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St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. Near Fine. 1987.. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 245 pages .

New York: Rugged Land. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Abrasion on cover from sticker removal that blends into photo. . Black & White photos. First Printing November 2003.. . 209 pages. "I awakened early on Friday morning, November 22, 1963. The day was gray and somber. Rain was falling....I asked John if I could ride with him to Dallas, and his reply was 'certainly.' We got in the jump seats right behind the driver and secret service man in the front. I was on the driver's side. Mrs. Kennedy was behind me. The President sat directly behind John. We were a happy foursome. I had my yellow roses; Jackie had red ones. I turned to the President as the formation of cars turned onto Elm Street and said, ' Mr. President, you certainly cannot say that Dallas does not love you.'"Nellie Connally, wife of the late governor of Texas John Connally, shares her personal diary of the JFK assassination. While a seminal document in our… Read More

New York: Vintage. Near Fine. 2000. Trade Paperback. 323 pages. 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 American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devestating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, <I>Isaac's Storm</I> is the… Read More

New York: Atlantic Monthly. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards with ivory spine imprinted in metallic red with title and author. Black endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 340 pages. Describes the devastating 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, the Jewish and Italian immigrants, mostly women, who made up the majority of the victims, and the implications of the catastrophe on twentieth-century politics and labor relations. .