1234 results for '"Johnson, Samuel'

A masterful account of Lyndon Johnson and America's fall into Vietnam by one of our finest historians, filled with fresh interpretations, deft portraits, and new perspectives. Absolutely terrific.....

Samuel Weiser, Inc., ME, 1984 Impression, PB, Cover in good condition with minor scratches, Interior pages are clean, bright and tight. Previous owners name written on first page.

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake (the devil's music), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi...

"Description: Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write. His...

Johnson has collected string picture games from all over the world for this lively book which includes everything from the cat's cradle and the witch's broom to Jacob's Ladder and the Eiffel Tower...

The Delaware and Raritan Canal connected the Chesapeake Bay with New England ports, allowing a wide variety of vessels to use the waterway and avoid the treacherous Atlantic Ocean. The unusual...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience...

The National Book Award-winning author of Samuel Beckett draws on unprecedented access to unpublished archives and journals to provide an incisive portrait of the controversial author, her literary...

A fun, charming romp through the history of seventeen great writers and the cats who captured their hearts. Throughout history, cats and writers have banded together in a magical combination of...

The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics "The book is a delightful demolition of the many political...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to...

Inspired by his reading notes on the life and work of Rene Descartes, Samuel Beckett wrote in 1930 a very dense and complex poem which he called Whoroscope. It is this little known text that Edward...

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) may well be the single most influential architect ever, and by conspicuously adopting his vocabulary, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson and the post-modernists have made him...

Contributors: L.A. Clarkson, Joseph Lee, D.E.C. Eversley, L.M. Cullen, E. Margaret Crawford, Peter Roebuck, J.M. Goldstrom, Liam Kennedy, Brenda Collins, E.R.R. Green, H.D. Gribbon, Alun C. Davies,...

How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quo—and why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successorsWhen Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, becoming the nation’s...

"Many may remember the tale of Robert Johnson, the musician who sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads in exchange for being the best blues guitarist around. What many may not know is that...

The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative...

Samuel Johnson, who did not like Swift, said that A Tale of a Tub - exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction such as he afterwards never possessed...

Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York CityIn the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red,...