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Books by Richard Kluger
  | | Indelible Ink(1st Edition) The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press by Richard Kluger Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35485-0, ISBN: 0-393-35485-7 "The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of American social values since our nation's beginning - the government of the United States was the first to legalize free speech and a free press as fundamental human rights. But when the British began colonizing the New World, strict censorship was the iron rule of the realm. Any words,true or false, that were thought to disparage the government were preju ..." |
 | | The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek(1st Edition) A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America by Richard Kluger Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2011 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26889-1, ISBN: 0-307-26889-6 "The nearly 400-yearconfrontation between the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere andthe white settlers from Europe was marked from first to last by thenewcomers' conviction that they were entitled - by cultural superiority, moral enlightenment, and God's grace - to displace the primitiveinhabitants and make the land their own. Among the last places in North Americawhere this stark racial collision played itself out was the bountifu ..." |
 | | Seizing Destiny(1st Edition) How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea by Richard Kluger Hardcover, 649 Pages, Published 2007 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41341-4, ISBN: 0-375-41341-3 "Within 91 years of its creation as a fragile republic without a working government (or even a plan for one), a professional army, or any money in its treasury, the United States amassed a transcontinental domain of 3.7 million square miles, making it the world's fourth largest nation. No other country or sovereign power has ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and so powerful. Now, for the first time in a single volume, Richard ..." |
 | | Simple Justice The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger Paperback, 880 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3061-3, ISBN: 1-4000-3061-7 "Simple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court's epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans' ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end. It was and remains, beyond question, one of the truly significant events in Ameri ..." |
 | | Ashes to Ashes(1st Edition) America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger Paperback, 832 Pages, Published 1997 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70036-1, ISBN: 0-375-70036-6 "Ashes to Ashes is a monumental history of the American tobacco industry's ironicsuccess in developing the cigarette, modern society's most widespreadinstrument of self-destruction, into the nation's most profitableconsumer product. Starting with its energized, work-obsessed royalfamilies, the Dukes and the Reynoldses, and their embattled successorslike the eccentric autocrat George Washington Hill and the feisty Joseph F. Cullman, the ..." |
 | | Ashes to Ashes(1st Edition) America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger Hardcover, 807 Pages, Published 1996 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-57076-1, ISBN: 0-394-57076-6 "Ashes to Ashes is a monumental history of the American tobacco industry's ironic success in developing the cigarette, modern society's most widespread instrument of self-destruction, into the nation's most profitable consumer product. Starting with its energized, work-obsessed royal families, the Dukes and the Reynoldses, and their embattled successors like the eccentric autocrat George Washington Hill and the feisty Joseph F. Cullman ..." |
 | | The Paper(1st Edition) The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune by Richard Kluger, Phyllis Kluger Hardcover, 801 Pages, Published 1986 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-50877-1, ISBN: 0-394-50877-7 "Why did the newspaper with better writing and graphics than any other American daily go to an early grave? Few American newspapers - and perhapsnone at all in the view of somestudents of the craft - have matched the many excellences of the New York Herald Tribune. In the crispness of its writing and editing, the bite of its criticsand commentators, the range of its coverage, and the clarity ofitstypography, the "Trib" (as media people a ..." |
 | | Simple Justice(1st Edition) by Richard Kluger Paperback, 864 Pages, Published 1977 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-394-72255-9, ISBN: 0-394-72255-8 "Simple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court's epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans' ongoing crusade for equal justice under law. The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end. It was and remains, beyond question, one of the truly significant events in Amer ..." |
 | | National Anthem by Richard Kluger Hardcover, 340 Pages, Published 2009 by H Hamilton ISBN-13: 978-0-241-01784-5, ISBN: 0-241-01784-X |
