To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson: Letters to a President
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 344, illus., sources, notes, index, some soiling and sticker residue on rear DJ. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 344, illus., sources, notes, index, some soiling and sticker residue on rear DJ. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Fourth Printing. 904, illus., maps, footnotes, bibliographical note, index, small stain in top corner of first few pages. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Book of the Month Club Edition. Trade paperback. xix, [1], 904,[4] pages. Wraps. Musical score. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Bibliographical Note. Index. Minor edge moisture stains. Minor page creasing. This book is Volume VI of The Oxford History of the United States; general editor of the series is C. Vann Woodward. Comprehensive one-volume history of the Civil War era, covering military, political, and economic topics. James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003. McPherson joined the faculty of Princeton in 1962. His works include The Struggle for Equality, awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1965. In 1988, he published his Pulitzer-winning book, Battle Cry of Freedom. His 1990 book, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution argues that the emancipation of slaves amounts to a second American Revolution. McPherson's 1998 book, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, received the Lincoln Prize. In 2007, he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement in military history given by the Society for Military History. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Second Printing. Hardcover. 203 pages. Illus., maps, notes, bibliographical essay, index, slightly cocked. Signed by the author. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 203 p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Index. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Trade Paperback. xviii, 237, [1] pages. Table 1. Geographical Distribution of Confederate Soldiers. Table 2. Geographical Distribution of White Union Soldiers. Table 3. Occupation of Confederate Soldiers. Table 4. Occupation of White Union Soldiers. A Note on Sources. Abbreviations in Notes. Notes. Index. Some page discoloration noted. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Inscription reads: For Laura, Merry Christmas from James McPherson. This book was the winner of the 1998 Lincoln Prize. The author shows that the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they went to war: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. James M. "Jim" McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003. McPherson's works include The Struggle for Equality, awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1965. His 1990 book, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution argues that the emancipation of slaves amounts to a second American Revolution. McPherson's 1998 book, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, received the Lincoln Prize. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. First Printing. 24 cm, 237, acid-free paper, appendices, note on sources, notes, index, minor DJ wear/soiling, DJ flap creased, free endpaper removed. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 237, acid-free paper, appendices, note on sources, notes, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. xviii, 694, xxxii, [2] p. Tables. Figures. Maps (including endpapers). Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Random House, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 483 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, slight sticker residue on rear dust jacket. More
New York: Random House, 2009. Random House Trade Paperback Edition [Stated]. First Printing [State]. Trade paperback. xxii, 483, [3] pages. A Note on the Text. Principal Characters. Illustrations. Author's Note. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cover notes Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Jackson was a prime creator of the presidency as the fulcrum of executive power to defend democracy. Jon Ellis Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He is the author of several books. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. Jill Abramson writing in a book review in The New York Times states that Meacham's books are "well researched, drawing on new anecdotal material and up-to-date historiographical interpretations" and presents his "subjects as figures of heroic grandeur despite all-too-human shortcomings". Selected by the Bush family to be the official biographer for George H. W. Bush, Meacham's book, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, was published in 2015. He gave eulogies for both President Bush and Barbara Bush when they died in 2018. More
New York, NY: Random House, 2012. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xxix, [1], 759, [11] pages. Illustrations. Map. Illustrated endpapers. Author's Note. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "Jon Ellis Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, a contributing editor to Time Magazine, editor-at-large of WNET, and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his work American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House." More
New York, NY: Crown Forum, 2008. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. vi, [2], 280 p. : Illustrations, black & white. Resources. Index. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1987. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 348, illus., maps, letter to Congressman Harold Wolpe presenting this book laid in. More
New York: Knopf, 1974. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 279, illus., chronology, bibliography, index, usual library markings History of the American campaign against the ill-equipped army of Mexico, which led to the acquisition of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and Utah. More
Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 660, [2] p. Illustrated with 116 maps and photographs. Further Reading. Sources of Illustrations. Index. More
New York: Free Press, c1977. First Printing. 24 cm, 319, illus., footnotes, notes, bibliography, index, few library markings, piece of DJ cut off for library sticker at spine base. More
New York: Free Press, c1977. First Printing. 24 cm, 319, illus., footnotes, notes, bibliography, index, some wear and small tears to DJ edges, small tear and crease to front DJ flap. More
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1992. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xii, 296, [4] pages. Notes. Sources. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. William Lee Miller (April 21, 1926 – May 27, 2012) was an American journalist, academic, and historian who taught at the University of Virginia for 17 years, and remained affiliated with the University after his 1999 retirement. Between 1953 and 1965, Miller contributed to The Reporter. He was on staff at that publication between 1955 and 1958. In 1964, he released a collection of those writings in book form, titled Piety Along the Potomac. Miller worked as the chief speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson II during the 1956 U.S. presidential election. Between 1963 and 1969, while an associate professor at Yale University. He later worked in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, writing messages to be used by President Lyndon Johnson. Miller taught at Smith College, Yale University, and Indiana University before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1982. At the time of his retirement from the University of Virginia, Miller was Commonwealth Professor of Political and Social Thought, and after his retirement until his death he was the White Burkett Miller Center Scholar in Residence, Professor Emeritus. More
Enumclaw, WA: Pleasant Word, a Division of WinePress Group, 2009. Presumed first edition, first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. x, 104, [4] p. Illustrations. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. One Hundred Fourth Printing. Hardcover. [6],1037, [11] pages. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, "Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip", which she continued to write until August. Meanwhile, her husband was growing weary of lugging armloads of books home from the library to keep his wife's mind occupied while she hobbled around the house; he emphatically suggested that she write her own book instead. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.675 inches. Notes. Sources. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Signed bookplate on fep. Portion of DJ pasted over the half-title page and the page facing page x. James Jay Monaghan IV was born on March 19, 1891 and died in 1980. He was known throughout his life as Jay Monaghan, the name under which he published his many works on western United States history, Abraham Lincoln and related subjects on which he was a recognized authority. During his summer breaks in 1908 and 1909, he traveled across the country, spending some of his time working on cattle roundups in Wyoming. The spring of 1911 found Monaghan involved in the Madero revolution in Mexico where he participated in an uprising against Porfirio Díaz, which led to his own arrest. He later interviewed Indians for the Colorado Historical Society. The latter assignment was his first official foray into the world of historical scholarship. Undertaken in 1935, these interviews were a pioneering effort in what today is known as oral history. There followed a number of appointments to the Illinois State Historical Library. Monaghan served first as research editor (1939-1945), and later as State Historian to the Library (1946-1951). He also served as Secretary of the Illinois State Historical Society and editor of its journal. He then served as consultant to the Wyles Collection of Lincolniana at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He aided greatly in the development of the Wyles Collection and the helped enhance its reputation as a collection on Lincoln, the Civil War, and westward expansion. More
Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1993. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. xii, 307, [1] p. Illustrations. Index. More
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1979. 327, wraps, reading list, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Place_Pub: Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 2003. First Edition. First? Printing. 142. More