Creator: Ramon H. Myers
Publication date: 1993-01
Dewey code: 951.05092
Price: $24.95
Review The Storm Clouds Clear over China: The Memoir of Ch'En Li-Fu, 1900-1993 (Studies in Economic, Social and Political Change, the Republic of China) / Hoover Institution Press:
Publication date: 1915
Review Paths of glory: Impressions of war written at and near the front / George H. Doran company:We passed through it late in the afternoon¿this little Belgian town called Montignies St. Christophe¿just twenty-four hours behind a dust-colored German column. I am going to try now to tell how it looked to us.
Publication date: 1890
Review Autobioraphy of Dr. Thomas H. Barton: Including a history of the Fourth regt. West Va. vol. inf'y, with an account of Col. Lightburn's retreat down the ... losses by disease, desertion and in battle / West Virginia Print. Co:
Creator: Kevin C. Murphy
Publication date: 1998-04
Dewey code: 973.781
Price: $109.95
Review The Civil War Letters of Joseph K. Taylor of the Thirty-Seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Studies in American History) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1998-04-23
Dewey code: 858.809
Price: $65.00
Review Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant Archangel / Oxford University Press, USA:Novelist, playwright, and poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) shocked and dazzled early twentieth-century Europe with his sexual exploits, military feats, and political escapades. More than any other figure since the unification of Italy, he casts a shadow forward to the present day. His relationships with the worlds of Italian culture, theatre, and politics were unique, fiery, and always controversial. His literary achievements have influenced generations of Italian writers. This is the most authoritative biography of the man in any language.
Publication date: 2000-09-14
Dewey code: 801.95092
List Price: $257.00
Price: $257.00
Review D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939 / Oxford University Press, USA:This is the first biography in any language of "Comrade Prince" D. S. Mirsky, who uniquely participated in three distinctive episodes of modern European culture. In late imperial St. Petersburg he was a poet, a student of Oriental languages and ancient history, and also a Guards officer. After fighting in World War I and the Russian Civil War, Mirsky emigrated, taught at London University, and became a literary critic and historian, writing prolifically in English, and also in Russian as a leading member of the Eurasian movement centered in Paris. His closest literary relationships were with Marina Tsvetaeva and Aleksei Remizov, and later with Maksim Gorky. In 1926-7 he published A History of Russian Literature, written in English, which remains the standard introduction to the subject. While in London he lived in Bloomsbury and knew the Woolfs; he also knew T. S. [+]Eliot, and was the first Russian critic to write about him. Mirsky became a Communist in 1931 and returned to Stalin's Moscow the following year, becoming a prominent Soviet critic, and in particular championing Boris Pasternak. In 1937 he was arrested, and died in the Gulag. This biography draws on much unpublished material, including Mirsky's NKVD files.
Publication date: 2007-11-21
Dewey code: 973.7092
List Price: $300.00
Price: $237.65
Review The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, 4-volume set: Legal Documents and Cases / University of Virginia Press:Many in politics began their careers in the law; no one has cut such a distinguished path in this regard as Abraham Lincoln. Before his presidency, from 1836 to 1861, Lincoln practiced law in the courts of central Illinois. Part of an ambitious undertaking to collect and publish the surviving documentary record of Lincoln's life, this four-volume set addresses his quarter-century law career. Arranged chronologically, the four volumes present documents from more than fifty of Lincoln's most interesting, important, or representative cases, all of which are transcribed and annotated. The edition features illuminating essays on Lincoln's career as a lawyer and as a court official, as well as a biographical directory, an extensive legal glossary, and a cumulative index covering all four volumes. Lincoln first studied the law, through private reading, during an early stint in the state legislature. His passion was evident from the start-he felt that a reverence for the law should be "the political religion of the nation"-and he distinguished himself rapidly. By his early thirties, he was already considered one of the finest attorneys in Illinois. The move of the state capital to Springfield (a shift that Lincoln, as a legislator, helped effect) brought the state supreme court, as well as the U. S. [+]circuit and district courts, to Lincoln's hometown. This played an important role in his later political career; it also brings a useful federal dimension to the documents collected in this edition. Rather than specializing, Lincoln practiced general law, and so we see him taking on both civil and criminal cases, with breaches of contract and patent infringements sharing space with bootlegging, assault, even murder cases. Much of his work concerned debt collection, for which Lincoln was known well beyond Illinois, and these cases provide a unique window on nineteenth-century business. Lincoln also went out on the road twice yearly to try cases in the state's circuit courts; this edition documents some of these tours in detail. The cases represented paint a vivid picture of America in the decades leading up to the Civil War. The nation's surging expansion is reflected in cases over land speculation, property disputes, construction, and, of course, the railroads, whose interests are a consistent theme throughout. Other trials touch on domestic law, the Black Laws, even the California gold rush. This collection will appeal to all scholars and students of the law and its history, as well as to anyone interested in antebellum America or presidential biography. No understanding of Lincoln is complete without a look at the great career in law that preceded his remarkable presidency. Published in association with the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
Creator: Mark C. Carnes
Publication date: 1999-01-21
Dewey code: 920.073
List Price: $1,995.00
Price: $1,899.97
