Search Results: Politics from pacaritambo books

Simon & Schuster, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD 1997 Simon & Schuster large hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Tiny "repaired" tear bottom DJ panel at fold. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: Recounts the trial of a radical union leader for the murder of Idaho's former state governor, a case that ultimately involved President Theodore Roosevelt and the tumultuous relationship between capital, labor, and the law in the 1900s. Multiple Pulitzer Prize winner Lukas, who committed suicide at age 64, aspires in his final book to use the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, governor of Idaho, as a platform from which to survey the panorama of the turn-of-the-century's incessant labor strife. The murder, investigation, and trial quickly became a cause for business, labor, and law enforcement, both private and public. Lukas attempts to gather every… Read More

Beacon Press, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W charts - very few. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Beacon Press trade paperback, first edition, first printing. A few B&W charts throughout. CONTENT: How Americans can take action in their own communities and unite across the political spectrum in pursuit of solutions to climate change. Andreas Karelas has a message we don't often hear: we have all the tools we need to solve the climate crisis and doing so will improve our lives, our economy, and our society. But to engage people in the climate fight, we need stories that are empowering, inclusive, and solutions-oriented, not based in fear. Karelas digs into the latest data on the rapidly falling costs and increased efficiencies of clean energy technologies compared to fossil fuels, looks at the rate of job creation in the clean energy sector, and introduces the reader to the inspiring work of climate heroes on both sides of the aisle-from Republican mayors and governors to… Read More

Three Rivers Press, 1999. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W era photo section: B&W Maps; Chapter Decorations. CONDITION: UNREAD 1999-2000 Three Rivers Press large trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Geologic maps, B&W era photo section, Geologic Time chart. There is an ever-so-light lift to the cover fore edge. CONTENT: It was an age of counterfeit giants, corrupt politicians, and intrepid pioneers. It was a time of scientific ferment. The second half of the 19th century - the so-called Gilded Age - was a time when Americans were exploring the West and building a nation which stretched from coast to coast. It was also when scientists began finding dinosaur fossils across the western half of the nation. Could the answer to the history of life and the proof of evolution be found in these bones? That was the question two young American paleontologists - Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh - set out to answer. But what began as a… Read More

Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. 2 era B&W and Color Photo & art reproduction sections. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Weidenfeld & Nicholson trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. 2 era B&W / color photos & art reproduction sections. CONTENT: The Gordon Riots of 1780 were the worst civil disturbance in British history, causing 285 deaths and widespread looting in central London. The riots had begun as an anti-Catholic protest against the Papist Act two years earlier, which intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics after over one hundred years of penalties against them. It is against this backdrop that the 50-year battle for Catholic Emancipation developed, culminating in the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829. A hugely sensitive issue during the Napoleonic Wars, William Pitt's government had fallen in 1806 over it. Its successful passage followed a vigorous campaign on the issue by Irish lawyer Daniel… Read More

Arcturus, 2020. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W era photos throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Arcturus trade paperback, first edition, printing not given. B&W era photos throughout. Depressing photos, at that. CONTENT: When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead they stripped defeated nations of their treasures, industry and natural resources, with the aim of asserting German supremacy and imposing Hitler's New Order in Europe. Paul Roland tells the story of daily life under Nazi rule - in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Guernsey and the Channel Islands- to be brought to heel by bribery and brutality, rape and torture, inducement and intimidation as the Germans carried out their vile policies. We hear of quislings and collaborators who conspired with their captors, the 'enemies of the Reich' including Jewish citizens who were rounded up and exterminated, as… Read More

Hill and Wang, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W map of the "Riot" by Jeffrey Ward. CONDITION: NEW 2013 Hill & Wang hardcover (tan boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W map of the "riot" area. CONTENT: An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history. In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the fires consuming black churches and schools were put out, forty-six freed people had been murdered. Congress, furious at this and other evidence of white resistance in the conquered South, launched what is now called Radical Reconstruction, policies to ensure the freedom of the region's four million blacks?and one of the most remarkable experiments in American history. This is a portrait of a Southern city that opens an entirely new view onto the Civil War and its aftermath.… Read More

St. Martin's Griffin, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 St Martin's Griffin trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. No illustrations. Extensive notes. The full subtitle is: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported. NEW FORWARD. CONTENT: American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump. We have never had a president who gave rise to such widespread alarm about his lack of commitment to the institutions of self-government, to the norms democracy requires, and to the need for basic knowledge about how government works. We have never had a president who raises profound questions about his basic competence and his psychological capacity to take on the most challenging political office in the world. The award-winning authors of One Nation After Trump explain Trump's rise and the danger his administration… Read More

Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998. New Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W & sepia era photos, cartoon repros. CONDITION: NEW (UNREAD) 1998 Black Dog & Leventhal large hardcover (black boards, 2 lbs.) Included in this edition are B&W and sepia era photos plus political cartoons of the day. Epilogue by Caroline Kennedy & John F. Kennedy, Jr. CONTENT: The Illustrated Edition: The Pulitzer-Prize winning account of men of principle, integrity and bravery in American politics is now available in a handsome, illustrated format . Eight men who served in the United States Senate were selected by John F. Kennedy as models of virtue and courage under pressure. (From the Epilogue by John Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy) All our lives, people approached us to say, "Your father changed my life." They go on to describe their own commitment to public service, community involvement, and work for social justice John F. Kennedy inspired one generation, and now others, to believe that politics can be a noble… Read More

Dutton, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Dutton hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. CONTENT: After November 8, 2016, first came the sadness; then came the rage, the activism, and the protests; and, finally, for thousands of women, the next step was to run for office-many of them for the first time. More women campaigned for local or national office in the 2018 election cycle than at any other time in US history, challenging accepted notions about who seeks power and who gets it. Journalist Caitlin Moscatello reported on this wave of female candidates for New York magazine's The Cut, Glamour, and Elle. And in See Jane Win, she further documents this pivotal time in women's history. Closely following four candidates throughout the entire process, from the decision to run through Election Day, See Jane Win takes readers inside their exciting, winning campaigns and the sometimes thrilling, sometimes brutal realities… Read More

Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2017 Skyhorse hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. While the font size is larger than normal, it's not actually "large print" either. Odd. CONTENT: The incredible true story of a British physicist who was an undercover spy for the Soviets. The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the Governments of Britain, the United States and Russia all tried to cover up the truth about his treachery. Piecing together the story from archives in Britain, the United States, Russia and Germany, The Spy Who Changed the World unravels the truth about Fuchs and reveals for the first time his long career of espionage. It… Read More