History / Americas from Infinity Books Japan

Vintage, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the… Read more about this item

Skyhorse Publishing, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Very GoodA copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages ar e intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Most people will be shocked to learn that in 1933 a cabal of wealthy industrialists-in league with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty League-planned to overthrow the… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Hardback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. "We were as brothers," William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relati onship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most importa nt figures in the Civil… Read more about this item

Random House Publishing Grou, 2011. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of a ll time On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Modern Libra ry publishes Shelby Foote's three-volume masterpiece in a new boxed set inc luding three hardcovers and a new… Read more about this item

Pantheon, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.

Evans Pubns, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This is an ex-lib edition.

9781565846562, 2005. Paperback. Good. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of mo dern journalism and "a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit" (Satur day Review). In this "invaluable record" of one of the most dramatic periods in modern A merican history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in… Read more about this item

9780252062339, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "In Williamson County some men took to violence almost as a way of life. A shocking story, well told."-New Yorker Williamson County in southern Illinois has been the… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, 2000. Paperback. Good. This is a masterly narrative history of the Seven Years War, in which the B ritish decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean, and yet a lso managed to ignite the slow-burning fuse of the American Revolution.Fred Anderson observes how the war displaced native peoples from their previous ly central role… Read more about this item

White House Historical Assoc, 1964. Paperback. Good.

Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. When we think of the American West, we tend to conjure up images that are k nown the world over: bearded forty-niners leading pack mules up a mountain trail, the Oklahoma land stampede, Custer's Last Stand, and especially the range-riding, quick-shooting cowboy. But these familiar images are only a s… Read more about this item

Random House Publishing Grou, 2020. Hardcover. Good. America's first presidential impeachment: A prize-winning author tells the story of the efforts by heroic citizens to preserve the victories of the Ci vil War by removing a bigoted president who ruled as if he were king. When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Vice-President Andrew Johnson bec ame "the Accidental President,"… Read more about this item

Little Brown, 1992. Paperback. Good. Traces the evolution of MAD from its position as an obscure ten-cent comic book to its near cult status, discussing its reflection of post-World War I I popular culture--including movies, politicians, and ad campaigns. Reprint . 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

9780195093810, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, A merica had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by so me of the… Read more about this item

U.S. Postal Service, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Tales and history behind the illustration on each of the 20 different 29 ce nt stamps in a commemorative pane published by the U.S. Postal Service in h onor of the Old West.

Holiday House, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. The heroic story of the Oglala Warrior who triumphed at the Battle of the L ittle Bighorn. An ALA Notable Book and a Best Book for Young… Read more about this item

DOVER, 1973. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. Unabridged republication of the work first published in London in 1844. Illustrated by photographic reproductions of 257 of Catlin's original oil paintings. Library also has original 1903 edition in… Read more about this item

University of Alberta Press, 1992. Paperback. Good. Buffalo conjure up the West the way no other symbol can. They hold a specia l place in our culture and imagination. In this prize-winning collection, w riters reveal the buffalo in plains ecology and culture from prehistoric ti mes to its present and uncertain future. The heated controversy over proposals… Read more about this item

DOVER, 1973. Paperback. Good. Crow, Blackfoot, Pawnee, Sioux, Comanche, Mandan, Choctaw, Cheyenne, Winneb ago, Creek, Assinboin; wild prairies teeming with buffalo; the sacred site of "Catlinite" stone - all were subjects of Catlin's letters and paintings. For eight years (1832-39) George Catlin ventured among the Indians of the North American Plains capturing in verbal and visual pictures every… Read more about this item

Chronicle Books, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. The lush, seductive, nostalgic elegance of New Orleans' streets, parks, and public buildings, as well as the fanciful, nuanced interiors of some of it s most beautiful private homes and gardens, are insightfully revealed in th is comprehensive photographic homage to the "Venice of North America" Over 200 full-color photographs and an… Read more about this item