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The Great Book of California: The Crazy History of California with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia by Bill O'Neill 9781722057695
RRP: €14.22€11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722057695Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford by Casey Nelson Blake 9780807842966
RRP: €55.87€53.17The ""Young American"" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village ""Little Renaissance"" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and... -
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
RRP: €11.89€8.18THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing conversation about race in America, chronicling the history of the powerful forces opposed to black progress. Since the abolishment of... -
A Prairie Faith: The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder by John J Fry 9780802876287
RRP: €23.79€16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802876287Author John J FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)... -
The United States, 1865-1920: Reuniting a Nation by Adam Burns
RRP: €45.21€39.72The United States, 1865-1920: Reuniting a Nation explores how the U.S. attempted to heal Civil War-era divisions, as well as maintain and strengthen its unity as new rifts developed in the conflict's aftermath.Taking a broadly thematic approach to the... -
The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice by Author David Hill 9781250782748
RRP: €22.61€17.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250782748Author Author David HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 135mm *... -
Thomas Paine Reader by Thomas Paine
RRP: €15.46€10.82This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of... -
The Gangs Of New York by Herbert Asbury
RRP: €13.08€11.15The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs. Cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the... -
Defcon-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis by John D. Gresham 9780471670223
RRP: €30.93€28.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471670223Author John D. GreshamFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Free the Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It by Brian J. Karem
RRP: €29.75€22.06While the phrase "Fake News" may be a recent phenomenon, the relationship between journalists and the politicians they cover has been on a course for disaster for decades. From Richard Nixon's disdain for the press, to Donald Trump's claims that... -
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff
RRP: €20.22€13.66NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes-this one." -The Washington Post * "Dazzling." -The New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky,... -
Prophet of Evil: Aleister Crowley, 9/11 and the New World Order by William Ramsey 9781724533395
RRP: €23.79€19.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781724533395Author William RamseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President by Robert Dallek
RRP: €20.22€14.61Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available.Based on years of research... -
Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post by Martin Baron 9781250844200
RRP: €41.64€26.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250844200Author Martin BaronFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Truman by David McCullough
RRP: €20.22€14.38The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian.The life of... -
DK Eyewitness Florida by DK Eyewitness 9780241623183
RRP: €17.84€13.03Whether you want to visit the Mission Control Room at the Kennedy Space Center, take an airboat ride in the Everglades or discover the historic Coral Gables, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Florida has to offer. Florida... -
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame 9781421445557
RRP: €34.51€29.62Hailed 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... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
RRP: €27.95€20.28In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was short-lived. Settlers from the East pushed into the West,... -
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter 9781501115646
RRP: €15.46€9.73In his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and "reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian" (Booklist).At ninety, Jimmy... -
A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis by Sam Roberts
RRP: €22.60€16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620409800Author Sam RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 578g -
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson 9780520280434
RRP: €35.70€28.19John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today - that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the... -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller 9780471189671
RRP: €41.64€27.17"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and... -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
RRP: €29.75€19.33A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the... -
Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763 by Stephen Brumwell 9780521807838
RRP: €95.20€56.32In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the... -
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes by Robert Serber 9780520344174
RRP: €17.84€14.46More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at Los Alamos who developed the bombs, which were... -
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
RRP: €10.70€7.38A Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick!A New York Times bestselling novel, The Downstairs Girl is a compelling and poignant story following seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan, a Chinese American girl living in segregated 1890s Atlanta.'Everyone needs to read this... -
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
RRP: €27.36€15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062397348Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability by Jack Halberstam 9780520292697
RRP: €19.03€15.36This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased... -
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105329Author Huey P. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 419g -
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson 9781680920680
RRP: €7.08€6.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680920680Author Carter Godwin WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams)... -
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin 9781985101807
RRP: €7.13€6.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985101807Author Benjamin FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 2) by Robert A. Caro
RRP: €35.70€25.41'The greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The TimesRobert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account... -
Charlottesville Untold: Inside Unite The Right by Anne Wilson Smith 9781947660588
RRP: €35.70€20.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947660588Author Anne Wilson SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams)... -
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant 9781399404990
RRP: €15.46€11.65'Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you've been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.' - Emily Maitlis 'Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit who understands America' - Washington Post In When... -
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James Horn 9780465024902
RRP: €16.65€15.49In 1587, John White led 117 English men, women, and children to Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. They hoped to establish a British foothold in North America, but soon found themselves struggling to survive. White returned to England for... -
Illiberal America: A History by Steven Hahn 9780393635928
RRP: €33.31€26.85A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of 6 January 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking “That’s not us”. But... -
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin 9780803235175
RRP: €19.03€16.952019 Tucson Weekly "40 Essential Arizona Books" pick 2014 One Book Yuma selection 2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection 2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist 2009 Southwest Book of the Year"The Blue Tattoo is well... -
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: €11.89€8.46'One of the most engrossing books I have ever read' Daily TelegraphJohn Kenneth Galbraith's now-classic account of the 1929 stock market collapse remains the definitive book on the most disastrous cycle of boom and bust in modern times.Vividly depicting... -
Letter from America: 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
RRP: €15.46€10.82A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country... -
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: €11.89€7.97Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's...