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BLACK LIKE ME (Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)
by John Howard Griffin. New Afterword by Robert Bonazzi. Condition: NEW 1996 Signet paperback, first thus, third printing. Tiny shelfwear. Content: "Griffin spent a little over a month--parts of November and December, 1959--with his skin artificially darkened by medication. In that time he traveled through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, finding out at first hand what it is like to be treated as a second-class citizen--or, as he says, as a tenth-class citizen. Everyone now know the story of the big injustices, the lynchings, the civil rights cases, and for most people those are now just another page in the history text book. Griffin's experiences take the daily evils of racism and thrust them in your face, just as they were thrust in his--the rudeness of the clerk when he tried to pay for a train ticket with a big bill; the difficulty he had in finding someone who would cash a traveler's check for a Negro; the bus-driver who wouldn't let any blacks off the bus to use the restrooms; the white man who followed him at night and threatened to mug him. Though Griffin only spends a month with dark skin, by the time you finish the book it feels like an eternity." A true American classic. [1 copy available]
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BLUE HIGHWAYS: A Journey Into America
by William Least Heat Moon (William Trogdon). B&W photos by the Author. Condition: UNREAD 1982 Little, Brown hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), 13th printing. Content: William Least Heat-Moon's account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. His journey began with little more than the need to put home behind him. At a turning point in his life, he packed up a van he called Ghost Dancing and escaped out of himself and into the country. The people and places he discovered on his roundabout 13,000-mile trip down back roads and through small, forgotten towns are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and full of the spark and wonder of ordinary life. Robert Penn Warren said, "He has a genius for finding people who have not even found themselves." The power of Heat-Moon's writing and his delight in the overlooked and the unexamined capture a sense of our national destiny, the true American experience. [1 copy available]
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BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME: The Great Depession 1929 - 1933
by Milton Meltzer. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1977 Mentor paperback, second printing. Interior perfect with very light tanning page edges. Wonderful B&W repros of period artwork. Content: "Here is an excellent picture of the Great Depression. The author uses reporting by some of the best, Edmund Wilson, Gordon parks, and John Dos Passos." Winner of the Christopher Award. Social & economic history at its best. [1 copy available]
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THE BUFFALO CREEK DISASTER: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won
by Gerald M. Stern. Condition: Pre-read 1977 Vintage paperbck first printing in Good+ condition. Pale spine crease with pale diagonal crease front and back lower cover corners. Interior clean & tight but tanning. Content: "The Buffalo Creek disaster was a horrible tragedy in poverty-stricken coal mining region and the people who had lost relatives, their homes and their livlihoods had no where to turn until a law firm was willing to take their case and fight the large mine operators. The book is written by the lead attorney on the case, which certainly makes it slightly self-serving, but this just proves that justice can truly can served through the law and lawyers can make the world a better place. The writing is very clear and easy, the action is fast paced and it is very educational (it somehow makes torts and civil procedure come alive). I would highly recommend this book for all aspiring lawyers or people who are already practicing." This is a law school favorite book for assigned reading. [1 copy available]
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COTTON MATHER ON WITCHCRAFT
by Cotton Mather. B&W wood cuts illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1991 Dorset Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), third printing. There is a binding error inside front cover. Interior clean & tight. Content: Reviewer: "This is a reprint of Cotton Mather's famous treatise, "The Wonders of the Invisible World", first published in 1693 as a defense of his position during the infamous Salem Witch Trials the year before which saw 19 people executed for practicing witchcraft. it has long been held as an important piece of early American literature and also as evidence of Puritanical superstition and credulity. Mather was a devoted Anglican minister who completely believed in the existence of witches and demons and warned of the dangers posed to New England's "New Jerusalem" by the Archfiend Satan himself. Mather was a direct witness to the happenings at Salem and here provides a fascinating account of the goings on at Salem, including the examinations of the accused and the "beweitched" girls who accused them during the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Mather was forced to defend his support for the trials amidst growing skepticism concerning witchcraft in the closing years of the 17th century and this book is largely a result of the critcism leveled at him after the close of the trials. Mather was heavily influenced by other earlier demonologists in his writings, particularly Joseph Glanvill, author of the famous "Sadducismus Triumphatus". Mather's writings on witchcraft are interesting not only for the information they give us about the Salem Trials, but also for the the image they give us of the fear and superstition that still existed in Puritan New England at the time. Although belief in witches and demons was slowly fading away, it was not quite dead, and we have Reverend Mather in part to thank for that. [1 copy available]
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DEAREST FRIEND: A Life of Abigail Adams
by Lynne Withey. B&W photo section. Condition: Good+, 2002 Touchstone Trade Paperback, 4th printing. Although the book appears new, the first chapter has some highlighting and 5 pages toward the end of the book also. I just missed it when I bought the book. DUH! Content: Abigail Adams is on of our most iportant, and interesting, First Ladies - she was the Eleanor Roosevelt or Hillary Clinton of her day - intimately involved in the political life and decisions of her husband, John Adams. Until the recent Presidential elections, she also held the distinction of being the only First Lady who was also the mother of a President - a distinction now shared with Barbara Bush. This is an excellent look into her life, times, and politics. [1 copy available]
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ENDURING SHORE: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket
by Paul Schneider. B&W era photos and drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 2001 Holt large soft cover, first printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: Billed as the first history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Elizabeth Islands in 50 years, this animated if loosely organized book blends stories of the region's rich heritage with tales of the author's adventures kayaking the local current-riven waters. A Vineyard resident himself, Schneider begins by describing the culture of the area's Nauset and Wampanoag Indians, noting that they had 125 years of contact with adventurous Europeans before the Mayflower's Pilgrims clambered ashore in Provincetown Harbor in 1620. Schneider identifies the geological machinations of the last ice age, which engulfed the northern half of the continent and sculpted the cape, islands and shoals he clearly loves. He retells the tragedy of the whaleship Essex as he juggles his way through New England's whaling heyday. More contemporary topics--such as the current milieus of the various communities and the ecological ravages of DDT in the 1960s--also emerge and recede in an energetic whirl of information. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GATHERING STORM: America's Militia Threat
by Morris Dees with James Corcoran. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1997 HarperPerennial Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: This is a book from one of America's great modern heroes (well, IMHO). In October 1994, six months before the bombing of an Oklahoma City federal office building killed 169 people, lawyer Morris Dees wrote to Attorney General Janet Reno, alerting her to the danger posed by right-wing militia groups, whose ranks were swelling with fanatical racists, neo-Nazis and other extremists. Dees had been monitoring violence-prone organizations for 14 years as investigator and chief trial counsel for the Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center based in Alabama. Written with reporter James Corcoran (whose Bitter Harvest tracked white supremacist meddling in the early 1980s farm crisis), this chilling expose gets deep inside the paranoid mentality of antigovernment hate groups, documenting the growing links among paramilitary units, white supremacists and neo-Nazis who preach armed confrontation. Dees traces Oklahoma bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh's ties to the militia and super-patriot underground, and he delineates striking parallels between the actual bombing and the fictional bombing done by McVeigh's hero in neo-Nazi William Pierce's 1978 novel, The Turner Diaries. [1 copy available]
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HARD TRAVELLIN': The Hobo and His History
by Kenneth Allsop. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1970 Plume Trade Paperback, first printing. Thin binder's glue strings down spine with tanning to white cover edges and moderate to dark tanning to interior page edges. Content: Reviewer: "Kenneth Allsop's book elegantly details the hobo, tramp and bum and their respective stories. Don't be fooled -- this is no simple history text book. Allsop fills his pages with stories of America in the midst of depression, the IWW, social inequality, class struggle, adventure and excitement. Now only that, but hobo and tramp folklore, song, philosophy and poetry and also present in this classic on the subject. Books on hobos and tramps are rare enough, but to have such a detailed and impassioned giant like this is a blessing to hobo, tramp and laymen alike." Are today's homeless living this legacy? Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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HOME BEFORE THE RAVEN CAWS: The Mystery of Indiana's Alaskan Totem Pole
