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Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.67Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and... -
The Last Million by David Nasaw
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110996Author David NasawFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher... -
Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements by David Nasaw 9780674356221
Booksplease Price: £34.90David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons,... -
Children of the City: At Work and at Play by Professor of History David Nasaw
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345802972Author David NasawFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
Booksplease Price: £13.37In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on... -
The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II by David Nasaw 9780593298695
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593298695Author David NasawFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin... -
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by Professor of History David Nasaw 9780618154463
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lukas Prize Project (Nonfiction) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780618154463Author Professor of History David... -
Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States by David Nasaw 9780195028928
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195028928Author David NasawFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher... -
American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune by Greg Steinmetz 9781982107413
Booksplease Price: £15.84A gripping, "rollicking" (John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood) biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and... -
The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York by Robert W. Snyder 9781566632980
Booksplease Price: £16.98This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of... -
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 by Timothy J. Gilfoyle 9780393311082
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.03Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize.About the AuthorTimothy J. Gilfoyle is an acclaimed historian... -
Playing with History: American Identities and Children's Consumer Culture by Molly Rosner
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Since the advent of the American toy industry, children's cultural products have attempted to teach and sell ideas of American identity. By examining cultural products geared towards teaching... -
The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression by Susan Currell
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In The March of Spare Time, Susan Currell explores how and why leisure became an object of such intense interest, concern, and surveillance during the Great Depression. As Americans experienced... -
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Jia Lynn Yang
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants has been at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a law that choked off large-scale immigration for decades,... -
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence by Joseph Berger
Booksplease Price: £21.69An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category "An... -
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence Joseph Berger 9780300281835
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category "An... -
Cheap Amusements by Kathy Peiss
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working... -
City of Fortune: Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York Mason B. Williams 9780393292855
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.93Postwar New York City famously expired in a 1970s tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." From its ashes the city... -
None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Lawrence Cappello 9780226819952
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Capello investigates why we've been so blithe about giving up our privacy and all the opportunities we've had along the way to rein it in. Every day, Americans surrender their private information to... -
New York, Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis by Jeffrey A. Kroessler 9780814747513
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Winner, The New York Public Library, Best of Reference Award, 2002 A year by year reference work painting the colorful history of New York City If any city deserves a complete chronology, it is... -
The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements by Woody Register 9780195167320
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.59A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment... -
Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television Peter Biskind 9780141992754
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows we watch - and the ways we watch them - have been transformed over the past fifty years. Out of the bland wasteland... -
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City by Evan Friss 9780231182577
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York's streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the... -
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City by Evan Friss
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York's streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the... -
The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling by Natalie Robins
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.32Throughout her life, Diana Trilling (1905-1996) wrote about profound social changes with candor and wisdom, first for The Nation and later for Partisan Review, Harpers, and such popular magazines as... -
The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants by Adam Goodman 9780691182155
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.12The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' livesConstant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and... -
Allies Against Two Evils: Georgian POWs in Wwii's Bergmann Units and the Quest to Liberate the Caucasus from Russian Imperialism 9781954600249
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £24.80An eye-witness account of the Russian/European conflict at the heart of WWII, relevant today as war rages again along similar battle lines in Ukraine, Crimea and the Caucasus.In a corner of... -
Allies Against Two Evils: World War II, The Bergmann Unit's Georgian POWs and the Quest to Liberate the Caucasus from Russian Imperialism by Givi Gabliani 9781954600911
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.75An eye-witness account of the Russian/European conflict at the heart of WWII, relevant today as war rages again along similar battle lines in Ukraine, Crimea and the Caucasus.In a corner of... -
The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants by Adam Goodman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' livesConstant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and... -
The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s by Evan Friss
Booksplease Price: £26.68Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of... -
Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans Julia Guarneri 9780226758329
Booksplease Price: £24.80At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spectacular newspapers Americans had ever read. ... -
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment by Brad Snyder 9781324004875
Booksplease Price: £37.89The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter-Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice-is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed... -
Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television by Peter Biskind 9780241443903
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom The Sopranos to streaming: the scandalous behind-the-screens story of the TV revolution by the author of the cult film classic Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.The... -
Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys by Vincent DiGirolamo
Booksplease Price: £86.54From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know... -
Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys by Associate Professor of History Vincent Digirolamo
Booksplease Price: £34.19From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know... -
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust by Richard Hurowitz 9780063037236
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.88"In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked... -
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Richard Hurowitz 9780063037243
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86"In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked... -
The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order by David Levering Lewis 9780871404572
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.09In the wake of one of the most tumultuous Republican conventions ever, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and former Democrat who could have saved America's sclerotic... -
Babysitter: An American History by Miriam Forman-Brunell 9780814727591
Booksplease Price: £90.87On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together-without the kids. But "getting a sitter"-especially a dependable one-rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with "that... -
Babysitter: An American History by Miriam Forman-Brunell 9780814728956
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together-without the kids. But "getting a sitter"-especially a dependable one-rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with "that...