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Being Nixon by Evan Thomas
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812985412Author Evan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint -
First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Evan Thomas
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589300Author Evan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA by Evan Thomas 9781416537977
Booksplease Price: $19.34The four men who ran covert operations for the CIA during the early years were known as the "clique". They came from an elite class that believed it was their duty in life to run the world; it was... -
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas 9780743258043
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743258043Author Evan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9780593743874
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $23.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9781783967292
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Evan Thomas 9781783967971
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.73‘Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant’ Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb… Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of... -
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward 9781471156519
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide... -
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward 9781501116452
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501116452Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint < -
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan A. Thomas 9780316004121
Booksplease Price: $19.96On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, newspapers such as Hearst's New York Journal whipped up a frenzy,... -
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal by John B. Lundstrom 9781591144199
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $34.73This is the first paperback edition of the revisionist work about Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion. A surface warrior, Fletcher led the... -
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis 9781324036159
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.14A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx.About the AuthorJoseph J... -
George Marshall: A Biography by Debi Unger 9780062385796
Booksplease Price: $17.83"Elegant and iconoclastic ...refreshing ...persuasive."-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Here is the first biography to offer a complete picture of the life of George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U... -
Eisenhower's Bluff: The Secret Battle Against Nuclear Annihilation of the World by Evan A. Thomas 9781908096944
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.57When General Eisenhower assumed the US presidency in 1953 the world entered the nuclear age and certainly Winston Churchill thought that Eisenhower would soon lead the US into another war. Based on... -
Tiger Torn by Keith Lowell Jensen 9781955904100
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95When you bring home a cat, and that cat turns out to be a tiger, what do you do? Well, you find that tiger a job, that's what. With best friend Max at his side, a tiger named Tiger embarks on the... -
The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy Volumes IV-VI: The Winds of Change: October 29, 1962 - February 7, 1963 David Coleman 9780393081244
RRP: $153.50Booksplease Price: $131.43This volume continues the ambitious project, undertaken by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, to transcribe and annotate secretly recorded White House tapes. The tapes presented here... -
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson 9781476728827
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $21.96The Wise Men introduces the original brightest and best, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's... -
Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence by George C. Daughan 9780393354140
Booksplease Price: $19.92No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City and its surroundings. Military leaders of the time-and generations of scholars since-believed that the... -
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day Garrett M. Graff 9781800962194
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA LANDMARK NEW ACCOUNT OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF WW2, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IT**** 'Comprehensive... from a large and wide range of witnesses on... -
Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years by Keith D. McFarland
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.73"Without question this is an important new addition to World War II and Cold War historiography. . . . Highly recommended." -Douglas Brinkley, author of Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years and The... -
The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University by John McPhee 9780691143088
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $52.54From a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, The Princeton Reader brings together more than 90 favorite essays by 75... -
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson 9780349140438
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $9.68'This is a riveting book, with as much to say about the transformation of modern life in the information age as about its supernaturally gifted and driven subject' - Telegraph Based on more than... -
Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House by Robert Dallek 9780062065858
Booksplease Price: $17.26Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls "Kennedy's leading biographer," delivers a riveting new portrait of this... -
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian W. Toll 9780393353204
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.81This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War-the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944-when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's... -
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott 9780393352276
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.50On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan's factories,... -
Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence by George C. Daughan 9780393245721
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.41No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City, the Hudson River, and the surrounding counties. Political and military leaders on both sides viewed the... -
Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack by John Wukovits 9780306824548
Booksplease Price: $18.06On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey heroically withstood twenty-two kamikaze attacks at Okinawa in what the US Navy called "one of the great sea epics of the war." Using scores of... -
Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 by Irwin F. Gellman 9780300271003
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.76Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth century's closest election "[Gellman] offers as detailed an exploration of the 1960 presidential race as can be... -
Charles: The Misunderstood Prince. 'The royal biography everyone's talking about' The Daily Mail by Sally Bedell Smith
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Heir. Prince. King. Discover the real Charles - our King - in the definitive biography from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen 'Brilliant, startling. The royal biography everyone's talking... -
The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 Luke A. Nichter 9780300280135
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.37The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics "The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths... -
Peace Works: America's Unifying Role in a Turbulent World by Frederick D. Barton 9781538113004
Booksplease Price: $53.21Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria - a quarter-century of stumbles in America's pursuit of a more peaceful and just world. American military interventions have cost thousands of... -
Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan by Donald T. Critchlow 9780812249774
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $82.95"Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in... -
The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan 9780393356861
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.03At the end of World War II, General George Marshall took on what he thought was a final mission-this time not to win a war, but to stop one. In China, conflict between Communists and Nationalists... -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.99In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier... -
A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau by Rosemary Stevens 9781421421308
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $27.31In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded a huge new organization to treat disabled veterans: the US Veterans Bureau, now known as the... -
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan 9780300276770
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.18A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be... -
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott 9780393089622
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.12In December 1941, as American forces counted the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military counsellors were planning a counterstrike against Tokyo. The secret bombing... -
Twilight of Camelot: The Short Life and Long Legacy of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy Steven Levingston 9781668033166
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38From the author of the "insightful and well-crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) Kennedy and King comes a heart-wrenching and sensitive examination of the tragic loss of President John F. Kennedy and... -
The Devil's Causeway: The True Story of America's First Prisoners of War in the Philippines, and the Heroic Expedition Sent to Their Rescue by Matthew Westfall 9780762788453
Booksplease Price: $21.19As the United States engaged in a bloody campaign to pacify its newly-won Philippines territory, a secret American mission went terribly wrong, resulting in a prisoner-of-war incident that... -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll 9780393080650
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $39.87In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier...