David Robertson, Author . Knopf $26.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-307-26609-5
W.C. Handy wrote “The St. Louis Blues” and the “Beale Street Blues,” a song that helped make the Memphis thoroughfare famous, but his reputation in the pantheon of blues legends has been maligned by some who scoff at his self-
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David Robertson, Author . Knopf $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-41187-8
Back in the 1960s when James Pike was Episcopal bishop of California, nearly everyone had an opinion about the attention-seeking clergyman whose unconventional opinions and actions often made headlines. To some he was a prophet, opposing the Vietnam
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David Robertson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-44288-2
Much is already known about Denmark Vesey, who purchased his freedom from slavery in 1800 with money he won in a lottery. Yet his apparently sudden transformation from successful free black carpenter and property owner to the organizer of ""the most
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David Robertson, Author University of Utah Press $39.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-87480-533-8
In a book that is part travelogue, part spiritual autobiography and part literary criticism, Robertson (professor of English at UC-Davis) explores the ways a variety of naturalists and poets, from John Muir to Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, have...
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David Robertson, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-48706-1
With its Civil War backdrop and its presentation (including period photographs) of a heinous crime involving real-life figures, Robertson's first novel brings to mind two other fiction debuts, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Caleb Carr's The...
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David Robertson, Author, David Roberston, Author W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (639p) ISBN 978-0-393-03367-0
Born in near poverty, James Byrnes (1882-1972) rose to become a powerful New Deal senator, served briefly as a Supreme Court justice, was FDR's wartime economic czar, and was appointed by President Truman as his first secretary of state. Years later,
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David C. Robertson, with Bill Breen. Crown Business, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-95160-1
LEGO’s iconic building system is a favorite of children and parents worldwide. Wharton professor Robertson’s entertaining, informative, and fast-paced account of LEGO’s rise, fall, and subsequent victory in the marketplace will have readers rooting...
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