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The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History by Joseph M Marshall 9780143113690
RRP: $23.22$14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113690Author Joseph M. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
A Political History of the Bible in America by Paul D. Hanson 9780664260392
RRP: $65.79$50.43"Biblical history, enriched by many religious and cultural traditions, flows into and is intertwined with our nation's epic, both for better and for worse. To ignore that history is to cut ourselves off from our roots and to deny the ancestral... -
Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope 9780199676873
RRP: $14.18$10.02'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner' In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830,... -
Lion and the Eagle by Kathleen Burk
RRP: $16.76$11.73An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in... -
The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life by Eli Cook
RRP: $46.38$40.25How did Americans come to quantify their society's progress and well-being in units of money? In today's GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our... -
Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era by Kimberly S. Alexander 9781421425849
RRP: $45.15$40.82Shoes reveal the hopes, dreams, and disappointments of the early Americans who wore them.Honorable Mention of the Historic New England Book Prize by Historic New EnglandIn Treasures Afoot, Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the... -
All-American Dogs: A History of Presidential Pets from Every Era by Andrew Hager
RRP: $24.50$17.61From 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... -
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony by Nelson A. Denis
$16.74In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President... -
The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century Robert D. Kaplan 9780812986617
RRP: $18.05$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986617Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler 9780679764892
RRP: $21.87$15.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780679764892Author Lawrence WeschlerFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler
RRP: $39.93$32.02The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers-during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian,... -
Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert Stinnett
RRP: $27.08$17.58Using previously unreleased documents, the author reveals new evidence that FDR knew the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing to prevent it.Book InformationISBN 9780743201292Author Robert StinnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 399Imprint Simon &... -
Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela 9780226833361
RRP: $20.64$17.62How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit Nation explains how we got here and imagines how we might create a more inclusive, stronger future. If a shared American creed still exists, it’s a belief... -
Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563990Author Amy KlobucharFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Robert Jenkins
RRP: $32.25$25.27In 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... -
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
$28.66Winner 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... -
A Revolution in Favor of Government:: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State by Max M. Edling 9780195374162
RRP: $38.04$24.56In this trenchant new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling shows that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of... -
Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide To Pioneer Life In America by Edwin Tunis 9781585741373
RRP: $19.34$14.87With more than 200 illustrations by the author.AwardsCommended for Newbery Medal (Children's) 1962.Book InformationISBN 9781585741373Author Edwin TunisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
$27.53Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We... -
What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an - A History of Islam & the United States by William, J Federer 9780977808557
RRP: $14.18$10.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977808557Author William, J FedererFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Amerisearch IncPublisher Amerisearch IncWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson by Fred I. Greenstein
RRP: $21.92$17.61From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the United... -
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar 9780521869119
RRP: $58.04$43.43Drawing 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... -
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
RRP: $25.74$21.23Apologies 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 -
THE Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward 9780743274029
RRP: $28.38$18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274029Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
A Field Guide to White Supremacy by Kathleen Belew
RRP: $27.09$21.45Drawing explicit lines, across time and a broad spectrum of violent acts, to provide the definitive field guide for understanding and opposing white supremacy in America Hate, racial violence, exclusion, and racist laws receive breathless media... -
Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan by Eric J. Wittenberg 9781574885484
RRP: $20.63$16.98Unlike Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman, whose controversial Civil War-era reputations persist today, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan has been largely untouched by controversy. In Little Phil, historian Eric J. Wittenberg reassesses the war... -
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol 9780393318555
RRP: $37.41$33.33Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. Their antagonism, propelled by clashing personalities, contrasting views, and a deep, abiding animosity, would drive them to a bitterness so deep that even civil conversation was often impossible... -
Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits James Walvin (University of York, UK) 9781119166221
RRP: $33.48$29.15Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. Offers a new and original approach to the history of slavery by an acknowledged expert on... -
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns
$42.63Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America,... -
The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture by Ronald M. Smelser 9780521712316
RRP: $34.82$26.35From the 1950s onward, Americans were quite receptive to a view of World War II similar to the view held by many Germans and military personnel on how the war was fought on the Eastern Front in Russia. Through a network of formerly high-ranking Wehrmacht... -
Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin
RRP: $28.37$24.76What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized... -
Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America by Thomas Milan Konda
RRP: $33.54$32.06Between Pizzagate, QAnon, and the now ubiquitous cries of "fake news," it's tempting to think that we're living in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion-and the delusional... -
Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire by Robert Elias 9781538158883
RRP: $38.70$36.66This book tells the fascinating stories of the baseball rebels who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's political and social protest movements throughout history-including battles over labor, anti-trust, corporate power, immigration, and... -
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby 9780805077766 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.54$3.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805077766Author Susan JacobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 417Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby 9780805077766
RRP: $33.54$20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805077766Author Susan JacobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 417Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523091584Author Thom HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present by Gary Gerstle 9780691162942
RRP: $38.70$30.56American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion,... -
Colonial America: A History to 1763 Richard Middleton (Formerly Queen's University, Belfast, UK) 9781405190046
RRP: $43.80$39.96Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated... -
Ambition: The Secret Passion by Joseph Epstein 9780929587189
RRP: $19.34$14.87"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... -
Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor by Andrew Kirtzman 9781982153304
RRP: $16.76$10.55A 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...