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Plausible Denial by Mark Lane 9780859651493 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859651493Author Mark LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism by Thomas Frank 9780226260129
RRP: £19.00£16.20An evocative symbol of the 1960s was its youth counterculture. This study reveals that the youthful revolutionaries were augmented by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men's clothing business. The ad industry celebrated... -
Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments by J.L. Pickering 9780813056173
RRP: £44.95£30.67Picturing Apollo 11 is an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely-seen views of the people, places, and events... -
Coup in Dallas: Who Killed JFK and Why by H. P. Albarelli, Jr. 9781510740310
RRP: £20.00£18.90The CIA, Dallas, and the hard details of the JFK assassination.Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy, how the murder was carried out, and why Kennedy was assassinated. Through... -
White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations by Robert Vitalis
RRP: £20.99£18.37Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the... -
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley
RRP: £19.99£18.29Apologies 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... -
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple 9780593229927
RRP: £38.00£21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229927Author Brenda WineappleFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 839g -
Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right by Andrew E. Busch 9780700614080
RRP: £29.95£16.35Many have pointed to the Iran hostage crisis, others to galloping inflation. In reality, as Andrew Busch makes clear, Ronald Reagan's defeat of President Jimmy Carter in 1980 was attributable to more than any one issue, no matter how galvanizing. It... -
A Turn in the South by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £11.99£8.60A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight... -
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter 9781542025317
RRP: £8.99£6.13Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell's Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first-and worst-mass murders in American history. In 1927, while the majority of the township of... -
VC: An American History by Tom Nicholas 9780674248267
RRP: £18.95£14.18"An incisive history of the venture-capital industry."-New Yorker"An excellent and original economic history of venture capital."-Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"A detailed, fact-filled account of America's most celebrated moneymen."-New... -
The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold by Billy Boy Arnold
RRP: £27.00£22.88Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene's raucous heyday. What's more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold-a harmonica master who shared stages with... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White
£32.30During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his... -
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty by Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier 9780199967933
RRP: £105.00£93.60In 1987, the United States Supreme Court decided a case that could have ended the death penalty in the United States. Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty examines the long history of the American death penalty and its... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola 9780691165400
RRP: £35.00£22.60A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy-and one of its most complex. Drawing on... -
The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Simon Baatz 9780316396660
RRP: £21.99£13.20Apologies 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... -
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
RRP: £30.00£28.92A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three... -
The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink by William Inboden
RRP: £31.99£19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524745899Author William InbodenFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
RRP: £25.00£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062430519Author Jason FagoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval by Kyle Longley
RRP: £18.99£16.051968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads... -
An Open Book: Chapters fom a Reader's Life by Michael Dirda 9780393326147
RRP: £20.00£16.52"All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book," Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his son's passion for reading. In An Open Book, one of the most delightful memoirs to emerge in years, the acclaimed literary... -
Democracy and Truth: A Short History by Sophia Rosenfeld
RRP: £19.99£15.30"Fake news," wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as lies-citizens of democracies increasingly inhabit a public sphere teeming with competing claims and counterclaims, with no... -
The Bay of Pigs by Howard Jones 9780199754250
RRP: £13.99£10.84In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of... -
Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft by Peter Westwick 9780190677442
RRP: £24.99£18.33On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually... -
Vietnam 1972: Quang Tri: The Easter Offensive Strikes the South Charles D. Melson 9781472843395
RRP: £15.99£11.61During the Cold War, Vietnam showed the limitations of a major power in peripheral conflicts. Even so, the military forces involved (North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, American, and Allied) demonstrated battlefield consistency in conflict that gave... -
American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000 by Joshua Freeman 9780143123491
RRP: £23.62£17.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123491Author Joshua FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 499g -
Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter by James S Hirsch 9780618087280
£12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618087280Author James S HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 494g -
Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence 9780345466273
RRP: £7.99£5.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345466273Author Jerome LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted
RRP: £25.00£21.32How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II "A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today's right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are unavoidable."-Matthew Pressman, Washington Post "A... -
Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations by Richard C. S. Trahair 9780313319556
£87.56Everybody spied on everybody else during the Cold War. France had agents in the U.S., China had agents in East Germany, Poland had agents in Great Britain, and the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had agents everywhere-in governments, in industry, in the military,... -
Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians by Ralph White
RRP: £20.00£12.86The gripping and remarkable true story of author Ralph White's desperate effort to save the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.In April 1975, Ralph White was... -
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker
RRP: £18.00£13.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101912164Author Peter BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 913gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 154mm... -
The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940 by Anthony J. Badger 9781566634533
RRP: £14.99£14.13Anthony Badger's notably successful history is not simply another narrative of the New Deal, nor does the figure of Franklin Roosevelt loom as large in his account as in some others. What Mr. Badger does so well is to consider important aspects of New... -
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin Kruse 9781541604667
RRP: £16.99£13.27In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation's pastThe United States is in the grip of a crisis of... -
The Light of Earth: Reflections on a Life in Space by Al Worden 9781496228659
RRP: £23.99£18.49Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden was one of the highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned for his outspokenness and potent views but also recognized as a warm and well-liked person who devoted much of his life after... -
The Devil's Gentleman by Harold Schechter 9780345476807
RRP: £14.21£11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345476807Author Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint Random House AustraliaPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 364g -
America in Retreat: The Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19 by Michael Pembroke
RRP: £20.00£15.44The story of how America turned its back on the world... In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with the founding of the UN, a new era of international co-operation seemed to have begun. But seventy-five... -
Tomorrow is Now by Eleanor Roosevelt
£14.42As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. In bold, blunt prose, one of the greatest First... -
Every Man A King: The Autobiography Of Huey P. Long by Huey Long 9780306806957
RRP: £21.99£15.61Huey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and... -
Two Minutes to Midnight: 1953 - The Year of Living Dangerously Roger Hermiston 9781785906541
RRP: £20.00£14.69January, 1953. It is eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history and the Cold War has entered its most deadly phase. An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe, and hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union have...