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Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake
RRP: £35.00£34.91Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America... -
A Concise American History by David Brown
RRP: £35.99£31.69Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the shifting political climate of the past decade, this highly... -
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
RRP: £18.95£15.03Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost... -
The Battle of Hue 1968: Fight for the Imperial City by James H Willbanks
RRP: £15.99£11.61In late January 1968, some 84,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched a country-wide general offensive in South Vietnam, mounting simultaneous assaults on 36 of 44 provincial capitals, and five of the six autonomous cities (including the... -
Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery by Adam Clair
RRP: £25.00£16.78Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a classic so influential as to be almost synonymous with the ongoing vinyl revival. But... -
63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read by Jesse Ventura
RRP: £14.95£10.84New York Times Bestseller! Let Governor Jesse Ventura take you through the paperwork that the US government tried to keep secret from the world-JFK and Vietnam, chemical and biological warfare, Gulf War illness, warnings about 9/11, and more!The official... -
The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
RRP: £10.99£7.77In November 1950 The US 1st Marine Division was trapped in the Chosin Reservoir following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, the ensuing battle is considered by the United States Marine Corps... -
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T. J. English 9780060590031
RRP: £17.99£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060590031Author T. J. EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition by Ida B Wells 9780226691428
RRP: £19.00£15.53"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of... -
The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Gil Troy 9780195317107
RRP: £8.99£6.61"They called it the Reagan revolution," Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. "Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense." Nearly two decades after that... -
American Gun: The True Story of the Ar-15 by Cameron McWhirter
RRP: £32.00£20.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374103859Author Cameron McWhirterFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s by Meg Jacobs 9780809075072
RRP: £20.00£15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809075072Author Meg JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century by Gary Gerstle 9780691173276
RRP: £28.00£22.96This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow... -
The Lords of Creation: The History of America's 1 Percent by Frederick Lewis Allen 9781504047876
RRP: £17.99£12.27A "stimulating" account of the capitalists who changed America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, setting the stage for the 1929 crash and Great Depression (Kirkus Reviews). In the decades following the Civil War, America entered an era of... -
Thousand Days by Jr.,Arthur Schlesinger
RRP: £23.99£17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618219278Author Arthur M. SchlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1120Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm)... -
The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Simon Baatz 9780316396660
RRP: £21.99£14.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316396660Author Simon BaatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mulholland BooksPublisher Mulholland BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm... -
The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 by Robert Kagan
RRP: £35.00£23.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307262943Author Robert KaganFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1032gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 170mm... -
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel 9781565843431
RRP: £24.99£17.99Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"The Good War" is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter's apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a... -
Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming by Ethel Waxham Love 9781611462661
RRP: £14.99£11.26Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a... -
The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland by James H. Madison
£13.82"Who is an American?" asked the Ku Klux Klan. It is a question that echoes as loudly today as it did in the early twentieth century. But who really joined the Klan? Were they "hillbillies, the Great Unteachables" as one journalist put it? It would be... -
100 Best Selling Albums of the 90s by Peter Dodd
RRP: £12.99£8.89Nevermind, Achtung Baby, Use Your Illusion 1&2 - the 90s saw some classic albums produced by artists such as Nirvana, U2, Gun n' Roses and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as a resurgence in country music popularized by Shania Twain and Garth Brooks... -
John F. Kennedy by Robert Dallek
RRP: £10.49£7.44Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read one-volume biography of the 35th President. Now, in this marvelous short biography of John F. Kennedy, Dallek achieves... -
The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr
RRP: £20.00£19.40Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, "The Irony of American History" is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's... -
SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam by John L Plaster
RRP: £17.00£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451231185Author John L. PlasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 227mm... -
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Professor of History Kate Brown 9780190233105
RRP: £23.99£16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190233105Author Professor of History Kate BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University... -
Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early Years by John Bisney 9781683402053
RRP: £44.95£37.71Rare views of the beginnings of a historic space programAfter the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took an ambitious new direction closer to home: NASA's Space Shuttle program promised frequent access to Earth orbit for... -
Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism by Timothy Denevi
RRP: £14.99£9.80Hunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature: drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged aplomb by Johnny Depp; memorialized as a Doonesbury character. In all this entertainment, the true figure of Thompson has... -
Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
RRP: £23.00£16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449908709Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm... -
Imperialism: A Study by J a Hobson 9781596052505
RRP: £24.99£22.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596052505Author J A HobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History by Howard Zinn
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807043844Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace by David B. Woolner
RRP: £30.00£19.80A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, a period of political action without equal in... -
Bonnie and Clyde and Marie: A Sister's Perspective on the Notorious Barrow Gang by Jonathan Davis 9781936205127
RRP: £24.95£20.66I had known Marie since autumn, 1993, after both of us had worked on a documentary titled Remembering Bonnie and Clyde. She brought in the "death shirt" and other items to be photographed for this program. I watched her being interviewed and was... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet
RRP: £23.99£19.72Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. Lonely men gather to rage against women. There, too, in the undertow, the... -
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley
RRP: £19.99£17.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062655073Author Douglas BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 218mm... -
The Man from the Train: Discovering America's Most Elusive Serial Killer by Bill James
RRP: £20.00£12.72An 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... -
Missiles in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis by Mark J. White 9781566631563
RRP: £12.99£9.36For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White's study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the... -
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
RRP: £19.95£16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060530624Author John F. KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Joanna Cotler BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper
RRP: £18.99£14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780307277909Author John Milton CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control by Paul Dye
RRP: £22.00£14.56Offering a compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age from the perspective of those tasked with making them happen, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles,... -
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace: Third Edition by Peter Janney 9781510708921
RRP: £16.99£13.04"Reads like a John Grisham thriller crossed with an Oliver Stone movie."-Boston Globe. "This is a must-read."-Jim Marrs, New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy. "A fascinating story."-Oliver StoneThe death of Mary Meyer left many Americans...