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Have a Nice Day: How I Stopped Sneering and Learned to Love America by Justin Webb
RRP: £14.99£9.80This title is about the real America: a nation more misunderstood than any other on Earth. It is a counter-blast to the lazy anti-Americanism that infects European thinking, an effort to answer the simple question, 'why is America so successful?'.About... -
American Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Richard M. Valelly
RRP: £8.99£6.45This 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... -
A World Made New by Mary Ann Glendon 9780375760464
RRP: £16.99£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760464Author Mary Ann GlendonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics by David E. Campbell
RRP: £24.99£21.18Mormons have long had an outsized presence in American culture and politics, but they remain largely unknown to most Americans. Recent years have seen the political prominence of Mormons taken to a new level - including the presidential candidacy of... -
The Conservative Sensibility by George F. Will
RRP: £30.00£19.80For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of... -
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: £9.99£7.11THE 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... -
Another Fine Mess by Tim Moore
RRP: £14.99£11.35Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford.'Alarmingly full of incident, very funny - even mildly transformative' Daily MailLacking even the most basic... -
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas P M Barnett 9780425202395
RRP: £24.00£17.85Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingly "chaotic" world actually works. Gone is the clash of blocs, but replaced by what? Thomas Barnett has the... -
Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World by H.R. McMaster
RRP: £10.99£7.25From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor during Trump's administration, a bold assessment of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges of our age. There has been a... -
Oil and the Western Economic Crisis by Helen Thompson 9783319525082
RRP: £54.99£49.36This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West. Thompson explains the problems that the rising cost of oil posed in the years leading up to the 2008 crash, and the difficulties that a volatile... -
Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies and Politics in America and Britain by Akwugo Emejulu 9781447313182
RRP: £27.99£21.57Community development is routinely invoked as a practical solution to tackle a myriad of social problems, even though there is little consensus about its meaning and purpose. Through a comparative analysis of competing perspectives on community... -
The Long Alliance: the imperfect union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama by Gabriel Debenedetti
RRP: £18.99£12.83An in-depth look at the partnership between Barack Obama and Joe Biden that changed the face of American politics. The 'bromance' between Obama and Biden has been much discussed, but this is the first time the full story of their relationship has been... -
Robert Kennedy by THOMAS EVAN 9780743203296
RRP: £20.99£14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743203296Author THOMAS EVANPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1g -
The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat by Bruno Latour
RRP: £19.99£18.09In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, religion, art, it is now law that is being studied by using the same comparative ethnographic methods. The case... -
A History of British Prime Ministers (Omnibus Edition): Walpole to Cameron by Dick Leonard 9781137574381
RRP: £199.99£71.36Fifty-two men and one woman have held the post of Prime Minister during the past three centuries - from Sir Robert Walpole to David Cameron. In this omnibus edition, which includes Eighteenth-Century British Premiers, Nineteenth-Century British Premiers,... -
Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America by Donald J. Trump 9781501138003
RRP: £18.99£11.91In this book (previously published as Crippled America), we're going to look at the state of the world right now. It's a terrible mess, and that's putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in... -
Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It by Elie Honig
RRP: £25.00£19.02CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Honig explores America's two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful- including, most notoriously, Donald Trump-manipulate the legal system to escape... -
Why Government Is the Problem by Milton Friedman
RRP: £4.95£4.31The major social problems of the United States-deteriorating education, lawlessness and crime, homelessness, the collapse of family values, the crisis in medical care-have been produced by well-intended actions of government. That is easy to document... -
The Muslims are Coming! by Arun Kundnani
RRP: £21.99£21.89The new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrown enemy," domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe. Domestic surveillance has... -
Antisocial: How Online Extremists Broke America by Andrew Marantz
RRP: £9.99£7.06'An absorbing study of online propaganda and its threat to democracy' - Guardian, Book of the Day'A wonderful record of these haywire times . . . it really explains how we ended up in this mess' - Jon RonsonThis is a story about how the extreme became... -
American Politics: A Beginner's Guide by Jon Roper
RRP: £9.99£6.41To understand the world events today, you need to understand American politics. Exploring the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Jon Roper provides a sharp analysis of how history has shaped the way America... -
Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America by Doug McAdam 9780199937851
RRP: £25.49£21.67The United States is now more starkly divided in political terms than at any time since the end of Reconstruction and more unequal in material terms than on the eve of the Great Depression. How did we go from the bipartisan cooperation and relative... -
Reagan: An American Icon by Iwan Morgan
RRP: £15.99£12.57Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and bringing about... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet 9781324074519
RRP: £14.99£12.37Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. Lonely men gather to rage against women. There, too, in the undertow, the... -
Federalism: A Very Short Introduction by Mark J. Rozell
RRP: £8.99£6.45Early Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding fathers shared in this distrust as they set out to pen the Constitution. Weighing a need for consolidated leadership... -
The American President: A Complete History by Kathryn Moore 9781454943174
RRP: £30.00£20.40The most thorough, authoritative, and up-to-date single-volume reference to the presidency in print.About the Author In addition to The American President, Kathryn Moore is the co-author of Dear Harry...Truman's Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman... -
Front Row at the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl 9781524745639
RRP: £14.99£11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524745639Author Jonathan KarlFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides by Arnold Kling
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952223280Author Arnold KlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Libertarianism.org PressPublisher Cato Institute -
British General Elections Since 1964: Diversity, Dealignment, and Disillusion by David Denver 9780198844969
£29.73This book reviews the history of British general elections since 1964, charting the changes in voters and parties at every step. In parallel, it shows how electoral analysts have responded to these developments. This fully revised and updated edition... -
Trust: America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg 9781529356328
RRP: £10.99£7.40NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTrust will be our essential tool as we face unique challenges of the decades ahead.'The most interesting political mind since Barack Obama' GuardianIn a century warped by terrorism, Trumpism, financial collapse, populism,... -
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
RRP: £13.99£9.20The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. 'Superb . . . Nothing... -
A Cry From the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land by P. J. O'Rourke 9781611854558
RRP: £8.99£6.08P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays... -
The Supreme Court: An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making by Tom S. Clark 9781108436939
RRP: £30.99£27.17This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical models of adjudication, Tom S. Clark presents a statistical model of... -
False Black Power? by Jason L Riley
RRP: £13.99£10.06Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why... -
Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary by Ray E. Boomhower 9780253023780
RRP: £17.99£15.55On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy boarded his flight from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin... -
Great Speeches by Franklin Delano Roosevelt 9780486408941
RRP: £2.99£2.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408941Author Roosevelt, Franklin DelanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451473011Author Nick OffermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 300g -
The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury 9781250081346
RRP: £11.99£11.20The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Michael Pillsbury, who has served in... -
Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss by Juliet Hooker 9780691243030
RRP: £28.00£21.36How race shapes expectations about whose losses matterIn democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up... -
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735224735Author Gordon S. WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press