Life of Henry Clay
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1893. 383 & 424, 2 vols., index, boards and spine scuffed and stained, ink name and address inside front flyleaves, small stains to a few pages. More
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1893. 383 & 424, 2 vols., index, boards and spine scuffed and stained, ink name and address inside front flyleaves, small stains to a few pages. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xiv, 350, [2] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. . DJ has some wear and soiling. Signed by author on t-p. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the president's character and his leadership. Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health from the time he was a young man. Shenk draws from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of his unhappiness. In the process, he discovers that the President's coping strategies; among them, a rich sense of humor and a tendency toward quiet reflection; ultimately helped him to lead the nation through its greatest turmoil. More
New York: HarperPerennial, 2000. First HarperPerennial edition, first printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xix, [1], 360, [2] p. Occasional Footnotes. Table of Presidents. Notes. Index. More
New York: Bookman Associates, 1958. 814, illus., references, notes, bibliography, index, DJ soiled and quite scuffed: edges worn, small tears, small pieces missing. More
New York: Knopf, 1997. First Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 607 pages. Signed by the author. More
Orem, Utah: Valor Publishing Group, LLC, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [4], xiii, [1], 513, [3] pages. Illustrations. Chronology. Bibliography. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Mark Leonard Shurtleff (born August 9, 1957) is an American attorney and founder of the Shurtleff Law Firm and the Shurtleff Group. He was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Troutman Sanders and served as a Salt Lake County Commissioner and the Attorney General of the state of Utah. He is the first Attorney General in Utah to win re-election for a third term. In April 2013, Shurtleff testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in support of comprehensive immigration reform during the Hearing on the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S.744. In February, 2013, Shurtleff spoke on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on "The Role of State Attorneys General in Enforcing Federal Law" to Congressional staffers at the Civil Justice Caucus Academy run by George Mason University School of Law. "Dred Scott's inspiring and compelling true story of adventure, courage, love, hatred, and friendship parallels the history of this nation from the long night of slavery to the narrow crack in the door that would ultimately lead to freedom and equality for all men" More
Place_Pub: New York: Horizon Press, 1973. 488, illus., endpaper maps, chronologies, notes, bibliography, appendix, index, rear DJ scuffed: small edge tears/chips. More
New York: Public Affairs, 2015. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stating]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 371, [1] pages. Illustrations. Time Line, Notes. Index. This is the inspiring story of James Madison’s coming of age, providing incisive and original insight into the Founding Father who did the most but is known the least. Michael Signer takes a fresh look at the fourth president. His focus is on Madison before he turned thirty-six, the years in which he did his most enduring work: battling with Patrick Henry—the most charismatic politician in revolutionary America, whose political philosophy and ruthless tactics eerily foreshadowed those of today’s Tea Party—over religious freedom; introducing his framework for a strong central government; becoming the intellectual godfather of the Constitution; and providing a crucial role at Virginia’s convention to ratify the Constitution in 1788, when the nation’s future hung in the balance. Signer’s young James Madison is a role model for the leaders so badly needed today: a man who overcame daunting personal issues (including crippling anxiety attacks) to battle an entrenched and vicious status quo. Michael Signer’s brilliant analysis of “Madison’s Method,” the means by which Madison systematically destroyed dangerous ideas and left in their stead an enduring and positive vision for the United States, is wholly original and uniquely relevant today. More
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xx, 339, [1] pages. Notes. Bibliography and Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Parts of this book have appeared in somewhat different form in professional journals and are reproduced here with permission. Brooks Donohue Simpson (born August 4, 1957) is an American historian and an ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, specializing in American political and military history, especially the era of the American Civil War and Reconstruction and the American presidency. After working three years as an assistant editor for The Papers of Andrew Johnson, based at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Simpson joined the faculty at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1987. Three years later, in 1990, he migrated west to Arizona State University, where he presently teaches. Currently he divides his time between Barrett, The Honors College at ASU and the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. Simpson is the author of six books, the coauthor of two more, and the editor or coeditor of eight other books. He is perhaps best known for his work on Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865 was a New York Times Notable Book and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for that year. He has appeared on C-SPAN, as well as on PBS's American Experience. More
New Orleans, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1952. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 248, footnotes, index, errata slip pasted to table of contents, boards somewhat worn, faded, and soiled. More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. [8], 452, [4]p. More
New York: Arbor House, c1983. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 314, ink notation front endpaper, underlining on p. 13, DJ edges worn, edges & endpapers soiled, review slip & pub ephemera laid in. How President James Madison manipulated public opinion and foreign governments to wrest Florida from Spain. The first war in our history which featured articulate, strident, determined and able protesters, and the first war we clearly didn't win, was the very first war we fought after winning independence. It was the War of 1812.....A true-to-life historical thriller. More
