Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0871404524 ISBN 13: 9780871404527
Anbieter: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, xvi, 320 pp., b/w photos, chronology, notes, bibliography, index Inscribed by the author on the title page.
Verlag: A Liveright Book/W.W. Norton & Co.
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright (W.W. Norton & Co.), New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 1631494813 ISBN 13: 9781631494819
Anbieter: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. ADVANCE READING COPY. A near-fine copy. A clean, unmarked copy. Full text. Note: Fine but for a couple scratches on front cover. ARC.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright/W.W. Norton, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871409399 ISBN 13: 9780871409393
Anbieter: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Zustand: Fine in a very good + jacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First edition of this recent collection by the noted poet. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's red boards in pictorial dust jacket. Fine in a very good plus DJ. Front flap of jacket creased; else about fine. Interior bright and clean throughout. Binding tight. 141pp.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2013
Anbieter: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, glossy paper covers, xvi, 320 pp., b/w photos, chronology, notes, bibliography, index.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright / Norton, New York, 2014
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Zustand: FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's first novel, the story of two sisters on a pre-apocalyptic road trip, with their evangelical father who is sure the ending of the world is near. 231 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock).
Verlag: New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, 2020
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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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.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871404370 ISBN 13: 9780871404374
Anbieter: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, USA
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Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 458 pages. A biography of this important art collector and curator who had a longtime relationahip with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Includes some illustrations. A clean and tight very near fine copy with some slight pushing to the base of the spine and in a very near fine dust jacket.
Verlag: New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2016, 2016
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Fitzgerald, Adam. George Washington: poems. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2016, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, 105pp., near fine dust-jacket, cover price $25.95, fresh attractive orange and white hardcover. "Adam Fitzgerald's second collection of poems sets out to estrange American history through the unreliable lenses of autobiography and technology. Suffused with profound loss and treacherous nostalgia for a bygone era of unfettered consumerism, this is also poetry made eerily familiar. Reflecting on the 1990s New Jersey suburbia of the poet's youth, Fitzgerald's new book performs a psychological autopsy on our national lust for safety and comfort amid the 'white noise' of daily living.". ISBN 9781631491009.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing / W.W. Norton, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 163149001X ISBN 13: 9781631490019
Anbieter: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Fine condition in a fine dust jacket, large 8vo, pages: xxiii,[xiv-xvi],464. Gray paper-covered boards with gold decoration, black shelf-back with titles in gold, decorative end-papers, black-and-white figures in text and full-page, notes, index. Near-flawless copy, slight edge of boards slightly faded. Bookseller accession no.: 24164. Extra postage may be required for international shipment of this large volume.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright / Norton, New York, 2015
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Zustand: FINE. First printing. A literary thriller by this California poet and writer. "Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals. . . unable to survive in the wild. . . Alternating between past and present, Kiefer contrasts the wreckage of Bill's crime-ridden years in Reno, Nevada, with the elusive promise of a peaceful future." . 300 pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation [A Division of W. W. Norton & Company], New York, 2019
ISBN 10: 1631493876 ISBN 13: 9781631493874
Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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].
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation [A Division of W. W. Norton & Company], New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871403757 ISBN 13: 9780871403759
Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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].
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: London ; New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2014
ISBN 10: 184368103X ISBN 13: 9781843681038
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good, somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 190 pages : illustrations ; 14 x 20 cm. Subjects; Carpaccio, Vittore (1455?-1525?). Painters Italy Biography. Painting, Renaissance Italy Venice. Venice (Italy) In art. 3 Kg.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: W. W. Norton and Co./Liveright, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871403145 ISBN 13: 9780871403148
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. 9 x 11 in. Cloth boards. Condition is FINE ; like new on all points. DJ is FINE ; not clipped, appears to have been in a wrapper from the start. Fic. Stax.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation / Norton, New York, 2015
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Zustand: FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A tiny community on the shore of an island off the coast of Newfoundland is facing extinction -but one man refuses to take the settlement and move. A novel which weaves together the past history of the town and the present fight to save it. 318 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Verlag: NY: Liveright/W.W. Norton (2014)., 2014
Anbieter: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, USA
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First edition. 141 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright / Norton, New York, 2016
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Zustand: FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) "The most comprehensive history of American lighthouses ever written. . ; Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, [it] traces the evolution of Americas lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nations hardscrabble coastlines." Illustrated with photographs throughout. Includes lists of lighthouse organizations, museums, endnotes and a select bibliography. xv, 514 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of back cover).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation - A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2012
ISBN 10: 0871404095 ISBN 13: 9780871404091
Anbieter: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, Südafrika
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Heavy Book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Verlag: New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023, 2023
