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The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez by Philip Carlo
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538419Author Philip CarloFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 530g -
Bundini: Don't Believe The Hype by Todd D. Snyder
RRP: £19.99£13.96"Mr. Snyder writes lyrically, and his research appears to be impeccable: It's hard to imagine that anyone has slipped through his interview net... When Bundini died, Ali was abroad and unable to attend the funeral, but he sent flowers with a card that... -
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 9780374601140
RRP: £30.00£19.80One of The New York Times's 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall | Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the... -
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
RRP: £9.99£6.70WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018 In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul... -
Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks by Simon Morrison 9780520304437
RRP: £21.00£16.27A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century. This biography... -
Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century by Brent Cebul
RRP: £31.00£30.19American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with such... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
RRP: £14.99£9.80When Bunny Mellon died at age 103 on March 17th, she was the last embodiment of a Gilded Age lifestyle. Born into money (her grandfather invented Listerine), she married into even more money (the Mellon banking and oil fortune) and went on to build,... -
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Coming November 2020 as a major motion picture from Netflix starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close 'The political book of the year' Sunday Times 'A frank,... -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
RRP: £12.99£9.09**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures,... -
Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent
RRP: £18.91£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Times Notable Book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001776Author Daniel OkrentFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £10.99£7.32Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor is accused of being a war criminal whose reckless actions and heinous disregard for... -
TWA 800: Behind the Cover-Up and Conspiracy by Jack Cashill 9781684514557
RRP: £12.99£8.18From the disastrous crash to the nefarious, high-level cover up, historian Jack Cashill introduces new documents and testimonies in his shocking account of the true chain of events leading to the tragic disappearance of TWA 800 into seeming thin air. TWA... -
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South by William H. Chafe
RRP: £14.99£9.88A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of... -
Miami by Joan Didion 9781783785247
RRP: £10.99£7.32This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion's darkest book, in which she explores... -
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
RRP: £18.90£13.09Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains where 'as far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there... -
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 by Bryan D. Palmer
RRP: £33.00£28.90Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. This historical drama unfolds alongside the... -
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo 9781982153748
RRP: £10.99£7.00This glittering, "wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told" (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman Capote, sweeping us to the upper echelons... -
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon
RRP: £16.99£11.54The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963?Philip Shenon, a... -
Access to History: In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917-96 for Edexcel by Vivienne Sanders
£25.21Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging... -
Reagan: An American Journey by Bob Spitz
RRP: £17.99£12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110590Author Bob SpitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Hurricane: The Life of Rubin Carter, Fighter by James S. Hirsch
RRP: £12.99£8.48Rubin Carter is the Hurricane. A pistol shot in a bar room ruined his chances of becoming the middleweight champion of the world. But he did not fire the gun. Nineteen long years in prison, a massively high profile campaign to release him that failed,... -
Richard Nixon: the life by John Farrell 9781911617525
RRP: £18.99£13.23Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Sunday Independent Book of the Year A deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America's most complex president. Award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America's... -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson 9780141995151
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better... -
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll
RRP: £18.99£13.61Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer PrizeThe explosive, New York Times bestselling first-hand account of America's secret history in AfghanistanPrize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified... -
Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic by Mike Chinoy
RRP: £30.00£23.22Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, revolution, isolation, internal upheaval, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of... -
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
RRP: £18.99£15.03Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We... -
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom 9780520293281
RRP: £24.00£18.84This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives... -
The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick 9781493049448
RRP: £12.99£9.36"That is the thing about New York," wrote Dorothy Parker in 1928. "It is always a little more than you had hoped for. Each day, there, is so definitely a new day." Now you can journey back there, in time, to a grand city teeming with hidden bars,... -
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein by Jonathan Cott
RRP: £19.99£16.46Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of... -
Love Me Do! the Beatles' Progress by Michael Braun 9781631682711
RRP: £14.99£9.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631682711Author Michael BraunFormat PaperbackImprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 15mm -
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow 9780593444511
RRP: £27.00£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593444511Author Rachel MaddowFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II by Gregory A. Freeman 9780451224958
RRP: £22.00£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451224958Author Gregory A. FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm)... -
The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster by John Gleeson 9781982186937
RRP: £9.99£6.41"Riveting...an electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten eighties and nineties. Suspenseful and multifaceted, The Gotti Wars can't be missed." -Esquire, The Best Nonfiction Books of the YearA "meticulous chronicle of good triumphing over evil"... -
The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler by David Roll 9780199891955
RRP: £26.49£24.91Franklin Roosevelt's friend and advisor Harry Hopkins, an Iowan social worker who became the president's political "point man" during World War II, was one of the most improbable and important political operators of the twentieth century. Having gained... -
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
RRP: £14.99£10.95Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical... -
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner 9780307886118
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307886118Author Brendan I. KoernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb by Susan Williams
RRP: £16.99£14.97Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb.The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important... -
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter 9780312671938
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312671938Author David R CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Weight(grams) 426g -
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570355
RRP: £12.99£9.09Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and... -
Access to History: The USA and Vietnam 1945-75 3rd Edition by Vivienne Sanders
£25.21Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide...