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Nixon by Iwan Morgan 9780340760321
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book examines Richard Nixon within the context of the emerging revisionism that his place in history should not be defined entirely by Watergate. It assesses his many achievements and explains... -
Reagan by Iwan Morgan 9781780767475
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £45.99Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s, laying... -
Reagan: An American Icon by Iwan Morgan
Booksplease Price: £21.88Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s, laying... -
Broken Government? by Iwan Morgan 9781908857026
Booksplease Price: £28.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908857026Author Iwan MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Institute for Latin American... -
FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America by Iwan Morgan
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.66One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and African American voters that underwrote the Democratic Party's national... -
Quebec and the Heritage of Franco-America by Iwan Morgan 9781900039987
Booksplease Price: £11.29This book marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec. It consists of six essays by a team of contributors drawn from Quebec, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. The book... -
FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America by Iwan Morgan 9781350447950
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.65'[A] superb study of the way FDR successfully created a presidency that could renew America' - Times Literary Supplement One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a... -
The Federal Nation: Perspectives on American Federalism by Iwan Morgan 9780230609402
Booksplease Price: £46.28This volume gathers contributors from both the US and UK to provide a comparative examination of federalism in the Bush era, a period of huge change in national politics, but also one of significant... -
The Presidential Image: A History from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump by Iwan Morgan
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.67Presidential Image has become an integral part of the campaign, presidency and legacy of Modern American presidents. Across the 20th century to the age of Trump, presidential image has dominated... -
The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered: American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era by Iwan Morgan 9780813054261
Booksplease Price: £80.95Confronting Godfrey Hodgson's long-standing theory that a "liberal consensus" shaped the United States after World War II, this volume finds that although elite politicians from both... -
Right On?: Political Change and Continuity in George W. Bush's America by Iwan Morgan 9781900039697
Booksplease Price: £28.57George W. Bush is widely regarded as a president of transformative significance. This volume analyzes the ambitious but controversial agenda that he has pursued at home and abroad. The contributors... -
The Presidential Image: A History from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump by Iwan Morgan 9781788313599
Booksplease Price: £86.43Presidential Image has become an integral part of the campaign, presidency and legacy of Modern American presidents. Across the 20th century to the age of Trump, presidential image has dominated... -
Right On?: Political Change and Continuity in George W. Bush's America by Iwan Morgan 9781900039635
Booksplease Price: £75.81George W. Bush is widely regarded as a president of transformative significance. This volume analyzes the ambitious but controversial agenda that he has pursued at home and abroad. The contributors... -
Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s by Iwan Morgan 9780748699926
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £94.85In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many... -
Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s Iwan Morgan 9781474431927
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.48Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930sIn the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing... -
From Sit-Ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s by Iwan Morgan 9780813049595
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56The contributors provide provocative analyses of such topics as the dynamics of grassroots student civil rights activism, the organizational and cultural changes within SNCC, the impact of the... -
The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush by Iwan Morgan 9780700616855
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £33.79The debate over the federal budget - and the deficit spending it tends to produce - has assumed a renewed urgency for reasons that are painfully clear to all of us. Over the past thirty-two years -... -
European Politics 1815–1848 Frederick C. Schneid 9781032920153
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The three intervening decades between the Congress of Vienna and the Revolutions of 1848 are marked by enormous social, political, economic and cultural change. Liberalism, nationalism, romanticism... -
The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered: American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era by Robert Mason 9780813064444
Booksplease Price: £27.46Here, leading scholars-including Hodgson himself-confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essays draw on fresh research to examine... -
Assessing George W. Bush's Legacy: The Right Man? by Iwan W. Morgan 9781349291342
