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The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years by Joseph A. Califano 9781476798790
RRP: £18.00£11.99Califano takes us into the Oval Office as the decisions that irrevocably changed the United States were being crafted to create Johnson's ambitious Great Society. He shows us LBJ's commitment to economic and social revolution, and his willingness to do... -
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Christian B. Appy
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128342Author Christian B. AppyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 328g -
Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley
RRP: £17.99£11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007037Author Robin D.G. KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
RRP: £26.99£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225268Author Timothy EganFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
USAF and VNAF A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War Byron E Hukee 9781780960685
RRP: £16.99£14.10USAF Skyraider units were originally tasked to serve as quasi-training units for the fledgling VNAF. Equipped only with the two-seat models of the Skyraider, American pilots were required to have VNAF 'observers' in the aircraft for every mission... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
RRP: £23.49£16.61In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was short-lived. Settlers from the East pushed into the West,... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: The USA, 1954-75: conflict at home and abroad John Wright 9781471861956
£23.02Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the... -
Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks by Simon Morrison 9780520304437
RRP: £21.00£16.63A 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... -
The Arsenal of Democracy: Fdr, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A J Baime 9780544483873
RRP: £17.99£12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544483873Author A J BaimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm * 25mm -
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage 9780857201058
RRP: £35.00£32.81Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyWinner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and DiplomacyWinner of the American History Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2023... -
The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Fritz Bartel
RRP: £38.95£31.69A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people.Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal... -
You Can't Win by Jack Black 9781936239610
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239610Author Jack BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 566g -
The End of the Cold War: 1985 - 1991 by Robert Service 9780330517294
£20.00The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades of struggle over every aspect of security, politics,... -
Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America by Doug McAdam 9780199937851
RRP: £26.99£22.31The United States is now more starkly divided in political terms than at any time since the end of Reconstruction and more unequal in material terms than on the eve of the Great Depression. How did we go from the bipartisan cooperation and relative... -
Transgender History (Second Edition): The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
RRP: £15.99£11.96Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the... -
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
RRP: £8.99£5.82This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement-the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till-"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" (The... -
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: £14.99£12.23The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentle hearted torturer - the agency's "poisoner in chief." As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He... -
Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations by Jay M. Chladek 9780803222922
RRP: £39.00£31.77The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit... -
Bundini: Don't Believe The Hype Todd D. Snyder 9781949590203
RRP: £19.99£16.82"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... -
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle
RRP: £25.49£18.34Best Books of 2022: Financial Times Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022: De Tijd Shortlisted for Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century... -
My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: The USA, 1954-1975: conflict at home and abroad by Neil Owen
£4.99Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Target success in Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage is combined... -
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White 9780190053765
RRP: £20.99£15.94The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation... -
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism by Matthew Continetti 9781541600508
RRP: £25.00£18.02When most people think of the history of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reagan. Yet this narrow view leaves many to question: How did Donald Trump win the presidency? And what is the future of the Republican Party?In The Right, Matthew... -
Ernst Haas: The American West by Ernst Haas 9783791388250
RRP: £39.99£29.98The photographer behind Life magazine's first ever all-color photographic essay, Ernst Haas made-and captured-history as an early adopter of Kodachrome film. The Austrian-born artist had already established himself as a black and white photographer... -
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper 9780062964700
RRP: £25.00£16.83The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American... -
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein 9781476782423
RRP: £14.99£10.36In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term-until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon's... -
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte
RRP: £17.99£15.27A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize "Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative... -
A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954 by Michael J. Hogan 9780521795371
RRP: £30.99£25.87In A Cross of Iron, one of the country's most distinguished diplomatic historians provides a comprehensive account of the national security state that emerged in the first decade of the Cold War. Michael J. Hogan traces the process of state-making as it... -
Zero Fail: the rise and fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
RRP: £18.99£12.83The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January 2021 - by the Pulitzer Prize... -
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford
RRP: £18.99£13.61The definitive biography of Jackie Kennedy, by Britain's best royal biographer Jackie Kennedy was a twentieth-century icon of glamour, elegance and grace. As the beautiful young wife of President John F. Kennedy, she was adored, her style imitated... -
Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia by Rachel Bronson 9780195367058
RRP: £14.99£11.53For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the partnership became so intimate and how the countries'... -
WJEC Eduqas GCSE History: The Development of the USA, 1929-2000 Steve Waugh 9781471868146
£24.12Exam Board: EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed by EduqasBring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading... -
MÖTLEY CRÜE - THE DIRT: DECLASSIFIED: THE DIRT: DECLASSIFIED by Mötley Crüe
RRP: £14.99£10.07You thought you knew the story behind the world's most notorious rock band...the music, the mayhem...it is the stuff of rock n roll legend, chronicled in the New York Times bestselling book and subsequent Netflix movie, The Dirt. Now, as Nikki Sixx,... -
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro 9780394528359
RRP: £60.00£46.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780394528359Author Robert A. CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion 1945-1980 by Mark Stacey 9780198354550
£34.17Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The American Dream has... -
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew 9780674237698
RRP: £17.95£14.60A Guardian Best Book of the Year"A gripping study of white power...Explosive."-New York Times"Helps explain how we got to today's alt-right."-Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution.Returning to a country ripped apart... -
A Murder in the Neighborhood by Ellen Green
RRP: £8.99£5.45On 6th September 1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than twelve minutes on his block in East Camden, New Jersey. The shocking true story of the first recorded mass shooting in America has never been told, until... -
How To Be a Liberal: The Story of Liberalism and the Fight for its Life by Ian Dunt
£19.04Liberalism is under attack. From the rise of nationalism and populism to the decline of trust in institutions, liberals are facing unprecedented challenges. But what does it mean to be a liberal in the 21st Century? And how can we defend the values that... -
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands Kelly Lytle Hernandez 9781324004370
RRP: £23.99£20.51Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magon, the magonistas were a motley band of... -
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder
RRP: £17.99£13.71This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The...