by Richard D. Feldman. Color photos. B&W drawings by JoAnn George. Condition: NEW 2003 Guild Press & Eiteljorg Museum soft cover, no printing given. Content: From 1905 until 1939, an authentic Alaskan totem pole stood in the Indianapolis neighborhood of Golden Hill. How it got there - and what happened to it - became a mystery that was in danger of being lost. Also included is some history of the totem pole and the Native Americans who produce them. An enticing historical mystery. [1 copy available]
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MARTHA WASHINGTON: An American Life
by Patricia Brady. B&W photos section. Cover art by Michael Deas. Condition: NEW 2006 Penguin Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: The portrait of the beautiful, elegant young woman on the cover of this excellent biography will stun anyone used to seeing pictures of Martha Washington as a white-haired, matronly woman. And in a richly woven tapestry of social history and biography, historian Brady re-creates the 18th-century world of wealthy Virginia planters into which the elegant Martha, née Dandridge, was born and the "joyful duet" of her marriage to America's first president. Though born to wealth, Martha (1731–1802) was well schooled in domestic skills - from killing and plucking fowl to preserving fruits and vegetables - and the expected social graces. Just before she turned 19, Martha married Daniel Custis - whose father initially opposed the union, but Martha managed to persuade him otherwise - and moved to his large plantation, where she raised their two children until Custis's death in 1757. Two years later, as the owner of Custis's vast estate, she married George Washington and became the wife of a young colonel whose ambitions and military and political ingenuity catapulted him into the leadership of the colonies and later the republic. Devoted to George, Martha accompanied him on his sojourns during the Revolutionary War, and her considerable social skills were crucial in helping her husband navigate the difficult political waters of the presidency. Brady's splendid biography offers a compelling new portrait of this passionate, committed founding mother who has unjustly been obscured by others, such as Abigail Adams. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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McCARTHY: The Answer to "Tail Gunner Joe"
by Roy Cohn: The Man Who Knew Him Best. B&W photo section. Condition: Good +, 1977 Manor Books paperback, first printing. Light tanning to white cover edges with spine crease and light tanning to page edges. Content: In 1977 NBC aired their documentary on Senator Joe McCarthy and his Communist witch hunt from his position in the US Senate. It was one of the most shameful periods (1950s) in American history. Roy Cohn was McCarthy's chief counsel for the Committee on Un-American Activities. Cohn, still one of the most controversial figures in America, was evil, IMHO. He was eventually disbarred for fraud and died of AIDS - after persecuting gay men via the "Committee." At any rate, this book is his answer to the NBC Documentary, which he and many others thought to be a total lie about McCarthy & his activities. This is a book about two of the worst people ever to be involved in American politics. BUT it is essential to understanding the McCarthy Era. [1 copy available]
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THE MILITARIZATION OF THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, 1978 - 1992: Low-Intensity Conflict Doctrine Comes Home
by Timothy J. Dunn. Condition: NEW 1997 CMAS-Univ. of Texas Press Trade Paperback, second impression. Content: This provocative study argues that during the 1978-1992 period, U.S. immigration and drug enforcement policies and practices in the U.S.-Mexico border region became increasingly militarized. Timothy J. Dunn examines these policies and practices in detail and also considers them in relation to the strategy and tactics of the Pentagon doctrine of "low-intensity conflict." Developed during the 1980s for use in Central America and elsewhere, this doctrine is characterized by broad-ranging provisions for establishing social control over specific civilian populations, and its implementation has often been accompanied by widespread human rights violations. Dunn demonstrates that U.S. immigration and drug enforcement practices in the southwestern border region have coincided with many key features of low-intensity conflict doctrine. His findings are supported extensively by material from U.S. government documents, investigative reports from mainstream and alternative presses, interviews with federal law enforcement personnel in South Texas, and reports from human rights advocacy organizations. The study reflects a concern for human rights conditions in the U.S.-Mexico border region and is informed by the belief that the "official" story is usually but one version of events and should not be accepted uncritically. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MUCKRAKING: Three Landmark Articles
