradox is the incredibility gap that has made most Americans reject the ev idence about 9/11 as paranoid fantasy. Tarpley brings decades of expertise to the 9/11 issue. In 1978 he exposed t he terrorist Red Brigades as patsies of Italy's fascist P2 shadow governmen t, and 9/11 is on the same… Read More

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University P., 1966. Paperback. Very Good. A tight clean copy, no markings throughout.

US: Plume, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 1985 Meridian trade paperback, 6th printing. Stephen B. Oates (The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion). From Stephen B. Oates comes a riv eting companion to his seminal Lincoln biography With Malice Toward None. E xploring the complex mythology surrounding the sixteenth President, includi ng iconic images of Lincoln as Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind The Myths offers a penetratin g look at Lincoln's life and impact, indispensable for any student of great leadership, the Civil War, and American history.

US: 9780195093810, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, A merica had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by so me of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first time. Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, an d Jefferson himself each had a share in shaping that remarkable era-an era that is brilliantly captured in The Age of Federalism. Written by esteemed historians Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism gives us a reflective, deeply informed analytical survey of this extraordinary period. Ranging over the widest variety of concerns-political, cultural, economic, diplomatic, and military-the authors provide a sweeping historical account, keeping always in view not only the problems the new nation… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977. Very Good+. A tight clean softcover, no markings throughout.

US: Random House USA Inc, 1973. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Demonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism.

[London]: Fontana, 1983. Very Good.

US: Collins Reference, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The mail has a powerful connection with the American people. Who hasn't sha red the experience of waiting eagerly for a letter to arrive or felt the ru sh of excitement at hearing footsteps near the door signaling the arrival o f a delivery? This first-ever photographic history of the United States Postal Service pa ys tribute to the everyday people who have worked through rain, sleet, and snow to bring mail to American families. In over 200 rarely seen photograph s, beginning with the advent of photography in 1860 and continuing to the p resent, An American Postal Portrait celebrates the fascinating behind-the-s cenes stories, the innovative technological accomplishments, and the unique imprint the Postal Service workforce has made on American life. Starting with the earliest Post Office outposts… Read More

US: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From the famous BBC correspondent and television host comes a remarkably in sightful and detailed firsthand portrait of America during the early days o f World War II. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Alistair Cooke, a newly naturalized American citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing monumental change. Cooke traveled small highways, with t heir advertising signs and their local topography, in an age before the int erstate highway system. In The American Home Front - a fascinating artifact, a charming travelogue, and a sharp portrait of America - Cooke chronicles the regional glories he encounters and the reactions of the citizens to war, from indifference to grief, from opportunism to resilience under military threat. Filled with touching personal stories of the effects of war, from a Japanese family facing internment that tries to sell Cooke their car, to the experiences of the unemployed… Read More

US: Vintage, 1974. Paperback. Good. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American his tory.

US: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Paperback. Good. A newly revised version of a classic in American history When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synthesis of the Revolutionary War to use the new social history . Edward Countryman offered a balanced view of how the Revolution was made by a variety of groups-ordinary farmers as well as lawyers, women as well a s men, blacks as well as whites-who transformed the character of American l ife and culture. In this newly revised edition, Countryman stresses the painful destruction of British identity and the construction of a new American one. He expands his geographical scope of the Revolution to include areas west of the Alleghenies, Europe, and Africa, and he draws fresh links between the politics and culture of the independence period and the creation of a new and dynamic capitalist economy. This innovative interpretation of the American Revolution creates an even richer, more comprehensive portrait of… Read More

US: Tarcher, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The distinguished philosopher and bestselling author offers a compelling ne w understanding of the meaning of America, from the spiritual vision of its founding fathers to the hope it can offer to our increasingly threatened w orld. At the heart of Jacob Needleman's The American Soul is a call to rediscover the timeless truths hidden within the founding vision of the American nati on. Embedded in the ideals of democracy, individual liberty, and freedom of conscience is a view of human nature that echoes essential aspects of the wisdom that has guided every great civilization of the world. Free of all r eligious and philosophical dogma, and liberated from historical and politic al clichés, this uniquely American vision contains the power to speak again to the modern world's need for meaning and community. Throughout the book, Needleman takes a new sounding of the inner beliefs an d spiritual sensibilities of the great iconic figures of American… Read More

US: HarperCollins, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Distinguished scholar Norman Cantor presents an absorbing, readable, and op inionated overview of 20th-century culture which covers the arts, philosoph y, science, and political movements. Featuring 35 percent new material, The American Century is the magnum opus of a historian, teacher, and author of great distinction. of photos.

US: Univ Pr of Kansas, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. Jefferson Lecturer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Forrest McDonald is widely r ecognized as one of our most respected and challenging historians of the Co nstitution. He has been called brilliant, provocative, controversial, passi onate, pugnacious, and crafty in intellectual combat. Whatever the label, h e remains unsurpassed as a commentator on the American founding. Novus Ordo Seclorum, his best-known work, was hailed as "magisterial," "a t our-de-force," "the American history book of the decade," "the best single book on the origins of the U.S. Constitution," and was featured on Bill Moy ers's highly praised PBS series In Search of the Constitution. McDonald now applies his considerable talents to a study of another venerable instituti on-the American presidency. Writing at the height of his powers as an intellectual historian, McDonald explores how and why the presidency has evolved into such a complex and pow erful institution, unlike any other… Read More

US: Laurel Press, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Random House, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In America's Constitution, one of this era's most accomplished constitution al law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world's great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occas ionally controversial, this "biography" of America's framing document expla ins 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. A mar shows us how the story of this one relatively compact document reflects the story of America more generally. (For example, much of the Constitutio n, including the glorious-sounding "We the People," was lifted from existin g American legal texts, including early state constitutions.) In short, the Constitution was as much a product of its environment as it… Read More

US: Hill and Wang, 2011. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.

US: Hill and Wang, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The United States stands at a historic crossroads; essential to the world y et unappreciated. America's decline in popularity over the last eight years has been nothing short of astonishing. With wit, brilliance, and deep affe ction, Ted Widmer, a scholar and a former presidential speechwriter, remind s everyone why this great nation had so far to fall. In a sweeping history of centuries, Ark of the Liberties recounts America's ambition to be the wo rld's guarantor of liberty. It is a success story that America, and the wor ld, forgets at its peril. From the Declaration of Independence to the Gettysburg Address to the Unive rsal Declaration of Human Rights, the United States, for all its shortfalls , has been by far the world's greatest advocate for freedom. Generations of founders imbued America with a surprisingly global ambition that a series of remarkable presidents, often Democratic, advanced through the confident wielding of military and… Read More