Search Results: Titles starting with T from Casa Pacifica

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition.Wonderful and unforgettable book, with the signature of the author on the title page, dedicated to 'Ronald'. No annotations, as new. Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, NEW, COLLECTIBLECasa Pacifica is selling a new copy of David Hajdu's The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. Binding is new. Dust jacket is new and now protected in Mylar. Signed and dated by the author, David Hajdu, on the title page. First edition printing. Thank you for supporting Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.Signed by the author, Lawrence Wright, on title page.A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day.With his hallmark insight into the forces at play in the Middle East and his acclaimed journalistic skill, Lawrence Wright takes us through each of the thirteen days of the Camp David conference, illuminating the issues that have made the problems of the region so intractable, as well as exploring the scriptural narratives that continue to frame the conflict. In addition to his in-depth accounts of the lives of the three leaders, Wright draws vivid portraits of other fiery personalities who were present at Camp… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be unread/untouched.Dust jacket in mint condition, and protected in Mylar. Signed by the author, Jan Jarboe Russell, on title page.First Edition print. The New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II: "A must-read….The Train to Crystal City is compelling, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down" (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis).During World War II, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during the war, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called "quiet passage." Hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City were exchanged for other more ostensibly important Americans—diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, and… Read More

Signed, First Edition, As New Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread.Dust jacket in mint, pristine condition and protected in Mylar.Signed by the author, David King, on title page.First edition print. The never-before-told story of the scandalous courtroom drama that paved the way for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution. Seventeen hours later, all that remained of his bold move was a trail of destruction. Hitler was on the run from the police. His career seemed to be over.
The Trial of Adolf Hitler tells the true story of the monumental criminal proceeding that followed when Hitler and nine other suspects were charged with high treason. Reporters from as far away as Argentina and Australia flocked to Munich for the sensational four-week spectacle. By its end, Hitler would transform the fiasco of the beer hall… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD CONDITION
Casa Pacifica is selling a very good condition of Greg Mitchell's The Tunnels. The binding is why we rated this book as "Very Good+" instead of "As New." The binding is separated from the spine slightly when the book is opened, as though someone has previously enjoyed The Tunnels. Dust-jacket is in mint condition, and is now protected in Mylar.
Signed and dated by the author, Greg Mitchell; inscription reads: "Greg Mitchell 10/30/16"
First edition print.
A thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall
In the summer of 1962, the year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture, and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Then two U.S. television networks heard about the secret projects and raced to be first to document them from the inside. NBC and CBS funded two separate… Read More