First Edition. A notable association copy of this Civil War study, inscribed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian McPherson to paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould with a fascinating reference to their shared intellectual interests. McPherson reframes the Civil War as a revolutionary movement, examining how the conflict fundamentally transformed American society and.....

First Edition. A signed first edition of the first book of one of the most acclaimed biographies of our time. This volume of Caro's life of LBJ, a projected five volumes that has taken Caro almost as long to write as it took the former president to live, traces Johnson's.....

First Edition. A eulogy for Judge Bushrod Washington (1762–1829), who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1798 until his death. His uncle was George Washington, and Bushrod inherited Mount Vernon and the rest of President Washington's estate. Hopkinson provides a brief biography of Bushrod and includes.....

First Edition. One sheet folded to make four pages. This circular, printed shortly before the presidential election of 1848, reprints two letters that the white Whig candidate Zachary Taylor sent to his brother-in-law J. S. Allison, in which he outlined his political positions. In the first letter, called "the most.....