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From the bestselling author of Hiroshima, a searing account of police brutality, white racism, and black rage in 1960s Detroit.On the evening of July 25, 1967, on the third night of the 12th Street Riot, Detroit police raided the Algiers Motel. Acting on...

"The Last Gasp" takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540218353Author Paul KahanFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

This book tells the story of the scientific talent and technological prowess of two nations that joined forces to connect themselves with a communications cable that would change the world. In 1855 an American visionary named Cyrus West Field, who knew...

First printed in 1918, Ralph Werther's Autobiography of an Androgyne charts his emerging self-understanding as a member of the "third sex" and documents his explorations of queer underworlds in turn-of-the-century New York City. Werther presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165423Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358455479Author Gay TaleseFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 145mm * 29mm

Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the...

When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrities declaring that they would "rather go naked" than wear fur. Contemporary critics readily dismiss...

Has America always been capitalist? Today, the US sees itself as the heartland of the international capitalist system, its society and politics intertwined deeply with its economic system. This book looks at the history of North America from the founding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982149796Author Thomas DyjaFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

The stunning Northern victory at Shiloh in 1942 thrust Union commander Ulysses S. Grant into the national spotlight, claimed the life of Confederate commander Albert S. Johnston, and forever buried the notion that the Civil War would be a short conflict...

This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese (1930-2012), with an introduction and epilogue by Douglas Ambrose, The Sweetness of Life presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870043192Author William E. HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton Press

In War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty (1846-1908) recalled his summer following George Crook's infamous campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised that Finerty's correspondence covering the campaign for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061965593Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062730985Author Larry GonickFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperReferencePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 674g

During Reconstruction, former abolitionists in the North had a golden opportunity to pursue true racial justice and permanent reform in America. But after the sacrifice made by thousands of Union soldiers to arrive at this juncture, the moment soon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996767736Author Sean MacLarenFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Adagio PressPublisher Adagio PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Killed Strangely is an engaging read that will entrance and inform readers who are at once murder mystery and history buffs.- Cornelia Hughes Dayton Common-Place "It was Rebecca's son, Thomas, who first realized the victim's identity. His eyes were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593861837Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 811g

Everything you need to know about the bloody history of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, from its inception in 1866 to its current abominations, is here. During Reconstruction, the KKK "redeemed" the state for white, one-party rule, then disbanded. In 1915,...

Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman-the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. This is the unvarnished story.With deft investigative skill, David Kaiser shows that the events of November 22,...

Of the tens of thousands of books exploring virtually every aspect of the Civil War, surprisingly little has been said about what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The...

The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwestern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625859792Author Kevin SchindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America has been recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost political pamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate the political, intellectual, and...

Which lawman did the most to tame the frontier, Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Neither of them was a saint. At times their actions were not in compliance with the law, and they only served as peace officers for limited portions of their lives. What sets...

The campaign has all the drama any historian could want: the war's top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare; night bayonet attacks; and more. By the summer of 1781, America had...

Soldiers called it one of the "waste places of nature" and "a region of gloom"-the Wilderness of Virginia, seventy square miles of dense, secondgrowth forest known as "the dark, close wood.""A more unpromising theatre of war was never seen," said another...

Available in print for the first time, this day-by-day diary of George H. W. Bush's life in China opens a fascinating window into one of the most formative periods of his career. As head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing from 1974 to 1975,...

This book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutionality of secession. The case never went to trial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470185698Author Greg KingFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)Publisher Turner Publishing Company

Written as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the most contested and valuable economic interest in the...

How-haunted by the idea that their suburban homes were under siege-the second generation of suburban residents expanded spatial control and cultural authority through a strategy of productive victimization.The explosive growth of American suburbs...

In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger; the other, earlier, visit was by the US table tennis team. Historians have mulled over the transcripts...

A compelling narrative of the trials and triumphs of tennis champion Althea Gibson, a key figure in the integration of American sports and, for a time, one of the most famous women in the world. From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632862099Author John FerlingFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 878g

Described as 'a continuous carnival' and 'the crossroads of the world,' Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. To Marshall Berman, it is also the flashing, teeming, and strangely beautiful nexus of his...

The wild, combative inside story of the most stunning upset in the history of presidential elections: Harry Truman's 1948 victory over Tom Dewey. "Outstanding. . . . by far the best yet about the fateful [1948] election." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...