The Souls of Black Folk (Transaction Large Print Books)

This extraordinary work first published in 1903 is even more relevant today. Du Bois declared that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line" the racial controversy that continues to haunt American society. This prophetic masterpiece began DuBois's lifelong crusade in his search for a solution pleading for mutual respect and understanding as well the use of nonviolent methods to achieve racial equality. The Souls of Black Folk remains one of the most influential writings of our time.

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The Devil in the White City: Murder Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Two men each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes a young doctor who in a malign parody of the White City built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table gas chamber and 3000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted Charles McKim Louis Sullivan and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.

The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters including Buffalo Bill Theodore Dreiser Susan B. Anthony Thomas Edison Archduke Francis Ferdinand and others. In this book the smoke romance and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.

Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder the killer and the great fair that obsessed them both.

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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

In this magisterial new biography New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II.

From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip how well do we really know the world’s most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II who has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last sixty years with unparalleled composure intelligence and grace.
 
In Elizabeth the Queen we meet the young girl who suddenly becomes “heiress presumptive” when her uncle abdicates the throne. We meet the thirteen-year-old Lilibet as she falls in love with a young navy cadet named Philip and becomes determined to marry him even though her parents prefer wealthier English aristocrats. We see the teenage Lilibet repairing army trucks during World War II and standing with Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on V-E Day. We see the young Queen struggling to balance the demands of her job with her role as the mother of two young children. Sally Bedell Smith brings us inside the palace doors and into the Queen’s daily routines—the “red boxes” of documents she reviews each day the weekly meetings she has had with twelve prime ministers her physically demanding tours abroad and the constant scrutiny of the press—as well as her personal relationships: with Prince Philip her husband of sixty-four years and the love of her life; her children and their often-disastrous marriages; her grandchildren and friends.
 
Compulsively readable and scrupulously researched Elizabeth the Queen is a close-up view of a woman we’ve known only from a distance illuminating the lively personality sense of humor and canny intelligence with which she meets the most demanding work and family obligations. It is also a fascinating window into life at the center of the last great monarchy.[]

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Black Beauty: The Autobiography Of A Horse By Anna Sewell

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Ulysses

G52 on lower portion of DJ. Not price clipped. Bright turquoise cloth with gilt on cover and spine with Modern Library logo appearing on cover in gilt.[]

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How to Be Black

If You Don't Buy This Book You're a Racist.

Have you ever been called "too black" or "not black enough"?

Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person?

If you answered yes to any of these questions this book is for you.

Raised by a pro-black Pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington DC and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University Baratunde Thurston has over thirty years' experience being black. Now through stories of his politically inspired Nigerian name the heroics of his hippie mother the murder of his drug-abusing father and other revelatory black details he shares with readers of all colors his wisdom and expertise in how to be black.

Beyond memoir this guidebook offers practical advice on everything from "How to Be The Black Friend" to "How to Be The (Next) Black President" to "How to Celebrate Black History Month."

To provide additional perspective Baratunde assembled an award-winning Black Panel—three black women three black men and one white man (Christian Lander of Stuff White People Like)—and asked them such revealing questions as:

"When Did You First Realize You Were Black?"

"How Black Are You?"

"Can You Swim?"

The result is a humorous intelligent and audacious guide that challenges and satirizes the so-called experts purists and racists who purport to speak for all black people. With honest storytelling and biting wit Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be."

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The Life of Abraham Lincoln

"Excerpt from the book..."

At the beginning of the twentieth century there is strictly speaking
no frontier to the United States. At the beginning of the nineteenth
century the larger part of the country was frontier
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Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life Love and Loss

To everyone else John F. Kennedy Jr. may have been American royalty but to RoseMarie Terenzio he was an entitled nuisance—and she wasn’t afraid to let him know it. RoseMarie was his personal assistant his publicist and one of his closest confidantes during the last five years of his life. In this her first memoir she bravely recounts her own Fairy Tale Interrupted describing the unlikely friendship between a blue-collar girl from the Bronx and John F. Kennedy Jr.

Funny moving and fresh her memoir is a unique account by the woman who was with him through dating politics the paparazzi and his marriage to Carolyn Bessette. Her street smarts paired with her loyalty candor and relentless work ethic made her the trusted insider to America’s most famous man.

After John and Carolyn’s tragic untimely deaths on July 16 1999 RoseMarie’s whole world came crashing down around her along with her hopes for the future. Only now does she feel she can tell her story in a book that is at once a moving tribute and a very real picture of her friend and employer.

Many books have sought to capture John F. Kennedy Jr.’s life. None has been as intimate or as honest as Fairy Tale Interrupted a true portrait of the man behind the icon—patient protective surprisingly goofy occasionally thoughtless and self-involved yet capable of extraordinary generosity and kindness. She reveals what John really had in mind for his political future how he handled media attention and the reality of life behind the scenes at George magazine. She also shares how she dealt with the ultra-secretive planning of John and Carolyn’s wedding on Cumberland Island—and the heartbreak of their deaths.

Fairy Tale Interrupted is a deeply loving story and a fascinating adventure filled with warmth humor insight and five years’ worth of unforgettable memories.[]

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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

“What was he like?”Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. With the verve of a novelist Chris Matthews gives us just that. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. We see and feel him close-up having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We watch him navigate his life from privileged rebellious youth to gutsy American president. We witness his bravery in war and selfless rescue of his PT boat crew. We watch JFK as a young politician learning to play hardball and watch him grow into the leader who averts a nuclear war.What was he like this person whose own wife called him “that elusive unforgettable man”? The Jack Kennedy you discover here wanted never to be alone never to be bored. He loved courage hated war lived each day as if it were his last.Chris Matthews’s extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK oral histories by top political aide Kenneth O’Donnell and others documents from his years as a student at Choate and notes from Jacqueline Kennedy’s first interview after Dallas. You’ll learn the origins of his inaugural call to “Ask what you can do for your country.” You’ll discover his role in the genesis of the Peace Corps his stand on civil rights his push to put a man on the moon his ban on nuclear arms testing. You’ll get more than ever before to the root of the man including the unsettling aspects of his personal life. As Matthews writes “I found a fighting prince never free of pain never far from trouble never accepting the world he found never wanting to be his father’s son. He was a far greater hero than he ever wished us to know.”[]

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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals a timid chubster afraid of her own bike a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright and finally a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”
 
Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night) or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly) or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law) or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so you’ve come to the right book mostly!
 
In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance friendship and Hollywood with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door—not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.

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Through My Eyes

Over the course of the last five years Tim Tebow established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and a top prospect in the NFL. During that time he amassed an unparalleled resume—winning two BCS national championships becoming the first sophomore in NCAA history to win the Heisman trophy and in the face of massive public scrutiny being drafted in the first round of the NFL draft by the Denver Broncos.

Now in Through My Eyes Tebow brings readers everywhere an inspirational memoir about life as he chose to live it revealing how his faith and family values combined with his relentless will to succeed have molded him into the person that he is today. As the son of Christian missionaries Tebow has a unique story to tell—from the circumstances of his birth to his home-schooled roots to his record-setting collegiate football career with the Florida Gators and everything else that took place in between.

At every step Tebow's life has defied convention and expectation. While aspects of his life have been well-documented the stories have always been filtered through the opinions and words of others. Through My Eyes is his passionate firsthand never-before-told account of how it all really happened.

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Bossypants. Tina Fey

Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman but she met that woman once and acted weird around her. Before 30 Rock Mean Girls and 'Sarah Palin' Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.[]

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Then Again

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Janet Maslin The New York Times • People • Vogue
 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
—Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times
The Independent • Bookreporter
The Sunday Business Post

Mom loved adages quotes slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK.
 
So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall but you will also meet and fall in love with her mother the loving complicated always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself Diane realized she had to write about her mother too and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation Diane not only reveals herself to us she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Over the course of her life Dorothy kept eighty-five journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her marriage her children and most probingly herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy struggling to find an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years.
 
More than the autobiography of a legendary actress Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most.

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Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man as You've Never Seen Him

IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW GEORGE WASHINGTON THINK AGAIN.

This is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape and possessed no special powers—yet changed the world forever. It’s a story about a man whose life reads as if it were torn from the pages of an action novel: Bullet holes through his clothing. Horses shot out from under him. Unimaginable hardship. Disease. Heroism. Spies and double-agents. And of course the unmistakable hand of Divine Providence that guided it all.

Being George Washington is a whole new way to look at history. You won’t simply read about the awful winter spent at Valley Forge—you’ll live it right alongside Washington. You’ll be on the boat with him crossing the Delaware in the trenches with him at Yorktown and standing next to him at the Constitutional Convention as a new republic is finally born.

Through these stories you’ll not only learn our real history (and how it applies to today) you’ll also see how the media and others have distorted our view of it. It’s ironic that the best-known fact about George Washington—that he chopped down a cherry tree—is a complete lie. It’s even more ironic when you consider that a lie was thought necessary to prove he could not tell one.

For all of his heroism and triumphs Washington’s single greatest accomplishment was the man he created in the process: courageous and principled fair and just respectful to all. But he was also something else: flawed.

It’s those flaws that should give us hope for today. After all if Washington had been perfect then there would be no way to build another one. That’s why this book is not just about being George Washington in 1776 it’s about the struggle to be him every single day of our lives. Understanding the way he turned himself from an uneducated farmer into the Indispensable (yet imperfect) Man is the only way to build a new generation of George Washingtons that can take on the extraordinary challenges that America is once again facing.[]

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