Books: History, Politics, Biography

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History, Biography & Politics

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Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits and the Struggle for the Constitution by Lawrence Goldstone (2005)
New hardcover $12.99
An eye-opening examination of America's foundation
On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America’s Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last. Most were driven more by pragmatic, regional interests than by idealistic vision. Many were meeting for the first time, others after years of contention, and the inevitable clash of personalities would be as intense as the advocacy of ideas or ideals.

No issue was of greater concern to the delegates than that of slavery: it resounded through debates on the definition of treason, the disposition of the rich lands west of the Alleghenies and the admission of new states, representation and taxation, the need for a national census, and the very make-up of the legislative and executive branches of the new government. As Lawrence Goldstone provocatively makes clear in Dark Bargain, "to a significant and disquieting degree, America’s most sacred document was molded and shaped by the most notorious institution in its history."
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Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull, by Gary Nash
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Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army. During the Revolution, Hull served Kosciuszko as an orderly, and the two became fast friends. Kosciuszko’s abhorrence of bondage shaped histhinking about the oppression in his own land. When Kosciuszko returned to America in the 1790s, bearing the wounds of his own failed revolution, he and Jefferson forged an intense friendship based on their shared dreams for the global expansion of human freedom. They sealed their bond with a blood compact whereby Jefferson would liberate his slaves upon Kosciuszko’s death. But Jefferson died without fulfilling the promise he had made to Kosciuszko-and to a fledgling nation founded on the principle of liberty and justice for all.
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, by Cokie Roberts
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Roberts brings us women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favoured recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed and Martha Washington–proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.
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The Girl From Botany Bay, by Carolly Erickson
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"On a moonless night in the early 1790s, prisoner Mary Bryant, her husband William, her two small children, and seven other convicts stole a twenty-foot longboat and slipped noiselessly out of Sydney Cove, Australia, eluding their captors.They sailed north, all the way to Indonesia, traveling some thirty-six hundred treacherous miles in ten weeks-- an incredible feat of seamanship. For a time, Mary and her companions were able to convince the local Dutch colonial authorities that they were survivors of a shipwreck, but eventually the truth emerged and they found themselves back in captivity, in irons, on their way to England for execution. In The Girl from Botany Bay, distinguished historian and biographer Carolly Erickson tells Mary Bryant's remarkable story at full length for the first time-- the story of a woman whose impoverished Cornwall childhood led to a life of outlaw daring and thievery, then to harsh imprisonment and exile."
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Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003, by William Eskridge
New hardcover $16.95
ALA Stonewall Book Award winner for nonfiction.
A fascinating one-of-a-kind history of the government’s regulation of sexual behavior

From the Pentagon to the wedding chapel, there are few issues more controversial today than gay rights. As William Eskridge persuasively demonstrates in Dishonorable Passions, there is nothing new about this political and legal obsession. The American colonies and the early states prohibited sodomy as the “crime against nature,” but rarely punished such conduct if it took place behind closed doors. By the twentieth century, America’s emerging regulatory state targeted “degenerates” and (later) “homosexuals.” The witch hunts of the McCarthy era caught very few Communists but ruined the lives of thousands of homosexuals. The nation’s sexual revolution of the 1960s fueled a social movement of people seeking repeal of sodomy laws, but it was not until the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) that private sex between consenting adults was decriminalized. With dramatic stories of both the hunted (Walt Whitman and Margaret Mead) and the hunters (Earl Warren and J. Edgar Hoover), Dishonorable Passions reveals how American sodomy laws affected the lives of both homosexual and heterosexual Americans.
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Your Rugged Constitution, by Bruce and Esther Findlay (Stanford, 1959)
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A Bill Becomes Law: The Civil Rights Act of 1960 (1962)
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Small paperback that explained the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which was in response to Southern states’ attempts at voter obstruction (following the Civil Rights Act of 1957).
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In Search of America, by Peter Jennings
New hardcover $50.00
This is a “coffee table book” of photograhs and musings on America and a new book offered at the publisher’s price.
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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking, by Jeff Gordinier (2008)
New hardcover $12.99
Cheer up!
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Our Purpose: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, by Al Gore
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F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century by Mark Levine
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The turbulent spring of 1974 found Americans captivated by the exploits of Richard Nixon, Patty Hearst, Hank Aaron and Evel Knievel. Twisting out of the sky into this moment of history was a severe weather outbreak unlike any other in American history, when 148 tornadoes stalked across 13 states. More than 300 people were killed and 5,000 injured. This book revisits this "Superoutbreak" of tornadoes on April 3 and 4 and places it within the broader context of the political and social upheaval of the times.
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester (2005)
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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America’s relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet’s most sudden and destructive force.

