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Three-quarters of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate or direct policy in the United States, and President Trump blames the "deep state" for his impeachment. David Rohde explores the "deep...

In this novel take on diplomatic history, Sebastian Hurtado-Torres examines the involvement of the United States in Chile during the Eduardo Frei administration (1964-1970) and shows how the engagement between the two nations deepened the process of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119555Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm *...

Discovering American History in England presents twelve chapters which look variously at Colonial Settlers in the New World, the birth of American Independence, military connections, politicians, American ladies in England, artists, musicians, poets and...

In July 1973, for the first time in its history, the New York Times Magazine devoted a full issue to a single article: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J. Anthony Lukas's account of the Watergate story to date. Six months later, a second installment ran...

Now in its 4th edition, Revolutionary America explains the crucial events in the history of the United States between 1763 and 1815, when settlers in North America rebelled against British rule, won their independence in a long and bloody struggle, and...

Lawyer-turned-writer Anne Meadows and her husband, Dan Buck, set out to solve the mystery of what really happened to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. With the tenacity of Pinkerton agents, the couple tracks the outlaws and the enigmatic Etta Place...

A People's History Of The American Revolution draws upon diaries, personal letters and other Revolutionary-era treasures, weaving a thrilling, 'you are there' narrative - 'a tapestry that uses individual experiences to illustrate the larger stories' (Los...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715427412Author John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had...

In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, ""disunion"" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the...

Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561644964Author John VieleFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias-why did millions of nineteenth-century American men belong to these and other secret orders? In this engrossing study, Mark C. Carnes argues that fraternal rituals created a fantasy world antithetical to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809025626Author Edward CountrymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 284g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061284168Author Alex HeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015849Author A. StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s In 1883, Frank Dubois gained national attention for his life in Waupun, Wisconsin. There he was known as a...

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142991Author Foster Ockerman JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890687236Author Jacob G HornbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Future of Freedom FoundationPublisher Future of Freedom FoundationWeight(grams)...

In Republic of Spin, David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House spin machine from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama. His sweeping narrative takes us behind the scenes to see how the techniques of image making and message craft work. We meet...

The development of nationalism, movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmental change and the struggle for equality are all key themes in the study of both US history and world history. In this revised and updated new edition, Tyrrell...

Go beyond Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton and get to know the real Alexander Hamilton in this Library of America collection of the Founding Father's own public and private writings. A brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington's right-hand man. A...

In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga,...

The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of anti-slavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's brilliant history of Lincoln's anti-slavery strategies...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chestnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chestnut. Intimate and spontaneous, these surviving wartime diaries are preserved in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140390872Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm *...

Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066381Author Abbie Gardner-SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 240g

Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom's swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the...

More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from the British Isles to British North America in the eighteenth century...

From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did...

On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory...

This book examines the Vicksburg campaign-a critical turning point during the American Civil War-from the perspective of Texans and the rest of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy. Vicksburg 1863: The Deepest Wound provides a thorough exploration of this...

Antonio Veciana fought on the front lines of the CIA's decades-long secret war to destroy Fidel Castro, the bearded bogeyman who haunted America's Cold War dreams. It was a time of swirling intrigue, involving US spies with license to kill, Mafia hit...

Towards the end of the Cold War, the last great struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union marked the end of detente, and escalated into the most dangerous phase of the conflict since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Aaron Donaghy examines the...

Grayston Lynch presents an exceptional portrayal of actual events that led to the betrayal of extraordinary, patriotic, and courageous men. Lynch's unmasking of "Kennedy's Camelot" reveals heart-wrenching facts that continue to stir emotions among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277572Author Leonard L. RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316103985Author Catherine Drinker BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay Books