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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060899684Author Jay WinikFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Scores of biographies have been written about Winston Churchill, yet none examine his frequent, sometimes furtive, trips to the White House, where he resided for weeks on end-the (often unclothed) visitor who "dropped out of the sky." These extended...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439202647Author Philpi MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award 1963 and Pulitzer Prize 1964 and Sidney Hillman Prize 1963.Book InformationISBN 9780394703176Author Richard...

Unlike other works, America in the Sixties looks at the era from the perspective of new leftists, liberals, and conservatives, providing readers with the opportunity to see this seminal decade more fully and richly than they could before. It includes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087881539Author Barrett MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping...

Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a...

'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The American Dream has...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of...

Gandhi's ideas are as meaningful today as they were during his long and inspiring life. His enlightening thoughts and beliefs, especially on violence and the atomic bomb, reveal his eloquent foresight about our contemporary world. The words of one of the...

A major exploration of venture financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation.VC tells the riveting story of how the industry arose...

Published in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smith's celebrated defence of free market economics is notable also as one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Heartland Award 2011 and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2011 and Mark Lynton History Prize 2011...

This collection of scholarly essays reassesses the Beat Generation writers in mid-century American history and literature, as well as their broad cultural impact since the 60s from contemporary critical, theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary...

Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced and together they led the...

For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982108663Author Doris Kearns GoodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Free PressPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas,...

'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'So begins...

Throughout the 1960's and 70's, Abbie Hoffman criss-crossed the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting by in America-some illegal and all radical. Causing scandals with its advice on how to Survive!, Fight!, and Liberate! in the "prison that...

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075324Author Carol BerkinFormat PaperbackImprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231g

"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."-Ron Chernow, author of Grant"Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else... Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a...

Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain...

This inspirational memoir chronicles the six-decade quest of packer and outfitter Arnold "Smoke" Elser to protect wild lands by bringing thousands of people deep into the mountains of Montana on horseback. With limited financial means and while still in...

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book...

Praise for the author:'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on these "implausible revolutionaries" for many decades.' Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, Anglican and...

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an...

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument of American power during the Cold War. In this book Roham Alvandi offers a revisionist account of the shah's relationship with the United States by examining the...

Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam...

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531644499Author Chris WadsworthFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library...

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January 2021 - by the Pulitzer Prize...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368052849Author Kevin M. KernFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish... From an author...

The Carter presidency is the most underappreciated of the last century. Often considered just a smiling but ineffectual Southerner in a sweater, Carter deserves to be remembered instead as a risk taker who always did the right thing, not the political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531676575Author Jeff LivingstonFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library...