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tapa dura. Condizione: Bien. null Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company. New York. xv, 620 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Idioma Inglés. First edition. Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN: 2018009933; 9781631491177 (hardcover) (=3363961=) GF34.

very good dust-jacket, cover price $27.95, fresh attractive copy, very good gray hardcover, appears unused. GOODMAN, RUTH. The domestic revolution: how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xxi, 330pp., . "'The queen of living history' (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution--from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century--from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity" - CONTENTS: Living off the land -- Out of the woods -- The draw of coal -- London, transformed -- The spreading blaze -- Cooks' tools -- A new menu -- Cleaning-up -- The domestic burden. ISBN 9781631497636.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. xv, [3], 283, [3] pages. Frontis illustration. Dramatis Personae. DJ has some wear and soiling. Jerome Charyn (born May 13, 1937) is an American author. With nearly 50 published works over a 50-year span, Charyn has a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life, writing in multiple genres. Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature." New York Newsday hailed Charyn as "a contemporary American Balzac," and the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers." Charyn's books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Chinese and 11 other languages. Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning with his sickly childhood and concluding with McKinley's assassination, the novel positions Roosevelt as a "perfect bull in a china shop," a fearless crime fighter and pioneering environmentalist who would grow up to be our greatest peacetime president. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. xxiv, 367, [7] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Terry Golway is a Kean University professor, historian, author, and a journalist, having served as a columnist and editorial board member for The New York Times and a long-time editor and writer at The New York Observer. Golway teaches history at Kean University and is the curator of the university's John T. Kean Center for American History. In 2010 Golway discovered a historic early census count predating the creation of the United States at Liberty Hall National Historic Landmark at Kean. He is the author of several books on American and Irish history. Golway is an occasional op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He served as a political reporter, city editor and columnist for the pink paper, for which he still writes the periodic piece. Derived from a Kirkus review: The story of Tammany Hall, a fraternal organization founded in the late 1700s as a "voice of the common man," mirrors the story of the Irish Catholics in New York City, who had to crack the Anglo-Protestant political order in order to make their way. So argues journalist Golway. Irish Catholic leaders in New York challenged the Protestant elite by pushing back against nativist animosity. As the Irish population of the city swelled from the Great Famine, Tammany embraced and enfranchised these unfortunate masses. The election of William R. Grace, the first Irish Catholic immigrant, as mayor of New York City in 1880 was a watershed. The Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire of 1911 galvanized Tammany's more promising reform-minded leaders like Robert Wagner and Al Smith to urge for regulatory legislation that inspired Francis Perkins and, later, Franklin Roosevelt. A work that readjusts Tammany's reputation from corruption to a crusader for the downtrodden. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, has a mild skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, and a touch of smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Very Good+ copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has faint sunning to the spine and head, and darkening to the interior along the flap folds. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xvii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9781631495601, 1631495607 ; OCLC 1272857520 ; LCCN 2022005165 ; LC E457.2 .A267 2022 ; Dewey 973.7092/2 ; white cloth in blue and yellow pictorial dustjacket ; Contents"' If the Fates Allow -- His Imperfect Self -- So Old When He Was Young -- God's Most Precious Truth -- Love's Sacred Circle -- Ghost Kisses -- Why Wake Me? -- Fatal Vision -- Are We So Soon Forgot? -- Death Came as a Friend ; "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning-in fact, it had been foretold. In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president's fascination with Spiritualism, and to demonstrate how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him. Abraham Lincoln is usually seen as a rational, empirically-minded man, yet as acclaimed scholar and biographer Terry Alford reveals, he was also deeply superstitious and drawn to the irrational. Like millions of other Americans, including the Booths, Lincoln and his wife, Mary, suffered repeated personal tragedies, and turned for solace to Spiritualism, a new practice sweeping the nation that held that the dead were nearby and could be contacted by the living. Remarkably, the Lincolns and the Booths even used the same mediums, including Charles Colchester, a specialist in "blood writing" whom Mary first brought to her husband, and who warned the president after listening to the ravings of another of his clients, John