New York, N.Y. Da Capo Press, 1969. Reprint Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. This is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in New York by Macmillan in 1933. Volume I: [6], xi, [5], 516 pages. Volume II: [6], vi, [4], 523, [3] pages. Bibliography and Acknowledgments. Index. De Capo stamp on reps. Volume I includes Footnotes. Illustrations, Preface, and chapters on Spirits of the Early Frontier; Striking Roots in Kentucky; Francis Preston Blair Enters Politics; Political Crossroads; Blair and Clay; Creeds and Men of 1828; Establishing the "Globe"; The Policy of the "Globe"; The Genesis of the War on the Bank; Settling Down in Washington; The "Congressional Globe"; Jacksonian Politics; Blair and Van Buren; The Election of 1840; The Fall of the "Globe"; Silver Spring; Westward Ho!; The Campaign for Freedom in 1848; The Compromisers; Fallen Years; The First Republican National Campaign; Dred Scott: The Battle of the Legalists; Kansas-Nebraska: Drifting Toward Civil War; The Election of 1858: Drifting Toward Civil War; The Blair Proposal to Prevent Civil War; Election of 1860; and Making a Cabinet. Volume II includes First Battles, The Struggle for Missouri, One Hundred Days of Fremont, Postal-Service Reform and Civil War, A Warrior Statesman, Frank Blair, Soldier, Civil War Politics, The Rockville Speech, Resignation of the Postmaster-General, On to Richmond by Peace, Advising a Plebeian President, Reconstruction, The Triumphant Radicals, Seeking the Presidency, Seymour and Blair, The Liberal Republican Movement, Last Days of the Two Frank Blairs, The Reform Election of 1876, Last Years of Montgomery Blair. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1971. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xviii, [4], 330 p. 25 cm. Illustrations. Maps. Selected bibliography. Index. More
Charleston, SC: SC Historical Society, 1988. 25 cm, wraps, illus., footnotes, slight wear and soiling to covers. More
Columbia, SC: State Human Affairs Commission, 1976. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xv, 254 p. 23 cm. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. More
Boston, MA: Massachusetts Sabbath School, [c1862]. Pocket size, 160, frontis illus. (partially detached) with printed signature, front board weak, boards quite worn and scuffed. More
Baton Rouge, LA: LA State University Press, 1955. First? Edition. First? Printing. 163, essay on authorities, index, name of previous owner, DJ worn and soiled: edge tears/chips. More
New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. First Printing. 24 cm, 436, illus. More
New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. First Printing. 24 cm, 436, illus., footnotes, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 436 pages. Minor wear and soiling to DJ. Some edge soiling. Footnotes. Illustrations. Introduction. Acknowledgments. Note to Readers. Eighteen Chapters. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. The chapter titles are: The Education of Abby Kelley; A Wider World; Women Find Their Voices; The Call; A Public-Speaking Woman; War to the Knife's Point; The Notorious Abby Kelley; A New Hampshire Fanatic; Along the Psychic Highway; Antislavery Politics; The Path of True Love and Other Matters; Lord, What a Tongue She's Got; Conflicting Claims; Bloody Feet, Sisters!; General Agent; The Irrepressible Conflict; Nothing Is done While Anything Remains to Be Done; and A Lonely Rocket in a Dark Sky. Dorothy Sterling (née Dannenberg; November 23, 1913 – December 1, 2008) was an American writer and historian. After college, she worked as a journalist and writer in New York for several years, including work for the Federal Writers’ Project. Sterling worked for Time from 1936 to 1949 and was then assistant bureau chief in Life’s news bureau from 1944 to 1949. Starting in the 1950s, she authored more than 30 books, mainly non-fiction historical works on the origins of the women's and anti-slavery movements, civil rights, segregation, and nature. This is the first comprehensive biography of Abby Kelley, based on contemporary letters, diaries and newspaper accounts. This young white woman was the embodiment of commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people in the dangerous years of abolitionism prior to the Civil War. More
New York: The Heritage Press, 1938. Special Edition by the George Macy Companies, Inc. Hardcover in a slip case. xv, [3], 294, [2] pages. No dust jacket present. Slight wear and soiling. Format is mostly two columns per page. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Sixteen Lithographs by Miguel Covarrubias. The four page The Heritage Club Sandglass Number Ix:26 laid in, text relates to this book. Miguel Covarrubias, also known as José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (22 November 1904 — 4 February 1957) was a Mexican painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ethnologist and art historian. Miguel's artwork and celebrity caricatures have been featured in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines. The linear nature of his drawing style was highly influential to other caricaturists such as Al Hirschfeld. Miguel's first book of caricatures The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans was a hit, though not all his subjects were thrilled that his sharp, pointed wit was aimed at them. He counted many notables among his friends including Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and W.C. Handy for whom he also illustrated books. Miguel's caricatures of the jazz clubs were the first of their kind printed in Vanity Fair. He managed to capture the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance in much of his work as well as in his book, Negro Drawings. He did not consider these caricatures, but serious drawings of people, music and a culture he loved. Covarrubias also did illustrations for George Macy, the publisher of The Limited Editions Club, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, Green Mansions, Herman Melville's Typee, and Pearl Buck's All Men Are Brothers. Heritage Press, the sister organization of The Limited Editions Club, reprinted unsigned editions. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 319, illus., endpaper maps, appendix, bibliography, index, DJ worn. Foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Reprint. Second printing, 1929. Hardcover. xvi, 881, [3] pages. Illustrations. Authorities. References. Index. Name of previous owner present. Cover worn and soiled. Front board weak and reglued. Spines torn top and bottom. Corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Pencil notes on fep and a few marks to text noted. Lloyd Paul Stryker (June 5, 1885 – June 1955) was a 20th-Century American attorney known as "perhaps the most celebrated criminal lawyer since Clarence Darrow," best known as chief of defense in the first criminal trial of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1949. In 1909 he received an MA in Law from New York Law School. In 1933, he received a Doctorate of Humane Letters. In 1909, he was admitted to the New York bar. From 1910 to 1922, he served as assistant district attorney in New York. In 1914 (or 1912), he received the Republican nomination for judge of the New York City Court. He then formed the law firm of Whiteside and Stryker. In 1928, Stryker declined a chair in criminal law at Harvard. In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge nominated him for a federal judgeship, but before his confirmation, President Herbert Hoover came into office and did not renominate him. During the Great Depression, Stryker's use made popular the word "boondoggle" More