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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596299979Author George JoynsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626190146Author Melanie GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that...

In 2014, Eric J. Wittenberg published "The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour, an award-winning study of Union cavalry delaying actions at Gettysburg. Fast-forward four years to 2018 and Wittenberg's latest release, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483995Author James DeetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070395Author James L HaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467140379Author Sandra PollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 222mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619586Author Walter JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 38mm

Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant "sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters" (Newsweek).Natchez, Mississippi, once had more...

A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago's South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)...

Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625451170Author Beth Anne KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLcWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934645383Author Hannibal B JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

What happened at Pearl Harbor?What really happened?The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of history was utterly changed. Nearly eight decades later,...

Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded.Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic...

Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene's raucous heyday. What's more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold-a harmonica master who shared stages with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552852545Author WHITECAPFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Whitecap BooksPublisher Whitecap Books Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989446297Author Ken BabbsFormat HardbackPage Count 518Imprint Tsunami PressPublisher Tsunami PressWeight(grams) 152g

Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the...

Here We Are . . . on Route 66 provides the fascinating histories of iconic landmarks and cultural touchstones associated with America's most famous highway-and celebrates lesser-known gems just off the beaten path. Spanning nearly 2,500 miles and eight...

"All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book," Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his son's passion for reading. In An Open Book, one of the most delightful memoirs to emerge in years, the acclaimed literary...

"So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles."-Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling authorFrom Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692534045Author C L SonnichsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Creative Texts Publishers, LLCPublisher Creative Texts Publishers, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807020531Author Michael Patrick MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The Woking Dead are everywhere. An army of undead ghouls turning millions into mindless, ravenous devourers of all things good and American.Donald J. Trump was the vaccine America needed. He fought for America against the Deep State and the woke maniacs...

First published in 1927, ""Tombstone"" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Noble Burns's portrayal of Earp has profoundly influenced subsequent generations of historians, novelists, and screen writers...

There seems to be no end to our fascination with the Amish, a religious minority that has both placed itself outside the mainstream of American culture and flourished within it. Yet most people know very little about the nuanced relationship the Amish...

Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the...

In one of his most important books, the renowned historian Eugene D. Genovese examines slave revolts in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil, placing them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favoured these...

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609493455Author David HimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 159mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467151856Author Mark GudgelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738565620Author Lori StreleckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576871065Author Jamel ShabazzFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 750g

Huey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and...

Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world-the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World's Fair postcards, nothing said "San Francisco"...

Are phantoms "alive" and walking the streets of Tinseltown and beyond? Hollywood. Film capital of the world. Haunted Hollywood brings together twenty-five stories that capture both the spirit-and the spirits-of Tinseltown. These tales concern historic...

The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060781026Author Simon BaatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...