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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What...

Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This...

"[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America. . . . It...

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...

We are living in a time when it has become fashionable to question the American Dream and to proclaim the end of American exceptionalism (though it's not clear what that is or was). It's Reagan's, Bush's, Clinton's, Bush's, Obama's fault that social...

Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. Lonely men gather to rage against women. There, too, in the undertow, the...

An inside look at how congressional deference to the presidency and State Department has led to such foreign policy failures as Somalia, Bosnia and Iraq.Book InformationISBN 9780465007325Author Stephen WeissmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic...

With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave...

The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture... [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience. -- Labor HistoryAbout the AuthorHasia Diner is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the...

Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016129Author Rochelle GursteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593541678Author Sharon McMahonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm)...

Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805082401Author Stephenn KinzerFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times.Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every...

Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Who can afford not to understand the USA? Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society that brims with contrasts and contradictions. It is a culture of...

2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, HistoryA provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today's costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. The United States has been fighting...

From George Washington's desire (in the heat of the Revolutionary War) for a proper set of Chinese porcelains for afternoon tea, to the lives of Chinese-Irish couples in the 1830s, to the commercial success of Chang and Eng (the "Siamese Twins"), to...

The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most successful and effective fighter aircraft of all time. It was initially produced in response to a 1940 RAF requirement for a fast, heavily-armed fighter able to operate effectively at altitudes in...

The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a...

What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States? How do presidents and their families cope with illness, personal loss, and scandal, and how have such personal crises affected a president's ability to lead, shaped...

American life is filled with talk of progress and equality, especially when the issue is that of race. But has the history of race in America really been the continuous march toward equality we'd like to imagine it has? This sweeping history of race in...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An astonishing account of love, resilience and survival' Sunday Times 'A remarkable book' New York...

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...

As an African-American activist with over 200 articles and essays to his name, Haiphong, leading up to and following the book's release, will continue to write for CounterPunch, The American Herald Tribune, RT, TruthOut, among other print publications...

Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial...

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Taking readers from the colonial era to...

In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that 'very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history'. This book is the first systematic attempt...

With Wilson's Ghost , Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight deliver an impassioned plea and a decisive and multi-faceted program for making the 21st century a more peaceful century than the last. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the war...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593232255Author Nikole Hannah-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819214065Author J. R. H. MoormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997276626Author Jean Hallahan HertlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Heritage EndeavorsPublisher Heritage EndeavorsWeight(grams)...

The Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz's radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite gale-force winds and thirty-foot seas, there was no...

'A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States' Daniel Beer, The New York Times'Could not be more timely ... crucial reading for anyone interested in what's happening inside Putin's head'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997276602Author Jean Hallahan HertlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Heritage EndeavorsPublisher Heritage EndeavorsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988305069Author Brent HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint JFK Lancer ProductionPublisher JFK Lancer ProductionWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)...

Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg remembers the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846770104Author Robert RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm