Library Of America: 150 books

Cover of Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters (LOA #50)
by Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990

Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his *Personal Memoirs *to secure his family’s future. in doing so, the Civil War’s greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose,...
Cover of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 1 1832-1858 (LOA #45)
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1989

Abraham lincoln measured the promise—and cost—of American freedom in lucid and extraordinarily moving prose, famous for its native wit, simple dignity of expressions, and peculiarly American flavor. This volume, with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writing 1859–1865, comprises...
Cover of Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

(American Poets Project #1)

by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2003

Praised by poets and critics ranging from A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy to Edmund Wilson, Edna St. Vincent Millay's bold, exquisite poems take their place among the enduring verse of the twentieth century. Claiming a lyric tradition stretching back to Sappho and Catullus and making it very much her...
Cover of The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence 1775-1783 (LOA #123)
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001

Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda, The American Revolution brings together over 120 pieces by more than 70 participants to create a unique literary panorama of the War of Independence. From Paul Revere's own narrative...
Cover of My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife
by Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018

The Civil War's greatest general as you've never seen him before, in a revealing collection of letters to his wife Julia introduced by Ron Chernow. Ulysses S. Grant is justly celebrated as the author of one of the finest military autobiographies ever written, yet many readers of his Personal...
Cover of Slave Narratives (LOA #114)

Slave Narratives (LOA #114)

James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell

by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000

The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most...
Cover of The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012

An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember ("a completely original book" -Edmund White) has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major new retrospective with...
Cover of American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322)
by R. A. Lafferty, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019

Four mind-bending novels from science fiction's most transformative decade in a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, including two long out-of-print classics In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky...
Cover of The Essential Debate on the Constitution

The Essential Debate on the Constitution

Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches and Writings

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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

Return to the nation's founding to rediscover the dramatic original debates--on presidential power, religious liberty, foreign corruption, and more--that still shape our world today When the Constitutional Convention adjourned on September 17, 1787, few Americans anticipated the document that...
Cover of Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems

Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems

(American Poets Project #17)

by Samuel Menashe
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005

Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) was the first recipient of The Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Prize in 2004 and this volume was published in conjunction with that award. Born in New York City, Menashe practiced his art of "compression and crystallization" (in Derek Mahon's phrase) in...
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