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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Brief 10th Edition by David W. Blight 9781285430843
£90.73The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a succinct and spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture... -
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin 9780674292383
RRP: £29.95£24.06As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two... -
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
RRP: £14.99£12.35A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERFew in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of... -
The War of Jenkins' Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742 by Robert Gaudi
RRP: £12.99£8.18Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States-and the entire Western Hemisphere.In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for... -
Soul of a People: The Wpa Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America by David A Taylor 9781684425204
RRP: £11.99£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684425204Author David A TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 by Stephen E. Ambrose
RRP: £10.99£7.77Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of... -
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
RRP: £17.99£13.87At once a heart-wrenching personal narrative and a unique historical document, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the ultimate example of the personal as political. Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world's greatest humanitarians, having... -
The Portable Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £12.99£9.09A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader.The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to reconstruction. His... -
Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant
RRP: £12.99£9.09Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey 'Grant is an accomplished... -
Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs
RRP: £15.00£11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489737Author Farrell DobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books Ltd -
Every Hazard and Fatigue: The Siege of Pensacola, 1781 by Joshua Provan 9781804513422
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513422Author Joshua ProvanFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Don Troiani's Civil War Soldiers by Don Troiani 9780811719704
RRP: £30.00£25.85In the world of historical painting, Don Troiani stands alone, universally acclaimed for the accuracy, drama, and sensitivity of his depictions of America's past. His images, both stirring and informative, define the view Americans have of the epochal... -
Land of the Free: Ernest Cole's Photographs of America by Ernest Cole 9781597115346
RRP: £50.00£34.99The first publication of Ernest Cole's photographs depicting Black lives in the United States during the turbulent and eventful late 1960s and early '70s After the publication of his landmark 1967 book House of Bondage on the horrors of apartheid,... -
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by John Meacham
RRP: £19.99£13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780812973464Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Civil War - Us Edition by G & Burns Ward 9780394562858
RRP: £75.00£53.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lincoln Prize 1991.Book InformationISBN 9780394562858Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow 9780593793701
RRP: £34.00£20.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593793701Author Rachel MaddowFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp by Frank Waters 9780803258389
RRP: £12.99£11.47The Earp Brothers of Tombstone and the famous fight at the O. K. Corral are well known to American history and even better known to American legend. This composite biography of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James, and Warner Earp is based on the recollections... -
A Turn in the South by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £11.99£8.60A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight... -
Crow Killer, New Edition: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson by Raymond W. Thorp
RRP: £11.99£10.94The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6'2" in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain... -
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life by Felicia Kornbluh 9780802160683
RRP: £19.99£18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160683Author Felicia KornbluhFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Earl of Louisiana by A. J. Liebling 9780807133439
RRP: £16.95£14.49In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long's commitment to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to... -
No Man Knows My History by BRODIE
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679730545Author Fawn M. BrodieFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality by Stephen G. Bloom
RRP: £24.00£19.23The never-before-told true story of Jane Elliott and the "Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment" she made world-famous, using eye color to simulate racism. The day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, Jane Elliott, a... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
RRP: £21.00£18.16Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define... -
How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History by Stephen J. Pyne 9780140280562
RRP: £18.99£14.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140280562Author Stephen J. PyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South by Eli Faber
RRP: £21.95£17.31At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight,... -
The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger by Rene Rojas 9781788730303
RRP: £11.99£9.70If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire... -
Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina by Judkin Browning 9781469613703
RRP: £29.95£29.22In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighbouring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war. Focusing on a wartime community with divided... -
Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White 9780807174326
£26.97The Union army's overwhelming vote for Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election has led many Civil War scholars to conclude that the soldiers supported the Republican Party and its effort to abolish slavery. In Emancipation, the Union Army, and... -
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne 9781416591054
RRP: £30.99£19.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Oklahoma Book Award (Nonfiction) 2011. Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781416591054Author S C... -
Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking by Rocky Lang
RRP: £30.00£21.95Rare notes, memos, and telegrams from Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, and more Letters from Hollywood reproduces in full color scores of entertaining and insightful pieces of correspondence from some of the most... -
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
RRP: £14.99£9.80The New York Times BestsellerA ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to... -
America's Reluctant Prince by Steven M. Gillon
RRP: £15.99£14.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524742409Author Steven M. GillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
RRP: £10.99£8.53Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.' He has kept returning to September 11, in... -
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 9781594200090
RRP: £40.00£27.50The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and... -
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo 9780767904148
RRP: £18.00£13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780767904148Author Michael CapuzzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
American Notes by Charles Dickens
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Like Shakespeare, Dickens was able to embrace a whole world' John MortimerWhen Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842, he was the most famous man of his day to make the journey, and embarked on his travels with an intense curiosity. His frank... -
The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted during the War for the Union by James M. McPherson
RRP: £15.99£11.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033904Author James M. McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Showdown at Little Big Horn by Dee Brown 9780803262188
RRP: £15.99£11.68On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264 members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3,000 warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne nations and were killed in the ensuing battle. Acclaimed historian Dee Brown... -
American Diplomacy by George F. Kennan
RRP: £21.00£20.31For more than fifty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an...