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America at 250

Books on American history are discounted 30%-50%, featuring titles on political corruption, colonial violence, and the heroic movements that have struggled against the empire.

2 July 2026

America at 250

Two Hundred and Fifty years of a nation founded on plunder, and plunder it has - despite the efforts of those who stood in its way. The best among us, of which there are many, are those who have strived to slow the gears or struggled for dignity. 

Here, we present books featuring the best and worst of 250 years of The United States of America.

We've discounted crucial texts on American history between 30%-50% through the weekend. Shop the selected titles below.

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  • War and Money

    War and Money

    by Maurizio Lazzarato

    Translated by Jason Francis McGimsey

    Maurizio Lazzarato’s War and Money explores the connections between capitalist expansion, international economic conflict, and war, via an analysis of the imperialism of the American dollar. He exa...
  • Homeland

    Homeland

    by Richard Beck

    For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas, Americans found themselves living in two worl...
    Hardback

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  • America

    America

    by Jean Baudrillard

    Introduction by Geoff Dyer

    Translated by Chris Turner

    From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night—”a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity”—Baudrillard mixes aperçus and observations with a wicked sense of f...
  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs

    by Noah Van Sciver

    Contributions by Paul Buhle, Steve Max and Dave Nance

    Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped to pioneer a fighting union politics that organized all workers, and...
    Paperback

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  • Marxism in the United States

    Marxism in the United States

    by Paul Buhle

    A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this overview of U.S. Marxism was hailed on its first publication for its nuanced storytelling, balance and incredible sweep.Brimming over with archival fi...
    Paperback (2013)

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  • The American Crucible

    The American Crucible

    by Robin Blackburn

    For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this “peculiar institution” an...
    Paperback

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  • The Muslims Are Coming!

    The Muslims Are Coming!

    by Arun Kundnani

    The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United Stat...
    Paperback

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  • American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

    American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

    by Perry Anderson

    Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the dive...
    Paperback

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  • Redemption Song

    Redemption Song

    by Mike Marqusee

    Foreword by Dave Zirin

    When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. In Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee argues that Ali was not just a boxer but a remarkable political fi...
  • The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

    The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

    by Seymour M. Hersh

    In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating atta...
    Paperback

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  • Wobblies!

    Wobblies!

    Contributions by Mike Alewitz, Sue Coe, Sabrina Jones, Peter Kuper, Harvey Pekar, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez and Seth Tobocman

    Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman

    The stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl” of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and t...
    Paperback

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  • Empire of Capital

    Empire of Capital

    by Ellen Meiksins Wood

    Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony...
    Paperback

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  • Afflicted Powers

    Afflicted Powers

    by Iain A. Boal, T. J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts

    Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the presentits lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. The world c...
    Paperback

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  • Incoherent Empire

    Incoherent Empire

    by Michael Mann

    In this book, noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the “new American imperialism” is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the economic, political, military and ideological resources availabl...
    Paperback

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  • The Rights of Man and Common Sense

    The Rights of Man and Common Sense

    by Thomas Paine

    Introduction by Peter Linebaugh

    Edited by Jessica Kimpell

    Published to commemorate the bicentennial of Thomas Paine’s death, these texts have remained two of the most influential arguments for liberty in political thought. Common Sense is a pamphlet that ...
    Paperback

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  • The Contours of American History

    The Contours of American History

    by William Appleman Williams

    Introduction by Greg Grandin

    William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to ...
    Paperback

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  • No God But Gain

    No God But Gain

    by Stephen Chambers

    From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and as many as 100 million Africans died as a result of the slave trade. The U.S. constitution set a 20-yea...
    Paperback

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  • Lockdown America

    Lockdown America

    by Christian Parenti

    Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization...
    Paperback (2008)

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  • Age of Folly

    Age of Folly

    by Lewis H. Lapham

    In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. The self-glorifying march of folly steps off at the end of the Cold War, in an era when delusions ...
    Paperback

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