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Ordinary Man, An: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith
RRP: £30.00£26.68"Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president-Gerald R. Ford. Ford's is a very American life, and Smith has charted its vicissitudes and import with great grace and... -
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) by James Baldwin
RRP: £35.99£23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011529Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 869Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam by John Leppelman
RRP: £8.99£6.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804105620Author John LeppelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight by John Logsdon
RRP: £12.99£9.09The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents from the NASA archivesAmong all the technological accomplishments of the last century, none has captured our imagination more deeply than the... -
Last Bus To Coffeeville by J. Paul Henderson 9781843443346
RRP: £18.99£13.23Nancy Skidmore has Alzheimer's and her oldest friend Eugene Chaney III once more a purpose in life - to end hers When the moment for Gene to take Nancy to her desired death in Coffeeville arrives, she is unexpectedly admitted to the secure unit of a... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945-1980 by Vivienne Sanders
RRP: £12.50£11.84Exam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level)Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is... -
Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation by Peter D. Thomas 9780197528075
RRP: £25.99£21.99The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of radical social and political movements around the world, in wave after wave of struggles against intersecting forms of exploitation, domination, and subalternization. From the International Women's... -
Howard's Whirlybirds: Howard Hughes's Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits by Donald J. Porter 9781781550892
RRP: £20.00£14.71Howard Hughes, the movie mogul, aviation pioneer and political hound dog, has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle and reclusiveness. Companies responsible for major technological leaps often become household names... -
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald: The Loss of the Largest Ship on the Great Lakes by Charles River Editors
RRP: £10.24£8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500234775Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower 9780062439666
RRP: £9.99£6.64From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy... -
In The Shadows Of The American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred McCoy 9781608467730
RRP: £16.99£14.78In a completely original analysis, McCoy explores America's rise as a world power, from the 1890s through the Cold War and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and... -
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Christian B. Appy
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies 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 -
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work by Peter Walther
RRP: £20.00£15.29Photographer, teacher, and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) shaped our consciousness of American working life in the early 20th century like no other. Combining his training as an educator with his humanist concerns, Hine was one of the earliest... -
Deep Undercover by Jack Barsky
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496416834Author Jack BarskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America by Jonathan D. Cohen
RRP: £27.99£23.61This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the... -
Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. Morgan by Susie J. Pak 9780674416901
RRP: £20.95£16.52Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America's most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family's power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international... -
The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway by Ben Mezrich
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 37th Parallel tells the true story of a computer programmer whose investigations into alien activity lead him deep into a vast conspiracy stretching 3000 miles across America. Chuck Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports, but this... -
Counterculture Green: The 'Whole Earth Catalog' and American Environmentalism by Andrew G. Kirk
RRP: £42.95£35.52For those who eagerly awaited its periodic appearance, it was more than a publication: it was a way of life. ""The Whole Earth Catalog"" billed itself as ""Access to Tools,"" and it grew from a Bay Area blip to a national phenomenon catering to hippies,... -
The Other Evangelicals: A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist, and Gay Christians--And the Movement That Pushed Them Out by Isaac B Sharp
RRP: £28.00£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802881755Author Isaac B SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)... -
The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics by John Nichols 9781788737401
RRP: £16.99£11.47Seventy-five years ago, Henry Wallace, then the vice president of the United States, mounted a campaign about the "Danger of American Fascism." As fighting in the European and Japanese theatres drew to a close, Wallace warned that the country might win... -
South and West: From A Notebook by Joan Didion
RRP: £8.99£6.02From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks - writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. ... -
The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama - Third Edition by Fred I. Greenstein
RRP: £30.00£22.82Fred I. Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. In The Presidential Difference, he provides a fascinating and instructive account of the presidential qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office,... -
Black Klansman: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE by Ron Stallworth
RRP: £10.99£7.77* ADAPTED AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY SPIKE LEE* NOMINATED FOR SIX 2019 ACADEMY AWARDS & WINNER OF 'BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY' BAFTA* WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2018* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when a black detective goes... -
To Have and Have Another: A Hemmingway Cocktail Companion by Philip Greene
RRP: £23.00£18.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399174902Author Philip GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
Woody Guthrie, American Radical by Will Kaufman
RRP: £16.99£14.74Woody Guthrie, American Radical reclaims the politically radical profile of America's greatest balladeer. Although he achieved a host of national honors and adorns U.S. postage stamps, and although his song "This Land Is Your Land" is often considered... -
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021 by Alan Blinder
RRP: £35.00£22.98From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kennedy to Biden-filled with lessons for todayIn this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers,... -
Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author by Victor S Navasky
RRP: £36.00£24.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809001835Author Victor S NavaskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian
RRP: £30.49£21.68The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding... -
America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony Cyril Sutton
RRP: £17.95£12.86Breaking 170 years of secrecy, this intriguing expose takes a behind-the-scenes look at Yale's mysterious society, the Order of the Skull and Bones, and its prominent members, numbering among them Tafts, Rockefellers, Pillsburys, and Bushes. Explored is... -
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen
RRP: £25.00£16.78For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led... -
15 Minutes: General Curtis Lemay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation by L Douglas Keeney 9781250002082
RRP: £22.99£15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250002082Author L Douglas KeeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen
RRP: £14.99£10.28In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns,... -
Manhattan '45 by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.32In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment... -
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton 9780691247625
RRP: £20.00£15.54From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craftWhen economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the... -
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson 9780195049831
RRP: £17.49£17.19The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today.About the AuthorKenneth T. Jackson, Professor of History at Columbia... -
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
RRP: £13.99£12.25When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was ground-breaking. His... -
Deception: Pakistan, The United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy by Adrian Levy 9781843545354
RRP: £30.00£22.55Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. It also reveals the much larger deception: how every American... -
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone
RRP: £19.99£14.68**The New York Times bestseller****Updated to include Obama's second term, Trump's first year and a half, climate change, nuclear winter, Korea, Russia, Iran, China, Libya, ISIS, and Syria**'This is not history for history's sake, however - this is the... -
Nixon's Gamble: How a President's Own Secret Government Destroyed His Administration by Ray Locker 9781493009312
RRP: £25.00£19.47After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that "government will listen. ... Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in." But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of greater citizen control of government... -
Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy by Jonathan Marshall
RRP: £25.00£18.15Dark Quadrant traces the systematic corruption of businesspeople and politicians from 1945 to 1974 and draws links to our current political crisis. Documenting the collaboration of Presidents Truman, Johnson, and Nixon with powerful mobsters. President...