edited by with introduction by Ellen F. Fitzpatrick. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1994 Bedlam/St. Martin's Press Trade Paperback, fourth printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Reviewer: "This edition contains, three landmark articles that were all published in McClure's magazine in January 1903. The articles, "The Oil War of 1872" by Ida M. Tarbell; "The Shame of Minneapolis" by Lincoln Steffens; and "The Right To Work" by Ray Stannard Baker are indeed rare to find collected in one volume. Thankfully, for students of journalism and history they are collected here. When looking at all three articles, they might seem to a 21st century reader as a little flat and not all that shocking or sensational. However, if one looks back at some of the hokey pablum that many papers and magazines employed, these articles were nothing short of a bombshell. Some of the journalism of that era smacked of boosterism or partisan sentiment, but these articles were indeed beholden to none but the truth (or as close to that moving target as you can get). There is also a history of "muckraking" included. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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OUR SMALLEST TOWNS: Big Falls, Blue Eye, Bonanza & Beyond
by Dennis Kitchen. Intro by Garrison Keillor. B&W photos. Condition: NEW 1995 Chronicle Books over-sized softcover, second printing. Content: This is a wonderful book! Reviewer: "Here's a simple idea that worked great! Dennis Kitchen thought it would be fun to visit each of the 50 states and take a picture of the entire population of the smallest community in each. And that's basically what this book is - 50 panoramic photos of groups of beaming citizens posing in the midst of their tiny towns. Part of the genius of the thing is that the wide-angle lens shows not only the people, but also captures the buildings, streets, trees, mountains, and local dogs - i.e., what makes each community unique. The other part is that all but one of the communities fell right in with the author's idea (in that instance he shot the town but not the people). The text accompanying the photos recounts the ingenious ways some of the mayors devised to encourage their townsfolk to all be at the same place at the same time (not always 100-percent successful, but always close). Also recounted are various citizens' wry observations about life in a very small town. And when you ponder the photos, you realize that the folks looking out at you know a lot more about each other than a bookful of photos could reveal. But that's how it gets in small towns. All in all, this book leaves me feeling that just about anyone would be welcome in these 50 spots, even without a camera. Covered are Mustang, Texas; Bonanza, Colorado; and Greenville, New Mexico. [1 copy available]
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PLANTING DREAMS: A Swedish Immigrant's Journey to America (Planting Dreams Series, Book 1)
(SIGNED COPY) (Historical Fiction)
by Linda K. Hubalek. Condition: SIGNED by author half-title page. NEW 1998 Butterfield Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: This is the first book in the Planting Dreams series detailing the marriage of Charlotta Johnson and the decision of the new couple to immigrate to the Great Plains of America. This is not a great historical epoch, but an intimate story of one woman's family and the hardships and pleasures of homesteading in Kansas. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PUPPETMASTER: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
by Richard Hack. B&W photo section. Condition: NEW 2004 New Millennium hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: Hack brings a novelist's flair for drama and a journalist's nose for truth to the life this controversial figure. With unsourced renditions of Hoover's and others' internal monologues, Hack creates some transparency for the legendary FBI chief's tantalizingly opaque psyche. His most controversial conclusion about Hoover's private life is that, despite his weird intimacy with sidekick Clyde Tolson and his household collections of male nudes and Chinese ceramics, Hoover was not gay. Rather, he was dependent for sexual excitement on furtive perusal of smut from the FBI's Obscene Files and was enamored of certain Hollywood stars, named here. Hack's account of Hoover's public life, meanwhile, zings. He covers Hoover's career from his initial exploits tracking down dissidents through his headline-grabbing pursuit of Depression-era outlaws to his postwar crusade against left-wing subversion, one increasingly out of step with the country during his Vietnam-era decline. Hack's balanced but quite critical treatment details the brilliant self-promotion, which made Hoover a national hero, as well as the paranoid anticommunism, the secret files on presidents and pinkos alike, the illegal surveillance and wiretaps and the racist antagonism to the Civil Rights movement that later made him a villain in many eyes. [1 copy available]
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RAGTIME (Historical Fiction)
by E. L. Doctorow. Condition: UNREAD but not perfect, 1975 Random House hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), second printing. Although unread, this is still an older book with slight "dulling" (not fading) of the brown boards. The DJ has edgewear. Overall, I would still rate this as a very good copy of a great book. No price on the DJ - not clipped - just not there. Content: There is no simple or concise way to describe the storyline of "Ragtime, " E.L. Doctorow's best known work. This is a celebrated novel that combines the syncopation of ragtime and the literary sensibilities of a writer intrigued by history as literary device. Set primarily in Westchester County's New Rochelle but also in New York City and, briefly, Massachusetts, the novel follows the stories of real and fictional characters as they move from innocence to disillusionment, from peace time to the beginnings of racial conflict and World War I. [1 copy available]
