The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
New York: Doubleday, 2002. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 560 p. Illustrations. Endpapers maps. Sources. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Doubleday, 2002. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 560 p. Illustrations. Endpapers maps. Sources. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Doubleday, 2005. Book Club Edition? [No price on DJ, No edition/printing information on verso]. Hardcover. xi, [5], 620, [4] pages. Endpaper Map. Illustrations. Sources. Annotated Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953 in Portland, Oregon) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He has authored 30 books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Examples of Brands' biographical histories include his biographies on Benjamin Franklin, covering the colonial period and the Revolutionary War; Andrew Jackson, covering the War of 1812, western expansion and the conflict over the National Bank; Ulysses S. Grant, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction; Theodore Roosevelt, covering the Industrial Era and the Progressive Movement; and Franklin D. Roosevelt, covering the Great Depression, the New Deal, the Second World War, and the rise of the U.S. as an international power. More
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 243, [1] p. Notes. Index. More
New York: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition [stated], Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 437, [1] pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Prologue, Part One: Two Roads Up the Mountain, Part Two: Test of Nerve; Part Three: An Entirely New War; Part Four: The General vs. the President; and Part Five: Fade Away. Sources. Notes. Index. Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He has authored 30 books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. In his first year after completing his doctorate, Brands worked as an oral historian at the University of Texas School of Law. The year following he taught at Vanderbilt University. In 1987 he took a position at Texas A&M University, where he remained for the next seventeen years. In 2005, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was formerly the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and Professor of Government and now holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History. In addition to his works on US history, Brands has works on the economic development of the United States and biographies of key leaders in corporate America. His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. He has appeared in the documentaries The Presidents (2005), 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (2006), America: The Story of Us (2010), The Men Who Built America (2012), The World Wars (2014), and The Eighties (2016). More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 337, [1] pages. References. Index. No DJ present. Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Examples of Brands' biographical histories include his biographies on Benjamin Franklin, covering the colonial period and the Revolutionary War; Andrew Jackson, covering the War of 1812, western expansion and the National Bank; Ulysses S. Grant, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction; Theodore Roosevelt, covering the Progressive Movement; and Franklin D. Roosevelt, covering the Great Depression, the New Deal, the Second World War, and the ascension of the U.S. as an international power. Loy Wesley Henderson (June 28, 1892 – March 24, 1986) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. In between serving as U.S. Minister in Iraq (1943–45), Ambassador to India (1948–51) and Ambassador to Iran (1951–54), Henderson returned to Washington in 1945 to serve at the State Department as the director of the Office of Near Eastern Affairs. There he dealt with the newly elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, on questions associated with Iran's oil reserves previously owned by British interests that Mossadegh had recently nationalized. He helped orchestrate the 1953 CIA-assisted coup which removed Mossadegh, a democratically elected leader. In 1956, he was named a Career Ambassador. More
New York: Doubleday, 2012. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 718, [4] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Sources. Notes. Index. Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953 in Portland, Oregon) is an American educator, author and historian. He has authored 30 books on U.S. history. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He has authored twenty-four books, co-authored three others with T. H. Breen, and produced numerous articles that have been featured in newspapers and magazines. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was his second finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. More
New York: BasicBooks, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. 897, sources, bibliography, index, some wear to top and bottom DJ edges. More