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Dwight D Eisenhower by Tom Wicker 9780805069075
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069075Author Tom WickerFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times... -
A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt Tom Wicker 9781608462155
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.31In September 1971 the inmates of Attica prison revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. At the outset the rebels demanded-and were granted-the... -
JFK and LBJ: The Influence of Personality Upon Politics by Tom Wicker 9780929587592
Booksplease Price: €16.95In JFK and LBJ one of our most astute political observers examines two important events of the 1960s: why John F. Kennedy, the popular president, failed to push his legislative program through... -
The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives by Bryant Simon 9781469660264
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap... -
JFK: The Book of the Film by Oliver Stone 9781557831279
Booksplease Price: €20.24A documented screenplay of the Oliver Stone film complete with historical annotation with 340 research notes and 97 reactions and commentaries by Norman Mailer Tom Wicker Gerald R. Ford and many... -
Thomas Jefferson: Selected Writings: A Library of America Paperback Classic by Thomas Jefferson
RRP: €16.60Booksplease Price: €11.60Thomas Jefferson defined, at the moment of our nation's birth, the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style,... -
Discovering North Carolina: A Tar Heel Reader by William Price 9780807844342
Booksplease Price: €35.77This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers,... -
Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now by Alexander Bloom 9780195125153
Booksplease Price: €50.47This book examines the gulf between the history and mythology that has grown up around different aspects of the Sixties, ranging from the counterculture to gay rights to the student and women's... -
Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Uses of Power by Bernard J. Firestone 9780313263958
Booksplease Price: €91.40The papers were, by and large, of good quality, but two are worthy of particular attention. Michael Riccards's Failure of Nerve: How the Liberals Killed Liberalism and Robert D. Loevy's To Write It... -
War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II by G. S. Boritt 9780195088458
RRP: €43.42Booksplease Price: €37.95BL The first direct comparison of America's participation in its two most significant wars - the Civil War and World War II A group of prominent historians provide an illuminating comparison of... -
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio 9780226142692
RRP: €27.97Booksplease Price: €24.89A biographical tour de force on one of the 20th century's bravest civil rights champions. Critically heralded American historian D'Emilio brings Bayard Rustin out of the shadows of the past to tell... -
Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator by Leon Friedman 9780313276538
Booksplease Price: €91.40This timely compilation of papers was originally presented at the 1987 Hofstra University Conference on the Nixon Presidency. Bringing together noted Nixon scholars, including Stephen Ambrose, Tom... -
Playing with Grown Ups by Hannah Patterson 9781472530691
Booksplease Price: €16.95That's the problem isn't it? Now we can have it all, we're expected to bloody do it all.Late thirties, careers under their belts, and a new baby just arrived. Isn't that what everybody wants? Faced... -
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €21.85In 1976, at age twenty-five, Stephen Kinzer arrived in Nicaragua as a freelance journalist-and became a witness to history. He returned many times during the years that followed, becoming Latin... -
Managing Crisis: Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment by Robert E. Gilbert 9780823220878
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €30.39In Managing Crisis: Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, the contributors explore not only the historical beginnings and the subsequent development of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment,... -
Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg by T. Wells 9780230619791
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €34.07On September 4, 1971, the office of Lewis Fielding, a psychiatrist practicing in Los Angeles, was broken into. It looked like a run of the mill drug raid. A month later, a homeless man was charged...