Search Results: Biography: U.S. Presidents from The Owl at the Bridge

Reprinted from the 1996 Alfred Knopf original edition. Winner of United States National Book Awards: Nonfiction 1997. Includes (ppages 363-368) Appendix: A Note on the Sally Hemmings Scandal. Published before DNA tests were available. xix, 440 pages; 20 cm. Stock#48140.

"Re-evaluation of Andrew Johnson's role as President, and history of the political scene, from 1865 to 1868." "How Andrew Johnson threw away his own power both as President and party leader, how he assisted materially, in spite of himself, in blocking the reconciliation of North and South..." 533 pages; 22.5 cm. Stock#NEU421.

xii, 274 pages, 8 plates, portraits, facsimile; 20.5 cm. Stock#Neu435.

"This fourth volume [of Freidel's biography of Roosevelt] follows [him] from election night 1932 through the first summer of the New Deal." x, 574 pages, 14 illus.; 21 cm. Stock#Neu415.

"This scholarly and elaborate bibliography appears at a time when it may be said that the Lincoln subject as an intellectual interest has come of age." xiv, 519 pages; gray library buckram; Good+. Stock#ofc0132.

William Henry Herndon was Abraham Lincoln's law partner in Springfield, later his biographer and the source of much that we know of Lincoln's early life. xv, 392, xxiii pages, 22 cm. "Bob Martin Civil War Library" written on front fly. Stock#48159.

N.Y., Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill, 1945. When Franklin D. Roosevelt died, in April 1945, Americans had a new president, Harry S. Truman, whom they barely knew. This biography was published to inform the public. Hard Cover. 219 pages. Good+/no dj. stock#NS0006.

170 documents. "It is seldom that a documentary history combines such striking new interpretations with interesting documentary material to back it up." viii, 518 pages, 12 plates of illustrations, portraits; 20.5 cm. Stock#NEU437.

N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap, c.1954. Hard Cover. x, 201 p. 21 cm. This reprint edition is in a series: Biographies of Distinction. This presents a very sympathetic view of the General and President. Stock #29,907. Vg/ dj good+.

Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. [1938]. Hard Cover. Volume 26, xxxv, [1], 555 p., index, front. (facsim.), 23.5 cm. Contains the period January, 1783 to June 1783. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. Prepared Under The Direction Of The United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission And Published, 1931-1944. The letters in this volume all emanate from Washington's headquarters in Newburgh New York. Until the end of March Washington struggles to keep the Army focused on War; after 27 March, the struggle is to disband the unpaid Army in an orderly manner. Stock# 44,264. Vg, unmarked, uncirculated copy from the Brown University Library / no dj.

Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. [1938]. Hard Cover. Volume 27. xxxix, 2 leaves, 557 p., index, front. (facsim.), 23.5 cm. Contains the period 11 June, 1783 to 28 November, 1784. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. Prepared Under The Direction Of The United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission And Published, 1931-1944. The letters in this volume at first emanate from Washington's headquarters in Newburgh New York and move south until he reaches Mt. Vernon, by Christmas, 1783. Stock# 44,265. Vg,uncirculated copy from the Brown University Library / no dj.

Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. [1938]. Hard Cover. Volume 28. xxxiv, 1 leaf, 572p., index, front. (facsim.), 23.5 cm. Contains the period 5 December, 1784 to 30 August, 1786. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. Prepared Under The Direction Of The United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission And Published, 1931-1944. The letters in this volume emanate from Mt. Vernon and deal with a wide variety of private and public matters. Stock# 44,266. Vg, uncirculated copy from the Brown University Library / no dj.

Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. [1939]. Hard Cover. Volume 29. xxxiv, 2 leaves, 566 p., index, front. (port.), 23.5 cm. Contains the period 1 September 1786 to 19 June, 1788. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. Prepared Under The Direction Of The United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission And Published, 1931-1944. The letters in this volume at first emanate from Mt. Vernon and deal with private matters as well as extensive correspondence with the writers of the Constitution. Stock# 44,267. Vg,uncirculated copy from the Brown University Library / no dj.

Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. [1937]. Hard Cover. Volume 18, xxxvii, [5], 572 p., index, front. (facsim.), 23.5 cm. Contains the period February, 1780 to June 1780. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. Prepared Under The Direction Of The United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission And Published, 1931-1944. The letters in this volume all emanate from Washington's headquarters in Morristown New Jersey. Stock# 44,263. Vg,uncirculated copy from the Brown University Library / no dj.