Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2000. Third Printing. 322, illus., notes, index. More
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2000. Third Printing. 322, illus., notes, index. More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 298, [4] pages. Frontispiece. Notes. Bibliography. DJ has some wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Germán Arciniegas Angueyra (December 6, 1900 - November 29, 1999) was a Colombian historian, writer and journalist who was known for his advocacy of educational and cultural issues, as well as his outspoken opposition to dictatorship. He also served as a college professor and held positions in the government, including Minister of Education and several ambassadorships. In terms of culture, Arciniegas strove to achieve and maintain a synthesis between the indigenous and the European. This approach was the driving force behind all of his diplomatic and political activities. He served as vice consul in London (1929), chancellor at the Colombian embassy in Argentina (1940) and as Ambassador to Italy (1959), Israel (1962), Venezuela (1966) and the Holy See (1976). In all of these positions, he acted as an advocate for the art and culture of America, which he perceived as extending from Alaska to Patagonia. From 1960 to 1965 Arciniegas edited the Spanish language magazine of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, Cuadernos. In 1992, he was appointed President of the National Commission for the Celebration of the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America. He was summarily dismissed by then First-Lady Ana Milena Muñoz de Gaviria, who took over the commission herself; an action that generated much controversy. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 298, illus., minor soiling to DJ, minor wear to DJ edges. More
Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, c1987. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 350, illus., some soiling to rear DJ, pages not crisply white (possibly due to discoloration). More
New York: Custom House, 2021. First Edition [stated], Later printing. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 375, [3] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. William Bret Baier (born August 4, 1970) is the host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and the chief political correspondent for Fox. He previously worked as the network's Chief White House Correspondent and Pentagon correspondent. Baier began his television career with a local station WJWJ TV16 on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, before joining WRAL-TV, then CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. He sent an audition tape to Fox News in 1998, and was hired as the network's Atlanta bureau chief. On September 11, 2001, he drove from Georgia to Arlington, Virginia, to cover the attack on the Pentagon. He never returned to the Atlanta bureau and was instead tapped as the network's Pentagon correspondent, remaining at the post for five years and taking 11 trips to Afghanistan and 13 trips to Iraq. He was named Fox News's White House correspondent in 2007, covering the administration of George W. Bush. In the fall of 2007, he began substituting for Brit Hume, then the anchor of Special Report, on Fridays. Catherine Whitney has written or collaborated on more than fifty books on legal, political, and social issues, including Where Have All the Leaders Gone? and The Weekend That Changed Wall Street. On December 23, 2008, Hume announced Baier would replace him as anchor of Special Report. He hosted his first show as permanent anchor on January 5, 2009. In October 2021, Baier promoted his new book To Rescue the Republic on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. More
Place_Pub: New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. 367, wraps, illus., footnotes, bibliographic notes, index. More
Place_Pub: New York: Times Books, 2004. First Edition. First Printing. 172, frontis illus., notes, chronology, selected bibliography, index, sticker residue on front DJ. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 261, [7] pages. Illustrations. Coda, Appendix. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Kevin Brian Bales CMG (born 1952) is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, co-author of the Global Slavery Index, and was a co-founder and previously president of Free the Slaves. Free the Slaves is the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights organization. Dr. Bales has written extensively on modern slavery. Perhaps his best-known book is Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (1999; revised edition, 2004, further edition 2012), a firsthand analysis of the operations of five slave-based businesses: prostitution in Thailand, selling of water in Mauritania, production of charcoal in Brazil, general agriculture in India, and brickmaking in Pakistan. Archbishop Desmond Tutu called the book "a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expose of modern slavery" More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, c1980. 20 cm, 189, illus., DJ worn and torn. More
