Cooper william author (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780807107751. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 464 pages. 7.72x5.12x1.34 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 52 pages. 5.50x0.12x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. 1st Edition. xv, [1], 536, [2] pages. Notes. Illustrations. Index. William J. Cooper Jr. (born October 22, 1940) is an American historian who specializes in the history of the American South, and is regarded as a leading expert on the life of Jefferson Davis. Cooper studied at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. After two years of service as an officer in the U.S. Army, he went on to spend his entire academic career at Louisiana State University. He is a past president of the Southern Historical Association William J. Cooper, Jr. is Boyd Professor Emeritus of History at Louisiana State University and the author of numerous books on southern history, including Jefferson Davis, American, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Long relegated to the sidelines of history as the hyperintellectual son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), has never basked in the historical spotlight. Remembered, if at all, as an ineffective president during an especially rancorous time, Adams was humiliated in office after the contested election of 1824, viciously assailed by populist opponents for being both slippery and effete, and then resoundingly defeated by the western war hero Andrew Jackson, whose 1828 election ushered in an era of unparalleled expansion. Aware of this reputation yet convinced that Adams deserves a reconsideration, award-winning historian William J. Cooper has reframed the sixth president's life in an entirely original way, demonstrating that Adams should be considered our lost Founding Father, his morality and political philosophy the final link to the great visionaries who created our nation. As Cooper demonstrates, no one else in his generation, not Clay, Webster, Calhoun, or Jackson, ever experienced Europe as young Adams did, who at fourteen translated from French at the court of Catherine the Great. In fact, Adams's very exposure to the ideas of the European Enlightenment that had so influenced the Founding Fathers, including their embrace of reason, were hardly shared by his contemporaries, particularly those who could not countenance slaves as equal human beings. Such differences, as Cooper narrates, became particularly significant after Adams's failed presidency, when he, along with his increasingly reclusive wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, returned to Washington as a Massachusetts congressman in 1831. With his implacable foe Andrew Jackson in the White House, Adams passionately took up the antislavery cause. Despite raucous opposition from southern and northern politicians, Adams refused to relent, his protests so vehement that Congress enacted the gag rule in the 1830s specifically to silence him. With his impassioned public pronouncements and his heroic arguments in the Amistad trial, a defiant Adams was no longer viewed as a failed president but a national, albeit curmudgeonly, hero, who finally collapsed on the floor of the House chamber in 1848 and died in the capital three days later. Ironically, Adams's death and the extraordinary obsequies produced an outpouring of national, and bipartisan, grief never before seen in the nineteenth century, as if the country had truly lost its last Founding Father. Now, in another fractious age, the courageous life of John Quincy Adams suddenly takes on renewed vigor and meaning, as William J. Cooper's momentous biography so eloquently affirms. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Cody Willhite (Author photograph) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 464 pages. 7.72x5.12x1.34 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Notes; "Penguin book 1687." 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 432 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 52 pages. 5.50x0.25x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Quarto, 584 pages. In Fair minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is tan with black print. Dust jacket has short tear at top of spine. Price unclipped: "$65". Boards in brown cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has bookplate on front pastedown, shaken binding, many intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: color. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in the Back Area, Oversized Folios. 1392612. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Softcover. Third Printing. Quarto, [4], ix, 49 pp. 1936 printing, first published 1810 and reprinted 1897. Good; bound in yellow paper boards with cloth spine, but no title to spine, some areas of discoloration and fading to covers and very slight creasing to edges; binding tight; text block somewhat rough but clean; pages clean; RWO consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Wegewood Section. 1362684. Special Collections.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 221 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 414 pages. Catalan language. 6.00x0.85x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 422 pages. 10.50x7.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 221 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American Edition. 425 Pages, 51 Unnumbered Pages, Xxi Leaves Of Plates (3 Folded) : Illustrations, Complete; 22 Cm. Bound In Original Speckled Calf, Morocco Spine Label. First American Printing, Copyright December 11, 1824, Publication Date 1825 On Title Page. Lightly Used, Binding Sound, Pages Square, Light Browning/Foxing Throughout. Antique Ownership Signatures Of Benjamin Jones B----Y, Undated, And J. (John) D. Nesbit Dated Jan. 2, 1837 At Cincinnati (And From A Library Of Many Nineteenth Century Books Signed By Him And Other Nesbits). Also With A Letter To Him In Cincinnati From His Sister In Peru, Indiana, Also Dated In 1837, , With Handwritten Postage. Scarce; No Recent Auction Record Located. 31 Plates, Of Which 3 Are Folding (illustrator). …

Draft UK script for the 1969 film. With several annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Based on Anne Piper's 1959 novel, "Marry at Leisure," about Candida (Ferris), who goes to live with her relatives after the death of her father. Bored with life, she leaves for Paris where she meets a young student and becomes pregnant, but keeps the baby a secret from her family. Bored, yet again, with life, she leaves for Italy, where she meets an American, and is soon pregnant again. As she leaves Italy, a woman gives her baby to Candida at the train station. So with two babies and one on the way, her life is unraveling quickly, and her only confidant is Savage (Andrews), the caretaker of her late father. Set in London and Paris, shot on location there, as well as Venice. Pink blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated July 1968, with credits for screenwriter and author Anne Piper, and novelist Desmond Davis. 112 leaves, with last page of text numbered 111. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus bound with a pink ribbon.…