Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...
  • My Memoirs

    de J. B. Ivey ...
    J. B. Ivey (1864-1958) belonged to a distinguished list of storekeepers who came to Charlotte at the turn of the century to take advantage of the booming cotton mill economy. He opened a small store room in rented space near the Square on West Trade Street on February 18, 1900, and over the following decades, with Charlotte's ever-increasing population, J. B. Ivey & Company grew into a big store ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

La gente que leyó esto también disfrutó

  • Brave Companions

    From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Johnstown Flood

    The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Right People

    The Social Establishment in America

    An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd"It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • America's Secret Aristocracy

    An "entertaining and perceptive" history of America's most exclusive families, from the Brahmins of New England to the Grandees of California ( The Washington Post).America has always been a constitutionally classless society, yet an American aristocracy emerged anyway—a private club whose members run in the same circles and observe the same unwritten rules. Here, renowned social historian Stephen ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • What Would Mrs. Astor Do?

    The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age

    de Cecelia Tichi ...
    This illustrated Gilded Age etiquette guide offers "proof that sliding around the naughty edges of society can be as informative as it is entertaining." (Alida Becker, The New York Times Books Review)Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion and an explosion of wealth. America was the ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Putting Myself Together

    Writing 1974–

    Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayMy ignorance was on my side. I wasn’t afraid. I didn’t know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.This collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and Ms., ... Leer más

    Antes $15.99 USD Ahora $12.99 USD

  • Letters from America, 1946–1951

    "[Cooke is] one of the most gifted and urbane essayists of the century, a supreme master." —The SpectatorAs the voice of the BBC's Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dream State

    Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife

    de Diane Roberts ...
    Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State is all Floridian, telling the grand and sometimes crazy story of the twenty-seventh state through the eyes of one of its native daughters.Acclaimed journalist and NPR commentator Diane Roberts has many family secrets and she's ready to tell them. Like the time her cousin state Senator Luther Tucker wrapped his Caddy around a ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Mark Twain's Notebooks

    Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles

    de Carlo De Vito ...
    The original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain's journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature.A national treasure and a cultural and literary icon, Mark Twain was called "the father of American literature" by William Faulkner. His ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • California Rich

    "[A] downright intriguing history . . . chronicling of the creation of the Californian Dream." — Los Angeles TimesSince the Gold Rush, California has represented a land of opportunity for a special breed of American. Heading west in pursuit of sunshine, riches, and elusive dreams, the early mavericks of California set out to make their fortunes—and often succeeded beyond their wildest imaginations ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • They Called Us River Rats

    The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans

    de Macon Fry ...
    They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD