F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

The Only Authorized Edition

The Great Gatsby

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Joyce Appleby

Lynn A. Hunt

Margaret C. Jacob

See photos. Clean, unmarked pages. Tight binding.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

/HUNT/JACOB/APPLEBY During the 20th century, the accuracy of historical knowledge has been eroded by fictionalized versions of events in films, novels, and self-serving critics. Here the authors call for a return to the historian's legitimate search governed by agree

Telling the Truth about History

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James W. Loewen

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

A fascinating examination of American history textbooks used in high schools across the USA. James Loewen exposes the real truths behind everything from the first Thanksgiving to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Lies My Teacher Told Me

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Arthur Ponsonby

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War

Falsehood in War Time

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Edward E. Baptist

Unread hardcover. Some warping to pages seen in the photos. No writing or notations anywhere. Very good copy.

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians

Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize

A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves



Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy.



Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

The Half Has Never Been Told

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Douglas A. Blackmon

The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Bringing to light a shameful chapter in American history, a shocking study reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off the outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to small-town businesses, provincial farmers, and even large corporations. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Slavery by Another Name

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Ned Sublette

Constance Sublette

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light"--

The American Slave Coast

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James M. McPherson

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Civil War Era

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War—the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry—and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself—the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities.

Battle Cry of Freedom

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Naomi Hirahara

Heather C. Lindquist

Art Hansen

From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement": the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start over, while others returned to Southern California only to face discrimination and an alarming scarcity of housing and jobs. Hirahara and Lindquist weave new and archival oral histories into an engaging narrative that illuminates the lives of former internees in the postwar era, both in struggle and unlikely triumph. Readers will appreciate the painstaking efforts that rebuilding required, and will feel inspired by the activism that led to redress and restitution-and that built a community that even now speaks out against other racist agendas.

Life after Manzanar

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship.

The Scarlet Letter

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Signet Classics paperback in good, used, condition. No writing or markings on pages. Some yellowing due to age of this vintage copy. Cover has shelf wear, creasing and small tears. See photos.

Jane Eyre

James Ellroy

See photos. Clean, unmarked, first edition hardback. 

A Novel

Freddy Otash is the man to know in 50s L.A. Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he's here to confess

Widespread Panic

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New, unmarked book. Ships same day from smoke-free, pet-free home.

Life of a Contrarian Writer

James Purdy

David Wojnarowicz

Artists, photography, David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar, interviews with Nan Goldin and Fran Lebowitz.
Excellent condition, ships same or next day in secure packaging.

Brush Fires in the Social Landscape

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Sex and other Sacred Games

Gore Vidal

A Memoir

The brilliant sequel to Gore Vidal’s acclaimed, bestselling memoir,Palimpsest. InPoint to Point Navigation, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. The title refers to a form of navigation he resorted to as a first mate in the Navy during World War II. As he says, “As I was writing this account of my life and times sincePalimpsest, I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made inoperable by weather.” It is a beautifully apt analogy for the hazards (mostly) eluded during his eventful life and for the way this memoir proceeds—far from linear but always on course. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, politics and international society where he has cut a broad swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and on a number of occasions lost). Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages, sketched with a draftsman’s ease and evoked with the panache of one of our great raconteurs, are Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams (the “Glorious Bird”), Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Greta Garbo, Federico Fellini, Rudolph Nureyev, Elia Kazan, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book’s most moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other things, a meditation on mortality written in the spirit of Montaigne. Elegiac yet vital and even ornery,Point to Point Navigationis a summing-up of Gore Vidal’s time on the planet that manages to be at once supremely entertaining, endlessly provocative, and thoroughly moving.

Point to Point Navigation

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Toni Morrison

Captures the dreams, memories, conflicts, and complex interior lives of the citizens of a small, all-Black town as four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near the town during the 1970s, in a novel that blends past, present, and future

Paradise

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Incredible Facts and How Kids Can Be Superheroes for Animals

Unlocking The Animal World

Patricia Highsmith

Anna Von Planta

Drawings by author Patricia Highsmith. Text in German. Excellent condition. See photos.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

(Drawings) German edition

Zeichnungen

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Beth Gates Warren

See pictures. Book is in excellent shape. No markings or writing. No missing or torn pages. Ships same or next day in secure packaging.

A Passionate Collaboration

An examination of the personal and professional relationship between two important American photographers.

Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston

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W. C. Brann

Brand new and unread. Excellent condition. Essays by W.C. Brann.

Brann the Iconoclast. Vol I

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Carol Es

New. No markings or missing pages. Ships from a smoke-free and pet-free home same or next day.

Artist, writer, and drummer, Carol Es grew up neglected and believing she was inherently bad. Having a mentally abusive mother and an unstable family that moved around a dozen times before her ninth birthday, she'd also endured horrific sexual abuse. By age 14, she left home unnoticed, emancipated herself by 15, and from there wound up trapped in a cult for 20 years.Seduced by the celebrity that lured her into Scientology and their magic promises to fix her broken life, Carol maintained an unbreakable bond with her passions as a means of survival. She exhibited her art and played music tirelessly in bands on Sunset Boulevard and the LA circuit. She toured the US and Canada, signed with Sony Music, but all the while she'd been conditioned to hide and deny her own mental illness in order to stay true to the doctrine of L. Ron Hubbard-a man who claimed psychiatric treatment was an evil hoax.In her memoir, Carol explains how it was even possible to be both brainwashed and live "normally" in the world of contemporary art and rock n' roll.After a tumultuous childhood and years of mind control, Carol has taken a huge stride out of the blackness of fear and silence by completing Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley in the face of resistance. With gallows humor and a unique perspective, she invites readers into her confidence, laying bare her most raw and intimate revelations on her seemingly endless search for self-worth as a woman. Managing to embrace the painfully sad scenes of her past and her biggest embarrassments, she finds absurdities one can only laugh about through tears.Illustrated with original sketches throughout, Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley is not just another survivor's tale or misery memoir, it is a courageous, relatable story about gaining the ability to identify growth from experience. Sometimes true victory comes when learning, relearning, and coming out okay is triumph enough.

Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Mary Hartnett

Wendy W. Williams

New and unread. Ships same or next day in secure packaging from smoke- free and pet- free home.

The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion” (Harper’s Bazaar). My Own Words “showcases Ruth Ginsburg’s astonishing intellectual range” (The New Republic). In this collection Justice Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the workings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, who introduce each chapter and provide biographical context and quotes gleaned from hundreds of interviews they have conducted. Witty, engaging, serious, and playful, My Own Words is a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America’s most influential women and “a tonic to the current national discourse” (The Washington Post).

My Own Words

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Helena G. Allen

Excellent condition. No missing pages, no writing or underlining. Never read. Tanning due to the age of the paperback. Ships same or next day in secure packaging.

Last Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917

A biography of Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii from 1891 to 1893, discussing her life growing up as a royal child, and considering the historical, political, social, and economic changes that occurred during her lifetime and especially during her rulership in the years immediately before Hawaii was annexed to the United States.

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Edward E. Baptist

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Douglas A. Blackmon

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