21st Century

From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramatic and largely unknown story of "plain-folk" religious migrants: hardworking men and women from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas who fled the Depression and came to California for military jobs during World War II...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423889Author Francis S. BarryFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Jefferson Cup (Young Adults) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780809057399Author Sid JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101902868Author Patrick J. BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115397Author Philip GourevitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2016. Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780374158279Author Ari BermanFormat...

The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638609339Author Peter J RollsFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Fulton BooksPublisher Fulton BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose. But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have...

Gunfight is a timely work examining America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns-not abortion, race, or religion-are at the heart of...

There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins--such as Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008--and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121374Author Colleen Morton BuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a...

In brisk and engaging prose, this comprehensive introductory textbook traverses the broad sweep of US history since 1945. Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord explores how Americans from all walks of life - political leaders, businesspeople, public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668050736Author Carlos LozadaFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States' endless wars. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, Imperial Benevolence shows that American...

Amitai Etzioni has made his reputation by transcending unwieldy, and even dangerous, binaries such as left/right or globalism/nativism. In his new book, Etzioni calls for nothing less than a social transformation-led by a new social movement-to save our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2007 and L.A. Times Book Prize (History) 2007 and Lionel Gelber Prize 2007 and New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for...

The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women's history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women's experience and underscores the roles that...

The heroes at the Pentagon were extraordinary civilians and soldiers who made decisions to sacrifice their own safety to render aid to complete strangers. Twenty years later, these stories serve as a reminder of what it truly means to be American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593285992Author Joshua GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...

In working together on two challenging new documentaries - South of the Border and the forthcoming Untold History of the United States - Oliver Stone, the filmmaker, engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a hard-hitting conversation on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062275653Author Mitchell ZuckoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226445Author Lakshmi ChaudhryFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 206g

In 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...

Gore Vidal has been described as the last 'noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America--those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and...

From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at one of the most controversial and influential civil rights movements of our time.Nights in Tents is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948814270Author Jacqueline KeelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Torrey House PressPublisher Torrey House PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615490748Author Rodney R StubbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 690Imprint Pacific Freedom FoundationPublisher Pacific Freedom FoundationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986686Author Steven BrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation's most divisive presidencies. Acclaimed...

The Elections of 2020 is a timely, comprehensive, scholarly, and engagingly written account of the 2020 elections. It features essays by an all-star team of political scientists in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 general election, chronicling every...

It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed. While the production of these films did ebb, the full...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593597064Author David FinkelFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634244992Author Paul BleauFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Trine DayPublisher Trine Day

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662943355Author Bo RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781297050312Author Rebecca GrantFormat PaperbackImprint Scholar's ChoicePublisher Scholar's ChoiceWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578310787Author Evan Peter SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Claude Perry PressPublisher Claude Perry PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820486024Author Glenn PerusekFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 500g