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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty By Patrick Radden Keefe Cover Image
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American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy By David Corn Cover Image
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Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul By Michael Fanone, John Shiffman Cover Image
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A Promised Land By Barack Obama Cover Image
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Cover Image
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Obama: An Intimate Portrait By Pete Souza, Barack Obama (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Pete Souza, Barack Obama (Foreword by)
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Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 By Garrett M. Graff Cover Image
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Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump By Spencer Ackerman Cover Image
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Wildland: The Making of America's Fury By Evan Osnos Cover Image
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Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice (Chris Wallace’s Countdown Series) By Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss (With) Cover Image
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation By Rebecca Traister Cover Image
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. 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.