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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... -
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... -
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer 9781784704216
RRP: £12.99£9.09From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man.**WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2019****FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL... -
The Rebellious Life Of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis 9780807076927
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807076927Author Jeanne TheoharisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy Peters
RRP: £24.00£17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525576587Author Jeremy W. PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 by Stephen E. Ambrose
RRP: £10.99£7.77Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of... -
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
RRP: £10.99£7.77Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.' He has kept returning to September 11, in... -
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Wesley Lowery
RRP: £9.99£7.11**Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose**'A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives... -
Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero by Jay D. Aronson
RRP: £35.95£28.81After 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... -
Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172865Author Emmett GroganFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks 9780393326710
RRP: £11.99£10.15In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine... -
Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five by Fernando Morais
RRP: £19.99£13.33Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns. The Cuban government struck back with the Wasp Network-a dozen... -
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
RRP: £14.99£10.95The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. 'A... -
A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century by Jacques Attali
RRP: £12.99£11.15What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with... -
Barcelona Dreaming by Michael Wolff
RRP: £16.99£11.54Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters.The stories are narrated, in turn, by an English... -
The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment by Julian Zelizer 9780691182100
RRP: £22.00£16.99An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historiansBarack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his... -
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
RRP: £14.99£9.80The New York Times BestsellerA ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to... -
Fourth Person Singular by Nuar Alsadir 9781786940193
RRP: £10.99£10.02Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2017Claudia Rankine described the poems in Alsadir's first book as 'lawless,' 'provocative, and 'heartbreaking' as they 'converse... -
The Storm is Here: America on the Brink by Luke Mogelson 9781529418736
RRP: £12.99£8.60The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory explanatory power.'This is a searing book, exquisitely... -
Spare the Rod: Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools by Campbell F Scribner
RRP: £24.00£23.03Spare 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... -
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America by Margaret O'Mara
RRP: £30.00£18.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562181Author Margaret O'MaraFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 811gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
The Reckoning: America's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal by Mary L Trump
RRP: £18.99£12.48THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica is suffering from PTSD. The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps begin the healing process.For four years, Donald J Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas upon the American... -
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker 9780593082966
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593082966Author Peter BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
RRP: £19.00£8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism 2017. Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780307947901Author... -
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525655497Author Kerry HowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Current Intelligence: How the CIA's Top-Secret Presidential Briefing Shaped History by David Charlwood
RRP: £20.00£14.71A GRIPPING NEW HISTORY OF US PRESIDENTS AND CIA SECRETSEvery day, the President of the United States receives a bespoke, top-secret briefing document from the Central Intelligence Agency.Truman started them, Kennedy came to rely on them and Trump hardly... -
The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of "The Big Lie" by Major Garrett
RRP: £27.99£18.61When a seven-million-vote margin of victory and 306 electoral votes pointed to Joe Biden as the victor in the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump-fueled conspiracy theories exploded. In The Big Truth, CBS's Chief Washington correspondent Major... -
Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman 9780374158279
RRP: £41.99£27.59Apologies 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... -
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom 9780007557233
RRP: £10.99£7.77This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This is a book... -
Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals about Him by Barbara a Res
RRP: £19.99£10.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631683053Author Barbara a ResFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Have a Nice Day: How I Stopped Sneering and Learned to Love America by Justin Webb
RRP: £14.99£9.80This 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... -
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom
RRP: £16.99£9.37This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This is a book... -
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States by Ali Velshi 9780063382589
RRP: £14.99£9.70Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice and the Fulton County (GA) and Manhattan (NY) district attorneys-a riveting and shocking narrative of the... -
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan S. Blinder
£13.39Alan S. Blinder-esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan-is one of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers. In After the Music Stopped, he delivers a... -
The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump by Jack Rasmus 9781949762037
RRP: £20.99£18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762037Author Jack RasmusFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 25mm -
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle 9780197676318
RRP: £14.99£13.09The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web... -
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank
RRP: £24.99£15.15This 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... -
Access to History for Cambridge International AS Level: The History of the USA 1820-1941 by Alan Farmer
£31.89This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the History of the USA 1820-1941 Option from the Cambridge AS Level History syllabus for first examination from 2021.Develop knowledge and analytical skills with engaging... -
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant by Ta-Nehisi Coates
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of...