Old Mr. Flood is his story about a retired house wrecker who plans to live to 115 years old on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air and the occasional Scotch whiskey.

    Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.

    First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him—Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples—Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.

    It is the inside history of America’s inevitable wartime rise as a great power, written in wonderfully readable prose by White House speechwriter and prize-winning playwright Robert Sherwood.

    This study prods deep into the socioeconomic conditions of the Black Belt South. Haywood's work reveals, through a precise materialist analysis, that the Black Belt is a distinct nation, oppressed under the boot of U.S. imperialism and white supremacy. Negro Liberation considers the national question inside the U.S. using Marxism-Leninism as a theoretical and practical basis. It attempts to reconsider the post-Civil War plantation system, the sharecropping industry, and the problem of land distribution as persistent semifeudal socioeconomic relations in the region. Haywood goes on to demand that a national-democratic revolution is needed to fully liberate African Americans who continue to bear the brunt of social, political, and economic oppression under Jim Crowism and "lynch mob democracy."This book is notable for its historical impact on Marxism, the International Communist Movement, and the African American Liberation Movement, then and now.

    Tippy, the youngest of four children in a vibrant army family, longs to be considered grown up but even at her Sweet 16 party she has a hard time getting the respect she thinks she deserves.

    A saga, chronicle, and miscellany on folk themes, it is Sandburg's passionate testament of American life.

    Much of the action takes place in England before the expedition sails and after the explorers return. The reader gets a good sense of Elizabethan politics and the excitement that exploration held for well-born adventurers. Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, John White, Richard Hakluyt, and Thomas Hariot all have roles in the novel. The lowly-born Colin provides additional human interest, as he becomes a trusted aide to Grenville and a suitor to one of Grenville’s wards.

    Published nearly 50 years ago and now available in paperback for the first time, This Is San Francisco is an affectionate, lively, carefully researched chronicle of the city from its inception to the end of World War II, as well as an unabashedly romantic portrait of its streets, neighborhoods, and people. Covering every part of the city, from the Embarcadero to Russian Hill, from Cow Hollow to Cliff House, this engaging, evocative volume opens the door for a new generation to San Francisco's rich and unforgettable past.

    It was published in 1948, when cold-war hysteria engulfed the United States; the publisher subsequently tried to pretend the book did not exist, and review media and bookstores ignored it. The book vividly depicts the multiracial and multiethnic alliances that developed as Chicago railroad workers struggled to organize. It presents some of its narrative through the complex consciousness of Stephanie Koviak, a young, first-generation Polish-American.

    Powell sets a see-saw in motion when Olliver is swept up by the tasteless publishing tycoon, Tyson Bricker, and his new book makes its way onto to the bestseller lists just as Lyle's Broadway career is coming apart.