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[Adams, Abigail] Kaminski, John P. [Ed]. The Quotable Abigail Adams. Uncorrected Page Proofs Copy. Harvard, Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2009. 15.5 x 21.5cm. (36), 384 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.
John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that her letters “give me more entertainment than all the speeches I hear. There is more good Thoughts, fine strokes and Mother Wit in them than I hear in the whole Week. An Ounce of Mother Wit is worth a Pound of Clergy.” The Quotable Abigail Adams invites you to enjoy Abigail Adams’s wit and wisdom on a wide range of subjects, drawn from writings throughout her lifetime. Abigail shared her penetrating and often humorous observations with correspondents ranging from friends and neighbors to family members to heads of state, offering lively opinions on human nature, politics, culture, and family life. Selected and arranged by topic, these quotations provide an entertaining introduction to the thought and character of America’s founding mother. They are accompanied by a biographical introduction, source notes, chronology, and a comprehensive index, making this book the primary resource for those meeting this remarkable woman for the first time as well as for her longtime admirers. [From jacket notes] Keywords: American Culture, American History, American Literature, American People, American Politics, American Presidential History, Letters, Social History, United States |
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Beisner, Robert L. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. 16 cm x 24 cm. XIV, 800 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.
Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era – the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential career, Acheson spearheaded the greatest foreign policy achievements in modern times, ranging from the Marshall Plan to the establishment of NATO. Now, in this monumental biography, Robert L. Beisner paints an indelible portrait of one of the key figures of the last half-century. In a book filled with insight based on research in government archives, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Beisner illuminates Acheson’s policy-making, describing how he led the state department and managed his relationship with Truman. (Publisher). Keywords: 20th century, American History, Cold war |
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Bemis, George. Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney General of England in the british Commons, May 13,1864. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1864. 8°. VIII, 83 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Unopened. Upper corner dogeared. Elswise very good plus.
The pamphlet includes: Expulsion and seizure of Genet’s privateers in 1793; The case of the Cassius; The case of the Santissima Trinidad and Judge Story on neutral duties; Judge Story’s Dictum in “The Amistad de Rues Case”; Retrospect of “The Alabama Case” – Her escape the result of British Treachery and official connivance or Negligence; American Treatment of French and British Alabamas in Washington’s Administration – Appendix: Extract from the speech of Mr.Thomas and the speech of the Attorney-General in full. Keywords: 19.Jahrhundert, 19th Century, American Civil War, American Civil War Pamphlets, American History, Pamphlets |
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Christie’s. South Kensington Fine Photographs Friday 5 May 2000 at 10.30 am and 2.00 pm. London, Christie’s, 2000. 21 cm x 27 cm. 190 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.
Catalogue for auction at Christie’s, London on Friday, May 5, 2000 includes illustrations and descriptions of photographs in the following genres: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Union Cases / Stereoscopic Photographs / Carte-de-Viste and Cabinet Photographs / 19th Century British Photographs / 19th Century French and Other European Photographs / Photographs by Eugene Atget / Topographical Photographs / 20th Century British photographs / 20th Century European Photographs / 20th Century North and South American Photographs Keywords: American History, British History, European history, French History, History, Photographs, Photography, Topography |
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Collison, Gary. Shadrach Minkins. From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. First edition. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1997. 17 x 24 cm. 294 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good, near fine, condition.
Keywords: American History, Historical Analysis, Native Americans |
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Cooke, Jay. How our National Debt can be paid. The Wealth, Resources and Power of the People of the United States. Prepared by Dr.William Elder, of the Treasury Department. Philadelphia, Sherman & Co., 1865. 8°. 15 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Dogeared. Foxed. Extremely rare original pamphlet reflecting the costs, revenue possibilities etc. of the times previous, in and after the American Civil War.
Jay Cooke (August 10, 1821-February 8, 1905), American financier, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, the son of Eleutheros Cooke (1787-1864), a pioneer Ohio lawyer and Whig member of Congress from that state in 1831-1833 and member of the Ohio General Assembly. Keywords: 19.Jahrhundert, 19th Century, American Civil War, American Civil War Pamphlets, American History, Pamphlets |
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Denton, Sally/ Morris, Roger. The Money and the Power – The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000. First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. 16,3 x 23,8 cm. 479 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear on the dustjacket.
Contains among others: First City of the Twenty-First Century; “Beyond This Place There Be Dragons”; “Temple Town of the American Dream” a.o. Keywords: American History |
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Douglas, Kirk. Autobiografia. 1a edicion. Barcelona, Cayfosa, 1988. 8°. 381 pages. Softcover. Edicion espanol. Incluye fotografías. / Spanish Ediiton. Very good condition.
Keywords: American History |
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Edwards, Jonathan. Basic Writings. Selected, Edited and with a Foreword by Ola Elizabeth Winslow. New York, New American Library, 1966. 10.5 x 18cm. 255 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some age darkening. Pencilled price marking on front jacket. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. [A Signet Classic, No. CT 297].
Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian. Like most of the Puritans, he held to the Reformed theology. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America’s most important and original philosophical theologians. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life’s work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening, and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts Keywords: 18th Century, American Culture, American History, American People, American Religion, Chuck Kruger Cape Clear Collection, Religion, Theology |
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Everett, Edward. Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, delivered before The Boston Union Club, Thursday, April 9, 1863. Liverpool, Printed at the “Daily Post” Steam Printing Works, 1863. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some rubbing fo front cover. As one of the most notable rhetorics of his time, Everett later that year gave his famous Gettysburg Oration. In his speech to the Boston Union Club, he addresses the struggle of the country due to the Civil War.
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, and Governor of Massachusetts before being appointed United States Secretary of State by President Millard Fillmore to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Webster. Mentioned in the book “The Perfect Tribute,” Everett was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1860 election on the Constitutional Union ticket. In 1863 he delivered a two-hour Gettysburg Oration that has been eclipsed in history by President Lincoln’s two-minute Gettysburg Address, which Everett praised as superior to his own. He was the father of congressman William Everett and the great uncle of Edward Everett Hale. Keywords: 19.Jahrhundert, 19th Century, American Civil War, American Civil War Pamphlets, American History, Education, Pamphlets |
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