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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near fine dust-jacket, cover price $29.95, fresh attractive copy white hardcover, appears unused. SACHS, HARVEY. Schoenberg: why he matters. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xx, 248pp., . An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers. - CONTENTS: Prologue: A warning -- Author's note -- A boy from Matzah Island -- Forming the battle lines -- War, internal and external -- Breakthrough and breakaway -- A Californian finale -- Epilogue: What now? ISBN 9781631497575.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright / Norton, New York, 2015
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Zustand: FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A literary thriller by this California poet and writer. "Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals. . . unable to survive in the wild. . . Alternating between past and present, Kiefer contrasts the wreckage of Bill's crime-ridden years in Reno, Nevada, with the elusive promise of a peaceful future." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2014 - that is, before publication. 300 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Verlag: New York, N.Y.: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2014
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 317 pages: illustrations; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index. Summary; The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head's preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapitation to headhunting. So explains anthropologist Frances Larson in this fascinating history of decapitated human heads. From the Western collectors whose demand for shrunken heads spurred massacres to Second World War soldiers who sent the remains of the Japanese home to their girlfriends, from Madame Tussaud modeling the guillotined head of Robespierre to Damien Hirst photographing decapitated heads in city morgues, from grave-robbing phrenologists to skull-obsessed scientists, Larson explores our macabre fixation with severed heads. Subjects; Head - History. Head - Social aspects. Beheading. 3 Kg.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, W. W. Norton & Company, Ltd, New York, 2012
ISBN 10: 0871404613 ISBN 13: 9780871404619
Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Printing [Stated]. xii, [2], 268, [6] pages. Illustrations. Ray Negron Timeline. Index. Introduction by Hank Steinbrenner. DJ has slight wear and soiling. If it was not all so true, you'd think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his gruff public image, the Boss-driven by a compassionate inner voice-reclaims the teen at a time when the Bronx is literally burning. Thus begins the unlikeliest of baseball stories, one in which Ray Negron is transformed from street kid to batboy and beyond. Befriending many of major league baseball's greatest stars-Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Munson, Mantle, Catfish, A-Rod, Jeter, even Mrs. Lou Gehrig-Negron ultimately emerges as a dynamic community leader, dedicating his own life to helping the sick and rescuing generations of city kids from unfulfilled lives. Yankee Miracles is a book about the power of baseball to transform lives, about all those miracles on 161st Street we never knew were there. Ray Negron is a sport's executive with over thirty years experience in baseball who has influenced three generations of baseball players. His first job came from a chance encounter with George Steinbrenner as a youth. Ray was caught by Steinbrenner scrawling a Yankee logo on a Yankee Stadium wall and instead of punishing the erstwhile graffiti artist, Steinbrenner hired him as the Yankee bat boy and propelled him into a "dream job"; sharing the dugout with the "Bronx Zoo Yankees" of the Seventies. Despite his young age, Ray was a positive influence in the fiery clubhouse that included manager Billy Martin, superstar Reggie Jackson, the legendary Thurman Munson, and more. A standout shortstop in Springfield Gardens High School, Ray was a second round draft pick for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1975. Ray worked with the Cleveland Indians and the Texas Rangers as a team counselor, working behind the scenes to help players handle any off-field challenges before they escalated into insurmountable problems. Ray currently works with the New York Yankees as a personal consultant and is active in community affairs visiting schools and hospitals with the players. In addition, he is also Director of Community Relations for Spalding, America's oldest baseball company, where he has been instrumental in supporting baseball in underprivileged areas with equipment donations and volunteer efforts from some of baseball's biggest stars. Ray has received numerous Humanitarian awards and has been recognized for his work in the community by many organizations. Ray was inducted into the Ted Williams Hall of Fame Museum and the International Latino Sports Hall of Fame. Ray has received an award from the Department of Homeland Security for his achievements and accomplishments as an author and for being a positive role model in the community.Ray is the manager of Hank's Yanks, a youth baseball team consisting of underprivileged youths from the New York City area, Westchester and Long Island, sponsored by New York Yankees co-owner Hank Steinbrenner. Ray's book entitled Yankee Miracles is published by W.W. Norton & Company is a series of short stories.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2022
Anbieter: ALEXANDER POPE, Kent, CT, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition, Special Edition. This is an uncorrected proof meant for prepublication reading and opinions. O'Toole is a keen modern observer of the contemporary issues and changes occurring in his native Ireland. Here he presents an Ireland almost entirely a new Ireland with openness on all sides.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company., 2018
ISBN 10: 1631491172 ISBN 13: 9781631491177
Anbieter: Alcaná Libros, Madrid, M, Spanien
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tapa dura. Zustand: 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.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright (W.W. Norton), New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 163149001X ISBN 13: 9781631490019
Anbieter: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Liveright (Norton), New York, 2015. First edition. First printing, with full number line to 0. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($35.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Lit-F.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright (Norton), New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1631492241 ISBN 13: 9781631492242
Anbieter: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Liveright, New York, 2016. First edition. First printing, with full number line. A new copy in a new jacket. A clean, tight, unread copy, with price ($27.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy has been SIGNED by Groom on the title page (as pictured). Purchased new and opened only for author to sign. Signed by Author(s).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright (Norton), New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 087140883X ISBN 13: 9780871408839
Anbieter: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. First printing, with full number line. A new copy in a new jacket. A clean, tight, unread copy, with price ($25.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy has been SIGNED by Kiefer on the title page (as pictured). Purchased new and opened only for author to sign. You cannot find a better copy. Signed by Author(s).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020
ISBN 10: 1631495232 ISBN 13: 9781631495236
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
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First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Subjects; Poulenc, Francis 1899-1963. Composers France ; Biography. 1 Kg.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1631495607 ISBN 13: 9781631495601
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.