Wilkes Booth. Alford's expansive, richly-textured chronicle follows the two families across the nineteenth century, uncovering new facts and stories about Abraham and Mary while drawing indelible portraits of the Booths-from patriarch Julius, a famous actor in his own right, to brother Edwin, the most talented member of the family and a man who feared peacock feathers, to their confidant Adam Badeau, who would become, strangely, the ghostwriter for President Ulysses S. Grant. At every turn, Alford shows that despite the progress of the age-the glass hypodermic syringe, electromagnetic induction, and much more-death remained ever-present, thus that it was only rational for millions of Americans, from the president on down, to cling to beliefs that seem anything but. A novelistic narrative of two exceptional American families set against the convulsions their times, In the Houses of Their Dead ultimately leads us to consider how ghost stories helped shape the nation"-- Provided by publisher. ; Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, slipcased two volume hardcover set, the books both have a mild lean to their binding, and light bumps to their spine ends. Overall, this is a solid, tight and clean, Very Good+ two volume set in like dust jackets, which have bumps with slight creasing to their spine ends and corners, mild rubbing to their covers, and some wear to their edges with a short tear to the tail of the front cover of Book II. Housed in a Very Good+ slipcase, which has light bumps to the corners, and faint rubbing to the panels.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. Earl Wilson (Author photograph) (illustratore). [8], 267, [13] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Appendix: Texas on the Brink. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. In one of the most explosive and timely political books in years, Gail Collins declares that "what happens in Texas doesn't stay in Texas anymore." Not until she visited Texas, that proud state of big oil and bigger ambitions, did Gail Collins, the best-selling author and columnist for the New York Times, realize that she had missed the one place that mattered most in America's political landscape. Collins had previously seen the American fundamental divide as a war between the Republican heartland and its two liberal coasts. But the real story, she came to see, was in Texas, where Bush, Cheney, Rove, & Perry had created a conservative political agenda that is now defining our national identity. Through its vigorous support of banking deregulation and tax cuts, through its championing of states rights, gun ownership, and sexual abstinence, Texas, with Governor Rick Perry's presidential ambitions, has become the bellwether of a national movement that continues to have social and economic consequences. Like it or not, as Texas goes, so goes the nation. Gail Collins (born November 25, 1945) is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author. Joining the New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board, she served as the paper's Editorial Page Editor from 2001 to 2007 and was the first woman to attain that position. Collins writes a semi-weekly op-ed column for the Times from her liberal perspective, published Thursdays and Saturdays. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: The outsized influence of the union's largest state is decried in this by turns amused and appalled study of Texas's government and its discontents. New York Times columnist Collins revels in the state's 10-gallon self-regard, Alamo-inspired cult of last stands, and right-wing politicians. But the upshot of all that, she argues, is a disastrous model of public policy that inspired the Republican Party's national platform: a rickety economic boom based on insecure, poverty-level jobs and massive state incentives to corporations; financial deregulation that led to banking meltdowns; a raft of ill-advised education nostrums, from the prototype of the No Child Left Behind Act to abstinence-only sex-education programs; skimpy public services, high rates of poverty and inequality, and low rates of health coverage and graduation. Collins's book is really an indictment of what she calls America's "empty-places" creedâ"the rural conservative populism that favors small government, low taxes, and lax regulationâ"through a takedown of its colorful epicenter. Much like the late Texas dissident Molly Ivins, she slathers plenty of wry humor onto a critique that stings like a red-hot brand. Derived from a Kirkus review: New York Times political columnist Collins zeroes in on what makes Texas so important and why the rest of the country needs to know and care about what's happening there. Texans, writes the author, think they live in a wide-open empty space where carrying a concealed weapon is acceptable because people have to take care of themselves and the government has no business telling them what to do. In her inimitable style, the unabashed liberal examines the shenanigans of Texans from four angles: first, a hilarious look at some of Texas' past heroes and present politicicians and at how the empty-space ethos has shaped the state's policies; second, a close-up examination of several areas where she says the state has gone sadly wrong (its deregulation of financial markets, attempts at reforming education, and major missteps on sex education, energy, the environment, pollution and global climate change); third, a scathing report on the two-tiered, low-tax, low-service economy of the state; and finally, Collins' take on where Texas, soon to be a Hispanic-majority state, is heading. The author loads her report with funny but dismaying ane.