Reader's Digest, 1960. Wraps. 12 p. More

New York: Time, Inc., 1963. Wraps. Quarto, 96, wraps, illus. (some in color), More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 359, [7] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Richard D. Alba (born December 22, 1942) is an American sociologist, who is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is known for developing assimilation theory to fit the contemporary, multi-racial era of immigration, with studies in America, France and Germany. Alba earned his B.A. in 1963 and Ph.D. in 1974 from Columbia University. Alba's text on assimilation theory (written with Victor Nee), Remaking the American Mainstream (2003) won the Thomas & Znaniecki Award of the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society’s Mirra Komarovsky Award. It was one of the most highly cited works in sociology. Alba has also written about the historical realities of assimilation, using Italian Americans to exemplify them. His book, Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America, summarizes his thinking on the assimilation of the so-called white ethnics. More

New York: International Publishers, 1938. Revision. Wraps. 46, [2] p. 19 cm. Includes Map. Occasional footnotes. More

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxxiv, 222 pages. Errata and Acknowledgments insert present. Illustrations. Timeline for Brown v. Board of Education. Transcript of the Brown v. Board Opinion. Notes. Contributors. Index. Introduction and Commentary by Tavis Smiley. This is one of the Landmarks in Civil Rights History series. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Smiley was honored with the NAACP Image Award for best news, talk, or information series for three consecutive years (1997–99) for his work on BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley.[63] Smiley's advocacy efforts have earned him numerous awards and recognition including the recipient of the Mickey Leland Humanitarian Award from the National Association of Minorities in Communications. More

New York, NY: The New Press, 2008. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. xvi, 368 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Printing. 24 cm, 572, illus., maps. More

Atlanta, GA: Longstreet, [c1998]. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 359, pages. Illus., chapter notes, index. Presentation copy signed by both authors. More

Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., [c1998]. First Printing. 24 cm, 359, illus., chapter notes, index, printing defect pp. 31-34 (p. 32 was slightly stuck to p. 33--no loss of text; pp. 33-34 creased). More

Boston, MA: Beacon Press, c1994. First Printing. 24 cm, 195, notes, index. Inscribed by the author. More

New York, N.Y. Henry Holt and Company, 2004. First Edition [stated]. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. [16], 415, [1] pages. Illustrations. Prologue. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Chapters include Where Death Waits; Ain't No Slavery No More; Migration; Uplist Me, Pride; White Houses; The Letter of Your Law; Freedmen, Sons of God, Americans; The Prodigal Son; Prejudice; Judgment Day; and Requiescam. Some creasing to dust jacket edges. Kevin Boyle (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990) is an historian of the twentieth century United States, with a particular interest in modern American social movements. His publications include The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968; Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Images of Working-Class Detroit, 1900-1930 (with Victoria Getis); Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994; and Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age, which received the National Book Award for nonfiction, The Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize, and the Simon Weisenthal Center’s Tolerance Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was selected for community-wide reading programs in the Detroit metropolitan area and the state of Michigan. He has published essays and reviews in The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Detroit Free Press, Inc, and Cobblestone magazines. He has held fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Andrew Carnegie Corporation. More

New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1988. Later printing. Trade paperback. xii, [2], 1064,[8] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Notes. Major works cited in Notes. Index. Covers creased. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: For Steve, With best wishes, Taylor Branch Dec. 6, 2016. Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. The final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy, collectively called America in the King Years, was released in January 2006, and an abridgment, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was published in 2013. Branch served as an assistant editor at The Washington Monthly from 1970 to 1973; he was Washington editor of Harper's from 1973 to 1976; and he was Washington columnist for Esquire Magazine from 1976 to 1977. He also has written for a variety of other publications, including The New York Times Magazine, and The New Republic. In 1972, Branch worked for the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern. Branch shared an apartment with Bill Clinton, and the two developed a friendship. He also worked with Hillary Rodham, later Clinton's wife. Branch's book on Bill Clinton, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With The President, was written from tape-recorded interviews and conversations, most of which occurred in the White House during Clinton's two terms in office and which were not disclosed publicly until 2009. In 2015, he received the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization. More