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In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989 and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure...

Elections are, and always have been, the lifeblood of American democracy. Often raucous and sharply contentious, sometimes featuring grand debates about the nation's future, and invariably full of dramatic moments, elections offer insight into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467133005Author John GunsaulisFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptoms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418177Author Ed EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455627271Author Lyle SaxonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

America: A Narrative History puts narrative front and centre with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colourful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect the state of our history and society by continuing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611040036Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Readaclassic.comPublisher Readaclassic.comWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

When a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed? Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is...

The New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the United States. The daily life of the loggers was hard...

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered...

In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central issue of the American founding: how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question of human bondage. The book explores the tension between...

A collection of newspaper columns from the late 1960s in which Stone turns his attention to the most turbulent period of our recent past. This period included the Vietnam War, the Tet offensive and the US intervention in Cambodia.Book InformationISBN...

The Fulton Fish Market stands out as an iconic New York institution. At first a neighborhood retail market for many different kinds of food, it became the nation's largest fish and seafood wholesaling center by the late nineteenth century. Waves of...

"An excellent book based on exhaustive research and written with fresh insight. It is a spellbinding accomplishment and brings both the man and his era to life. . . . It is an extraordinary achievement." -Arizona Daily Star "Carter presents this...

When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of infamous projects, such as Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis and the towers of Cabrini-Green in Chicago,...

In contrast to those who see the 1950s as essentially a conservative period, and who view the 1960s as a time of rapid moral change, The Permissive Society points to the emergence of a liberalizing impulse during the Truman and Eisenhower years. The book...

Military history buffs and scholars will revel in Wiley Sword's exciting narrative, the first comprehensive history of the United States-Indian war of 1790-1795. The struggle for the Old Northwest Territory (modern-day Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin,...

"The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."-Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American HistoryBook InformationISBN 9780226511764Author Lary MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint...

Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson's staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston, Richard H. Anderson, and Jubal Early. After...

Ronald Reagan called the peaceful transfer of power from one U.S. president to the next a miracle, and it is. It is also the most delicate and hazardous period in the entire political cycle. Americans learned the stakes in 2020, when President Donald...

It is often said that the special bond between Britain and the USA was forged in war between Roosevelt and Churchill. But the closer link in many ways was that between Churchill and Eisenhower, since it existed both in wartime 1941-1945 but also again in...

Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa's exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250251268Author Richard GergelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA

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In Medicine, Science, and Merck, the authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of America's most admired corporation - the multinational, pharmaceutical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075324Author Carol BerkinFormat PaperbackImprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231g

This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs,...

Launched by Hugh Hefner in 1953, Playboy promoted an image of the young, affluent, single male-the man about town ensconced in a plush bachelor pad, in constant pursuit of female companionship and a good time. Spectacularly successful, this high-gloss...

Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in Little Britches and Man of the...

Intended for a general readership, Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign introduces readers to critical decisions made by both Union and Confederate commanders who faced harrowing situations and attempted to achieve strategic and tactical victories. Like...

A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy "We could have no better guide than Truxes explaining incisively how American colonial merchants enriched their communities through licit and illicit trade, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971752Author M J C VileFormat PaperbackPage Count 455Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 776g

William L. O'Neill's masterly chronicle of the twentieth century's most confounding decade is an immensely readable book that combines wit with learning and seriousness with entertainment. Its emphasis is inevitably on politics, but it offers a brilliant...

As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill...

From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it Between October 8-10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061456473Author Peter BeinartFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578515168Author David S TurkFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cold West PublishingPublisher Cold West PublishingWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer...