University of Virginia Press
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The Poetic Justice: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartThis inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black–and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest–justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the com
- Author: Thomas, John Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0813947839
- Language: English
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Yard Birds: The Lives and Times of America’s Urban Chickens
$24.95 Add to cartIn 2009, the New Yorker declared chickens the “it bird” and heralded “the return of the backyard chicken.” This honor occurred as, a host of American cities were changing their laws to allow chickens
- Author: Levy, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949653
- Language: English
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The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
$21.95 Add to cartIn this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South–and particularly its history of slavery–turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of
- Author: Dew, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0813940397
- Language: English
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
$32.95 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 perc
- Author: Thompson, Mary V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0813941849
- Language: English
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Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection
$32.25 Add to cartIn his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows (“the best account yet of Nixon’s devious interference with Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Vietnam War negotiations”– Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of
- Series: Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
- Author: Hughes, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0813939356
- Language: English
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Mr. Jefferson’s Telescope: A History of the University of Virginia in One Hundred Objects
$36.95 Add to cartThomas Jefferson considered the University of Virginia to be among his finest achievements–a living monument to his artistic and intellectual ambitions. Now, on the occasion of the University’s bicen
- Author: Wolfe, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0813940109
- Language: English
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Saving Snakes: Snakes and the Evolution of a Field Naturalist
$27.95 Add to cartBeautiful to behold and extremely sensitive to its environment, the snake is nonetheless stigmatized as a serpent, a creature that almost universally inspires fear. At a time when so many animals are
- Author: Cagle, Nicolette L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0813948827
- Language: English
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Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
$27.95 Add to cartHow did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed,
- Author: May, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0813945100
- Language: English
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Science of Fly-Fishing
$24.95 Add to cartThe foundations of fly-fishing history, literature, and mechanics are firmly anchored in the disciplines of science, yet until now there has been no comprehensive work that integrates scientific compo
- Author: Ulanski, Stan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0813945364
- Language: English
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The Art of Fiction
$22.95 Add to cartJames Salter’s exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes–youth,
- Series: Kapnick Lectures
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0813939054
- Language: English
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Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison’s Moral and Religious Vision
$32.95 Read moreWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lectur
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0813943620
- Language: English
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A Literary Guide to Washington, DC: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston
$29.95 Add to cartThe site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation’s most acclaimed writers. From the city’s founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminarie
- Author: Roberts, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0813941172
- Language: English
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A Word or Two Before I Go: Essays Then and Now
$24.95 Add to cartPraise for Arthur Krystal:
“Arthur Krystal’s essays shine like a searchlight through the fog of contemporary culture. Vivid, sharp, and enlightening, they keep a steady keel through roiling waters.”–
- Author: Krystal, Arthur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0813950627
- Language: English
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Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain
$29.95 Add to cartThe Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia’s death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty–now outlawed in Virginia–while ministering to th
- Author: Ford, Russ
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949114
- Language: English
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Seven Virginians: The Men Who Shaped Our Republic
$34.95 Add to cartSeven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America’s leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American R
- Author: Boles, John B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949092
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0813918332
- Language: English
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Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World
$24.95 Add to cartThe concept of solastalgia comes from the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht, who describes it as “the homesickness we feel while still at home.” It’s the pain and longing we feel as we realize the
- Author: Bogard, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0813948843
- Language: English
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Year Zero: The Five-Year Presidency
$29.95 Add to cartDesigning and operating an effective White House are critical to the success of any presidency–and to democracy in the United States. Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Christopher Liddell offe… [more below]
- Series: Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
- Author: Liddell, Christopher P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0813951135
- Language: English
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The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
$29.95 Add to cartThe Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways–and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spur
- Series: The Revolutionary Age
- Author: Kierner, Cynthia A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949912
- Language: English
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For the People, for the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle
$32.95 Add to cartIn 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom W
- Author: Ragosta, John A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0813950228
- Language: English