New York: Linden Press, 1987. First Printing. 23 cm, 286, appendix, sources, bibliography, index. Inscribed by the author ("Fred"). More
New York: Linden Press, 1987. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm, 286 pages. Appendix, sources, bibliography, index, sticker residue on rear DJ, front DJ flap price clipped. Signed by the author. More
New York: The Linden Press/Simon And Schuster, 1987. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 286, [2] pages. Sources. Selected Bibliography. Index. No DJ present. This publication coincides with the Bicentennial of the convening of the Constitutional Convention. Reveals the explosive issues and the political battles which gave birth to the most important document in United States history. Fred Barbash was with The Washington Post for 30 plus years in a multitude of roles including but not limited to Supreme Court reporter, National editor, London bureau chief and founding editor of The Post's Morning Mix. He left The Post in May 2020. Fred Barbash was deputy national editor of the Washington Post and covered the Supreme Court for the Post from 1980 to 1985. He covered state, local and national government for the Post, after beginning his newspaper career at the Baltimore Sun. More
Richmond, VA: The Dietz Press, 1952. 224, illus., footnotes, bibliography, notes, usual library markings, rear board weak, endpapers soiled with tape marks. More
Boston: Draper and Halliday, 1866. Quarto/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 477 pages,One of a limited edition of 60 copies. {There was a Royal Octavio edition of 250 also issued at the same time.) Small stains in margins of several pages, slight foxing, has been rebound. John Russell Bartlett (October 23, 1805 – May 28, 1886) was an American historian and linguist. Bartlett was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on October 23, 1805. In 1819 he was a student at the Lowville Academy in Lowville, New York, which he attended for two years. Bartlett is known in the field of lexicography for his Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), a pioneering work that, although supplanted by later dialect studies, is still of value to students of language and remains a valuable contribution to the subject. Later editions were published in 1859, 1860, and 1877. From 1855 to 1872 Bartlett was Secretary of State of Rhode Island, and while serving in this capacity thoroughly re-arranged and classified the state records and prepared various bibliographies and compilations, relating chiefly to the history of the state. In the later years of his life he became the librarian for the John Carter Brown Library and collated an exhaustive catalog of the collection that was published in four volumes. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 588 pages. Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. Boards weakened and restrengthened with glue. Part of DJ pasted on an end page. Maps (one folding). Footnotes. Index. Includes Preface, as well as chapters on Son of the American Revolution; The French Revolution and Jay's Treaty with Great Britain; At the Hague Listening-Post; London Interlude; The Mission to Prussia; The Young Senator and the Louisiana Purchase; Politics Stops at the Water's Edge; At the Court of the Czar; The War of 1812; The Peace of Ghent; Minister to Great Britain; The Department of State; The Foreign Service Abroad and the Diplomatic Corps at Washington; Issues with England: The Treaty of 1818; The Florida Question; The Transcontinental Treaty with Span; The Independence of Latin America; John Quincy Adams and the Background of the Monroe Doctrine; President Monroe's Message of December 2, 1823; The Slave Trade and Slavery; The Freedom of the Seas and the Abolition of Private Warfare on the Ocean; Equality of Commercial Opportunity; The Northeast Boundary Question; The North West Coast; The Oregon Question; President Adams, Henry Clay, and Latin America; The Foundations of American Foreign Policy. Also contains 4 appendixes (John Quincy Adams's Accounts of His Break with the Federalists; Text of John Quincy Adams's Supplementary Instructions to Richard Rush, December 8, 1823; John Quincy Adam's Project of a Convention for Regulating the Principles of Commercial and Maritime Neutrality; Lord Ashburton, Daniel Webster, and Jared Sparks, 1842. More
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1930. Second Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 402, illus., facsims., some wear to board edges and corners, front board weak, spine worn. More
New York: London: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition/first printing. Hardcover. x p., 1 l., 431 p. incl. maps. 20 cm. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854. 739, v.1 only of the 2-vol. set, frontis illus., bds weak, flyleaves partially torn out, foxing inside bds, some foxing to text. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. x, 483 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. DJ worn and soiled: edge wear and small edge tears. More
New York, N.Y. The New Press, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. lii, 355, [1] pages. Illustrations. Includes Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley. and Preface; Introduction: Slavery as Memory and History; Editorial Method. Topics covered include Slaves and Owners; Work and Slave Life; Family Life in Slavery; Slave Culture; Slaves No More: Civil War and the Coming of Freedom. Also includes Appendix 1: Remembering Slavery: The Radio Documentary, and Appendix 2: Recordings of Slave Narratives and Related Materials in the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress. Also includes Suggestions for Further Reading, Short Titles Used in Notes, Notes, Afterword, and Index. Some DJ wear noted. Ira Berlin (May 27, 1941 – June 5, 2018) was an American historian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and former president of Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. More
New York: Times Books, c1993. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 392, appendices, chronology, minor edge wear, top edge soiled. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. 23 cm, 1312 total, 2 vols. bound in 1, fronts illus., footnotes, appendices, bibliography, DJ spine soiled & discolored. More
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 444, [4] p. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. More
New York, N.Y. Bergman Publishers, 1969. First Published in 1890; this edition published in 1969. Hardcover. xii, 443, [5] pages. Includes Footnotes. Preface, Appendix, and Index. Topics covered in this book include Birney's ancestors; His Father; His Infancy and Youth, 1792-1808; Anti-Slavery Influences in his Youth; Life at Princeton, 1808-1810; Between College and the Bar, 1810-1814; His Life in Kentucky, 1814-1818; Lawyer--Planter--Politician, in Alabama, 1818-1823; Life at Huntsville, Alabama, 1823-1826; Life at Huntsville, 1826-1827; The Political Campaign of 1828; Abolition in the South Before 1828; Long Visit to the Free States, 1830; Abandons Party Politics--Intended Removal to Illinois--Visit of T. D. Weld, 1830-1832; Experience as an Agent of the Colonization Society, 1832-1833; From Colonization, Through Gradual Emancipation, to Immediate Abolition, 1833-1884; Anti-Slavery Work in Kentucky, 1834-1835; A Wider Sphere of Actin, 1835; His is ostracized in Kentucky and goes to Ohio, 1834; The Genesis of the Republican Party, 1835-1836; The Cincinnati Mob of January, 1836, The Editor, 1835, 1837; The Mob at Cincinnati, July, 1836--Pro-Slavery Mobs; Life in Cincinnati, 1836-1837; The No-Government Vagary; The Philosophy of Boston Vagaries; The Schism of the Garrisonians, 1837-1840; "The Small Extreme Wing"; The Liberty--Free Soil--Republican Party; Traits of Character; Twelve Years an Invalid--Conclusion. James G. Birney was an abolitionist, politician, and attorney. He published an abolitionist weekly titled The Philanthropist, and twice was the presidential nominee for the anti-slavery Liberty Party. It was James G. Birney who called abolitionists away from other issues to the true one. More
Boston, Massachusetts: A. Williams & Co., 1864. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. Footnote. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Cover worn. Some page soiling. Rare first edition. This book is divided into six chapters: Historical Sketch; The Direct Consequences resulting from the Act of Secession; Some Radical Views considered; The Effect of Contract between the seceded States returning, and the United States; The Emancipation Proclamation; Concluding Summary; and Postscript on the President's Plan of Reconstruction. Joel Prentiss Bishop (March 10, 1814 – November 4, 1901) was an American lawyer and legal treatise writer, referred to as "the foremost law writer of the age." Bishop wrote Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce (1852), which brought him "a constant succession of requests and advice to write other books." Bishop then resolved to abandon legal practice for a life of scholarship. Bishop wrote a book on jurisprudence and legal study and a succession of treatises on family law, criminal law and procedure, statutory interpretation, contract, and tort law, "many of which he shepherded through divers thoroughly revised editions." His commentaries on marriage and divorce and on criminal law and procedure were "highly original and thorough works that significantly influenced their fields." Bishop's books were well received, "judges adopted his views, and practitioners sought his advice." In 1884, the University of Berne awarded him an honorary degree. Because his views were at odds with a post-Darwinian world, Bishop and his works are virtually unknown in the 21st century except by specialists in the history of family law. More