Review American National Biography (24 Volume Set) / Oxford University Press, USA:American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous-from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $250.00
Price: $292.84
Review Living History (Limited Autographed Edition) / Simon & Schuster:Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny. Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain - responding to the changing times and her own internal compass - and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater. The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the country to champion health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. [+]She redefined the position of First Lady and helped save the presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice - as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics. As with most books written by politicians while in office (or at least aiming for one), Living History is, first and foremost, safe. There are interesting observations and anecdotes, the writing is engaging, and there is enough inside scoop to appeal to those looking for a bit of gossip, but there are no bombshells here and it is doubtful the book will change many minds about this polarizing figure. This does not mean the work is without merit, however, for Hillary Clinton has much to say about her experience as first lady, which is the primary focus of the book. Those interested in these experiences and her commentary on them will find the book worth reading; those looking for revelations will be disappointed. Beginning with a brief outline of her childhood, college years, introduction to politics, and her courtship with Bill Clinton, Clinton covers a wide variety of topics: life on the campaign trail, her troubled tenure as leader of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, meeting with foreign leaders, and her work on human rights, to name a few. By necessity, she also addresses the various scandals that plagued the administration, from Travelgate to Whitewater to impeachment, though she does not go into great detail about each one; rather, she seems content to simply state her case and move on without trying to settle too many old scores. Along the way, she offers many apologies, though perhaps not the kind some would expect. She does not shy away from her "vast right-wing conspiracy" comment, for instance, though she does wish that she had expressed herself differently. Regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she maintains that her husband initially lied to her, as he did the rest of the country, and did not come clean until two days prior to his grand jury testimony. Calling his betrayal "the most devastating, shocking and hurtful experience of my life," she explains what the aftermath was like personally and why she has elected to stand by her man. In all, Living History is an informative book that goes a long way toward humanizing one of the most recognizable, and controversial, women of our age. Shawn Carkonen.
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 956.944205092
Price: $32.00
Review Day of the Long Night : A Palestinian Refugee Remembers the Nakba / McFarland & Company:The author was one of those Palestinians expelled from Jerusalem, and in this work he describes in vivid detail the nakba (tragedy, or catastrophe) that his people faced. His story is of the dissolution of his homeland and the systematic effacing of his cultural roots and history. He explores the events leading up to the establishment of a Zionist state and looks to the future as a time for change.
Authors
- Ts Namkhainyambuu
- Mary Rossabi
Publication date: 2000-07
Dewey code: 636.30092
Price: $65.00
Review Bounty from the Sheep: Autobiography of a Herdsman (Inner Asia Book Series, No. 1) / White Horse:Born in 1948, Namkhainyambuu became an "individualist" hero in his own country. He experienced collectivization, the period of "high socialism," followed by the demise of the collectives (negdels) in 1991-1992. This book provides a unique insight in Mongolian pastoral life over the past half century of change and turmoil, providing greater understanding of many Mongolian issues including kinship ties, the rigors of a herding life, the relationship between the Mongol shepherd and the Communist Party, as well as the particular skills of a successful herder.
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 920
Price: $34.95
Review Women Lincoln Loved / Kessinger Publishing:1927. Abraham Lincoln appears to have loved many women throughout his lifetime. Found within this volume, written by the same man who wrote the Life of Abraham Lincoln, the reader will find sketches on the following women in Lincoln's life: Lucy Hanks; Betsy Sparrow; Bathsheba Lincoln; Nancy Hanks; Sarah Bush Lincoln; Sarah Lincoln Grigsby; the Johnston girls; the girl in the covered wagon; Katie Roby; Caroline Meeker; Polly Warnick; Ann Rutledge; Mary Owens; and Mary Todd. Illustrated throughout.
Publication date: 1999-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $250.00
Price: $250.00
Review Life of Henry Clay (Notable American Authors) / Reprint Services Corp:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Creator: H. C. G. Matthew
Publication date: 1982-09-30
Dewey code: 942.081092
List Price: $322.00
Price: $235.06
Review The Gladstone Diaries: Volume VIII: July 1871-December 1874 (Gladstone Diaries) / Oxford University Press, USA:
Creator: Narahari D. Parikh
Publication date: 1984-03
Price: $210.00
Review Day to Day with Mahatma Gandhi: Secretary's Diary 1917-1927 & 1932, Set / Greenleaf Books (ME):
Creator: James Biser Whisker
Publication date: 1996-09
Dewey code: 324.2732
Price: $109.95
Review An Edited Edition of Anna Ella Carroll's the Great American Battle (Studies in American History) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-09-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $180.00
Review Nathaniel Hawthorne (Library of America) / Routledge:
Creator: George F. Henderson
Publication date: 1998-12-12
Dewey code: 971
Price: $103.00
Review W.L. Mackenzie King: A Bibliography and Research Guide / University of Toronto Press:
Publication date: 1867
Review Lee and his generals / Richardson & Co:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-07-27
Dewey code: 305
List Price: $260.00
Price: $260.00
Review The History of Esarhaddon (son of Sennacherib) King of Assyria, B.C. 681-668: Trubner's Oriental Series / Routledge:
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