Search Results: Titles starting with L from Pretty Good Books

Part One:
In this Library of America volume (and its companion) is captured, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign.
When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia ended its secret proceedings on September 17, 1787, few Americans were prepared for the document that emerged. Instead of revising the Articles of Confederation, the framers had created a fundamentally new national plan that placed over the states a supreme government with broad powers. They proposed to submit it to conventions in each state, elected "by the People thereof," for ratification.
Immediately, a fierce storm of argument broke. Federalist supporters, Antifederalist opponents, and seekers of a middle ground strove to balance public order and personal liberty as they praised, condemned, challenged, and analyzed the new Constitution.
Assembled here in chronological order are hundreds of newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches, and private… Read More

Library of America - Bernard Malamud - Two Volume Set *SEALED*
Novels and Stories of the 1960s - A New Life - The Fixer - Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition - Stories Novels and Stories of the 1940s & 50s - The Natural - The Assistant - Stories

Like new. Hardcover with original slip case. Tight binding (likely never read). Part One is second printing and Part Two is third printing. Crisp, clean pages. Very minimal shelf wear. No remainder mark.
Part One:
This Library of America volume is the first of a unique two-volume anthology. Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and wartime books, Reporting World War II captures the intensity of the war's unfolding drama as recorded by the best of a remarkable generation of journalists, whose talents, sense of purpose, and physical courage remain unsurpassed in the annals of war reporting. Here in one collection, over eighty writers, famous and forgotten alike, confront the crucial events of those years in writing of exceptional skill and emotional force.
The first volume traces the buildup to war and the first years of fighting: the Munich crisis, Kristallnacht, the fall of Poland and France, Pearl Harbor and Bataan, Guadalcanal and Salerno. William L. Shirer, Sigrid… Read More

Like new. Hardcover with original slip case. Tight binding (likely never read). First Printings. Crisp, clean pages. Very minimal shelf wear. No remainder mark.
Part One:
Published four decades after the March on Washington, this Library of America volume along with its companion chronicles over thirty tumultuous years in the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and equal rights.
The first volume follows the rise of the modern civil rights movement from A. Philip Randolph's defiant 1941 call for a protest march on Washington to the summer of 1963 and the eve of the march that finally shook the nation's conscience. Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Pauli Murray, and Bayard Rustin record the growing determination of African-Americans in the 1940s to oppose racial injustice; Murray Kempton and William Bradford Huie report on the lynching of Emmett Till; Ted Poston offers an inside look at the courage and resourcefulness of the Montgomery bus boycotters; Relman Morin in Little Rock and John Steinbeck… Read More