Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the American experiment in imperialism, from the Louisiana purchase to the annexation of Hawaii and the occupation of Japan and Korea and the islands of the South Pacific and the Philippines after World War II. Maps. Sources, notes, index. ix, 460 pp.

New York: Scribner, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a pivotal time in US history - a war of only six months' time that dramatically altered the United States' standing in the world. When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just 26,000 men - in desperation the Rough Riders were formed. A diverse group of volunteers, led by Theodore Roosevelt, they helped secure victory in Cuba - and the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century. Roosevelt called their charge in the Battle of San Juan Hill his 'crowded hour' - a turning point in his life, that led him to the White House. Based on diaries, letters, and memoirs. Maps, photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xii, 355 pp. ISBN: 978-1501143991.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - How the WWII bond drive (called the most successful marketing operation in history) emphasized the participation of U.S. ethnic groups in the war effort - including African Americans, Euro-Americans and labor union members - with the hope that victory over racism abroad would lead to victory over racism at home. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, index. xxii, 249 pp. ISBN: 1-560987073.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2016). First edition - A fresh and comprehensive look at the Salem Witch trials, and their aftermath, by this Pulitzer Prize winning historian. Notes, bibliography. xiv, 482 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, 1945.

New York: Harper Collins, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "describes a great societal metamorphosis, tracing the fallout of the world wars, the rise of an educated middle class, and the emergence of America as the undisputed leader of the free world, and illuminating how those forces shaped our language. Created by the most respected American publisher of dictionaries and supervised by the editor Philip Gove, Webster's Third broke with tradition, adding thousands of new words and eliminating 'artificial notions of correctness,' basing proper usage on how language was actually spoken. The dictionary's revolutionary style sparked what David Foster Wallace called 'the Fort Sumter of the Usage Wars'." Notes, index. xiv, 349 pp. ISBN: 978-0062027467.

New York: The Viking Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the heroic rescue efforts at the World Trade Center on 9/11 by a writer who was a himself a New York City firefighter. Photographs. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-670-03116X.

New York: Doubleday, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Written by a former firefighter, and based on dozens of interviews across the country, this tells the stories of the men and women who fight urban building fires, who battle sweeping forest fires, who perform emergency rescues, and who face extreme danger as part of their daily lives. Illustrated with photographs. 320 p. ISBN: 0-385-241216.

New York: Time Incorporated, 1963.

New York: Monthly Review, 1970. Hardcover first edition - Essays from the Monthly Review 1954-1970 - because these essays were published over such a long period of time they present both a powerful antiwar argument and a running politico-strategic analysis.

New York: The Free Press, 1965. Originally published as 'Gentlemen Freeholders.' Index, bibliographical notes, 160 pages.

New York: PublicAffairs, (2002). First edition - A blend of travelogue, history and biography, this is an account of how "Rushmore was conceived and built, and why controversy surrounded the project from the start. [It] is about the meaning of public art, the rise of automobile tourism, and the development of kitsch culture. At its center is Rushmore's feisty sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who waged an energetic campaign on behalf of his artistic vision and then carved the faces of four presidents into a mountainside. Taliaferro discusses every conceivable aspect of the monument, from the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (a minor hullabaloo) to the Native American activists who have threatened it." Photographs, bibliographic notes. 440 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - On November 16, 1776, a ship flying the flag of the Continental Congress entered the port of St. Eustatius in the West Indies and was greeted with a salute, recognizing the authority of the government whose flag the ship carried. Noted military historian uses this salute as the starting point of her examination of the next 5 years, and the effects the American Revolution had, not just on American and England, but on Holland, France and the entire Old World. Illustrated. 347 pp including bibliography, notes and index. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-553330.

New York: Time Incorporated, 1965. The story of the making and the ratifying of the US Constitution, with a new introduction by D. W. Brogan.

New York: Nation Books, (2004). Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket - "In Imperial America, the conclusion of his landmark trilogy and most devastating exploration of contemporary America yet, Vidal observes that there's something suspicious about the 'ever reckless Cheney-Bush junta.' " We can only imagine what he would have to say about current events. Index. 182 pp. ISBN: 1-560255854.

New York: Norton, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "How an investigative journalist brought down Standard Oil." Both a fascinating picture of the beginning of investigative journalism in the US - or muckracking - and the early history of the oil industry, and a biography of two strong-willed and determined people. Photographs, bibliography, index. xv, 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0393-049350.

Skokie, IL: Publisher's Development Corp., (1973). Includes a new preface to the second edition and an introduction by Congressman Bill Archer. Index and index of court cases. vi, 156 pp.

Convent Station,NJ: Travel Vision, 1976 dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of brief essays published by Exxon Travel Club.

New York: Twayne, (1958) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which focuses on the history of the city of Washington and the District of Columbia during 13 crucial years which saw it grow from an unkempt city to one on its way to the realizing the idea of "magnificent distances" that L'Enfant had envisioned. Includes twenty pages of illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. 316 pp.

New York: Time Incorporated, 1964. Subtitled 'being the lives of the Pilgrim fathers and their families, with their friends and foes; and an account of their posthumous wanderings in limbo, their final resurrection and rise to glory and the strange pilgrimages of Plymouth Rock. A classic history of the Pilgrims. 565 pages, including notes, bibliography and index. Doublepage maps inserted at beginning and end of book. New preface for this edition.

New York: Macmillan, 1952. dj. Hardcover - The history of religion in colonial America, told by focusing on the meetinghouses. Notes, index. 344 pages.

London: Longmans, (1961). Hardcover first edition - The story of the United States's annexation of the Philippines - in 1898, the US, with the help of Filipino patriots under Emilio Aguinaldo, had driven out the Spanish - only to find themselves betrayed and once again under domination. The result was a bloody three year war in which a quarter of a million Filipinos and Americans were killed. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index 383 pp. Map endpapers.

Petaluma, CA / San Francisco: Jabberwocky / AVC / Cassettes Classics, (1977.). First edition - Dramatization of the life of this innovative industrialist and automobile manufacturer. A title in the Great American Series. Includes a cassette tape and a stapled booklet with a brief introduction and a transcription of the tape. 18 pp. Other titles in this series also available.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office 1963. Hardcover first edition - Frontispiece of Capitol Building. Include brief biographies of all members of Congress. members of the judiciary, statistical charts, rooms and telephone numbers, information on various federal departments from the State Department to Defense to the Post Office. Maps, individual index, xxviii, 978 pp. Edge index on rear endpaper. Stamped on the first page that this was from the office of Page Belcher, a Republican Congressman from Oklahoma.