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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467102872Author L. F. BlanchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm

A riveting, decades-in-the-writing memoir from the determined young prosecutor who, in two of America's most celebrated trials, managed to convict famed mob boss John Gotti-and subsequently took down the Mafia altogether. John Gotti was without a doubt...

An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life.At a pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring...

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the "Great Migration" through the microhistorical study of one puritan family in 1638 Rhode Island.Through studying the Verin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386717Author David OshinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Life at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history which describes the lives of the rich and trendy who have lived at the Dakota, a New York apartment house daringly erected in 1884, "too far up" and on the wrong side of town. In Stephen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534144Author Ric BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood. Decades later, his love for exploring the city is as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078677Author Russell ShortoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted and the Velvet Underground wailed. Ada Calhoun tells the "Fascinating" (Village Voice) many-layered history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569755792Author Christopher HodappFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 355g

As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and...

Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural LandscapesWith more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world's densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553269321Author Joseph WambaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 172mm...

Hood's Defeat near Fox's Gap is an exceptional analysis of Confederate Brigadier General John Bell Hood's troop movements during the battle of South Mountain. For the past 160 years, all other authors misplaced Hood's troop positions on the Fox's Gap...

The fascinating, true, story of baseball's amateur origins. "Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime....A delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from...

Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, From the Basement details the rise in popularity of rock in the...

Portable, up-to-date, and to-the-point, Frommer's Philadelphia Day by Day is all about maximizing the time you have to spend in this fascinating and historic city. This itinerary-based book, written by long-time resident Reid Bramblett, hits all of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250098061Author Dr Eric HombergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)...

Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how...

Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeWinner of the C. L. R. James AwardA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the Year"The Next Shift is an...

The fascinating story of the urban honeybee garden on the roof of the legendary Waldorf Astoria hotel.The tale of Honeybee Hotel begins over one hundred years ago, with the Astor family and the birth of the iconic Manhattan landmark, the magnificent...

In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180716Author Charles V. BagliFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

Author, social critic and "New York City's career elegist" (The New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanised and sanitised. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312424305Author Jonathan MahlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALL It's no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. While many novelists, poets, and essayists have enjoyed long walks...

In 1970s New York City, the abandoned piers of the Hudson River became a site for extraordinary works of art and a popular place for nude sunbathing and anonymous sex. Jonathan Weinberg's provocative book-part art history, part memoir-weaves interviews,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310512Author Richard BochFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania's twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength. The work covers the period...

This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century's capital of modern culture. Across the 1910s and '20s, through provocative creative acts, shocking fashion, political...

A groundbreaking history of elite black New Yorkers in the nineteenth century, seen through the lens of the author's ancestors Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 150 years by presenting its evolution into one of the world's greatest museums and its vision for the future Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, Making The Met examines the institution's...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620409787Author Sam RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 686g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593328088Author Laurence LeamerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528997Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg, the authors of more than forty Civil War books, have once again teamed up to present a history of the opening moves of the Gettysburg Campaign in the two-volume study "If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania": The...

Artificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg. And it is a marvelous pairing.Author Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War Monitor magazine, has teamed up with his technology-astute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593234617Author New York TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc