21st Century

In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A...

This title is about the real America: a nation more misunderstood than any other on Earth. It is a counter-blast to the lazy anti-Americanism that infects European thinking, an effort to answer the simple question, 'why is America so successful?'.About...

This title is about the real America: a nation more misunderstood than any other on Earth. It is a counter-blast to the lazy anti-Americanism that infects European thinking, an effort to answer the simple question, 'why is America so successful?'.About...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668009512Author Robert. P JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063321090Author David DaleyFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931694Author Kenneth TuranFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476763804Author Ej DionneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593535783Author Robert KaganFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 137mm *...

In this groundbreaking book - for the first time in paperback and fully-updated with all the latest legal information - outspoken freethinker Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy. Now more than ever before, our country needs full legalization of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180716Author Charles V. BagliFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

Damon DiMarco's Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition), eternally preserves a monumental tragedy in American history through the voices of the people who were in New York City on that fateful day. At the same...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717870Author Greg FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

A firsthand account of how public officials and other well-connected individuals have been compromised or blackmailed by their sexual improprieties, Confessions of a D.C. Madame relates the author's time running the largest gay escort service in...

As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President's children. Born Trump is the explosive narrative of her findings as an insider within the most...

The first sweeping, legacy-defining history of the entire Obama presidency.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Biography & Autobiography by the Association of American PublishersIn The Black President, the first interpretative, grand-narrative...

Spare the Rod traces the history of discipline in schools and its ever increasing integration with prison and policing, ultimately arguing for an approach to discipline that aligns with the moral community that schools could and should be. In Spare the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139564Author Peter BergenFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501182204Author Garrett M GraffFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593138595Author Andrew WeissmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509370Author Ben RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history "Ziegler sets a brisk pace but delivers substantial depth. . . . A must-read for those seeking to understand what comes next...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806949Author J. Kael WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451692259Author Gary RivlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

This is a work of 11 self-contained chapters, one for each day of September before the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, each containing one woman's story. The chapters reflect the broadest spectrum of women in order to reflect, by their...

A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadershipThe Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of the deep and divisive debates between America's civilian leaders and its military officers. Renowned military expert...

Dark 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061148491Author Professor Douglas BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and...

Historic levels of polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, the news media, and traditional political leadership set the stage in 2016 for an unexpected, unlikely, and unprecedented presidential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476752Author William LangewiescheFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804138611Author Timothy F. GeithnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062862921Author Carl HulseFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two...

The Truth Behind the Stories They Don't Want You to Know America's Secret History presents an undistorted picture of the history of the United States beginning from the enactment of the Constitution. Never in one volume have so many unknown facts that...

Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had to." Neither answer will do, according to this...

Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomac, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its...

Author, social critic and "New York City's career elegist" (The New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanised and sanitised. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire...

An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. Beginning in the 1950s...