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Breaking BUD/S: How Regular Guys Can Become Navy SEALs By D. H. Xavier Cover Image
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Delta Force: A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit By Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox Cover Image
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X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II By Leah Garrett Cover Image
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Fire in the Jungle: A Study of One of America's Most Successful Unconventional Warfare Campaigns By Larry S. Schmidt Cover Image
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Colonel Strutt's Daring Royal Mission: The Secret British Rescue of the Habsburg Family, 1919 By Diana Tritton Cover Image
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Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man By Dalton Fury Cover Image
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A Warrior's Path: Lessons In Leadership By Robert a. Trivino Cover Image
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi By Mitchell Zuckoff, Annex Security Team (With) Cover Image
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi By Mitchell Zuckoff Cover Image
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Israel's Edge: The Story of Talpiot the Idf's Most Elite Unit By Jason Gewirtz Cover Image
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Leave No Man Behind: The Untold Story of the Rangers' Unrelenting Search for Marcus Luttrell, the Navy Seal Lone Survivor in Afghanistan By Tony Brooks, Bob Welch Cover Image
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Hell Week and Beyond: The Making of a Navy SEAL By Scott McEwen Cover Image
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New Hope for American Art

                                               New Hope for American Art is the most comprehensive book ever published on artists from, and surrounding, the New Hope Art Colony (also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists). This book, with its 612 pages and over 1,000 color plates of artwork include biographies of 165 individual Pennsylvania Impressionists and New Hope Modernists as well as artists from the Philadelphia Ten, a pioneering group of women all educated at Philadelphia art schools. 

In this book, you'll find biographies and artwork from such artists as:

  • Daniel Garber
  • Edward Redfield
  • George Sotter
  • Arthur Meltzer
  • Robert Spencer
  • William Langson Lathrop
  • Kenneth Nunamaker
  • John Folinsbee
  • Henry Snell
  • William F. Taylor
  • Fern Coppedge
  • M. Elizabeth Price
  • Clarence Johnson
  • S. George Phillips
  • Rae Sloan Bredin
  • Walter Baum
  • Walter Schofield
  • Morgan Colt
  • Charles Rosen
  • Joseph Meierhans
  • Charles F. Ramsey
  • Louis Stone
  • Charles Evans
  • Josef Zenk

New Hope for American Art was authored, designed and published by James M. Alterman, an expert in the field of Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist painting. A longtime collector and owner of two fine art galleries, Alterman wanted to create a user-friendly book intended not only to educate collectors and enthusiasts about this art but to help train one's eye. The book offers valuable tips on how to avoid common mistakes often experienced by new collectors drawn from the author's personal experiences as a collector and fine art dealer.