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Finding the Words: The Education of James O. Freedman by James O. Freedman
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £59.78James Freedman, the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College, began life in a struggling middle-class Jewish family in a provincial industrial New Hampshire town. By the time of his death from cancer... -
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 9780684842370
Booksplease Price: £10.43Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York-now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm Toibin for the... -
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer 'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times 'The Dutch... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume V: Prose: 1963-1968 by W. H. Auden 9780691151717
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.01This fifth volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains his most personally revealing... -
Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive by David W. Levy 9780691612690
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54Here is the first full-length biography of Herbert Croly (1869-1930), one of the major American social thinkers of the twentieth century. David W. Levy explains the origins and impact of Croly's... -
Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Audre Hanneman 9780691622859
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.64This bibliography of Hemingway's writings and related materials includes, for the first time, all of his books, pamphlets, stories, articles, newspaper contributions, juvenilia, library holdings of... -
Ernest Hemingway. Supplement to Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Audre Hanneman 9780691617787
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.87This supplementary bibliography describes work by and about Ernest Hemingway published between 1966 and 1973. Part One lists publications by Hemingway, including six recent books, new editions of... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds Frank Costigliola 9780691270746
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930 by Lynn Dumenil
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43As the United States moved from Victorian values to those of modern consumerism, the religious component of Freemasonry was increasingly displaced by a secular ideology of service (like that of... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola 9780691165400
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America by Marc Egnal 9781621908678
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the... -
A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America by Marc Egnal 9781621909040
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the... -
American Voices, Volume 2: Readings in History and Literature by Robert D. Marcus
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.91Eighteen full and lengthy selections from Margaret Leech, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edward Bellamy, Frederick Jackson Turner, Andy Adams, Jane Addams, Lincoln Steffens, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Upton... -
Hook, Lyin' & Sinker: A Tangle of Fishing Humor by Brian R. Peterson 9781493074631
Booksplease Price: £12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBrian Peterson is the author of The Great Duck Misunderstanding, a huge collection of outdoor humor and... -
Discovering Fiction An Introduction Student's Book: A Reader of North American Short Stories by Judith Kay 9781107638020
Booksplease Price: £36.48Discovering Fiction features short stories that enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. Discovering Fiction, Second Edition, An Introduction Student's Book... -
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand 9780452281547
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.69In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art... -
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people... -
Dorothy Thompson and German Writers in Defense of Democracy by Karina von Tippelskirch 9783631675274
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £40.33Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this book investigates work and life of Dorothy Thompson, the eminent journalist who in 1928 married American novelist Sinclair Lewis. In the following... -
Literary Cincinnati: The Missing Chapter by Dale Patrick Brown 9780821419694
Booksplease Price: £25.25The history of Cincinnati runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets. In addition to hosting the nation's first professional baseball team, the Tall Stacks river... -
Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant by Cornelis Van Minnen 9781349532131
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.05Upon his death, Hendrik van Loon was described in The Times obituary as 'one of the most engaging products of the marriage between Holland and the United States'. One of FDR's true and closest... -
Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines by Thomas Boyd
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix... -
White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925 by 9780820336978
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £33.01At the turn of the twentieth century, representations of "white collar" Americans-the "middle" social strata H. L. Mencken ridiculed as boobus Americanus-took on an ever-greater prominence within... -
The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews by Rebecca West 9780860685043
Booksplease Price: £20.70'The Strange Necessity',one of the twelve essays collected here and first published in 1928, anchors West's quest to understand why art matters and how aesthetics of every caliber can not only... -
God Behind the Screen: Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion by Janko Andrijasevic
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy... -
Power, Prose, and Purse: Law, Literature, and Economic Transformations by Alison LaCroix
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £87.03From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These... -
Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film by Polina Kroik 9780367731908
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of... -
The Last Picture Show: A Novel by Larry McMurtry 9781324098355
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.45Whereas Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is universally hailed as the greatest novel of the Old West, The Last Picture Show is increasingly recognized as a standard bearer of contemporary Western... -
Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals by Peter Viereck
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In this classic volume, written at the height of the Cold War, with a new preface of 2006, Peter Viereck, one of the foremost intellectual spokesmen of modern conservatism, examines the differing... -
Forty Years of Friendship: Letters, 1921-1960 by Dorothy Thompson 9780826206466
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.45The friendship between Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane began in 1920 in the publicity office of the American Red Cross in Paris and continued until Thompson's death in 1961. Although both women... -
Christian Nation: A Novel by Frederic C. Rich 9780393240115
Booksplease Price: £19.61So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America's Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a "Christian... -
Harry's Bar: The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark by Arrigo Cipriani 9781956763065
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Now in paperback, the inside story of one of the world's most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemingway.Harry's Bar in Venice has remained one of the world's most storied... -
The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington 9780252071133
Booksplease Price: £30.56A familiar midwestern novel in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis, The Turmoil was the best-selling novel of 1915. It is set in a small, quiet city--never named but closely... -
The Fire in the Flint by Walter Francis White 9781513282435
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.20The Fire in the Flint (1924) is a novel by Walter Francis White. Although he is generally recognized for his accomplishments as the longtime leader of the NAACP, White also wrote several novels... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey 9780141041865
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year... -
Literary Capital: A Washington Reader by Christopher Sten 9780820338361
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £27.37Washington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an object of interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and poets. Literary Capital offers a compelling portrait of the city through... -
100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture by Timothy B. Spears 9780300070668
Booksplease Price: £33.01"Kiss the children and sister Minnie for me. And tell her whatever she does, never to marry a traveling man, they are the most unhappy men on earth."-E. Barton Martin to his wife, Julia, April 6,... -
Dope-Darling: A Story of Cocaine by David Garnett 9781513212227
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.88Dope-Darling is a story of sex, drugs, and music set just before the outbreak of the First World War. Claire is the talk of the town when she meets Roy at a London nightclub. Leaving his fiancee... -
The Fire in the Flint by Walter Francis White 9781513135816
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The Fire in the Flint (1924) is a novel by Walter Francis White. Although he is generally recognized for his accomplishments as the longtime leader of the NAACP, White also wrote several novels... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.84The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history:... -
Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land Steven J Michels 9781666938906
Booksplease Price: £88.60What have depictions of the working class in popular culture added to our understanding of the professional lives of Americans? Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land offers twelve...