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1.		The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream from Canongate Books Price: £4.04 Customer Review: "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" is Barack Obama's second book, and it is his personal view of the direction that the United States needs to move in terms of the type of politics we practice. It is not a look at whether one should be liberal or conservative--though... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		The American Future: A History from The Bodley Head Ltd Price: £11.00 Customer Review: This book is for those of you who like history as a sweep of events and with interlocking sections that you have to piece together to get your overall picture. Although this makes reference to the current election I think its only because I think the author sees the two candidates as potentially the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The Great Crash, 1929 (Penguin business) from Penguin Price: £6.99 Customer Review: John Kenneth Galbraith's classic study of the 1929 Wall Street crash is an exhilarating read. Galbraith combines a fluent, witty style with a detailed breakdown of the build up to disaster, It is interesting to note how most of the experts - journalists, academics, businessmen, bankers and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties from Atlantic Books Price: £11.99	Click here for more information

5.		Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Arena Books) from Vintage Price: £6.99 Customer Review: A fantastic book which everybody should read - we owe it to the people who were wiped out. They lost their lives, but the world lost as much - a brilliant culture and people who really appreciated nature and showed enormous wisdom and magnanimity. In the short time they were allowed to survive... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		The Penguin History of the United States of America from Penguin Price: £10.49 Customer Review: THIS AUTHOR IS A LECTURER IN U.S HISTORY, WELL....I WOULD NOT LIKE TO BE SAT IN A LECTURE THEATER FOR 4 YEARS LISTENING TO THIS DULLARD! WHAT A CRASHING BORE ! The author obviously has some kind of talent because somehow Hugh Brogan has managed to make the perenially exciting History of the most... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Social Contract (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) from Wordsworth Editions Ltd Price: £3.99 Customer Review: This book is a work of genius for the whole, exquisitely written it offers wisdom on most pages and nonsense on the others. It's been a very long time since I learnt such a large amount, the language has a poetic beauty to it and anybody interested in governance should read this. The thesis of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		1421: The Year China Discovered the World from Bantam Books Price: £6.94 Customer Review: There is such a thing as a work of fantasy. This is book is just that. No evidence whatsoever. No proof. No circumstantial evidence. Pure tosh from start to finish. This is no more history than books on Atlantis are history. Do youselves a favour - if Sino-European history interests you, buy a... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Letter from America: 1946-2004 from Penguin Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Its not too much of an exageration to say that this book is an oversight of 20th century usa. Alistair Cooke's letter is something i came too only a few years before his death and this book goes through from the 40s right until his last letter. The quality of writing is superb of a man at the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Letter from America (Radio Collection) from BBC Audiobooks Ltd Price: £38.50 Customer Review: Its not too much of an exageration to say that this book is an oversight of 20th century usa. Alistair Cooke's letter is something i came too only a few years before his death and this book goes through from the 40s right until his last letter. The quality of writing is superb of a man at the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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