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Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467153409Author Michael DeWitt JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

How a modern-day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a population of around 2,000. By 1981, this had dwindled to just over 1,000-not unusual for a onetime mining town...

In September 1971 the inmates of Attica prison revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. At the outset the rebels demanded-and were granted-the presence of a group of observers to act as unofficial...

Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in...

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Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee...

A collection of short and inspirational Native American proverbs.Sayings of time-honored truth and contemporary wisdom from the Native American tribes: Why will you take by force what you may obtain by love? We will be known forever by the tracks we...

The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration. In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the...

By age 35, General George B. McClellan (1826-1885), designated the "Young Napoleon," was the commander of all the Northern armies. He forged the Army of the Potomac into a formidable battlefield foe, and fought the longest and largest campaign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425271308Author Bevin AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340g

In this groundbreaking study, Crista DeLuzio asks how scientific experts conceptualized female adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Revisiting figures like G. Stanley Hall and Margaret Mead and casting her net across the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679736479Author W. J. CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540210227Author Jake KlimFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners...

Artificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg. And it is a marvelous pairing.Author Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War Monitor magazine, has teamed up with his technology-astute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358331810Author Gordon H ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in...

Offers a revision of the understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late 19th century. Elizabeth Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize 2021 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781788551496Author Eimear O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Merrion...

For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's ""These Boots Are Made for Walkin'."" For a ""tunnel rat"" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's...

This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931083Author Giles WhittellFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806307541Author William F. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865431577Author Robert AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World Press

In the late 1960s and early 1970s hundreds of thousands of white middle-class American youths suddenly became hippies. This short overview of the hippie social movement in the United States examines the movement's beliefs and practices, including...

This is a tale of two tragedies.At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies...

Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor "safe enough" to adequately protect the public from catastrophe? Some experts...

Written by a master storyteller, Tycoon's War is the remarkable account of an epic imperialist duel,a violent battle of the capitalist versus the idealist, money versus ambition, and a monumental clash of egos that resulted in the deaths of thousands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2000. Short-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780743200233Author Frances FitzGeraldFormat...

In 1912, a young girl's murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square. Later, bands of night-riders declared Forsyth "whites-only" and sent 1,100 citizens running for their...

This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American...

White women are one of the most influential demographics in America-we are the largest voting bloc, with purchasing power that exceeds anybody else's, and when we unify to demand change, we are a force to be reckoned with. Yet, so many of us sit idly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540222220Author Rose O'KeefeFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England...

Hurricanes menace North America from June through to November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV...

Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much crap. Abundant cheap stuff is about as American as it...

"Russell King has written the most definitive account of this grand American saga. Rajneeshpuram is rich storytelling." -Chapman and Maclain Way, directors of Wild Wild Country In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Oklahoma Book Award (Nonfiction) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780195224009Author David DaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP...

No one denies that New York City is unique-but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, a longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts for years. In Only in New York, updated with new tales and...