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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Bruce Ackermann on the Supreme Court "The Art of Stealth" / Andrew O'Hagan "In His Hot Head" / Tony Harrison "Florida Frost" (poem) / Joseph Frank "Why Sakhalin?" / Catherine Merridale "Die Tschechowa" / Mary Hawthorne "Disconnected Realities" / Marina Warner "Pick the small ones" / Sarah Manguso - 2 poems "The Black Garden" and "Wickedest Man" / David Simpson "Are we there yet?" / Peter Campbell at the Saatchi Gallery / J Hoberman "Subject, Spectator, Phantom" / Ferdinand Mount "Masses and Classes".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Adam Phillips "Commanded to Mourn" / R W Johnson "The Greatest Error of Modern History" / Brendan Simms "One Good Side" / Penelope Fitzgerald "Nuthouse Al" / Peter Clarke "On the Blower" / Wendy Doniger "Mae West and the British Raj" / James Davidson "Some Evil Thing" / John Banville "All Antennae" / James Francken "Pure TNT" / David Craig "It makes yer head go" / Terence Hawkes "Dr Blair, the Leavis of the North".…

Comic. Condition: As New. Fine, great condition. Minor rubbing and wear to spine.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition cream boards, red spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Praise for A Republic of Scoundrels; Author Dedication; Note on Quotations; Introduction by Timothy C. Hemmis; Conclusion by David Head; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Note on Sources; Sources and Index. Illustrated with a section of both black-and-white and color photographic plates. "The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation's. We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton; even so, they are often considered American saints, revered for their wisdom and self-sacrificing service to the nation. However, within the Founding Generation lurked many unscrupulous figures - men who violated the era's expectation of public virtue and advanced their own interests at the expense of others. They were turncoats and traitors, opportunists and con artists, spies and foreign intriguers. Some of their names are well-known: Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr. Others are less notorious now but were no less threatening. There was Charles Lee, the Continental Army general who offered to tell the British how to defeat the Americans; William Blount, a territorial governor and champion land-swindler who amassed a private empire in Tennessee; and James Wilkinson, who served fifteen years as a commanding general in the U.S. Army - despite rumors that he spied for Spain and conspired with traitors. The early years of the republic were full of self-interested individuals, sometimes succeeding in their plots, sometimes failing, but always shaping the young nation. A Republic of Scoundrels seeks to re-examine the Founding Generation and replace the hagiography of the Founding Fathers with something more realistic: a picture that embraces the many facets of our nation's origins." - from the inner front jacket flap. "The down and dirty side of the American Revolution and its aftermath is revealed in all of its scandalous glory. As much as we like to remember pride and patriotism, sometimes murder, unrest, and espionage lurked just around the corner." - Brady Crytzer, author. "Shines a distinctive light on the first decades of American independence. Illuminates how the same conditions that struck real fear in the hearts of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison represented alluring opportunities for a different set of men." - James E. Lewis, Jr., author. "A rogues' gallery of the shadiest, most dishonest, self-serving, and duplicitous characters who traipsed across the stage of the early American Republic. These figures helped shape the contours of the Early Republic." - Ricardo A. Herrera, author. "Brings together a motley mix of fascinating, sometimes perplexing, and always entertaining individuals to paint a new portrait of the early American Republic. Their failed schemes, duplicitous acts, and otherwise untoward behavior often proved unexpectedly important to shoring up the country's foundations." - Patrick Spero, Executive Director, George Washington Presidential Library. "A feisty romp through early American history, full of corruption, greed, and misunderstood anti-heroes. Provides an innovative approach to the clashing imperial interests feuding on the borders of the new and emerging United States." - Lindsay M. Chervinsky, author. Fernandez, Maria (interior design); Von Borstel, Molly (cover design); Hestad, Kris (David Head author photo); Greenwood, Lynn (Timothy C. Hemmis author photo) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 448 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.15 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 46 pages. Illustrated. David Chambers "Boar's Head & Golden Hours" / Boar's Head Press Checklist / David Chambers "Sandford, Gibbings, Newbery And Rutter".

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

1984. (4to stiff paper covers) Near fine. 256pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, chart, tables, plans, bibliography. Contributors include Jack Brink, Milt Wright, Bob Dawe, Guy Trott (Preliminary Report on the 1983 Field Season at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta), John H. Brumley (The Laidlaw Site: An Aboriginal Antelope Trap from Southeastern Alberta), Robert J. Dawe (An Experiment in the Thermal Pretreatment of Quartzite), Paul F. Donahue (An Introduction to Archaeology in Alberta in 1983), Daryl Fedje (Archaeological Investigations in Banff National Park-1983), Mark and John W. Ives Fenton (The Stratigraphic Position of Beaver River Sandstone), Margaret Kennedy (Conservation Studies, Highway 3 Realignment Blairmore to Frank, Summary of 1982-83 Work), R.J. Pickard (Interim Report of the 1983 Heritage Resource Inventory and Assessment Project in Jasper National Park), Heinz Pyszczyk (Site Occupation Length As a Factor in Artifact Assemblage Variability and Frequency), Robert Vance (Bibliography of Paleoenvironmental Studies in Alberta). Publisher series: Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper No. 23. Locale: Alberta; Banff National Park--Alberta; Beaver River--Alberta; Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump--Alberta; Jasper National Park--Alberta; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Archaeology).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 497 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 240 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.