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Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book AwardWinner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for HistoryA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Saveur "Essential Food Books That Define New York City" SelectionIn the final...

Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow Jim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer. Even at the high point of twentieth century...

Restless Giant is a magisterial interpretation of American history between 1974, when the crisis of Watergate imperiled the nation, and November 2000, when the bitterly contested presidential election marked an all-time low in confidence in the electoral...

In this comprehensive, succinct - and provocative - overview of the last five decades of US foreign policy, Gabriel Kolko gives special emphasis to the period since 2000. Kolko argues that, as dangerous as the Cold War era was, we face far more...

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a...

The McCarthy era was a bad time for freedom in America. Encompassing far more than the brief career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was the most widespread episode of political repression in the history of the United States. In the name of National...

A most appealing book . . . Its genuineness and its simplicity will build up a large audience of enthusiastic readers.-San Francisco ChronicleRalph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511562676Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

In Her Hands examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new chronological and thematic approach to the study of the...

Neoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture. The Republican foreign policy operatives of the George W. Bush era seem far removed from the early liberal intellectuals who focused on domestic...

Pipe the Bimbo in Red is about the connections between Dean Andrews, Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, Lee Oswald and others, and Jim Garrison's search for the truth in JFK's assassination.About the AuthorWilliam Matson Law has written for the research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062694188Author James K. SebeniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This book examines the US foreign policy of differentiation towards the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe as it was implemented by various administrations towards Ceausescu's Romania from 1969 to 1980.Drawing from multi-archival research from both US...

Starting around 70 years ago, white flight out of America's major cities caused rapid urban decline. Now we are witnessing a resurgence of American urbanism said to be the result of white people's return. But this account entirely passes over the stable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480435483Author Anthony SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 702Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

Robert McNamara is best known for his key role in the escalation of the Vietnam War as U.S. secretary of defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The familiar story begins with the brilliant young executive transforming Ford Motor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864557Author Sean StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 372g

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest...

New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice -New York Times Book ReviewIn this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein-"one of America's best political journalists" (The Economist)-tells the kaleidoscopic story of one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966816037Author James PerloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Refuge BooksPublisher Refuge BooksWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice A radical reckoning with the racial...

A New York Times Best Seller!Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they're going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination. For decades, government pundits...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140112405Author Joe McGinnissFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm...

A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections. On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated...

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War rocketed the question of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of American newspapers. Black Power activists saw Palestinians as a kindred people of color, waging the same struggle for freedom and justice as themselves. Soon...

How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration whenever they break...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501102387Author Benn SteilFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878923301Author John GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Amok Books,U.S.Publisher Amok Books,U.S.

The decades-long love story of a NASA commander and the leader of the Astronaut Wives ClubFar Side of the Moon is the untold, fully authorized story of the lives of Frank and Susan Borman. One was a famous astronaut-an instrumental part of the Apollo...

"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and take care of. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968200Author Timothy CrouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 326gDimensions(mm)...

A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122911Author Craig NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 157mm...

"An exciting insider's look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASA's internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls" by a pioneering astronaut (Publishers Weekly). Gordon "Gordo" Cooper was one of the original Mercury Seven...

With Franklin Roosevelt's death in April of 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil. With Europe flattened and the Soviets emerging as America's new adversary,...

After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November 8, 1960, over Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower's former vice president, John F. Kennedy became the thirty-fifth president of the United States. But beneath the stately veneers of both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541620162Author Sam LebovicFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 161mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809078967Author Roger DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 139mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692054444Author Dan E MoldeaFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Moldea.comPublisher Moldea.comWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was...