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First edition, first printing paperback, which is in very good condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
The nearly 200 images in American Characters represent the scope of American portrait painting and popular illustration. . . . But it is the range of comments that gives this book its particular flavor--most historical, some hostile, all enhancing the impression made by the portrait itself. . . . The portrait selections are witty and full of surprises. . . . This is a book you can get lost in for hours. Even the notes on the portraits and the commentary make fascinating reading. -- David Walton, New York Times Book ReviewThis is a book you can get lost in for hours. Even the notes on the portraits and the commentary make fascinating reading. -- The New York Times Book Review, David Walton

Hardcover, which is in fine condition. Dust jacket shows signs of minor shelf wear, but it is in very good condition. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.In "Queen Mary: Her Early Years Recalled" - his first book about this famous ship - Ron Winter described his experiences while serving aboard her as a Junior Engineer Officer during her first three glorious years of service. Now, nearly 60 years later, as a senior citizen, he has written about the ship as she is today. The Queen Mary retired from active service 26 years ago and was bought by the City of Long Beach, California, where she is a tourist attraction and an up-market hotel. Such is her popularity that more people visit her now than ever they did when she was in service, and with a long and distinguished career behind her the problems of her long term preservation are uppermost in many people's minds. After a week spent aboard her recently Ron Winter is in a unique position to… Read More

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Long overshadowed by the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 remains a largely forgotten conflict. Its origins as part of the larger Napoleonic wars layered complex issues that to this day make the conflict difficult to understand. The bicentennial of the War of 1812 is now upon us. With an engaging question-and-answer format, this book offers a concise and informative introduction to the War of 1812, clearing much of the fog that surrounds it.

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Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.\By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic. Th e solution to the former was to find a way over, through, or under it. Aircraft in those days were too primitive, too short range, and too underpowered to accomplish this, and Germany lacked the naval strength to force a passage through the blockade. But if Germany could build a fleet of cargo U-boats that were large enough to carry meaningful loads and had the range to make a round trip between Germany and the United States without refueling, the blockade might be successfully broken.Since the German navy could not cut Britain's supply line to America, another answer lay in sabotaging munitions factories, depots, and ships, as… Read More

First edition hardcover, which is in very good condition, except for signs of shelf wear (see photos) and signed and inscribed by the author. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.Michael Beschloss has brought us a brilliantly readable and inspiring saga about crucial times in America's history when a courageous President dramatically changed the future of the United States.With surprising new sources and a dazzling command of history and human character, Beschloss brings to life these flawed, complex men -- and their wives, families, friends and foes. Never have we had a more intimate, behind-the-scenes view of Presidents coping with the supreme dilemmas of their lives.You will be in the room with the private George Washington, braving threats of impeachment and assassination to make peace with England. John Adams, incurring his party's "unrelenting hatred" by refusing to fight France and warning his enemies, "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."… Read More

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Adventures along the Star-Spangled Banner Trail.
Winner of the Association of Partners for Public Lands Media Partnership Award of the Association of Partners for Public Lands
All but forgotten by Americans, the War of 1812 (1812–1815) was a dramatic watershed for the young, groundbreaking United States Republic. Ill-prepared to fight the powerful English nation, the U.S. struggled through three years of conflict but emerged more unified with new patriotic symbols like the "Star-Spangled Banner." Much of the fighting occurred in the Chesapeake region and this new book, In Full Glory Reflected, uncovers its gripping stories of devastating raids, heroic defense, gallant privateers, fugitive slaves, and threatened lands. The historic… Read More

First edition paperback, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author.Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider's account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza's dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades' increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ramírez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adiós Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, as well as the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement's leadership as it struggled to turn… Read More

First edition paperback, which is in fine condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.The Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C. is one of the world's most outstanding art collections. It was the first museum of modern art in the United States and today stands as a legacy to the uniquely enlightened connoisseurship of its founder and creator, Duncan Phillips. Phillips collected primarily work by French and American artists, and the collection's holdings include work by leading impressionist, post-impressionist, abstract and abstract expressionist artists, as well as works by earlier artists Phillips considered critical to the development of modern art. Art Beyond Isms accompanies a major travelling exhibition opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston this autumn and features just over 60 of the most important European works from the Phillips. These are mainly nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings -… Read More

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it via USPS Priority with tracking.One of America's most significant architects of conservation and the environment, Stewart Udall, comes to life in this environmental biography. Perhaps no other public official or secretary of the interior has ever had as much success in environmental protection, natural resource conservation, and outdoor recreation opportunity creation as Udall. A progressive Mormon, born and raised in rural Arizona, Udall served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior under the presidential cabinets of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson from 1961-1969. During these eight years, he established dozens of new national park units and national wildlife refuges, wrote the Endangered Species Preservation Act, lobbied for unpolluted water, and offered ways to beautify urban spaces… Read More

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.A collection of letters from the former president's extensive correspondence library offers insight into his public and private life of more than seventy years, from his early financial struggles and Hollywood achievements to his political career and personal relationships. 125,000 first printing.

