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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399185830Author Gene WeingartenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Blue Rider PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Son of Sam: The Life and Crimes of David Berkowitz by Zed Simpson 9781533191564
RRP: £7.24£5.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533191564Author Zed SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics by Donald T. Critchlow 9780521199186
RRP: £19.99£17.13Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a factionalized Republican Party. Coming together were stars such... -
Truman by David McCullough 9780671456542
£29.74The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian.The life of... -
The Fields of Home by Ralph Moody 9780803281943
RRP: £14.99£13.76The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of... -
Yankee / Cardinals World Series 1964, October by David Halberstam
RRP: £14.99£14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449983676Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm... -
The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam by Andrew Preston 9780674046320
RRP: £26.95£21.41Was the Vietnam War unavoidable? Historians have long assumed that ideological views and the momentum of events made American intervention inevitable. By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council, Andrew Preston demonstrates... -
Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s by Simon Hall
RRP: £25.99£20.84Two great social causes held center stage in American politics in the 1960s: the civil rights movement and the antiwar groundswell in the face of a deepening American military commitment in Vietnam. In Peace and Freedom, Simon Hall explores two linked... -
The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America by Christopher C. Gorham
RRP: £26.99£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542003Author Christopher C. GorhamFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group by William Rosenau 9781501170126
RRP: £28.00£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501170126Author William RosenauFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 28mm -
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills
RRP: £21.99£15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618134434Author Garry WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 417g -
We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s by Richard Beck
£28.30A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2015 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfounded fear for the safety... -
Watergate: A Brief History with Documents by Stanley I. Kutler 9781405188487
£38.84The second edition of Watergate: A Brief History with Documents presents a collection of relevant historic documents from Nixon's acceptance speech at the 1968 Republican National Convention to his 1974 pardon. Includes transcripts of recently-released... -
Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues by James Gill
RRP: £24.95£15.91In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The authors open and close their... -
American Legends: The Life of Jerry Lewis by Charles River Editors 9781497331440
RRP: £7.24£5.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497331440Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power by Inderjeet Parmar
RRP: £25.00£19.59Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie... -
American Legends: The Life of Lana Turner by Charles River Editors 9781495987182
RRP: £7.24£5.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495987182Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Taking on the Trust: How Ida Tarbell Brought Down John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil by Steve Weinberg 9780393335514
RRP: £21.00£17.01Hailed by critics on its release, this fascinating dual biography looks at two extraordinary lives and the social history of the Progressive Era. Taking on the Trust is a grand achievement by a skilled scholar and proud defender of the ever-necessary act... -
American Legends: The Life of Doris Day by Charles River Editors 9781494820824 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.24£2.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494820824Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
American Legends: The Life of Doris Day by Charles River Editors 9781494820824
RRP: £10.24£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494820824Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War by Penny M. Von Eschen
RRP: £25.95£20.64At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners... -
The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s by Doug Rossinow
RRP: £22.00£17.36In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in... -
American Legends: The Life of Myrna Loy by Charles River Editors 9781530421695
RRP: £10.24£8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530421695Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell
RRP: £21.00£9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931083Author Giles WhittellFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Way out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald 9780743200233
RRP: £26.99£25.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2000. Short-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780743200233Author Frances FitzGeraldFormat... -
Elvis in Arkansas by Anna Maria Tothivan 9781508439929
RRP: £25.00£20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508439929Author Joe WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State by Lisa McGirr 9780393353525
RRP: £13.99£12.25Prohibition 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... -
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin Kruse
RRP: £13.99£12.96We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God , historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s.To fight... -
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey 9780393356731
RRP: £13.99£11.54Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era in America, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class,... -
The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara by James G. Blight 9780742542211
RRP: £30.00£28.31Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's Academy Award-winning film, The Fog of War. In the companion book,... -
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond by Robin Wood
RRP: £30.00£24.45This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century... -
American Foreign Policy by Henry Kissinger 9780393056419
RRP: £24.00£21.28The initial two essays, "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy" and "Central Issues of American Foreign Policy," appeared in the original edition of this volume and have been retained as backdrops for fifteen major addresses delivered by Mr. Kissinger... -
Gateway to the Moon: Building the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex by Charles D. Benson 9780813020914
RRP: £27.95£20.52Gateway to the Moon presents the definitive history of the origins, design, and construction of the lunar launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center, the terrestrial site of one of the greatest national adventures of the 20th century, humanity's first... -
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin M. Kruse
RRP: £28.00£21.80During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs... -
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 9781524755935
RRP: £31.00£18.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Carnegie Medal 2017 and National Book Awards 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781524755935Author David GrannFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House... -
The Kennedy - Khrushchev Letters by Thomas Fensch 9780930751180
RRP: £25.00£22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930751180Author Thomas FenschFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint New Century BooksPublisher New Century BooksWeight(grams) 939g -
Assassination Science: Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK by James H. Fetzer 9780812693669
RRP: £35.99£27.80If you were beginning to believe that "lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald did kill President Kennedy all by himself, this could be the book to convince you, that there was indeed a conspiracy and a cover-up. The contributors worked independently at... -
Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the Founding by Alfred F. Young
RRP: £27.99£21.67The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge... -
Suppressing the Truth in Dallas: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and International Complications in the JFK Assassination Case by Charles Brandt
RRP: £20.00£12.86From the author of the #1 NYT bestseller I Heard You Paint Houses / The Irishman Featuring the eyewitness testimony of Earlene Roberts and Victor Robertson With this book, "Dallas" is now completely solved, by a professional and rational analysis.Charles... -
Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist by Thomas Doherty 9780231184892
RRP: £15.99£12.91In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the movie industry. The blowback was profound: the major...