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The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873513166Author Paul MaccabeeFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618773442Author MR Joshua Wolf ShenkFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *...

The battle of the Wabash, or St Clair's Defeat, was the greatest ever victory of American Indians over US Army forces. In 1791, Revolutionary War commander Arthur St Clair led a hastily recruited American army into Ohio in an attempt to wrest control of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143035343Author Colin WoodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401259Author Kathy KikkertFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

From New York Times bestselling authors Richard Belzer and David Wayne comes a hard look at the wrongs done to us all by big business in America.Here is an explosive account of wrongful acts perpetrated, and the ensuing cover-ups inflicted upon us, by...

Former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey and former Romanian acting spy chief Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was granted political asylum in the U.S. in 1978, describe why Russia remains an extremely dangerous force in the world, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804119405Author Gary LindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116820Author Bryan BurroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Alpha BooksPublisher Alpha BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 25mm

More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501130830Author Michelle MalkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mercury InkPublisher Mercury InkWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 25mm

America has become a nation of suburbs. Confronting the popular image of suburbia as simply a refuge for affluent whites, "The New Suburban History" rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. The seemingly calm streets of...

Cape Cod and its neighboring islands, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, possess extraordinary beauty. Magnificent ocean vistas, spectacular sand dunes, quiet marshes, and historic seaside villages bring people back year after year. Featuring more than 50...

New York Times Bestseller! "Sam Giancana tells all . . . Controversial . . . ties seven United States presidents to the mob."-Larry King, CNNOne of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting...

In The Shattered Cross, Linda Carol Jones explores the lives and work of five priests of the Seminaire de Quebec, the first French Catholic missionaries to serve along the Mississippi River between 1698 and 1725. Using an array of archival holdings in...

A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice A radical reckoning with the racial...

With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857-1945), the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brule Lakota woman, was raised near Fort Laramie and experienced firsthand the often...

Bridget"" was the Irish immigrant service girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth. She is widely known as a pop culture cliche: the young girl who wreaks havoc in middle-class...

A gritty look at the French and Indian War through the lens of the bloody skirmish of Hodges' Scout, the heretofore untold story of a lost patrol.In September 1756, fifty American soldiers set off on a routine reconnaissance near Lake George, determined...

"When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118367Author Peter NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060598686Author Noah Andre TrudeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm)...

The Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelt's first fifteen weeks in office, have become the stuff of legend, a mythic yardstick against which every subsequent American president has felt obliged to measure himself. The renowned historian Anthony J. Badger cuts...

"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129217Author Nathan GorensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433950Author Jack CogginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint 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 9781530200214Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615776313Author Laurent GuyenotFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 412g

An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art...

The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540221100Author G Wayne DowdyFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span...

Roy De Forest's brightly hued, crazy-quilted paintings and sculptures are dotted with nipples of color and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own, a perennial favorite being his instantly recognizable, wild-eyed and pointy-eared dogs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626194595Author Linda J. BottjerFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780-82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497103740Author Alice Barnes-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Fox Chapel PublishingPublisher Fox Chapel PublishingWeight(grams)...

In The West of Billy the Kid, renowned authority Frederick Nolan has assembled a comprehensive photo gallery of the life and times of Billy the Kid. In text and in more than 250 images-many of them published here for the first time-Nolan recreates the...

"Richly instructive. . . . With characteristic cogency and verve John Diggins has painted a memorable portrait of the United States at a triumphant moment in its history."-David M. Kennedy, Stanford UniversityAbout the AuthorJohn Patrick Diggins is the...

Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers, the noble group of men who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book, the...