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book examines the legacy of the Bush presidency in term of presidential leadership, politics, and public policy. It focuses on Bush's expansion of presidential power in pursuit of the 'war on... -
Assessing George W. Bush's Legacy: The Right Man? by Iwan W. Morgan 9780230108585
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book examines the legacy of the Bush presidency in term of presidential leadership, politics, and public policy. It focuses on Bush's expansion of presidential power in pursuit of the 'war on... -
Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy by Robert R. Bowie 9780195140484
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £32.01Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's 'New Look' programme of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War... -
The Political Economy of the Public Budget in the Americas by Diego Sanchez-Ancochea 9781900039949
Booksplease Price: £33.49This volume provides a multidisciplinary comparison of fiscal and tax policies in Latin America and the United States by political economy specialists from Latin America, the U.S., and Europe. The... -
Eisenhower by P G. Boyle 9780582287204
Booksplease Price: £59.77Eisenhower is the president who established America as a superpower. He had already launched his reputation as the leading US military figure in the Second World War and then as supreme commander of... -
Jimmy Carter in the White House: A Captain with No Compass by Robert K. Green 9781350352902
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.58This fresh examination of Carter's presidency (1977-1981), the first in over twenty years, sheds new light on his time in office, reflecting on his domestic record, his key policies on the economy,... -
The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change by Edward Ashbee 9783319410326
Booksplease Price: £110.96This edited volume considers the extent to which the Obama presidency matched the promises of hope and change that were held out in the 2008 election. Contributors assess the character of "change"... -
The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism by Ian Scott
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.63This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. From early productions like Platoon (1986) and Wall Street... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White 9781441161864
Booksplease Price: £34.52During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World... -
Politics USA Robert J. McKeever 9781408204504
Booksplease Price: £42.38Politics USA is a lively and authoritative introduction to American politics, giving students a rich and varied resource for all aspects of their course. The book provides expert and comprehensive... -
Shakespeare and Politics: What a Sixteenth-Century Playwright Can Tell Us about Twenty-First-Century Politics Bruce E. Altschuler 9781612051598
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08William Shakespeare, more than any other author, was able to capture the essence of human nature in all its manifestations. His political plays offer enduring insights into our humanity, our vanity,... -
Eisenhower and the Cold War Economy by William M. McClenahan
Booksplease Price: £48.56Throughout his two-term presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower faced the challenge of managing a period of peacetime prosperity after more than two decades of depression, war, and postwar inflation. The... -
Former Leaders in Modern Democracies: Political Sunsets by Kevin Theakston 9780230314474
Booksplease Price: £46.28What comes next for a former leader in a democracy - a Prime Minister or President obliged to leave office because they have lost an election, come to the end of their constitutionally-fixed term,... -
The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies by William H. Chafe
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £98.05The New Deal established the contours and character of modern American democracy. It created an anchor and a reference point for American liberal politics through the struggles for racial, gender,... -
The American Right After Reagan by Edward Ashbee
Booksplease Price: £105.00This timely and significant book provides a comprehensive overview of right-wing ideology and policy-making in the years since Ronald Reagan left office, and an explanation of the reasons why the... -
Creative Destruction: How to Start an Economic Renaissance by Phil Mullan 9781447336112
Booksplease Price: £15.84Western economies have become stuck in a protracted depression that began long before the 2008 crash. Low productivity, which started in the 1970s, has prevented durable rises in living standards. ... -
The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism by Ian Scott 9781526108715
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. From early productions like Platoon (1986) and Wall Street... -
Presidential Healthcare Reform Rhetoric: Continuity, Change & Contested Values from Truman to Obama by Noam Schimmel 9783319329598
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the four Democratic presidents, Truman, Johnson, Clinton and Obama, who tried to expand access to and affordability of healthcare in the... -
Icon, Libertine, Leader: The Life and Presidency of John. F. Kennedy Mark White 9781350426115
Booksplease Price: £66.27This new biography of JFK offers a comprehensive analysis of the man, the leader, and the cultural icon. Mark White, the leading authority in Britain on JFK, draws on more than 30 years of research... -
Icon, Libertine, Leader: The Life and Presidency of John. F. Kennedy Mark White 9781350426122
Booksplease Price: £28.85This new biography of JFK offers a comprehensive analysis of the man, the leader, and the cultural icon. Mark White, the leading authority in Britain on JFK, draws on more than 30 years of research...