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Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II by William Blum
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.61In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the... -
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780753560846
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28** #4 New York Times bestseller **In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading... -
Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime.... and a Manifesto for a Better Way by John Seddon
Booksplease Price: £20.30The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there's been massive investment in public sector 'improvement', 'customer choice' has been... -
The American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy by Peter Dale Scott 9781442214255
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.58Now in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden "deep state" that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale... -
American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics by Kathleen Sears 9781440598456
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.22All you need to know about elections, politics, and government! Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of government into tedious discourse that would put even the president to sleep. American Government 101 cuts out the boring explanations,... -
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Connecticut Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780767905343Author Kevin PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Broadway Books (A... -
American Kompromat: how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery by Craig Unger
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.58THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. American Kompromat unravels the Russian-influenced operations that amassed the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. American Kompromat is based on extended and exclusive interviews... -
American Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Richard M. Valelly
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33This book introduces the vital elements of American politics, emphasizing how these elements have evolved into the form they take today. By using a historical-institutional approach to the various parts of American politics, Valelly communicates that the... -
Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace in the Middle East by Lawrence Wright
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In September 1978, President Jimmy Carter met with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to broker a peace agreement between the two Middle Eastern nations. After thirteen tumultuous days a treaty was forged which would... -
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant by Ta-Nehisi Coates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of... -
Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution by Tucker Carlson 9781501183676
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501183676Author Tucker CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Free PressPublisher Free Press -
Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.00A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, "Madam Secretary" is the riveting personal story of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was an active participant in... -
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency by Michael Wolff
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.02'First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three' Guardian 'Cruel, unforgiving, muckracking, scandalous . . . Michael Wolff concludes his Trump trilogy - with the best book' Telegraph 'Wolff... -
America in the Sixties--Right, Left, and Center: A Documentary History by Peter B. Levy 9780275955168
Booksplease Price: £38.86Unlike other works, America in the Sixties looks at the era from the perspective of new leftists, liberals, and conservatives, providing readers with the opportunity to see this seminal decade more fully and richly than they could before. It includes the... -
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt 9781529435429
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.29'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The... -
Liberal Bullies: Inside the Mind of the Authoritarian Left by Luke Conway 9781800752054
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.59The political left has an urgent and rising problem with authoritarianism. An alarmingly high percentage of self-identified progressives are punitive, bullying, and intolerant of disagreement - and the problem is getting worse. Using his own... -
The Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers
RRP: £3.00Booksplease Price: £2.71Enshrining the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens in law, and curbing the power of those who rule them, the US constitution is one of the most significant documents in the history of democracy. New to Penguin's Little Black Classics series... -
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos 9781538770184
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.08George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their... -
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Faced with cancer and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so he won himself a unique place in American letters. Acclaimed by writers... -
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor is accused of being a war criminal whose reckless actions and heinous disregard for... -
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency Michael Wolff 9781408714645
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.70THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Landslide cuts deeper than any previous book about this president, indeed about any president' The Times'First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three ... -
Optimism Over Despair by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectualWe have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can... -
Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism by Ken I. Kersch
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.03Since the 1980s, a ritualized opposition in legal thought between a conservative 'originalism' and a liberal 'living constitutionalism' has obscured the aggressively contested tradition committed to, and mobilization of arguments for, constitutional... -
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky 9780887845741
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.10In his national bestselling 1988 CBC Massey Lectures, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control... -
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Dick Russell 9780786712427
Booksplease Price: £29.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786712427Author PerseusFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 300g -
Living Off The State: a Critical Guide to UK Royal Finance by Jon M Temple 9780955831119
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955831119Author Jon M TempleFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Progress BooksPublisher Progress BooksWeight(grams) 359g -
Winner-take-all Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S Hacker 9781416588702
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416588702Author Jacob S HackerPage Count 357Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Blair Effect 2001-5 by Anthony Seldon 9780521678605
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £30.15Tony Blair's strong start to his third term, with his role in capturing the Olympic Games for Britain, his statesman-like handling of the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on London, his promise of a new start to the European Union and his leadership of... -
Harold Wilson by Ben Pimlott
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.71Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen. ... -
The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power by Jacob S. Hacker
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.75This volume brings together leading political scientists to explore the distinctive features of the American political economy. The introductory chapter provides a comparatively informed framework for analyzing the interplay of markets and politics in... -
Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics Matt Grossmann 9781316512012
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.73Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes – from shifting relations between social groups and evolving language and behavior norms to the increasing value of a college degree. These transformations have polarized... -
The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays by Richard Hofstadter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307388445Author Richard HofstadterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Ross Perot: The Man Behind The Myth by Ken Gross 9780679744177
Booksplease Price: £12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744177Author Ken GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 8Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 144g -
The Politics of the European Union by Herman Lelieveldt
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.55The European Union is a key player in determining policies and politics in Europe, and yet understanding how it works remains a challenge. The Politics of the European Union introduces students to its functioning by showing the similarities and... -
Untitled AITF To Be Confirmed Simon & Schuster 9781398540996
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.62With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record...Fred Trump never asked for any of... -
Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of... -
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency and Trust by James Comey
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.15'The Capitol riot was our Chernobyl.'(Guardian interview, Jan 19th 2021)'An absolutely fascinating read.'Emily MaitlisJames Comey, former FBI Director and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law... -
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
Booksplease Price: £13.22No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and... -
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225813Author Angela DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 106g -
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government: Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis 9780306804182
Booksplease Price: £29.21A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis,ex-president of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln," popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause,began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the...