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#1 New York Times Bestseller
"Reading these diaries, Americans will find it easier to understand how Reagan did what he did for so long . . . They paint a portrait of a president who was engaged by his job and had a healthy perspective on power."—Jon Meacham, Newsweek
During his two terms as the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine occurrences of his presidency. To read these diaries—now compiled into one volume by noted historian Douglas Brinkley and filled with Reagan's trademark wit, sharp intelligence, and humor—is to gain a unique understanding of one of our nation's most fascinating leaders.
#1 New York Times Bestseller"Reading these diaries, Americans will find it easier to understand how… Read More

The acclaimed chronicle of the regeneration of one family's traditional English farm
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing * Named "Nature Book of the Year" by the Sunday Times * New York Times Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Sunday Times, Financial Times, New Statesman, Independent, Telegraph, Observer, and Daily Mail
"Superbly written and deeply insightful, the book captivates the reader until the journey's end." — Wall Street Journal
The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life profileshis family's farm across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land.
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in England's Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops… Read More

Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves continues challenging the class system in America.
In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent, are the good guys. Not so, argues Reeves. The real class divide is not between the upper class and the upper middle class but between the upper middle class and everyone else.
The separation of the upper middle class from everyone else is both economic and social, and the practice of opportunity hoardinggaining exclusive access to scarce resourcesis especially prevalent among parents who want to perpetuate privilege to the benefit of their children. While many families believe this is just good parenting, it is actually hurting others by reducing their chances of securing these opportunities. A glass floor is created for… Read More

First edition, first printing, hardcover, which is signed, inscribed, and dated by the author. The inscription reads, "For Richard, Enjoy our special house." The seller will bubble wrap the book prior to shipping it to the buyer. Frank Lloyd Wright designed and realized over 500 buildings between 1886 and 1959 for a wide range of clients. In Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope-Leighey House, architect Steven M. Reiss presents the updated and detailed story of one of Wright's few Virginia commissions. Designed and built for Loren and Charlotte Pope and later purchased by Marjorie and Robert Leighey, the Pope-Leighey House stands as a stunning example of an innovative form of shelter―which Wright called Usonian―for families beset by the Great Depression. Here, and elsewhere, Wright offered a unique and unprecedented approach for homes that would be small yet architecturally significant, carefully sited, and constructed of readily available local materials. He believed that anyone with an acre of land… Read More

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Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.Fingerprints on the Table: The Story of the White House Treaty Table by Connie Remlinger Trounstine, illustrated by Kerry P. Talbott, tells the story about the Treaty Table, a real object that remains in the White House collection today. Through moving illustrations, the story of the Table is told from its construction in 1869 to its use at the White House by Presidents Ulysses S. Grant to Barack Obama as a Cabinet Room Table, a setting for the signing of important peace treaties, and as a presidential workspace. The author speculates on whether the presidents' children may have also left their fingerprints on this historic object over the years.Gold Medal Winner, Children's Non-Fiction ― 2013 Living Now Book AwardsGold Medal Winner, Juvenile (Ages 9-12) Historical Fiction ― 2013 Mom's Choice Awards

First edition, hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed by the author.While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging state governments to charter a number of commercial banks and other business corporations. Yet despite a recent surge of interest in Hamilton, U.S. financial modernization has not been fully recognized as one of his greatest achievements.This book traces the development of Hamilton's financial thinking, policies, and actions through a selection of his writings. The financial historians and Hamilton experts Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen provide commentary that demonstrates the impact Hamilton had on the modern economic system, guiding readers through Hamilton's distinguished career. The book showcases… Read More

First edition paperback, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.With Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C.'s, public works czar (1871–74) built the infrastructure of the nation's capital in a few frenetic years after the Civil War. The story of Shepherd is also the story of his hometown after that cataclysm, which left the city with churned-up streets, stripped of its trees, and exhausted.
An intrepid businessman, Shepherd became president of Washington's lower house of delegates at twenty-seven. Garrulous and politically astute, he used every lever to persuade Congress to realize Peter L'Enfant's vision for the capital. His tenure produced paved and graded streets, sewer systems, trees, and gaslights, and transformed the fetid Washington Canal into one of the city's most… Read More

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Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity.Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely personal book is a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. In his most profound work, this writer confronts the blunt feelings of the survivor - the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough.And he tries to understand what it means to desire so… Read More

This book is in very good condition for its age and beautiful. Please see photos for condition. Robert's Rules of Order was first published in 1876. It is about conducting meetings of any kind, whether at the top level or a local club. These rules have become the gold standard for conducting meetings and are still relevant today.

Best Book of the YearNPR • The Washington Post • Boston Globe• TIME • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Parade • Buzzfeed • Electric Literature • LitHub • BookRiot • PopSugar • Goop • Library Journal • BookBub • KCRW• Finalist for the National Book Award• One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year• One of the New York Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year• Instant New York Times Bestseller A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a… Read More