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Chicago '68 David Farber 9780226238012
Booksplease Price: £20.12Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago-an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range... -
The War on Drugs: A History by David Farber
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70A revealing look at the history and legacy of the "War on Drugs" Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars... -
The Conservative Sixties by David Farber 9780820455488
RRP: £23.20Booksplease Price: £21.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820455488Author David FarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 211Imprint < -
The War on Drugs: A History by David Farber 9781479811359
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.86A revealing look at the history and legacy of the "War on Drugs" Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars... -
The Sixties: From Memory to History by David Farber 9780807844625
Booksplease Price: £39.75This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first... -
The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s by David Farber 9780809015672
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015672Author David FarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint < -
Sloan Rules: Alfred P.Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors by David Farber
Booksplease Price: £16.75Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business... -
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber
Booksplease Price: £26.97The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the... -
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber 9781108444064
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.17A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock'... -
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber 9781108425278
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.55A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock'... -
Everybody Ought to Be Rich: The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist by David Farber
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.44John Raskob is not a name that looms large but his greatest building casts a shadow on us every day. Financier of the Empire State Building, Raskob was a self-made businessman who worked for DuPont... -
Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam by David Farber
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American... -
What They Think of Us: International Perceptions of the United States since 9/11 by David Farber 9780691130255
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82It has never been more important for Americans to understand why the world both hates and loves the United States. In What They Think of Us, a remarkable group of writers from the Middle East,... -
The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii by Beth L. Bailey 9780801848674
Booksplease Price: £28.64As the forward base and staging area for all US military operations in the Pacific during World War II, Hawaii was the "first strange place" for close to a million soldiers, sailors and marines on... -
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show Edmund Schubert 9780765320001
Booksplease Price: £12.35Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine "The InterGalactic Medicine Show" in 2006. It's been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known SF and fantasy writers, as well... -
America in the Seventies by Beth Bailey
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look... -
Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention Frank Kusch 9780226465036
Booksplease Price: £23.87The 1968 Democratic National Convention, best known for police brutality against demonstrators, has been relegated to a dark place in American historical memory. "Battleground Chicago" ventures... -
The Political Culture of the New West by Jeff Roche 9780700616145
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34From wildcatting Texas oilmen to Colorado rock climbers, from hipster capitalists to populist moralizers, westerners have proven themselves to be a highly individualistic breed of American - as much... -
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the Press by Nick Sharman 9781137573872
Booksplease Price: £46.58This book analyzes the newspaper coverage of one of America's most famous and dramatic trials-the trial of the "Chicago 8." Covering a five month period from September 1969 to February 1970 the book... -
The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest by Jon K. Lauck 9780700629305
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £64.60In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats' so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But the blue wall, as... -
The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan by Robert Mason 9781107666146
Booksplease Price: £34.48During a long period of the twentieth century, stretching from the Great Depression until the Reagan years, defeat generally characterized the electoral record of the Republican party. Although... -
The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest by Jon K. Lauck 9780700629312
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats' so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But the blue wall, as... -
Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives by Michael W. Flamm 9780742522121
Booksplease Price: £86.43The conventional interpretation of the 1960s emphasizes how liberal, even radical, the decade was. It was, after all, the age of mass protests against the Vietnam War and social movements on behalf... -
Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives by Michael W. Flamm 9780742522138
Booksplease Price: £33.49The conventional interpretation of the 1960s emphasizes how liberal, even radical, the decade was. It was, after all, the age of mass protests against the Vietnam War and social movements on behalf... -
Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People Steven Watts 9781108495936
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.33Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America's most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every... -
Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism by George Hawley 9780700625796
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76The American conservative movement as we know it faces an existential crisis as the nation's demographics shift away from its core constituents-older white middle-class Christians. It is the American... -
Counterculture Green: The 'Whole Earth Catalog' and American Environmentalism by Andrew G. Kirk 9780700615452
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95For those who eagerly awaited its periodic appearance, it was more than a publication: it was a way of life. ""The Whole Earth Catalog"" billed itself as ""Access to Tools,"" and it grew from a Bay... -
Beyond Pearl Harbor: A Pacific History by Beth Bailey 9780700628131
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's phrase, but for most Americans the date's significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor... -
Whistling Dixie: Ronald Reagan, the White South, and the Transformation of the Republican Party by Jonathan Bartho 9780700636495
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.20Jonathan Bartho's Whistling Dixie explores the interdependent political relationship between Ronald Reagan and the white conservative South, a relationship that had a profound impact on Reagan's own... -
The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War by Andrew E. Hunt 9780814736357
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in... -
Dear Dr. Spock: Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor by Michael S. Foley 9780814727447
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £12.29At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's pediatrician and a high-profile opponent of the war. Personal and heartfelt, thoughtful... -
Class Divide: Yale '64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties by Howard Gillette 9780801453656
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22Members of the Yale College class of 1964-the first class to matriculate in the 1960s-were poised to take up the positions of leadership that typically followed an Ivy League education. Their mission... -
From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs by Joshua Davis
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts-including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers-brought the work of the New Left, Black Power,... -
Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy by Alex Cummings 9780231184908
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina's low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh,... -
Counterculture Green: The 'Whole Earth Catalog' and American Environmentalism by Andrew G. Kirk 9780700618217
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21For those who eagerly awaited its periodic appearance, it was more than a publication: it was a way of life. The Whole Earth Catalog billed itself as "Access to Tools," and it grew from a Bay Area... -
The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump by James Morton Turner
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party's tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency,... -
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, 25th anniversary edition Mary L. Dudziak 9780691274348
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.30A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold WarIn 1958, an African American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was... -
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, 25th anniversary edition Mary L. Dudziak 9780691274324
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold WarIn 1958, an African American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was... -
A Time to Stir: Columbia '68 by Paul Cronin 9780231182751
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the... -
In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime by Michael W. Flamm 9780812248500
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes...