Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 240 pages. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads: To Virginia View with thanks for your support Marita Golden. Marita Golden (born April 28, 1950) is an American novelist, nonfiction writer, professor, and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national organization that serves as a resource center for African-American writer. Marita Golden was born in Washington, D.C., in 1950 and attended the city’s public schools. She received a B.A. degree in American Studies and English from American University and a M.SC. in Journalism from Columbia University. After graduating from Columbia, she worked in publishing and began a career as a freelance writer, writing feature articles for many magazines and newspapers including Essence Magazine, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Golden's first book, Migrations of the Heart (1983), was a memoir based on her experiences coming of age during the 1960s and her political activism as well as her marriage to a Nigerian and her life in Nigeria, where she lived for four years. She has taught at many colleges and universities, including Emerson College, American University, George Mason University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds the position of Writer in Residence at the University of the District of Columbia. She co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based African-American Writers Guild, as well as the Hurston/Wright Foundation, named in honor of Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, which serves the national and international community of Black writers and administers the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. More

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 148, [4] pages. Frontis map of Texas. Books and Articles Consulted. Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. In addition to articles and reviews, her other works include Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, a collaboration with Vernon Jordan, Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History, a volume of essays that she edited, Andrew Johnson and, with Peter S. Onuf, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. Gordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queens College) 2014-2015. Between 2010 and 2015, she was the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is the current President of the Ames Foundation. A selected list of her honors includes a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and was a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. More

New Jersey: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Reprint. First Edition [stated]. Third printing. Hardcover. xvii, 300, [1] pages. Index. Signed by author. Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962) is an African-American attorney and New York Times best-selling author. Lawrence Otis Graham is a corporate and real estate attorney as well as a New York Times bestselling author of 14 non-fiction books on the subject of politics, education, race and class in America. His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Glamour, U.S. News & World Report and Reader's Digest, where he has served as a contributing editor. His book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Essence Magazine bestseller, as well as a selection of the Book of the Month Club. Netflix is currently developing a series based on the book. More

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. [8], 311, [1] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Author Jonathan Greenberg is an award-winning national investigative journalist, editor, author and new media innovator. Jonathan's career began as a fact checker at Forbes Magazine, where he advanced to the role of the lead reporter in creating the first Forbes 400 listing of wealthy Americans. Jonathan has been an investigative financial and political journalist for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Forbes, and The New Republic. Jonathan's nearly 40 years of reporting experience has been enhanced by a Yale Law School Masters Degree program, from which he graduated with honors in First Amendment Law from internationally renowned attorney Floyd Abrams and then Yale University President Benno Schmidt. Jonathan is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Staking A Claim: Jake Simmons and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty. More

Dayton, OH: Pflaum Press, 1969. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. vii, 132, [1] p. illus., ports. and. 28 cm. Footnotes. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, c1998. First Printing. 25 cm, 336, bibliography, index, slight soiling and sticker residue to DJ. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. 336 pages. Sources. Index. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Minor DJ wear and soiling. Lani Guinier (born April 19, 1950) is an American civil rights theorist. She is the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship there. Guinier's work includes professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, college admissions, and affirmative action. Guinier is probably best known as President Bill Clinton's nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in April 1993.[ President Clinton withdrew his nomination in June 1993, following a wave of negative press that was brought on by her controversial writings, some of which even Clinton himself called "anti-democratic" and "very difficult to defend" More

New York: Free Press, c1994. First Printing. 25 cm, 324, notes, list of cases, index. Inscribed by the author. More

New York: Scribner's, c1992. Fourth Printing. 25 cm, 257, illus., references, index. More

New York: Norton, c1988. First Printing. 24 cm, 319, footnotes, rear board weak and reglued. More

New York: Norton, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 319 pages. Footnotes, index, slight wear to DJ edges, some sticker residue to rear DJ. Signed by the author. More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. viii, 688 pages. DJ somewhat worn/soiled with small edge tears/chips, some wrinkling to endpapers. Inscribed by the author. Haley's epic about several generations of African-Americans was made into a blockbuster television mini-series. Perhaps more than any other single work, this one changed American perceptions of the past. Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X. He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it; the book was published as Queen: The Story of an American Family. It was adapted as a miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen, broadcast in 1993. More

Oneonta, NY: SUNY Oneonta, 1991. First Edition. 444, tables, chapter notes, bibliography, black marker line on bottom edge. More