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RECOLLECTIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE
by Eric Sloane. B&W drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD but not perfect, 1977 Ballantine soft cover, first printing. Light tanning to light tan cover edges with shelfwear crease back cover fore edge & top of back 10 pages top corners - you know when someone shoves a book back on the shelf when there is no room for it - well, that's what happened here. Interior clean & tight. Content: From one of America's favorite folk artists--74 pen-and-ink sketches created when the artist traveled the country as a sign painter in the early years of the twentieth century. Images include delightful impressions of streams winding through snow-covered landscapes, sturdy stone barns and farmhouses, covered bridges, farming tools and implements, water pumps, spring houses, and trees in all shapes and varieties. A delightful collection of drawings, plus nostalgic, autobiographical commentary on the roads traveled and the sights seen. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ST. LOUIS (Documentary History of American Cities series)
edited by Selwyn K. Troen and Glen E. Holt. B&W charts. Condition: UNREAD 1977 New Viewpoints Trade paperback, first printing. The only problems is that I dropped the book and put a pale diagonal crease bottom back cover. Oops! Rest of the book is new/perfect. Content: The history of the city of Saint Louis from 1963 (as a colonial outpost on the frontier) to 1975 (bustling, important American city). Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SHADOW ENEMIES: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States (History Channel Nazi Spies in America
by Alex Abella & Scott Gordon. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2003 Lyons Press Trade Paperback, no printing given. Content: In 1942, with Americans still on edge after Pearl Harbor, four German-American operatives disembarked from a U-boat and waded ashore, soon melting into the crowds of Manhattan, the first of several teams assigned to blow up manufacturing and transportation centers as well as Jewish-owned department stores in the United States. Novelist and journalist Abella and Gordon, commissioner with the Los Angeles County Superior Court and a professor of law at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, depict a crew of would-be saboteurs with varying degrees of discipline, experience and dedication to the Nazi cause. Their leader, George Dasch, had lived in the U.S. as a boy, but had drifted from job to job without ever satisfying his grand ambitions. Returning to Germany, he joined the military and was eventually recruited for the terrorist mission in the U.S., despite his ambivalence toward Hitler's National Socialism. Realizing that the Allies would most likely win the war, Dasch eventually turned himself and his co-conspirators in to the FBI, with the thought of making himself a war hero. While the exploits of Dasch, his partners and their sympathetic contacts are fascinating, also engrossing is the U.S. government's handling of the ensuing court case. J. Edgar Hoover, closely involved, knew that his agency's reputation was at stake. President Roosevelt, concerned about the lack of control in a civilian trial, ordered a military tribunal, which eventually ordered the execution of many of the conspirators and several of their sympathizers. Dasch was returned to Germany after the war, where he was greeted as a traitor. By painting these sometimes reluctant and occasionally bumbling terrorists in such vivid detail, the authors have re-created timely and compelling series of events with an immediacy that hits close to home. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THEIR LIVES AND NUMBERS: The Condition of Working People in Massachusetts, 1870-1900 (Documents in American Social History) (Paperback)
edited by Henry F. Bedford. B&W era photos and charts illustrate. Condition: NEW 1995 Cornell University Press Trade Paperback, first edition. Tiny edgewear & light "turn-up" front cover fore edge. Content: This book brings together narrative and statistical documents from the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor's first thirty years, providing a detailed picture of the experience of working families in an industrial society. [1 copy available]
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TRAPPED: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