In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale. The quake resulted from a rupture in a part of the San Andreas fault, which lies underneath the earth’s surface along the northern coast of California. Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines throughout the Bay area, and effectively destroyed the gold rush capital that had stood there for a half century.
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Mandela : The Authorized Biography, by Anthony Sampson
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The life of Nelson Mandela is one of the most extraordinary epics of the twentieth century. An almost-forgotten prisoner on Robben Island twenty years ago, apparently doomed to a helpless existence as a victim of apartheid, he not only survived but almost single-handedly saved South Africa from potential chaos, to become one of the most widely admired leaders in the world. Mandela's myth is dazzling; in this magnificent biography Anthony Sampson penetrates it to show us the man himself.

Sampson has known Mandela since 1951. He was given Mandela's complete cooperation, including access to twenty-seven years' worth of unpublished correspondence from prison and many other private documents--even the original draft of Mandela's prison autobiography, long thought to be lost. He interviewed virtually every significant living figure associated with Mandela, from childhood schoolmates to Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie, to former president F. W. de Klerk. Mandela himself checked and annotated the manuscript, but Sampson was left free to make his own judgments about the man, which he has done with refreshing candor.
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The Victoria and the Triton (1964), by Bern Dibner
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Bern Dibner's collection of scientific history texts and ephemera formed the first rare books collection at the Smithsonian. He published three titles, including this one on submarines.
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African Bourgeoisie, by Leo Kuper (Yale, 1965)
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Melvin J. Herskovits Award (1966) Race, class and politics in South Africa during the Apartheid regime. An online review is available at this link from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1525/aa.1965.67.5.02a00390/asset/aa.1965.67.5.02a00390.pdf;jsessionid=92E32AB01A498D44101962FE988EE567.f02t01?v=1&t=huiyj890&s=647089ebcb380c8afdd605bae1c93373b227c62c American Anthropoloist, 1965.

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Double Lives: An Autobiography, by William Plomer
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Plomer was a South African and British novelist who was associate with Laurens van der Post in attempts to integrate South African society. Virginia Woolf was his publisher in England. He became an editor himself at Faber and Faber and edited Ian Flemings’ “Goldfinger,” which is dedicated to him.
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Nehru: A Political Biography, by Michael Brecher
Paperback $19.99
Watumull Prize (1960)
This biography of Nehru is also a political history of India over the forty years of Nehru's involvement in the freedom movement and the politics of the formative years of Indian nationhood. It traces Nehru's political and psychological development, exploring the complexities of his character. Brecher assesses Nehru as a leader and also his place in history.
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BOLIVAR: LIBERATOR OF A CONTINENT, by Bill Boyd
New Hardcover (no dust jacket, as issued) $12.99
In this first English language biography of South America's greatest hero, Simn Bolivar's life unfolds like a Greek tragedy. From defeat, he rises to triumph, liberates Venezuela, Columbia, Panam, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, falls into disfavor and exile, only to be worshipped, idolized, and deified after his death.
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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, by Mari Sandoz
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Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to confine the Sioux on reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, one of the last important chiefs to do so, only to meet a violent death.
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Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, by Wilma Pearl Mankiller, Michael Wallis
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In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native American values that form the foundation of our nation
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Operation Sea Lion by Peter Fleming (1957)
Used Hardcover (no dust jacket) $9.99
Peter was the brother of Ian Fleming. He penned this New York Times best selling account of the secret naval invasion of Great Britain planned (but not executed) by Germany to commence in September of 1940. Based upon military archives and participant recollections. This is an ex-retirement home library copy.
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Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, by Leonard Baker
Hardcover (out-of-print) $19.99
Pulitzer Prize (Biography or Autobiography, 1979)
An antidote to cynicism, a story of courage and forgiveness
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Hirohito: The war years, by Paul Manning
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World War II frontline reporter Paul Manning wrote this account of Emperor Hirohito’s life during the war years. Using archives, minutes, excerpts from the diaries of Hirohito’s close aides, and eyewitness accounts, the author takes the reader from prewar Japan to the attack on Pearl Harbor to the fire-bombing of Tokyo and finally to the surrender and occupation of Japan, documenting Hirohito’s part in the events throughout. The book discusses in depth the emperor’s crucial role in military decision making and also explores his close relationship with General Douglas MacArthur. It includes appendices on the Operation Olympic invasion plan, the Potsdam Declaration, and the principal individuals surrounding both Hirohito and MacArthur.
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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, by Frances Stonor Saunders (2010)
New hardcover $14.95
Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction Longlist
At 10.58am on Wednesday April 7 1926, Benito Mussolini paused to salute an ecstatic crowd in the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome. As a group of students broke into song, he cocked his head in their direction. At that moment, a slight, bespectacled, shabby woman, standing less than a foot away, took aim and shot him at point-blank range. The first bullet grazed Il Duce’s nose, releasing a spectacular torrent of blood; the second jammed in the pistol chamber.

