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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
RRP: £26.99£18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225268Author Timothy EganFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns
RRP: £62.00£41.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534144Author Ric BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Great Depression: A Diary by James Ledbetter
RRP: £14.99£9.57When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of... -
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo by Dayton Duncan 9780593537343
RRP: £40.00£27.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593537343Author Dayton DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 165mm... -
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen 9781538722374
RRP: £30.00£18.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538722374Author Benjamin BreenFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States by Professor Michael Lind 9780061834813
RRP: £18.99£14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061834813Author Professor Michael LindFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)... -
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: £10.99£7.37*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times'Simply one of the best history books I have ever read' BBC HistoryIn the... -
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff
RRP: £12.99£8.73THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish... From an author... -
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £10.99£8.02'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMESIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece... -
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
RRP: £10.99£7.50The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the... -
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
RRP: £12.99£8.43THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Incredibly evocative and compelling." - The Washington Post "The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." - The Times "Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity,... -
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776) by Peter Moore
RRP: £25.00£17.62Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream'Absorbing... fascinating... eloquent' THE... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion 1945-1980 by Mark Stacey 9780198354550
£34.17Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The American Dream has... -
Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
RRP: £23.00£16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449908709Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm... -
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3) by Robert A. Caro
RRP: £35.00£25.29'The greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The Times Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory... -
The Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
RRP: £16.99£12.28This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading... -
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570355
RRP: £12.99£9.34Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and... -
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99£8.02In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became... -
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
RRP: £10.99£8.02New edition with a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo 'A brutal record of segregated America ... essential reading' Guardian 'An anti-racist classic' Bernardine Evaristo In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin... -
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn
RRP: £20.00£13.26The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter and bestselling author Jeff Guinn.Waco breaks new ground... -
Colonial America: A History to 1763 by Richard Middleton
RRP: £33.95£32.38Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated... -
My Revision Notes: OCR A-level History: Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992 by Mike Wells
£11.32Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation... -
The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings of Theodore Roosevelt: A Reader by Theodore Roosevelt
RRP: £19.99£14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765306715Author Theodore Roosevelt, IVFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)... -
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
RRP: £15.99£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780679758334Format PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff 9780195315882
RRP: £19.99£15.28The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. ... -
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France
£10.86The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literatureWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fictionShortlisted for the... -
New York. Portrait of a City by Reuel Golden 9783836505147
RRP: £50.00£35.46This book presents the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric photographs, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Supplementing this treasure trove of images are over a hundred quotations and references from relevant... -
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig 9781421446592
£41.13The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War.Finalist of the American Battlefield Trust Military History Book Prize, Winner of the Richard Barksdale Harwell AwardThe memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting... -
To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by David S. Hartwig 9781421428963
£34.04A richly detailed account of the hard-fought campaign that led to Antietam Creek and changed the course of the Civil War.In early September 1862 thousands of Union soldiers huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and discouraged from... -
The Invention of the White Race: The Origins of an American Ordeal by Theodore W Allen
RRP: £20.00£16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839763922Author Theodore W AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso BooksWeight(grams) 153g -
The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History And Lore Of The First Frontiersmen by George Laycock 9781493018826
£8.93To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin survivalists. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, beaver fur trappers roamed the river valleys and... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: The Making of America 1789-1900 by Alex Ford
£22.97Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West by Bill Markley 9781493038381
£9.61Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James?Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author Bill Markley takes on... -
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert
RRP: £35.99£28.40The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects-finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government-by showing... -
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W. Baker 9780190627805
RRP: £12.99£12.17Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
RRP: £18.99£14.01Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History'Read it. It will open your eyes about race history in America. It will shock you for what it tells you about politics in America today.' Richard Ford'A remarkably wide-ranging synthesis of the history of the 1850s... -
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South by Kathleen M. Hilliard 9781107636644
RRP: £20.99£17.94This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten... -
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 9780374601140
RRP: £30.00£19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374601140Author Jennifer BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g -
The USA Between the Wars 1919-1941: A depth study by Carol White
£31.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719552595Author Carol WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 276mm * 210mm *... -
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 9780393340662
RRP: £18.95£11.77Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln...