United States - 20th Century
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
$17.95 Read moreProhibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to r
- Author: McGirr, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353524
- Language: English
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Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives
$22.00 Read moreThe variety of LGBTQ life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives has striven to do just that, amassing a wea… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2020
- ISBN10: 022672753X
- Language: English
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The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson
$19.95 Read moreAn intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors.
Horace Busby was one of LBJ’s most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship- Author: Busby, Horace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1477327479
- Language: English
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
$18.95 Read moreExtraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically c… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494929
- Language: English
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
$17.95 Read moreIn this “penetrating new analysis” (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs
- Author: Katznelson, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328511
- Language: English
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
$19.00 Read more*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*
“Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self… [more below]- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 030794817X
- Language: English
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Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
$21.99 Add to cartThe incredible story of one of America’s most publicized–and surprising–criminal trials in history.
No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of P- Author: Abrams, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1335469524
- Language: English
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Campus to Counter
$30.00 Read moreCAMPUS TO COUNTER analyzes civil rights activism in North Carolina in the early 1960s, especially among students at Shaw University, Saint Augustine’s College, and North Carolina College at Durham. Th… [more below]
- Series: America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Author: Suttell, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0881468770
- Language: English
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A Nation of Immigrants
$15.99 Read more“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leader
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062859692
- Language: English
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Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
$32.00 Add to cartThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation’s cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight
Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities.- Author: Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541697243
- Language: English
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The Untold History of the United States
$25.00 Read more“Indispensable…There is much here to reflect upon.” –President Mikhail Gorbachev
“As riveting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking as any history book you will ever read…Can’t recommend it highly- Author: Stone, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1982102535
- Language: English
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
$18.00 Add to cartExplores the distinctive instruments of American ascent to global domination and hegemony–including covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and surveillance.
- Series: Dispatch Books
- Author: McCoy, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 359
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467732
- Language: English
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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“A revealing look at life inside the White House. . . it’s Downton Abbey for the White House staff.”— The Today Show
A remarkable history with elements of both In the Presi
- Author: Brower, Kate Andersen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0062305204
- Language: English
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Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The Cia’s Murderous Targeting of Sds, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists
$24.95 Add to cartDrugs as Weapons Against Us meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to form an American oligarchy and eventually achieved global dominance. This oligarchy helped fund the N
- Author: Potash, John L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1937584925
- Language: English
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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War
$15.95 Add to cartThe term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.
But this diverts attention from the U.S. role- Author: Boullosa, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1944869123
- Language: English
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
$38.00 Read moreThe New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022
Named one of Vanity Fair‘s “Best Books of 2022“
“Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of hi- Author: Kirchick, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1627792325
- Language: English
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Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America
$28.00 Read moreThe first book to examine the rarely-acknowledged Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 – the catastrophic accident that changed America forever and led to the formation of FEMA. Coinciding with the 45th ann… [more below]
- Author: Ali, Yasmine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542187
- Language: English
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No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
$29.99 Add to cartDeeply troubled by the Constitution’s inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is res
- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091584
- Language: English
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Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People
$34.95 Add to cart- Author: Watts, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 477
- Publish Date: August 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1108495931
- Language: English
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The Truth about Watergate: A Tale of Extraordinary Lies & Liars
$24.95 Read moreA delusion is a strong belief or conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. The Watergate delusion, embraced by millions, is that swashbuckling Bob Woodward and the left confronted the male… [more below]
- Author: Bryant, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1634244281
- Language: English
