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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735224117Author Alexis CoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

Each volume provides a wide-ranging overview of the period it covers. Although the emphasis is clearly on political history, the majoy issues affecting the economy, society, religion, culture and ideas are also given appropriate treatment. Sufficient...

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. When it appeared in New York in 1825, it was the longest African American autobiography published up to that time. Because Grimes wrote and published his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541620162Author Sam LebovicFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 161mm * 33mm

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139564Author Peter BergenFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Picturing Apollo 11 is an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely-seen views of the people, places, and events...

THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALL It's no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. While many novelists, poets, and essayists have enjoyed long walks...

Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore himself and his life in the company of those who live on the edges of society. Denis Johnson travels between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707050Author Kristi NoemFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692054444Author Dan E MoldeaFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Moldea.comPublisher Moldea.comWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

The "magisterial" (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president's genius during the most decisive period of his political life when...

The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743219693Author Bob BrewerFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year 'A thoroughly readable primer' Guardian 'Biden has overcome unimaginable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780812972726Author Akhil Reed AmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House Trade...

In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men,"...

Discover the highlights and hidden gems of Yosemite National Park with this gorgeous, photo-filled guidebook. Over 100 five-star reviews for previous editions. Yosemite is the crown jewel of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Whatever your interests -...

Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie,...

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But...

"Unduanted Courage" is the story of a heroic and legendary man, and the saga of a great nation creating itself. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson chose Captain Meriwether Lewis to lead the first government-backed exploration of the vast and...

A wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche. A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. The...

In this trenchant new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling shows that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of...

Modernism is currently at the center of debate in intellectual history and throughout the humanities, a debate generated in part by the advent of postmodernism. While much has been written about the modernist movement in the arts at the turn of the...

With more than 200 illustrations by the author.AwardsCommended for Newbery Medal (Children's) 1962.Book InformationISBN 9781585741373Author Edwin TunisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history-Abraham Lincoln's history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential electionIllinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln had a...

This thoughtful new abridgment is enriched by the brilliant commentary which accompanies it. In it, Laurence Dickey argues that the Wealth of Nations contains--and conceals--a great deal of how Smith actually thought a commercial society works. Guided by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467125116Author Rick GeffkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the United...

Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania's twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength. The work covers the period...

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only...

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a...

Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream"Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804170482Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449320Author Jesse RifkinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541730397Author Gus Garcia-RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 160mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274029Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

"Who is an American?" asked the Ku Klux Klan. It is a question that echoes as loudly today as it did in the early twentieth century. But who really joined the Klan? Were they "hillbillies, the Great Unteachables" as one journalist put it? It would be...

Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485060Author Joe FloodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...