Biography from Monongahela Books

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. Extensive end-chapter notes, bibliography, index, 431 pages. ~~~ This is the first modern biography of Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Between the turbulent years of 1793 and 1798, Bache was the young nation's leading political journalist and a sharp critic of the Federalists and their policies. As editor… Read more about this item

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~~ Maps, Appendix: Exploring Anne Hutchinson's England & America, Chronology, Genealogy, Bibliography, Index, 312 pages. ~~~ Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six- year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not… Read more about this item

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~~ Frontispiece, prelude, introduction, 34 pages of notes, bibliography, index, 338 pages. ~~~ "Unlike Jefferson, Washington, or other Founding Fathers, Sam Adams could point to few accomplishments before the era of the Revolution began. With the end of "benign neglect" and the onset of the efforts by Britain to tighten restrictions… Read more about this item

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~~ Detailed notes following each letter, index, 374 pages. ~~~ The first letters in Volume I are those of a seven-year-old child; the last were written by an uncommonly well-educated woman ready for a larger challenge than schoolteaching could offer her. The letters tell the story of her work with Amos… Read more about this item

VG. Remainder mark on bottom edge of book, otherwise a clean, tight copy. ~~~ Illustrations, Chronology, Principal sources, Notes, Index, 455 pages. ~~~ The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of… Read more about this item

VG/NF. Hardcover in dust jacket in near fine condition except for remainder mark on bottom edge of book. ~~~ Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 270 pages. ~~~ "This deftly written, almost unbearably moving book serves to remind us powerfully of the horrors faced by the wounded on the Civil War battlefields, of the genius and compassion of Walt Whitman in dealing… Read more about this item

New paperback. Illustrated, bibliography, picture credits, 117 pages. ~~~ "The renaissance in Longfellow studies can be said to have begun in 1993 with the publication in The Columbia History of American Poetry of "Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism," a lengthy essay by the California poet and educator Dana Gioia, who would later serve as director of the National Endowment… Read more about this item

NF/NF. Nice clean hardcover with jacket. Maps, illustrations, page-end notes, bibliography, 553 pages. ~~~ "Son of a president, plantation aristocrat, distinguished soldier, and author of an oft-quoted memoir, Richard Taylor epitomized much of what was the Southern Confederacy. ~~~ "Michael Parrish has not merely assembled a wealth of information on Taylor-- in this long-needed biography, Parrish has as well… Read more about this item

Hardcover with dust jacket, fine/fine. First edition. Illustrated, page-end notes throughout, index, 430 pages. One of America's greatest classical scholars, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1831-1924) was also a Civil War journalist. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, and a self-described "southerner beyond dispute", he received his doctorate in Germany and returned to America an enthusiastic advocate of Greek scholarship. Like every male… Read more about this item

NF/VG. A few minor tears to jacket. Biography of writer/artist/Marine officer. Photographs, drawings by Thomason, extensive bibliography, index, 405 pages.

This, the first full-length study of the recently rediscovered poet of the First World War, John Allan Wyeth, contains several in-depth studies of the poetry as well as a wealth of new biographical material. Essays include: ~~ John Allan Wyeth: Lost Poet of the Lost Generation. ~~ Artistry & Authenticity in the War Sonnets of John Allan Wyeth. ~~ A Yank at the… Read more about this item