\nEric Foner, Reconstruction: America\u2019s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.<\/em>
\nThere are also printouts \u2013 issues of the New England Freedmen\u2019s Aid Society\u2019s The Freedmen\u2019s Record<\/em>, deeds from Beaufort County South Carolina deed books for the sale of land in 1873 where a freedmen\u2019s school was located, and so forth.<\/p>\n
On the back of the couch is another stack, different focus:<\/p>\n
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Will Ousler, editor, As Tough As They Come.<\/em> (1951 paperback \u2013 stories by Hammett, Cain and others. My favorite story is Steve Fisher\u2019s Goodbye Hannah<\/em>.) Corner of my desk in another part of the house:<\/p>\n Stephanie Leary, WordPress for Web Designers<\/em>. And of course, since no stack should be unadorned, there are 2 sets of tie rod ends for the Honda ATV on the stack of books on the corner of the desk. Work to do that is not bookish. On the floor leaning against the end of the desk are two more tall stacks of books. Of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In our home there are stacks of books everywhere. This is in spite of the fact that we have a large amount of space set aside for book shelves. Our […]<\/p>\n
\nN.K. Sanders, Prehistoric Art in Europe <\/em>(1985, part of The Pelican History of Art).
\nKim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan <\/em>(In a binder below the stack I have a printouts of Eric Hofstader\u2019s \u201cThe Pseudo-Conservative Revolt\u201d (1955) and \u201cPseudo-Conservatism Revisited: A Postscript\u201d (1962). Hofstader\u2019s insightful analysis of what decades later has become current Republican Party policy.)
\nBessinger and Smith, A Concordance to Beowulf<\/em>.
\nBonnie Young, A Walk Through the Cloisters <\/em>(1979 Metropolitan Museum of Art guidebook).<\/p>\n
\nVera Caspary, Laura<\/em> (Feminist Press Edition, I also have stashed away somewhere the original 1947 hardcover edition \u2013 a great noir film was made based on the novel).
\nRaymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain<\/em>.
\nRaymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business.<\/em>
\nErle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Perjured Parrot<\/em> (1939, this is a post-war edition).
\nIan Lancashire, Using TACT with Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools<\/em>.
\nG.C. Macaulay, The English Works of John Gower<\/em>, volume II (Early English Text Society edition).
\nPaul Studer and E.G.R. Waters, editors, Historical French Reader, Medieval Period.<\/em>
\nLacey Beck, Polygamy Preferred <\/em>(1935, 1942 \u2013 The Woodford Press 1952 edition).
\nTheodore H. White, The View from the Fortieth Floor <\/em>(1960).
\nHindley, Langley, and Levy, Old French Dictionary<\/em>.<\/p>\n