United States - 20th Century
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Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana
$47.93 Add to cartHistory is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their … [more below]
- Author: Leogrande, William M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1469626608
- Language: English
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Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World
$22.95 Add to cartOn the eve of World War II, news of an astonishing breakthrough filtered out of Germany. Scientists there had split uranium atoms. Researchers in the United States scrambled to verify results and furt
- Author: Williams, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0874223075
- Language: English
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
$22.99 Add to cartGail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women’s lives over the past 50 years, with her usual “sly wit and unfussy style” (People).
When Eve- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0316014044
- Language: English
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Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
$17.00 Add to cart“A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips–before portable DVD players, smartphone… [more below]
- Author: Ratay, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1501188755
- Language: English
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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
$20.00 Add to cartFew stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.
Dubbed the Hippie Mafia, the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a smal- Author: Schou, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0312607172
- Language: English
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The Wit & Wisdom of FDR
$13.99 Add to cartIn Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, the premier collection of noted sayings, Mark Twain is the only American with more citations under his name than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was the greatest raco
- Author: Humes, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231487
- Language: English
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Since Yesterday: The 1930’s in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
$19.99 Add to cart“Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession.”–… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 16 1986
- ISBN10: 0060913223
- Language: English
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The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
$20.99 Add to cartThe civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively ch… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Thomas C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0197525792
- Language: English
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
$31.99 Add to cartNo other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the … [more below]
- Author: Fursenko, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317900
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Detail: Jfk’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
$20.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as told by the Secret Service agents who
- Author: Blaine, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 1439192995
- Language: English
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The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream (Updated Edition)
$16.95 Add to cartMartin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement and remains a beacon i
- Author: Younge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599603
- Language: English
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The Fifties
$22.00 Add to cartThe Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of … [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: May 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0449909336
- Language: English
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
$19.99 Add to cartA thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power.
When the Cold War- Author: Bacevich, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250787637
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
$21.99 Add to cartIn The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation’s most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Deale
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0060936428
- Language: English
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
$21.99 Add to cart“An extraordinary history…Deeply researched, elegantly written…a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.”–Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review
“[This] epic, meticulously detaile
- Author: Michaeli, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1328470245
- Language: English
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American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
$20.00 Add to cartOne of Publishers Weekly’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
The riveting true story of America’s first homegrown Muslim terror attack, the 1977 Hanafi siege of- Author: Mufti, Shahan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872634
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis
$34.99 Add to cart“[A] splendid achievement, as powerful and exciting a book as one is likely to read this year….”–Barry Gewen, New York Times Book Review
“Gripping history.”–Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal
“[M
- Author: May, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 572
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0393322599
- Language: English
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
$22.00 Add to cartA brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinkin… [more below]
- Author: Okrent, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 074327704X
- Language: English
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
$16.95 Add to cartIn The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the “cultural revolution” of the 1960s and ’70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our inn… [more below]
- Author: Kimball, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1893554309
- Language: English
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard–Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the Gold Medal for Memoir/Biography from the Military Writers Society of America
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “A whale of a tale, told clearly and quickly. I read the entire- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 133501666X
- Language: English
