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Faced with divided advisers, limited options, contradictory evidence, and the profound global consequences of their choices, how do presidents reach a decision in a time of crisis? As a speechwriter and close adviser to John F. Kennedy, Ted Sorensen,...

When Governor John White sailed for England from Roanoke Island in August 1587, he left behind more than 100 men, women and children. They were never seen again by Europeans. For more than four centuries the fate of the Roanoke colony has remained a...

Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, one of America's leading authorities on the Civil War era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533736Author Harold HolzerFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 804g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649670168Author Andrew BraunbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint State House PressPublisher State House PressWeight(grams) 138g

Are conspiracy theories everywhere and is everyone a conspiracy theorist? This ground-breaking study challenges some of the widely shared assessments in the scholarship about a perceived mainstreaming of conspiracy theory. It claims that conspiracy...

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Oxford has released a new edition of Sterling Stuckey's ground-breaking study, Slave Culture. A leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, Stuckey explains how different African peoples...

When President Kennedy issued his well-known challenge to reach the moon and return safely before the end of the 1960s, the immediate responsibility for undertaking the task fell to 54-year-old NASA director James E. Webb. Eight years later, when the...

This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States' endless wars. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, Imperial Benevolence shows that American...

With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864. Having previously...

Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association A remarkable story of the people of rural Lowndes County, a small Southern town, who in 1966 organized a radical experiment in...

The American Civil War was at a turning point in 1863 when Lt. Col. Arthur J. L. Fremantle of the British Coldstream Guards toured the Confederacy. Mildly predisposed toward the Union side because of his dislike of slavery, he was soon awakened to the...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Pincus exposes the darkest secret in American nuclear history-sixty-seven nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that decimated a people and their land. The most important place in American nuclear...

Few single events have affected business and society in the US so profoundly, and in such a short time. There have also been few books that address both these elements of the crash together, and very little published on the subject in the past decade. In...

Before 1966, the idea of Reagan in politics provoked widespread scorn. To most people, he seemed a has-been actor, a right-wing extremist and a 'dunce'. Journalists therefore ridiculed his aspirations to be governor of California. No one, however,...

Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859741Author Louis AdamicFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 512g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467151351Author Vicki Berger Berger ErwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 221mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802360486Author James GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward Publishing

An "exciting and enlightening revisionist history" (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890681Author Deanne StillmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782629593408Author Willie LynchFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

National bestseller: In this brilliantly readable book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the Reagan decade, when America fell from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation and when optimism turned to foreboding. In human terms and...

Berthed today at NAUTICUS, the National Maritime Center, the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was the last authorized of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest American dreadnoughts ever built. Wisconsin saw action in World War II and the Korean Conflict for...

Smaller nations have a special place in the international system, with a striking capacity to defy the expectations of most observers and many prominent theories of international relations. This volume of classic essays highlights the ability of small...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737451Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

An award-winning historian on the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics-for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964-or rather, the long 1964, from...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595231109Author Brian KilmeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint SentinelPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Since the early 2000s, genealogy has become a lucrative business, an accelerating online industry, a massive data mining project, and fodder for reality television. But the fact remains that our contemporary fascination with family history cannot be...

In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433943Author Arbie OrensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467121286Author William Alan MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467123914Author Fred MerriamFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990001621Author Dr David G SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Winchester BooksPublisher Winchester BooksWeight(grams) 494g

But the story is by no means entirely grim and solemn. Young explorers get lost in the woods and climb trees to escape "roaring lions." There is a comic duel for the hand of a headstrong fifteen-year-old. We are present at a bizarre visit to the great...

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee. The Federals were surviving by the narrowest of margins, thanks only to a trickle of supplies...

In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The...

After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, they created one that empowered the modern citizen-consumer. This profound transformation was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738573144Author Arthur NashFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 167mm * 8mm