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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807044292Author Christopher FinanFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *...

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependence on municipal debt or how the terms of municipal finance structure racial privileges, entrench spatial neglect, elide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955905145Author Jermaine FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Row House PublishingPublisher Row House PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer-systems management-in a groundbreaking study that involves Air Force planners, scientists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451659177Author Rinker BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

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

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the...

From historian-in-residence at the Presidential Pet Museum, Andrew Hager, comes a fond, fascinating, and often surprising look at the dogs who were the best friends of the presidents, featuring unforgettable photographs.President Biden's German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437070Author Alvar Nunez Cabeza de VacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780743431729Author BUNDLESPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...

Understand everything you need to know about our democratic system-from the Constitution to present-day elections-with The Everything American Government Book.If the confusion following the last presidential election is any indication, the average...

This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh light on the end of slavery in the Atlantic World. It is...

For thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will (the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists). Dillinger's daring...

A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History 2013 and Lincoln Prize 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780307740694Author Allen GuelzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint...

"Top Gun" became a household name with the worldwide success of the film of the same title. The 1986 blockbuster starring Tom Cruise as a hotshot U.S. Navy fighter pilot was so popular (drawing $356 million worldwide) that recruiters set up desks in...

Call them Native Americans, American Indians, indigenous peoples, or first nations - a vast and diverse array of nations, tribes, and cultures populated every corner of North America long before Columbus arrived. Native American History For Dummies...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them-and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells...

Murkin was the code name chosen by the FBI for their investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. Today, 20 years after the fatal shooting of the civil rights leader, Philip H. Melanson, a renowned authority on American...

An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th century First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions...

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then,...

Probably no murder during the 20th century received more media coverage than did the Coo murder trial. The time: 1934. The place: Oneonta, New York.Book InformationISBN 9780925168603Author Niles EgglestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 1983.Book InformationISBN 9780679723288Author Maxine Hong KingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

Kennedy and the Berlin Wall tells the full story of the Berlin Crisis that riveted international attention and brought the world to the brink of nuclear warfare as Soviet and American tanks opposed each other on the streets of Berlin. Drawing on the...

Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that - such...

New York Times Bestseller! Let Governor Jesse Ventura take you through the paperwork that the US government tried to keep secret from the world-JFK and Vietnam, chemical and biological warfare, Gulf War illness, warnings about 9/11, and more!The official...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759741Author Michael W. KauffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm)...

The Bloods were one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers - geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual - that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag’s American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977465736Author Larry HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint JFK Lancer Productions & PublicationsPublisher JFK Lancer Productions &...

A collection of 29 essays on the fascinating and turbulent history of the Irish in America Featuring 29 classic and original essays on the turbulent, vital, and fascinating story of the Irish in America. The contributors include Linda Dowling Almeida,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924944000Author Anthony T BrowderFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Institute of Karmic GuidancePublisher Institute of Karmic GuidanceWeight(grams)...

In this collection of essays, prominent historians survey the Hiroshima story from the American decision to drop the first atomic bomb to the recent controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit in Washington, DC. The first essay surveys the literature on the...

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...

Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes -...

A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400040063Author Charles C. MannFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

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...

Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and...

This remarkable collection of oral histories traces three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States. One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till...

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...