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The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr
RRP: €23.80€23.09Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, "The Irony of American History" is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's... -
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 by Trevor Burnard
RRP: €33.32€32.59As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop... -
Disappearing Witness: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography by Gretchen Garner 9780801871672
RRP: €47.60€41.16American photographers documented and defined the twentieth century in a remarkable array of images, the style and content of which evolved dramatically over the course of the century. In Disappearing Witness, photographer and art historian Gretchen... -
100 Best Selling Albums of the 90s by Peter Dodd
RRP: €15.46€10.86Nevermind, Achtung Baby, Use Your Illusion 1&2 - the 90s saw some classic albums produced by artists such as Nirvana, U2, Gun n' Roses and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as a resurgence in country music popularized by Shania Twain and Garth Brooks... -
This Is the Fire by Don Lemon
RRP: €26.18€15.11The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on... -
Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Steven Hyden
RRP: €29.75€20.84Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold 85M+ albums, performed for hundreds of thousands of fans around the world, and have even been inducted into the Rock and Roll... -
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
RRP: €16.65€14.18When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was ground-breaking. His... -
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley 9781469625485
RRP: €45.16€43.28A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the ""long Civil Rights movement,"" Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and... -
Why the New Deal Matters by Eric Rauchway 9780300252002
€23.80A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today"A must-read for those who've read nothing about the New Deal before, those who've read everything about it, and anyone in between. With timeless prose and... -
A History Lover's Guide to Washington, D.C.: Designed for Democracy by Alison Fortier
RRP: €20.22€15.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626195295Author Alison FortierFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Debating the Origins of the Cold War: American and Russian Perspectives by Ralph B. Levering 9780847694082
RRP: €35.70€31.75Debating the Origins of the Cold War examines the coming of the Cold War through Americans' and Russians' contrasting perspectives and actions. In two engaging essays, the authors demonstrate that a huge gap existed between the democratic, capitalist,... -
Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with Artists and Outlaws in New York's Rebel Mecca by Ed Hamilton 9781568583792
RRP: €21.41€18.36There's a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, an electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It's an energy that longtime resident and creator of "Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog" Ed Hamilton will tell you often drives... -
Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper
RRP: €22.60€15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780307277909Author John Milton CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role by John A. Thompson 9780801447891
RRP: €28.55€25.28Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had to." Neither answer will do, according to this... -
The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563570Author Robert KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk 9780062571700
RRP: €23.80€15.87THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These... -
Most Dangerous Book in the World by S. K. Bain 9781937584177
RRP: €26.12€19.71In this shocking expose, investigative researcher and author S. K. Bain explores the inconsistencies, coincidences, and historical precedents of the events of September 11, 2001, and reconstructs an occult-driven script for a Global Luciferian MegaRitual... -
The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire by Mark Arax 9781586482817
€33.08J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labour unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields." The King of California ... -
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
RRP: €22.55€21.27Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review "The Year in Reading" SelectionAll wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author... -
Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming by Ethel Waxham Love 9781611462661
RRP: €17.84€13.72Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a... -
Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L Swanson
RRP: €15.46€10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060518509Author James L. SwansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
A History Lover's Guide to Denver by Mark Barnhouse
RRP: €28.55€19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142120Author Mark A BarnhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm... -
Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story by John Carney 9781913183059
RRP: €10.70€7.38Soldier Magazine's Book of the MonthFascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The TimesGripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. The action unfolds like a Le Carre novel. Soldier Magazine'If there are young... -
From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America by Michael McFaul
RRP: €17.84€13.51'A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States' Daniel Beer, The New York Times'Could not be more timely ... crucial reading for anyone interested in what's happening inside Putin's head'... -
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History by Howard Zinn
RRP: €17.84€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807043844Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution by Tom Hatley 9780195096385
RRP: €57.11€42.48This book focuses on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers in the years 1608, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when a treaty effectively removed the Cherokees from the region. It is... -
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine
RRP: €23.79€13.85A "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century's greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America.Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet
RRP: €28.55€23.01Nominally 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... -
US Marine Corps Uniforms and Equipment in World War II by Jim Moran 9781526749048
RRP: €20.22€14.61The United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its pre-war order of battle of scattered defence battalions, overseas garrisons and ship detachments, it became a multi-division force bearing the... -
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes by Elisha Hunt Rhodes 9780679738282
RRP: €20.22€14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679738282Author Elisha Hunt RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era by Jonathan Gienapp 9780674185043
RRP: €35.64€28.16A stunning revision of our founding document's evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution?Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was created when it... -
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair 9781469663456
RRP: €26.12€24.24After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and Black men, women, and children. While some in Washington, D.C., sought to downplay the growing evidence of atrocities, in September 1866, Freedmen's Bureau... -
How Israel Made AIPAC: The Most Harmful Foreign Influence Operation in America by Grant F Smith 9780982775721
RRP: €19.12€17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982775721Author Grant F SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Institute for ResearchPublisher Institute for ResearchWeight(grams) 463g -
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies 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 -
I am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck by James Baldwin
RRP: €15.46€11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434696Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The World War 1 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the First World War by Bill O'Neill 9781648450167
RRP: €11.89€8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450167Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era by Kevin Starr 9780195042344
RRP: €29.14€20.88This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful,... -
The Battle of Westport: Missouri's Great Confederate Raid by Paul Kirkman 9781540220967
RRP: €38.07€23.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540220967Author Paul KirkmanFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy by C. David Heymann
€30.36In AMERICAN LEGACY bestselling author C. David Heymann draws upon a voluminous archive of personal interviews to present a telling portrait of John and Caroline Kennedy. A long-time biographer of various members of the Kennedy clan, including Jackie and... -
Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control by Paul Dye
RRP: €26.18€19.84Offering a compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age from the perspective of those tasked with making them happen, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles,...