Homes Of The Early Presidents

Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth: Social Life in the Early Republic, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA Corner House Publishers 1970
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BF6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in green vinyl covered boards with some lijght surface wear on the outside surfaces of the front and back boards form where the dust jacket endflaps were taped to the boards plus there is some very, very light edge wear along the top edge of the back board and at the top left corner of the front board. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with a library label on the spine plus there is a price clip at the top right corner of the front endflap plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A book about the history of the United States in the years immediately following the American Revolution. The author focuses on the activities of the political and economic groups that dominated the social scene in Philadelphia, New York, and Washington. This of course includes the Presidents and their coteries and how they entertained themselves and their familes and friends form informal get-togethers in their homes to elaborate balls and formal state functions. Illustrated with black and white reproductions Indexed, 346p. Reprint Edition Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library

[SW: Nonfiction Non-fiction Colonial Era American History America United States US USA U.S. U.S.A. Philadelphia New York Washington Washington Fillmore Millard State FunctionsHistory: U.S.::Colonial Era]

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Carter, Jimmy: An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of My Rural Boyhood, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 2001
ISBN: 0743211936 NEW Photos

284 PAGES. Born on October 1, 1924, Jimmy Carter grew up on a Georgia farm during the Great Depression. In An Hour Before Daylight, the former president tells the story of his rural boyhood, and paints a sensitive portrait of America before the civil rights movement. Carter describes--in glorious, if sometimes gory, detail--growing up on a farm where everything was done by either hand or mule: plowing fields, "mopping" cotton to kill pests, cutting sugar cane, shaking peanuts, or processing pork. He also describes the joys of walking barefoot ("this habit alone helped to create a sense of intimacy with the earth"), taking naps with his father on the porch after lunch, and hunting with slingshots and boomerangs with his playmates--all of whom were black. Carter was in constant contact with his black neighbors; he worked alongside them, ate in their homes, and often spent the night in the home of Rachel and Jack Clark, "on a pallet on the floor stuffed with corn shucks," when his parents were away. However, this intimacy was possible only on the farm. When young Jimmy and his best friend, A.D. Davis, went to town to see a movie, they waited for the train together, paid their 15 cents, and then separated into "white" and "colored" compartments. Once in Americus, they walked to the theater together, but separated again, with Jimmy buying a seat on the main floor or first balcony at the front door, and A.D. going around to the back door to buy his seat up in the upper balcony. After the movie, they returned home on another segregated train. "I don't remember ever questioning the mandatory racial separation, which we accepted like breathing or waking up in Archery every morning." In this warm, almost sepia-toned narrative, Carter describes his relationships with his parents and with the five people--only two of whom were white--who most affected his early life. Best of all, however, Carter presents his sweetly nostalgic recollections of a lost America. First Edition As New Hard Cover USED

[SW: CARTER JIMMY 1924 PRESIDENTS UNITED]

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Bardach, Ann Louise: CUBA CONFIDENTIAL: LOVE AND VENGEANCE IN MIAMI AND HAVANA, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Random House Publishing Group 2002
ISBN: 0-375-50489-3 As New

Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana -- "Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister Juanita, his former brother-in-law Rafael Diaz-Balart, the family of Elian Gonzalez, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of Jeb Bush and the late exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuba Confidential exposes the hardball take-no-prisoners tactics of the Cuban exile leadership, and its manipulation and exploitation by ten American presidents." Bardach homes in on Fidel Castro and his cronies, taking us closer than we've ever been - and on the militant exiles who have devoted their lives, with CIA connivance, to trying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel Gonzalez's kitchen table in Cardenas, from Guantanamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves up an unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly The 2000 custody battle between little Eli n Gonz lez's father, acting, according to Bardach, as the surrogate for the Cuban government, and his exiled Miami relatives, the surrogate anti-Castro forces, became a relentless media event and international affair. The PEN award-winning investigative journalist uses the Elian story as a starting place to examine the larger issues that have roiled Cuba-U.S. politics for four decades. Relying on interviews with Castro, U.S. and Cuban government officials, relatives from both sides of Elian's family and members of the Cuban-exile community, she explores the sources of American enmity toward Cuba and the blood feuds (for example, the Florida congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart is the nephew of Castro's former wife) that inform anti-Castro sentiments among Cuban exiles. Along the way Bardach finds craven political opportunism (hoping to secure Cuban-exile support, Bush and Gore both backed keeping Elian in the U.S. during the 2000 presidential campaign), political corruption facilitated by the power of the Cuban-exile community in the Miami area, and a shocking tolerance, by post-September 11 standards at least, within the exile community and U.S. government for terrorism directed toward Cuba. Bardach's credibility is sometimes undermined by her failure to critically assess her informants' accusations-innuendoes about Florida governor Jeb Bush's philandering fall into this category-and her tendency to hint at political conspiracies everywhere. All in all, though, Bardach's muckraker is entertaining and disturbing, as it reflects on the power of the dubiously motivated Cuban-exile community. 16 pages of photos not seen by PW. Agent, Tina Bennett. (On sale Oct. 1) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. Foreign Affairs A marvelous and evocative deconstruction of the incestuous relationships and hardball tactics that have kept Cuba firmly under Fidel Castro and U.S. policy toward Cuba paralyzed under the influence of Miami's Cuban Americans. Bardach pulls no punches here, making her book the most accessible account of this sorry tangle yet. She has talked to everyone: crooks, spooks, politicos, hired assassins, the inner circle of Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and even the garrulous and manipulative Castro himself. This is a story of betrayal, suspicion, and conspiracies, with agents and counteragents immersed in an ongoing Caribbean Cold War where John Le Carre would feel very much at home. Bardach also documents the exile community as it shifted from favoring paramilitary strikes against Castro to launching a brilliantly successful lobbying effort within the American political system in the early 1980s, modeled on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. As one former Washington official put it, "The Israeli lobby buys Democrats and rents Republicans, the Cubans buy Republicans and rent Democrats." As Bardach makes clear, the power of this lobby in Congress and beyond remains very much alive for now - as does Castro. Library Journal The quagmire of the shatte Hardcover 9.6 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches

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Jordan, Vernon E., Jr.; Gordon-Reed, Annette: Vernon Can Read! : A Memoir, New York, NY, U.S.A. PublicAffairs 2001
ISBN: 189162069x Very Fine

Hardcopy with original black paper boards and spine, with gold printing on spine, is in VERY FINE condition. Brodart-wrapped DJ, with NO clippings, is VERY FINE as well. Possible BCE, there is NO price shown on flap or at bar code on back, and "first edition" is clearly stated on copyright page. In 1955, as a college student home in Atlanta for vacation, Vernon Jordan had a summer job driving a retired white banker around town. During the man's afternoon naps, Jordan passsed the time reading books, a fact that astounded his boss. "Vernon can read!" the man exclaimed to his relatives. Nearly fifty years later, Vernon Jordan, longtime civil rights leader, adviser and close friend to presidents and business leaders, and one of the most charismatic figures in America, has written an unforgettable book about his life and times. It is a story that encompasses the sweeping struggles, changes, and dangers of black life during the civil rights revolution. Vernon Jordan's life was shaped by his early years growing up in University Homes in Atlanta, where his mother and father emphasized the importance of aspiring to a better life and not being defeated by Jim Crow. In his teenage years Jordan traveled to youth conferences in Washington, D.C. and competed in oratorical contests, keeping his eye on the wider world and the possibilities it afforded. First Edition Stated Very Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Black Paper-Covered Boards

[SW: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS UNITED STATES WORKERS GEORGIA BIOGRAPHY POLITICAL ACTIVISTS AFRO AMERICANS AUTOBIOGRAPHY GENERAL PEOPLE COLOR SCIENCE]

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