Publisher:
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975.
Seller ID: 4134s
First Edition. Octavo, red cloth, gilt letters, 525 pp. B & w illus. Very Good+ with former owner stamp and marks to endpapers from removed tape, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light fading to spine. Thomas Fleming writes, ÔWe have celebrated the heroic side of 1776 for a long time. Perhaps after two hundred years we are ready to look steadily at the dark side of the story as well. Perhaps by facing it, absorbing it, contemporary and future Americans will be spared the paroxysms of shock and dismay, the cries of despair and predictions of imminent doom which emanate from so many mouths... View More...
Publisher:
New York: The Nut Shell Pub. Co., 1901.
Seller ID: vas807
Square octavo, red cloth (hardcover), 262 pp. Very Good+. From Foreword: This volume was constructed on the theory that it is far better to laugh than to weep. He who finds two laughs where only one had previously existed is a true benefactor to mankind; and realizing that information coming in a pleasant guise is always lasting and beneficial, its mission to amuse is doubly enhanced by its power to instruct. The saddest of all human complaints is the inability to laugh. If this book will tend in a measure to assuage this affliction, and incidentally impart a few lessons in philosophy an... View More...
Octavo, charcoal boards (hardcover), silver letters, 456 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: With his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Tom Fleming examines the women who were at the center of the lives of the founding fathers. From hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to promiscuous Rachel Lavien Hamilton, the founding fathers' mothers powerfully shaped their sons' visions of domestic life. But lovers and wives played more critical roles as friends and often partners in fame. We learn of the uyouthful Washington's tortured love for the coquettish Sarah Fairf... View More...
