This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces--the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation--but hundreds of lesser-known gems. Alfred Kazin has written that Lincoln was not just the greatest writer among our Presidents . . . but the most telling and unforgettable of all American 'public' writer-speakers, and it's never been cleaner than in this comprehensive edition. View More...
Used - good to very good, no dustjacket. First edition. Faded spine, previous owner inscription, stained fore edge, a very solid, unmarked copy, nice. 392 pp. View More...
Firm binding with light wear to board and spine edges; previous owner marks to front endpaper - text otherwise clean; jacket shows moderate general wear with scuffing/wrinkling to all edges. Overall a solid, clean copy. View More...
A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures--including Freud and William James--was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling's reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of w... View More...
Used - good. Mold-stained boards, interior clean, solid, unmarked. Dusjtacket good with rubbing, some edgewear, mold staining on reverse side. 393 pp. View More...
Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin all published important works at this time, none of their writings would match the influence of Russell Kirk's 1953 masterpiece The Conservative Mind. This seminal book became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in Americans' attitudes toward traditionalism... View More...
Sturdy, clean ex-library copy with normal marks thereof. Light foxing on textblock edges, contents unmarked. Very good mylar covered jacket. View More...
Firm binding; previous owner name to front flyleaf; faint moisture warping to lower textblock; light general shelfwear with scuffing to jacket edges. View More...
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owner... View More...
"Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see."--Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis, and for their work they were tested in the infamous Nazi death camps. Only Corrie among her family survived to tell the story of how faith ultimately triumphs over evil.Here is the ... View More...
Light cover wear, solid binding, unmarked text. Our copy is the McGraw-Hill edition (not the Yale or Heinemann), but pretty much matches the image shown. View More...
