Latest purchase from @lasvegasbooks.bsky.social. Not my favorite SecDef but it was signed and priced too good to pass up! 📚 #booksky

Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk is essential reading for understanding the Black experience in America at the turn of the 20th century #booksky

LAS 🛫 BCN

Alternating between reading ‘A Wicked War’ and listening to this #audiobook 🎧📖

Another recent acquisition:
signed 1929 copy of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
#booksky #history #lasvegasbooks

The letters between Abigail Adams (wife of John Adams) and Thomas Jefferson are fascinating, especially ones between May and October 1804, after the loss of Jefferson’s daughter, Polly (Mary)

Finished the Jefferson audiobook and now onto President Garfield
#audiobooksky

Looking forward to all of these, especially A Wicked War — I just joined @rbhayespres.bsky.social Presidential History #Book Club, which we’ll be reading it next month! #booksky #history #bookclub

"The contemplation of what we are, what we were, and what we might have been is enough to sicken the heart."
— Henry Clay (1842)

Thomas Hart Benton’s Thirty Years View (1854 & 1856)

Today’s book delivery! Shout out to River House Books in San Antonio, TX. Will start this as soon as I finish Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power #books #booksky #jefferson

Today’s score! 1883 first edition of William Graham Sumner’s What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

This is something I’ve read via pdf scans but excited to now have a real copy 🤩 #books #booksky

Recently picked up this 1858 copy of Sen Thomas Hart Benton’s Historical and Legal Examination of that part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the The Dred Scott Case, which Declares the Unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act #books #booksky