History American

Hardcover. Iola, Wisconsin, Krause Publications, inc., 3rd Expanded, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 482 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial paper boards, no dust jacket. Slight wear and rubbing along edges, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 510 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Red cover boards, white quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board, agewear to covers. Dust jacket has edgewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. A historical narrative about WWI in the United States.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 232 pages. The question "What is American art?" might conjure the hyperrealism of Raphaelle Peale and William Harnett, the bold graphic style of Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence, or the Precisionist forms of Charles Sheeler. Little known, however, is that such notions of American art are significantly owed to a Russian Jewish immigrant named Edith Halpert. The founder of the Downtown Gallery in New York, Halpert shaped an identity for American art, declaring that its thrilling heterogeneity and democratic values were what most distinguished it from the European avant-garde. For forty-plus years, Halpert's gallery brought recognition and market success to now-legendary American artists--among them Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, in addition to the artists mentioned above. She relentlessly championed nonwhite, female, and unknown artists and was a formative advisor in the shaping of many of the nation's most celebrated art museums and collections, from San Francisco to Boston. Not content with those achievements, she also pioneered the appreciation and collecting of American folk art. Richly illustrated with works that passed through her groundbreaking gallery, this book tells the extraordinary and largely overlooked story of her career and legacy. The artists Halpert launched into the American canon are household names--and this book compellingly argues that hers should be, as well. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY/London, Macmillan / Collier Macmillan, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 517 pages, b&w illustrations. Life of the signer of the Declaration of Independence, first US Attorney General, and second Secretary of State. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 119 pages, maps, index. As WWII ground to a close, whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the British and American armies, chose to halt at the Elbe River and leave Berlin to the Red Army. Could he have beaten the Russians to Berlin? If so, why didn't he? If he had, would the Berlin question have arisen? Would Germany have been divided as it was? Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to campaign for the presidency in 1952 was a pivotal even in America's cold war years-- it influenced almost a decade of foreign and domestic policy. Based on recently discovered letters and diaries, William Pickett provides the first complete account of Eisenhower's decision to run, with surprising new conclusions. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages. With the landmark election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, decades of Republican ascendancy gave way to a half century of Democratic dominance. It was nothing less than a major political realignment, as the direction of federal policy shifted from conservative to liberal-and liberalism itself was redefined in the process. Electing FDR is the first book in seventy years to examine in its entirety the 1932 presidential election that ushered in the New Deal. Award-winning historian Donald Ritchie looks at how candidates responded to the nation's economic crisis and how voters evaluated their performance. More important, he explains how the Democratic Party rebuilt itself after three successive Republican landslides: where the major shifts in party affiliation took place, what contingencies contributed to FDR's victory, and why the new coalition persisted as long as it did. Ritchie challenges prevailing assumptions that the Depression made Roosevelt's election inevitable. He shows that FDR came close to losing the nomination to contenders who might have run to the right of Hoover, and discusses the role of newspapers and radio in presenting the candidates to voters. He also analyzes Roosevelt's campaign strategies, recounting his attempts to appeal to disaffected voters of all ideological stripes, often by altering his positions to broaden his popularity. With the advent of the New Deal, Americans came to enjoy a wide federal safety net that provided everything from old age pensions to rural electricity-government innovations so embraced by voters that even later conservative presidents recognized their importance. Ritchie traces this legacy through the Reagan and Bush years, but he relates how FDR in 1932 was often vague about the specifics of his program and questions whether voters really knew what they were in for with the New Deal. Clean copy.

Softcover. Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. Includes table of contents, bibliography, index, maps and b&w photographs and illustrations. The 11 exiles were: John Howe, Printer; Francis Green; Joseph Durfee, Shelburne Pioneer; Molly Brant, Mohawk Heroine; Ward Chipman, founding father of New Brunswick; William Schurman of Prince Edward Island; Sir John Johnson; Ranna Cossit; Sarah Sherwood; Boston King and William Jarvis.

Softcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages. A detailed study of the politics underlying British policies of mercantilism in the American colonies. Focusing on the political activity of interest groups in the British Empire of the eighteenth century, Professor Kammen relates political influence in Georgian England to American colonial history, to the early history of the industrial revolution, to the incredible flood of writings in the later eighteenth century on political economy, and to the dynamics of Anglo-American political society, public life, and the empire. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 205 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Small hole on dj front.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 740 pages. Historian Musicant offers a detailed examination of the American war that catapulted the nation to imperial status. Musicant offers a portrait of a nation increasingly torn between the desire for isolation and the yearning for a place on the international stage. That conflict was at first fought out in the nation's newspapers, which managed to gradually sway public opinion toward involvements abroad. The sinking of the American warship Maine in the harbor of Havana pushed America over the edge, and McKinley was compelled to declare war on Spain. The war itself lasted less than a year and featured only a few large-scale battles, but Musicant is able to wring considerable drama from this thorough narrative of events. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 307 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1978, more than 2,500 letters written over a 30 year friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. The find created a controversy over the nature of the women's relationship. Streitmatter transcribed and annotated more than 300 of these letters, published here for the first time, and placed them within the context of these two women's extraordinary lives. Roosevelt is surprisingly sarcastic and funny, tender and vulnerable, and even, at times, judgmental and petty. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages. Deals with the parliamentary group in England which claimed the Whig tradition during the American Revolution. The Americans asserted rights that were essentially Whig, but at the same time repudiated the authority of parliament, the stronghold of Whig tradition. Fading to spine, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 3rd pr., 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt design on spine, 480 pages. Ten b&w illustrations including frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Binding slightly cocked. Some marking to edges. Rubbing and light edgewear to cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, Coronado Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages, green cloth over boards. Limited to 400 copies. The author was a scholar on the banking business in the early American west, especially Kansas.

Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1stt, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Three essays (on the Shelterbelt Project, New Deal critics, and FDR's attempt to expand the Supreme Court) make up the second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures; foreword by C. B. Smith; edited by Harold M. Hollingsworth and William F. Holmes. Bound in bright green cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on the front board and spine.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Horace Wentworth, 1st edition, 1853,

Hardcover. Everett, City of Everett, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Preliminary ad pages with darkening, light soil. 2.5" horizontal closed tear on foredge of pages 45-48. Moderate wear to black cloth covers. Clean, unmarked text. Scarce.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Cambridge City Council/Charles Sever, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 163 pages, 9 b&w plates. Brown cloth with dark brown and gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Bright, clean copy with just a little edgewear to rear cover edge.

Hardcover. Hampton NH, Peter E. Randall, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering, two reprinted publications in one volume. B&w illustrations. Perry's work originally published in 1913; and Bell's in 1876. Fold-out map of Exeter of the past with a facsimile of 1776 newspaper page on rear. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Power was at the heart of FDR's relationship with the media: the power of the nation's chief executive to control his public messages versus the power of the free press to act as an independent watchdog over the president and the government. This compelling study points to Roosevelt's consummate news management as a key to his political artistry and leadership legacy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Black & white Illustrations by author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips, otherwise very good. A noted artist-illustrator presents a pictorial gallery of the men and women of the American frontier West in pencil drawings: the cowboy, rancher, stagecoach bandit, marshal, riverboat captain, vaquero, peddler, gunsmith, mountain man, wagon cook, missionary, etc.