21st Century

An eye-opening history evoking the disruptive first decade of the twenty-first century in America.Dubya. The 9/11 terrorist attacks. Enron and WorldCom. The Iraq War. Hurricane Katrina. The disruptive nature of the internet. An anxious aging population...

When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden's disclosures and their aftermath...

The current political landscape reveals a divided nation. Many feel that the Trump Administration is steering America's government in a totalitarian direction. Death of a Nation traces the beginnings of this shift in political climate, its development,...

Election 2008 made American history, but it was also the product of American history. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin smashed through some of the most enduring barriers to high political office, but their exceptional candidacies did not...

The Transformational Decade shows the transformation that took place in American life from the attack on the World Trade Center to the emergence of the Obama presidency. It is not a strict history, but rather snapshots of a decade that has fundamentally...

Surveillance in America provides a historical exploration of FBI surveillance practices and policies since 1920 based on recently declassified FBI files. Using the new information available through these documents, Ivan Greenberg sheds light on the...

Surveillance in America provides a historical exploration of FBI surveillance practices and policies since 1920 based on recently declassified FBI files. Using the new information available through these documents, Ivan Greenberg sheds light on the...

FDR's Republicans illuminates the debate over foreign policy that took place in the United States prior to World War II. Robert E. Jenner approaches this issue from the perspective of Republican members of the House and Senate, who eventually came to...

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 prompt resolution and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph...

Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic cliches and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical...

Whilst many undocumented migrants in the United States continue to exist in the shadows, since the turn of the millennium an increasing number have emerged within public debate, casting themselves against the dominant discursive trope of the "illegal...

The presidency of George W. Bush has been the subject of extensive commentary but limited scholarly analysis in the years since he left office. 43 draws extensively, but not solely, from the recently released interviews of the Miller Center's...

Featuring contributions from leading scholar-activists, People Power demonstrates how the lessons of history can inform the building of new social justice movements today. This volume is inspired by the pathbreaking life and work of writer, activist, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817939021Author Wladyslaw PleszczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S...

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a general sense that the world was different - that nothing would ever be the same - settled upon a grieving nation; and the events of that day were received as cataclysmic disruptions of an ordered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815713272Author David E. CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

George W. Bush has been branded the worst president in history and forced to endure accusations that he abused his power while presiding over a "lawless" administration. Stephen Knott, however, contends that Bush has been treated unfairly, especially by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062476647Author Joseph RodotaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint William Morrow PaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

When 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...

A history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide. Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is...

Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement's canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and...

Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had "changed everything" permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound...

Forget the speculation of pundits and media personalities. For anyone asking "Now what?" the answer is out there. You just have to know where to look. In his 2005 book, The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler described the global predicaments that...

The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political...

The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America's Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655727852Author Avinoam SapirFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Lsi Laboratory for Scientific InterrogationPublisher Lsi Laboratory for Scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982172497Author Jonathan MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505127Author John Steele GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639363575Author Susan CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 160mm *...

At the age of three, Eileen Cronin first realised that only she did not have legs. Her boisterous Catholic family accepted her situation as "God's will", treating her no differently than her ten siblings. But starting school, even wearing prosthetics,...

In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama's was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501154195Author Guy LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 104mm * 25mm

Here is New York as you've never seen it before; the New York behind the New York that you think you know so well. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Julia Wertz regales us with dozens of street scenes that show exactly what the city looked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594484780Author John FarmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

THIRTEEN HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya. This is the story, told in incredible, spine-tingling detail, of what happened on the ground--in the U.S. State Department Special...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!The story of Gingrich's rise from college professor, to architect of the Contract with America, to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is historic. There were many adventures, personalities, missteps, and victories on the...

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