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Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The first oral history centering on the unique experiences of black porters and railroad attendants during the railroad's heyday is by turns dramatic, inspiring, comic, and heartwrenching. First person accounts document both the glamour of the railroad era and the bitter realities of being a black worker on a white railroad.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War I erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews--some had already been in concentration camps--who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. The voyage of the damned had begun.Before the St. Louis was halfway across the Atlantic, a power struggle ensued between the corrupt Cuban immigration minister who issued the visas and his superior, President Bru. The outcome: The refugees would not be allowed to land in Cuba.In America, the Brown Shirts were holding Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden; anti-Semitic Father Coughlin had an audience of fifteen million. Back in Germany, plans were being laid to implement the final solution. And aboard the St. Louis, 937 refugees awaited the decision that would determine their fate.Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have re-created history in this meticulous reconstruction of the voyage of the St. Louis. Every word of their account is true: the German High Command's ulterior motive in granting permission for the mission of mercy; the confrontations between the refugees and the German crewmen; the suicide attempts among the passengers; and the attitudes of those who might have averted the catastrophe, but didn't.In reviewing the work, the New York Times was unequivocal: An extraordinary human document and a suspense story that is hard to put down. But it is more than that. It is a modern allegory, in which the S St. Louis becomes a symbol of the S Planet Earth. In this larger sense the book serves a greater purpose than mere drama.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War I erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews--some had already been in concentration camps--who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. The voyage of the damned had begun.Before the St. Louis was halfway across the Atlantic, a power struggle ensued between the corrupt Cuban immigration minister who issued the visas and his superior, President Bru. The outcome: The refugees would not be allowed to land in Cuba.In America, the Brown Shirts were holding Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden; anti-Semitic Father Coughlin had an audience of fifteen million. Back in Germany, plans were being laid to implement the final solution. And aboard the St. Louis, 937 refugees awaited the decision that would determine their fate.Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have re-created history in this meticulous reconstruction of the voyage of the St. Louis. Every word of their account is true: the German High Command's ulterior motive in granting permission for the mission of mercy; the confrontations between the refugees and the German crewmen; the suicide attempts among the passengers; and the attitudes of those who might have averted the catastrophe, but didn't.In reviewing the work, the New York Times was unequivocal: An extraordinary human document and a suspense story that is hard to put down. But it is more than that. It is a modern allegory, in which the S St. Louis becomes a symbol of the S Planet Earth. In this larger sense the book serves a greater purpose than mere drama.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This history of papal politicking over the past 150 years includes an in-depth examination of the candidates for the papacy after John Paul II, and how the next pope will be selected.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Hattie McDaniel was the first black to ever win an Oscar. She was also the first black woman to ever sing on American radio. In this fresh assessment of her life and career, Carlton Jackson tells the inside story of her working relationships, her personal life, and the many obstacles she faced as a black performer in the white world of show business during the first half of the twentieth century.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The first oral history centering on the unique experiences of black porters and railroad attendants during the railroad's heyday is by turns dramatic, inspiring, comic, and heartwrenching. First person accounts document both the glamour of the railroad era and the bitter realities of being a black worker on a white railroad.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War I erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews--some had already been in concentration camps--who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. The voyage of the damned had begun.Before the St. Louis was halfway across the Atlantic, a power struggle ensued between the corrupt Cuban immigration minister who issued the visas and his superior, President Bru. The outcome: The refugees would not be allowed to land in Cuba.In America, the Brown Shirts were holding Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden; anti-Semitic Father Coughlin had an audience of fifteen million. Back in Germany, plans were being laid to implement the final solution. And aboard the St. Louis, 937 refugees awaited the decision that would determine their fate.Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have re-created history in this meticulous reconstruction of the voyage of the St. Louis. Every word of their account is true: the German High Command's ulterior motive in granting permission for the mission of mercy; the confrontations between the refugees and the German crewmen; the suicide attempts among the passengers; and the attitudes of those who might have averted the catastrophe, but didn't.In reviewing the work, the New York Times was unequivocal: An extraordinary human document and a suspense story that is hard to put down. But it is more than that. It is a modern allegory, in which the S St. Louis becomes a symbol of the S Planet Earth. In this larger sense the book serves a greater purpose than mere drama.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War I erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews--some had already been in concentration camps--who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. The voyage of the damned had begun.Before the St. Louis was halfway across the Atlantic, a power struggle ensued between the corrupt Cuban immigration minister who issued the visas and his superior, President Bru. The outcome: The refugees would not be allowed to land in Cuba.In America, the Brown Shirts were holding Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden; anti-Semitic Father Coughlin had an audience of fifteen million. Back in Germany, plans were being laid to implement the final solution. And aboard the St. Louis, 937 refugees awaited the decision that would determine their fate.Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have re-created history in this meticulous reconstruction of the voyage of the St. Louis. Every word of their account is true: the German High Command's ulterior motive in granting permission for the mission of mercy; the confrontations between the refugees and the German crewmen; the suicide attempts among the passengers; and the attitudes of those who might have averted the catastrophe, but didn't.In reviewing the work, the New York Times was unequivocal: An extraordinary human document and a suspense story that is hard to put down. But it is more than that. It is a modern allegory, in which the S St. Louis becomes a symbol of the S Planet Earth. In this larger sense the book serves a greater purpose than mere drama.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A Japanese-American spy, captured by the Japanese in WWII, tells of his remarkable capture and survival.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This history of papal politicking over the past 150 years includes an in-depth examination of the candidates for the papacy after John Paul II, and how the next pope will be selected.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Hattie McDaniel was the first black to ever win an Oscar. She was also the first black woman to ever sing on American radio. In this fresh assessment of her life and career, Carlton Jackson tells the inside story of her working relationships, her personal life, and the many obstacles she faced as a black performer in the white world of show business during the first half of the twentieth century.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When Harry Carey, Sr., died in 1947, director John Ford cast Carey's twenty-six-year-old son, Harry, Jr., in the role of The Abilene Kid in 3 Godfathers. Ford and the elder Carey had filmed an earlier version of the story, and Ford dedicated the Technicolor remake to his memory. Company of Heroes is the story of the making of that film, as well as the eight subsequent Ford classics. In it, Harry Carey, Jr., casts a remarkably observant eye on the process of filming Westerns by one of the true masters of the form. From She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Wagonmaster to The Searchers and Cheyenne Autumn, he shows the care, tedium, challenge, and exhilaration of movie-making at its highest level. Carey's portrayal of John Ford at work is the most intimate ever written. He also gives us insightful and original portraits of the men and women who were part of Ford's vision of America: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, and Ben Johnson. Funny, insightful, and brutally honest, Company of Heroes is a rip-roaring good read that presents the remarkable life story of Harry Carey, Jr., and his many fine performances.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Mikhail Kelly s credentials were impeccable. Russian mother, Irish father hanged by the British. He could split an apple or a head across a large room with a handgun. And his special talent was acting. The KGB gave him the perfect part assassin. For more than twenty years Cuchulain has created chaos, fear and disorder in Ireland by hitting counter-productive targets on both sides of the border, making fools of British Intelligence and the IRA. But Cuchulain is a man whose time is nearly up. The one person who can identify him is the beautiful Tanya Voroninova, daughter of a KGB general. And the one person who can persuade her to defect is Liam Devlin, poet, scholar, IRA gunman retired. Hunted by the combined forces of British Intelligence, the IRA and the KGB who now regard him as an expendable embarrassment, Cuchulain prepares to hit the most counter-productive target of all time.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The old Dominion's role in the making of America from 1607 to 1781.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The old Dominion's role in the making of America from 1607 to 1781.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. During a time when Burgundy was so powerful that it almost became a nation separate from France, its duchess Isabel led negotiations with allies and navigated the treacherous world of palace intrigue and espionage.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A Japanese-American spy, captured by the Japanese in WWII, tells of his remarkable capture and survival.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hard Cover -- Good -- SHIPPING ONLY IN U.S. AND BY MEDIA RATE ONLY -- Other than spot of discoloration to fore edge to first couple of pages, book is clean and tight with only light wear -- Pictorial cover, no dust jacket if issued -- illustrated throughout -- -- Summer 1961, Volume One - Number Three.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.