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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609495398Author Matt HanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596295735Author Douglas W. BostickFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467105958Author NoethFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Presents the story of five top graduates of Annapolis who served heroically in Vietnam and rose to national prominence during the Reagan years.Book InformationISBN 9780684826738Author Robert TimbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 543Imprint Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566493840Author Erik O. RonningenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Welcome Rain Publishers,USPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers,USWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626400672Author Nathan MarsakFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015672Author David FarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 156mm * 20mm

Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this "tour de force" (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395597729Author George Rippey StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 395g

American Culture in the 1990s focuses on the dramatic cultural transformations of the last decade of the millennium. Lodged between the fall of Communism and the outbreak of the War on Terror, the 1990s was witness to America's expanding influence across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989165195Author Naomi FinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Huntson PressPublisher Huntson PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media. "The whole world is watching!" cried protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention as Chicago police beat them in the...

"[A] thorough and comprehensive study of this tragic, almost forgotten episode of American history." -History"What Sherman did in Georgia and Sheridan in the Valley pales in comparison. This study truly shows the horrible cost inherent in any civil war...

In the dramatic period leading to the American Revolution, no event did more to foment patriotic sentiment among colonists than the armed occupation of Boston by British soldiers. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those...

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143037Author Mark BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a general sense that the world was different - that nothing would ever be the same - settled upon a grieving nation; and the events of that day were received as cataclysmic disruptions of an ordered...

"The Importance of the North River (the Hudson), and the sanguine wishes of all to prevent the enemy from possessing it, have been the causes of this unhappy catastrophe." So wrote General George Washington in 1776 as the British invaded New Jersey...

Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. In this provocative new book, historian Donald T. Critchlow sheds new light on Schlafly's life and on the unappreciated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812973266Author Paul LettowFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806055Author Bruce CattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061928222Author Will PearsonFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467121477Author Dick BoakFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316422314Author Will GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452290167Author Stephen BudianskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

For too long we've lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their country. Such a fresh retelling of the American story is...

Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, "Midnight Rising"...

Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." In Morning in America, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also...

While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176370544Author Thomas PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Wisehouse ClassicsPublisher Wisehouse ClassicsWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

For this new edition, Dallek has added an Afterword to his classic, Bancroft Prize-winning study of Franklin Roosevelt's diplomacy, which was first published in 1981. He answers recent critics who have attacked Roosevelt for producing Pearl Harbor, for...

You can't copyright facts, but is news a category unto itself? Without legal protection for the "ownership" of news, what incentive does a news organization have to invest in producing quality journalism that serves the public good? This book explores...

By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became increasingly vital yet harder to maintain. As colonial possessions and populations grew and more...

Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition era-men born in the quarter century span from 1880 to 1905-who came to power with the Eighteenth Amendment.On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth...

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his...

A resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times' infamous "1619 Project," labeling America as little more than a failed state based on slavery and oppression. A distinguished educator tears into the inaccuracies and misrepresentations, and...

At the Cold War's height, John F. Kennedy set precedents that continue to shape America's encounter with the Middle East. Kennedy was the first president to make a major arms sale to Israel, the only president to push hard to deny Israel the atomic bomb,...

Revealing the entangled lives of texts and textiles in the early modern Atlantic world."Textiles are the books that the colony was not able to burn."-Asociacion Femenina para el Desarrollo de Sacatepequez (AFEDES)A history of the book in the Americas,...

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors...