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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585428533Author Mark E. Koltko-RiveraFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

At the end of his seventy-year career as a journalist, Benjamin Franklin trained his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, in his profession. After his grandfather's death, Bache brought the republican and Enlightenment ideas he had been taught to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679890Author David Michael SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

In this latest demystification of American political life, Thomas Frank shows that populism, far from being the problem of our time, is the cure for what ails us. Tracing the history of this mass democratic movement through the titanic social struggles...

As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to...

A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the...

Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity. For this updated and expanded sixth edition, Drew Knowles has included it all: magnificent architecture, natural...

Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy, commander of Navy SEAL Team 10, posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on 28 June 2005 during a fierce battle with Taliban fighters in the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan. The...

This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American...

American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy. In particular, how we can understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us...

More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal...

There's a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, an electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It's an energy that longtime resident and creator of "Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog" Ed Hamilton will tell you often drives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743286930Author David O StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,...

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688119126Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 771g

From the Marxist-tinged anarchism of the Haymarket martyrs to the Occupy Wall Street movement, these essays give a vibrant sense of the central role of the Left in social movements and struggles of the past and present, and highlights some of the amazing...

An explosive expose of the man who devoted his career to shackling democracy - and succeeded. Libertarian billionaires are using their wealth and power to drastically curtail the US democratic process, disempowering ordinary citizens whilst entrenching...

This unique handbook for fresh arrivals to the United States outlines common American practices, beliefs, and customs. Written in a colloquial style and drawing on examples from history and popular culture, the author provides priceless insights on why...

Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War Received historical...

How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109570Author David OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *...

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being "American" means living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those...

National Bestseller Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History * Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction * Winner of the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize Named a best...

"Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there."--'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'About the AuthorBeth Bailey teaches American history and is the director of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997860511Author Joyce NgFormat PaperbackImprint Jsw BooksPublisher Jsw BooksWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575023Author Wayne CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Franklin D. Roosevelt is frequently described as one of the greatest presidents in American history, remembered for his leadership during the Great Depression and Second World War. Antony Sutton challenges this received wisdom, presenting a controversial...

Exam board: OCRLevel: A LevelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: AS: Summer 2016, A Level: Summer 2017An OCR endorsed resourceSuccessfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace; this bespoke series from the...

A New Statesman Book of the Year The wolf stands at the forefront of the debate about our impact on the natural world. In one of the most celebrated successes of modern conservation, it has been reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. What...

When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593446157Author Nate DiMeoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

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...

A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis,ex-president of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln," popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause,began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538746660Author John GlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book examines how the media-including advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fiction-has used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580631310Author Donald J TrumpFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)...

From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. In January 1973, Richard...

A fascinating journey through the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity.   Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, "Amazing Grace" has...