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"Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein. The desire to get ahead no longer evokes the same admiration it once did-indeed, modern novelists seem hardly able to deal with ambition without a sneer. But is ambition necessarily synonymous...

In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year What happened to Rudy Giuliani? Andrew Kirtzman, who has been following Giuliani since the 1990s, answers that question in this "masterful and engrossing" (The Guardian) biography that "cuts through the myth and...

Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden's dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589812Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

This book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It demonstrates how congressional pressure led the administration to reconsider...

Written by a technical expert who has fired many of the guns featured, this book includes wide and varied assemblage of weapons from each of the world's major manufacturing countries.The Illustrated Directory series provide readers with a fully...

Sweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the most important of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496858Author Stewart O'NanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time. Follow the Wild West's most celebrated gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield's...

This autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory...

The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation-a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first appearance as "the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573572Author Naomi OreskesFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 938g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630373Author J. SakaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 495g

The CIA, Dallas, and the hard details of the JFK assassination.Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy, how the murder was carried out, and why Kennedy was assassinated. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165249Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735220614Author Admiral James StavridisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437117Author John AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 397g

Since its introduction in 1981, at the height of the Cold War, the Abrams main battle tank has been one of the most visible and iconic symbols of American military power, and it is the fascinating subject of this heavily illustrated historical and...

Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms, and both spurred and snuffed out economic development. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809065738Author Alan TrachtenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 535g

For better or worse, be it militarily, diplomatically, politically, economically, or culturally, Americans have had a profound role in shaping the wider world beyond them. Unsurprisingly, most non-Americans have passionate views about the nature of U.S...

This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in...

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451605983Author Anthony WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this "peculiar institution" and set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti...

Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature...

Between 1895 and 1904 a great wave of mergers swept through the manufacturing sector of the United States' economy. This book explores the causes of the mergers, arguing that there was nothing natural or inevitable about turn-of-the-century combinations...

Thousands of books and articles have been written about Gettysburg, but the operation remains one of the most complex and difficult to understand. Bradley Gottfried's groundbreaking The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 -...

The animal-rights organization PETA asked "Are Animals the New Slaves?" in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Humane Society rescued pets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while black residents were neglected, some...

Was America founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? In the paperback edition of this critically acclaimed book, a constitutional attorney settles the debate about religion's role in America's founding. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060530624Author John F. KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Joanna Cotler BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Little Amy never knew her father. One dark night, when she was only a baby, the Soviet secret police forcefully arrested Amy's father ...and condemned him to the frigid wastelands of Siberia. Then as World War II began, the armies of the Third Reich...

A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government's anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans' fear of...

A remarkable history with elements of both In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. America's First Families are unknowable in...

"You have to take the children away."-Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a landmark history of the American health care system, examining how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government...

Today the Korean War of 1950-1953 is overshadowed by later twentieth-century conflicts in Vietnam and the Middle East, yet at the time it was the focus of international attention. It threatened to lead to a third world war, and although fought on a...

Acheson (1893-1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and, with brief intermissions, was...