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An historical novel with portraits of Teddy Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and others, this story illuminates Roosevelt's Washington, America's Gilded Age, and the expanding American empire

Hardcover:

9780394561233 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1990, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: An historical novel with portraits of Teddy Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and others, this story illuminates Roosevelt's Washington, America's Gilded Age, and the expanding American empire
9780517689691 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: An historical novel with portraits of Teddy Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and others, this story illuminates Roosevelt's Washington, America's Gilded Age, and the expanding American empire

Paperback:

9780345354723 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1988), cover price $6.99 | also contains Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel | About this edition: An historical novel with portraits of Teddy Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and others, this story illuminates Roosevelt's Washington, America's Gilded Age, and the expanding American empire

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394570792 | Random House, June 1, 1988, cover price $16.00 | also contains From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone

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Hardcover:

9780313354069 | Greenwood Pub Group, October 20, 2011, cover price $41.00

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Hardcover:

9780307377074 | Pantheon Books, October 23, 2012, cover price $40.00

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By Richard Kendall (contributor)

Hardcover:

9780300186864 | Yale Univ Pr, November 27, 2012, cover price $50.00

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis."  (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes)An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay follows one incredible family to discover a unique craft tradition grounded in America¹s vast natural landscape. Looking back through the generations, renowned critic Christopher Benfey unearths an ancestry--and an aesthetic--that is quintessentially American. His mother descends from colonial explorers and Quaker craftsmen, who carved new arts from the trackless wilds of the frontier. Benfey¹s father escaped from Nazi Europe--along with his aunt and uncle, the famed Bauhaus artists Josef and Anni Albers--by fleeing across the Atlantic and finding an eventual haven in the American South.Bricks form the backbone of life in North Carolina¹s rural Piedmont, where Benfey¹s mother was raised among centuries-old folk potteries, tobacco farms, and clay pits. Her father, like his father before him, believed in the deep honesty of brick, that men might build good lives with the bricks they laid. Nurtured in this red-clay world of ancient craft and Quaker radicalism, Benfey¹s mother was poised to set out from home when a tragic romance cracked her young life in two. Salvaging the broken shards of his mother¹s past and exploring the revitalized folk arts resisting industrialization, Benfey discovers a world brimming with possibility and creativity.Benfey¹s father had no such foundation in his young life, nor did his aunt and uncle. Exiled artists from Berlin¹s Bauhaus school, Josef and Anni Albers were offered sanctuary not far from the Piedmont at Black Mountain College. A radical experiment in unifying education and art, Black Mountain made a monumental impact on American culture under Josef¹s leadership, counting Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Buckminster Fuller among its influential students and teachers. Focusing on the natural world, innovative craftsmanship, and the physical reality of materials, Black Mountain became a home and symbol for an emerging vision of American art.Threading these stories together into a radiant and mesmerizing harmony, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay is an extraordinary quest to the heart of America and the origins of its art.

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9781594203268 | Penguin Pr, March 15, 2012, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you.

Paperback:

9780143122852 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 26, 2013), cover price $16.00

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Product Description: The gripping story of post-Mao China and the harrowing fate of the artist and activist Ai WeiweiIn October 2010, Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern. In April 2011, he was arrested and held for more than two months in terrible conditions...read more

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9780374167752 | Faber & Faber, September 17, 2013, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The gripping story of post-Mao China and the harrowing fate of the artist and activist Ai WeiweiIn October 2010, Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern.

Paperback:

9780571280469 | Gardners Books, March 21, 2013, cover price $24.65 | About this edition: Paperback.

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Product Description: Edward Hopper (1882–1967), long recognized as the premier 20th-century American realist painter, was famously introverted and reclusive. He rarely spoke about his personal life, and his close friends were few and love interests fewer...read more

Hardcover:

9780300181487 | Yale Univ Pr, June 25, 2013, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Edward Hopper (1882–1967), long recognized as the premier 20th-century American realist painter, was famously introverted and reclusive.

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Product Description: Utterly unknown during his lifetime, Henry Darger led a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago's North Side. When he died, his landlord discovered a treasure trove of more than three hundred canvases and more than 30,000 manuscript pages depicting a rich, shocking fantasy world―many featuring hermaphroditic children being eviscerated, crucified, and strangled...read more

Hardcover:

9781590208557 | Overlook Pr, September 12, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Utterly unknown during his lifetime, Henry Darger led a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago's North Side.

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Product Description: The renowned Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) established his career in Catholic Rome, making paintings that placed particular importance on sacred relics and the glorification of martyred saints. Beginning with his early works, Caravaggio was intensely engaged with the physical world...read more

Hardcover:

9780300190137 | Yale Univ Pr, May 27, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The renowned Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) established his career in Catholic Rome, making paintings that placed particular importance on sacred relics and the glorification of martyred saints.

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A revealing biography of the man who shaped modern art into what it is today probes the excesses, contradictions, and often shocking lifestyle of Andy Warhol

Hardcover:

9780060164195 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1990, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A revealing biography of the man who shaped modern art into what it is today probes the excesses, contradictions, and often shocking lifestyle of Andy Warhol

Paperback:

9780804169868 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 11, 2014), cover price $18.95
9780815410089 | Reprint edition (Cooper Square Pub, December 1, 1999), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Written by a former editor of Warhol's celebrity-celebrating Interview magazine and packed with names, this hard-hitting memoir presents an insider's look at the "Pope of Pop Art," Andy Warhol (1928-1987), whose eclectic oeuvre is comparable to Picasso's or Pollock's in its impact on modern art and culture.
9780060920845, titled "Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close-Up" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A revealing biography of the man who shaped modern art into what it is today probes the excesses, contradictions, and often shocking lifestyle of Andy Warhol

Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud's work and life, showing how the two converge.   In Hoban's dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his birthplace in Berlin to London, where he fled with his family in the 1930s, and then to Paris, where he mixed with Picasso and Giacometti. He led a dissolute life in Soho after the war, gambling and womanizing with fierce energy. He painted his wives nude, his children nude, himself nude. He married twice, had an uncountable number of children, and kept working through it all, painting everyone from close friend and rival Francis Bacon to Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. He sometimes spent years on a single painting, which could require hundreds of hours of sittings. However various his subjects, his intent was always the same: to find and reveal the character hidden within by means of his intense visual imagination.   Along with its startling biographical revelations, the great thrill of Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the way Hoban deconstructs the art itself—its influences, models, and technique—to show how Freud reproduced reality on the canvas while breaking down the illusion that what we see is real.

Hardcover:

9780544114593 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 15, 2014, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced.
9780312506698, titled "Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working-Class Credit" | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1983, cover price $27.50 | also contains Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working-Class Credit

CD/Spoken Word:

9781480570795 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, April 15, 2014), cover price $14.99

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Product Description: The memoir of iconic tattoo artist Ed Hardy from his beginnings in 1960s California, to leading the tattoo renaissance and building his name into a hugely lucrative international brand"Ed Hardy" is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks...read more
By Joel Selvin (contributor)

Hardcover:

9781250008824 | Thomas Dunne Books, June 18, 2013, cover price $26.99

Paperback:

9781250048479 | Griffin, June 17, 2014, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The memoir of iconic tattoo artist Ed Hardy from his beginnings in 1960s California, to leading the tattoo renaissance and building his name into a hugely lucrative international brand"Ed Hardy" is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781452664200 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 18, 2013), cover price $29.99
9781452614205 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 18, 2013), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: "Ed Hardy" is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks.

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Hardcover:

9780374113094 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 5, 2013, cover price $28.00

Paperback:

9781250056139 | Picador USA, November 4, 2014, cover price $20.00

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Essential for tourist and resident alike, the Let's Go Map Guide series provides a unique combination of mini-guide and street finder. Conveniently sized to fit into a pocket, briefcase, or backpack, each Map Guide may contain up to 40 pages of text that's filled with insider information and easily unfolds into eleven panels of detailed, four-color maps.

Hardcover:

9781408813775, titled "Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War" | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, April 24, 2014, cover price $41.70
9780374172992 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 22, 2014, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9781250062444 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 31, 2015), cover price $20.00
9780312151614, titled "Let''s Go Map Guide Chicago" | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Essential for tourist and resident alike, the Let's Go Map Guide series provides a unique combination of mini-guide and street finder.
9780345322494, titled "Maracaibo" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1985), cover price $2.95 | also contains Maracaibo | About this edition: An oil rig fire on Lake Maracaibo brings together four very different people--troubleshooter Vic Scott, acclaimed writer Laura Kingsley, the wealthy and cultured Pietro Orlando, and streetwise Ellen, married to Vic and determined to gain a piece of Pietro's fortune

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Paperback:

9781590517147 | Reprint edition (Other Pr Llc, October 13, 2015), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy―in their own wordsThe English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952...read more
By Katherine Bucknell (editor)

Hardcover:

9780374105174 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 13, 2014, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9780374535438 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 19, 2015, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy―in their own wordsThe English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952.

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