 | | The Sheriff of Nottingham(1st Edition) by Richard Kluger Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 1993 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-017703-9, ISBN: 0-14-017703-5 "Has there ever been a less lovable character in folk literature than that craven creature, the nameless Sheriff of Nottingham? He remains to this day, fed by Hollywood versions of the legend, the hateful, impotent foil to that celebrated bowman, Robin Hood. Now, with his novel, The Sheriff of Nottingham, Richard Kluger turns the timeless tale on its head in a vivid,compassionate narrative based upon authentic and quite startling histor ..." |
 | | Members of the Tribe(1st Edition) by Richard Kluger Hardcover, 471 Pages, Published 1977 by Doubleday ISBN-13: 978-0-385-12989-3, ISBN: 0-385-12989-0 "Seth Adler, setting out alone from New York in the latter part of the nineteenth century as a young Jew in quest of a freer, open life in the South land, was sure all adversity could be overcome by courage and perseverance. In his struggle to build a place for himself, first as an enterprising merchant and then as a skillful lawyer in Savannah, he meets both kindness and cruelty in winning the respect, however grudging at times, of the ..." |
 | | Beethoven'sTenth Format Hardback by Richard Kluger Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Rare Bird Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-947856-77-6, ISBN: 1-947856-77-4 "A mysterious manuscript signed by Beethoven and a cast of feisty characters with conflicting stakes in the quest for truth make this novel a deftly twisty and challenging detective novel, enriched by the prodigious research of author Kluger ..." |
 | | Beethoven's Tenth by Richard Kluger Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2018 by Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book ISBN-13: 978-1-945572-98-2, ISBN: 1-945572-98-1 "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ashes to AshesWhen the assistant manager of a hardware store in rural New Jersey shows up at the offices of Cubbage & Wakeham, an elite New York auction house, with a worn musical manuscript he hopes to sell for a small (or perhaps hefty) fortune, he is greeted with subdued snickers―and not surprisingly. The title page of the document reads, “William Tell: A Dramatic Symphony” and is signed “Lud ..." |
 | | The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek(Reprint) A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America (Vintage) by Richard Kluger Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38896-4, ISBN: 0-307-38896-4 "The nearly 400-yearconfrontation between the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere andthe white settlers from Europe was marked from first to last by thenewcomers' conviction that they were entitled - by cultural superiority, moral enlightenment, and God's grace - to displace the primitiveinhabitants and make the land their own. Among the last places in North Americawhere this stark racial collision played itself out was the bountifu ..." |
 | | Seizing Destiny(Reprint) The Relentless Expansion of American Territory by Richard Kluger Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71298-2, ISBN: 0-375-71298-4 "Within 91 years of its creation as a fragile republic without a working government (or even a plan for one), a professional army, or any money in its treasury, the United States amassed a transcontinental domain of 3.7 million square miles, making it the world's fourth largest nation. No other country or sovereign power has ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and so powerful. Now, for the first time in a single volume, Richard ..." |
 | | Simple Justice(Updated) The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger Hardcover, 880 Pages, Published 2004 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41477-0, ISBN: 0-375-41477-0 "Simple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court's epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans' ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end. It was and remains, beyond question, one of the truly significant events in Ameri ..." |
 | | Simple Justice(Reprint) The History of Brown V. Board of Educationand Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger Library, 928 Pages, Published 2008 by Paw Prints ISBN-13: 978-1-4352-9035-8, ISBN: 1-4352-9035-6 "Details the historical and cultural roots of, the various litigations and court decisions leading to, and the implications of the Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown decision." |
 | | RHVP-Remainder Ser. Ashes to Ashes : America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger Hardcover, Published 1999 by Random House Value Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-517-45110-6, ISBN: 0-517-45110-7 |
 | | Star Witness by Richard Kluger Published 1982 ISBN-13: 978-0-671-83188-2, ISBN: 0-671-83188-7 |
 | | Members of the tribe(1st Edition) by Richard Kluger Paperback, 470 Pages, Published 1978 by Bantam Books ISBN-13: 978-0-553-11726-4, ISBN: 0-553-11726-2 "Seth Adler, setting out alone from New York in the latter part of the nineteenth century as a young Jew in quest of a freer, open life in the South land, was sure all adversity could be overcome by courage and perseverance. In his struggle to build a place for himself, first as an enterprising merchant and then as a skillful lawyer in Savannah, he meets both kindness and cruelty in winning the respect, however grudging at times, of the ..." |
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