by Karen Tintori. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 2002 Atria hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: Reviewer: "Tintori's account of the Cherry, Ill. mining disaster quite unexpectedly turns out to be one of the best books I have read this year. Because the author's grandfather worked at that mine (he was home nursing a hangover the day of the disaster), Tintori was a woman on a mission. Her meticulously researched book takes you back nearly a century and recreates the scene so very well. We learn about the town and the imigrant miners who risked their lives each day to eke out a living. Tintori then recalls the unlikely set of tragic events that caused the fire at the mine and the heroic actions of the dozen men who time and time again went back into the inferno attempting to rescue those who were trapped. Fortunately, their efforts did not go unrewarded!!! The shocking part is that the mine continued normal operations for a couple of hours after the fire broke out, causing considerably more casualties than would have otherwise occurred. As a result of this tragedy, significant changes were made to existing Workmen's Compensation and coal mining safety laws. The town of Cherry maintains a small archive of the mine fire in the local town library." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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TURNING POINTS: Watershed Events in American Life and Culture
edited by Paul Travis and Jeffrey Robb. Condition: NEW 1998 Forbes Custom Publishing, first edition, first printing. Perfect. [353 pages] Content: 23 essays on important events in American historyand how they changed us, i.e., Jim Crow, Herald Angels on women's rights; treatment of Native Americans, etc. Even covers Lizzie Borden's trial. Excellent resource for teachers or home schooling. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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WE ARE NOT AFRAID: Strength and Courage from the Town That Inspired the #1 Bestseller and Award-Wining Movie October Sky
by Homer Hickam. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2002 HCI Trade Paperback, assumed first printing. Invidible, short "crease" (binding error?) top front cover. Content: Today, fear affects even the strongest of us. Sometimes it's immediate, caused by a sense of imminent danger-the kind we felt after terrorists destroyed the magnificent World Trade Center, tore a giant wound in the Pentagon and killed thousands of people. But sometimes fear becomes a normal way of life. In his best-selling memoir October Sky (aka Rocket Boys), Hickam introduced us to the rugged town of his youth, Coalwood, West Virginia, and the people who took on the hazardous and often brutal enterprise of coal mining. To survive and prosper, these people relied on an approach to living that would get them through hard times with an almost unnatural resilience. Over a lifetime, they learned to take on these attitudes: We are proud of who we are. We stand up for what we believe. We keep our families together. We trust in God but rely on ourselves. These attitudes are summed up in the Coalwood Assumption: We Are Not Afraid. Through poignant memories of his youth, best selling author Homer Hickam helps lead you beyond fear to find the courage and strength to live more happily and look toward to future with optimism. [1 copy available]
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VOICES OF PROTEST: HUEY LONG, FATHER COUGHLIN & THE GREAT DEPRESSION
by Alan Brinkley. B&W era photos. Condition: Good- 1984 Vintage Books Trade Paperback first printing. Book has a lot of problems: a strange wrinkling of the film covering of the front cover (binding error?), diagonal crease bottom front cover corner, name stamped on all edges has been marked out, with some highlighting and underlining. Not collectible by any means, but still readable especially for college classes. Content: This book is actually an important character study of two men who were important players during the time of the Depression, both demagogic public figures appealing basically to the suffering and confused "under class." Want to understand how "it could happen here?" Read this book and then be afraid. [1 copy available]
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THE WHITE HOUSE TRANSCRIPTS: The full text of the Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon
introduction by R. W. Apple of the New York Times. Condition: UNREAD 1974 Bantam paperback, first printing. Pale tanning to page and white cover edges. Interior clean & tight. Content: Just as the title says: the recordings from the Oval Office of President Nixon which became part of the Watergate hearings. [1 copy available]
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WHITE HURRICANE: A Great Lakes November Gale and America's Deadliest Maritime Disaster
by David G. Brown. B&W photo section. Condition: NEW 2002 McGraw Hill Trade Paperback, first printing. Remainder mark bottom edges. Tiny, tiny edgewear. Content: As ships left port on Friday, November 7, 1913, a deadly atmospheric disturbance was already churning Lake Superior and spreading east. By Sunday night, Lake Huron was battered by winds up to 90 miles an hour, whiteout blizzard conditions, and mountainous 35-foot waves. The White Hurricane became the worst Great Lakes storm on record: twelve ships sank, and thirty-one more were stranded on rocks and beaches. At least 248 sailors lost their lives, and the city of Cleveland faced the worst natural disaster in its history. In this book, nationally recognized nautical writer and experienced Great Lakes mariner Brown uses firsthand accounts and contemporary newspaper reports to re-create the desperate struggles aboard doomed and damaged vessels and on shore, and reconstructs the progress of the storm in a tight chronology packed with vivid detail and unforgettable drama. [1 copy available]
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