The Honourable Violet Gibson, who believed she was acting on God’s orders, had just come closer than anyone else to assassinating Mussolini. She had, as she would later boast, shaped history that morning – though not in the way she would have liked…
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Letters and Dispatches 1924-1944, by Raoul Wallenberg (1995)
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From the papers of Wallenberg, considered a “righteous gentile” for his protection of Jews during World War II. One of the most remarkable and stirring epsiodes of World War II involved a young Swede from a distinguished banking family. From his neutral country, Raoul Wallenberg had watched with growing horror the treatment of the Jews. When, in June 1944, he was approached to oversee an operation to rescue Hungarian Jews slated by Adolf Eichmann for deportation and death, he accepted the seemingly hopeless mission. Hurriedly accorded diplomatic status by his own government, Wallenberg arrived in Budapest in early July of that year. By the time of his arrest by the Soviet army on January 17, 1945, roughly six months later, he had helped save the lives of more than 100,000 people.
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In Retrospect:: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, by Robert S. McNamara
Used Hardcover (no dustjacket) $9.99
McNamara examines his role in history.
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, by Rick Perlstein (2008)
New hardcover $9.99
New York Times Notable book and NPR book recommendation. Perlstein writes for The Nation, Mother Jones and other outlets and is the author of biographies of Goldwater, Nixon and his newest, about Ronald Reagan. Perlstein’s excellent research provides a history of the conservative moment in the U.S. in the 20th century.
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Inside Hanoi's Secret Archives, by Malcom Mcconnell (1995)
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Inside Hanoi's Secret Archives reveals military and diplomatic secrets that are bound to make headlines - about Hanoi's systematic withholding of key POW documents, about MIA cases that the Vietnamese have long denied any knowledge of, about special operations to search for Americans held in Laos, and about POWs who were massacred by villagers or even tortured to death. The Vietnamese military's audacious "back channel" to break the MIA stalemate is disclosed in dramatic detail. The book includes previously unreleased photographs of American POWs, living and dead, from the archives of the Peoples Army of Vietnam, as well as photographs of the Hanoi Military Museum collection - including the "Red Book," the Vietnamese Army's central index of information about POWs
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White House Diary, by Jimmy Carter
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The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter—filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world. Carter is now widely seen as one of the truly wise men of our time. Offering an unprecedented look at both the man and his tenure, this fascinating book will stand as a unique contribution to the history of the American presidency.
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Changing History, by Geraldine Ferraro
1st edition Hardcover $14.95
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The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, by Taylor Branch
New hardcover $15.99
Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor best book.
Taylor Branch, a brilliant historian best known for his trilogy on the civil rights era, taped a series of secret interviews with Bill Clinton throughout the latter's presidency that will be invaluable to future historians. This is Branch's story of the project, how he became reacquainted with Clinton after working with him briefly on the McGovern campaign, the complications involved in getting him into the White House on short notice for interviews, his dogged yet friendly approach to the sessions with Clinton. He's a brilliant writer who gives a unique portrait of himself as historian-at-work.
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The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years, by Haynes Johnson
Hardcover $12.00
The Clinton years -- a time of unprecedented wealth, of breathtaking progress in tech., the world-changing Internet, & the genome with the med. miracles it promised. Set against these triumphs was another America dominated by all-news TV & the gossip journalism of the Internet, driven by a celebrity culture, lacking civility, racially divided, & presided over by Bill Clinton. Here is the ultimate TV story -- the trial of O. J. Simpson which says much about violence, sex, race, & gossip in the media. Enter Monica Lewinsky, with Linda Tripp & Lucy Goldberg plotting to bring down the Pres., while Vernon Jordan works to save him. Concludes with an account of the election of 2000.
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Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers, by Susan Morrison
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In Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary, New Yorker editor Susan Morrison has compiled a timely collection of original pieces by America's most notable women writers. The result is a dazzling and revealing pointillist portrait of this complex and controversial politician. Includes Deborah Tannen, Susan Cheever, and Lorrie Moore. Out of print in hardcover.
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Madam Secretary: A Memoir, by Madeleine Albright
Paperback $6.99
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I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, by Rick Bragg
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Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, by Mary Tillman
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A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor, by Dana Canedy
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In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. Charles King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated road near Baghdad. His son, Jordan, was seven months old.
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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, by Linda J. Bilmes, Joseph E. Stiglitz
New hardcover $7.99
In this sobering study, Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard University's Linda J. Bilmes reveal a wide range of costs that have been hidden from U.S. taxpayers and left out of the debate about our involvement in Iraq. That involvement, the authors conservatively estimate, will cost us more than $3 trillion. "Stiglitz and Bilmes have clearly demonstrated the need for Congress and the administration to ensure that those making sacrifices today will see those sacrifices honored in the future."—Dave W. Gorman, executive director, Disabled American Veterans
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Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantánamo, by Eric Saar (2005)
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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, by Robin Wright
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New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq, by Peter Eisner.
New hardcover (out-of-print) $39.99
Hard to find title, no longer in print. Filled with headline-making revelations, this explosive account by two award-winning investigative reporters tracks the behind-the-scenes story of the forged intelligence document that the Bush administration used to push the nation into war with Iraq
Like Barbara Tuchman’s 1958 classic, The Zimmerman Telegram, about the decoded German wire that drew the United States into World War I, The Italian Letter traces the road to war by following the scandal surrounding the Italian Letter, a fraudulent intelligence document that cooked up proof that the African country of Niger was prepared to supply Saddam Hussein with uranium for nuclear weapons and allowed Bush to say that British intelligence has found evidence that Saddam Hussein sought uranium as justification for war.
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978, by Kai Bird
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National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Autobiography/Memoir, 2010)
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Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters, by Richard A. Clarke (2008)
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Member of the House: Letters of a Congressman By Clem Miller edited by John W. Baker (1962)
New but older paperback $5.99
Miller was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses. Rep. Miller authored the legislation that established Point Reyes National Seashore. He served in Congress from January 3, 1959, until his death in an airplane accident near Eureka, California, October 7, 1962.
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Rare and Collectible



Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts, by Lin Shi Khan
New hardcover $75.00
From a discovered manuscript, circa 1935, found in the papers of Joseph North, an editor of the radical New Masses (with a forward by New Masses editior Mike Gold). Includes reproductions of news stories published at the time related to the case and 188 pages of linoleum cut illustrations and text. This NYU Press edition is the only version of this document published since its creation. New introduction by Andrew H. Lee and forward by Robin D.G. Kelley. (150 pages, with alternate pages of illustration and text.)

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Twelve Causes of Dishonesty by Henry Ward Beecher
Hardcover $199.99
Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th Century, as well as the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Hardcover miniature 1st edition in very good condition with paste down on cloth cover. Published in 1896 by Henry Altemus as part the “Eternal Life Series.”

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A Texan Looks at Lyndon: A Study in Illegitimate Power by Haley J. Everts
New paperback $39.99
Haley was a member of the John Birch Society and a critic of LBJ. Haley's admirers claimed in 1964 that the book was outsold in Texas only by the Holy Bible". Copies of this first paperback edition are scarce.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower: A Gauge of Greatness. An Associated Press Biography (1969) by Relman Morin
New hardcover $19.99
Photographs and text. An oversized hardcover with dust jacket, printed to commererate Eisenhower upon his death in March of 1969. The book is in fine condition. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear. In storage for more than 40 years until this offering. Multiple copies available.

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JFK: What Does History Say Now? By Collectors Publications
New magazine $24.99
Published in 1965 to commererate President Kennedy two years after his assassination.

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Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the '70's in Words and Pictures, by Suzanne Levine (1984)
New but older paperback $29.99
Oversized paperback with photographs and texts commemerating the emergence of the women’s right movement as chronicled by Ms Magazine
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The Year of the People, by Eugene J McCarthy
1st edition Hardcover $75.00
McCarthy’s description of his presidential run in 1968, prompted by his opposition to the Vietnam War. History as it was lived by McCarthy, including his comments about the political process of the Democratic primary.
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The Civil War in Depth: History in 3-D, by Bob Zeller
New hardcover $49.99
More than 150 of the most compelling views of the war -- some of them well known in their one-dimensional form; all of them remarkable windows on another time. Complete with a stereoscopic viewer that unveils each image in 3-D, The Civil War in Depth offers scenes that come to life in a way no two-dimensional photograph ever could. The remarkable collection includes the first war action photograph ever taken -- the shelling of Fort Sumter in 1863 -- as well as more than a dozen Civil War images never published until now.

The Civil War in Depth II, by Bob Zeller
New hardcover $49.99
The second volume in Zeller’s photographic history of the Civil War. Civil War in Depth, Volume II, features 170 vivid images, many never previously published. Especially significant is the portfolio of rare, color images. A companion to the perennial Civil War in Depth, this all-new book includes a redesigned, easy-to-use stereoscopic viewer, which unveils each image in 3-D—as it was originally taken and meant to be seen, selected from the unparalleled private archives of Robin Stanford. An entire chapter is devoted to discoveries, including the rarest Gettysburg stereograph and the lost cyclorama painting of the Second Bull Run. Additional chapters include portraits of black soldiers' experiences, of camp life, and the haunting starkness of the battlefield

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Civil War: A New View in Close-up 3-D, by Marc Frey, Mark Gerber
New hardcover $49.99
Oversized three-dimensional exploration of Civil War armies and actions using cutting-edge paper engineering. Six full-color pop-up spreads illustrate a fully equipped field tent, detailed weapons with moving parts, the U.S.S. Monitor, the destruction of Columbia, South Carolina, the Battle of the Wilderness.

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