United States - 20th Century
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The Best and the Brightest
$25.00 Read moreDavid Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
“A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”–The New- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0449908704
- Language: English
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
$28.00 Add to cartIn Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: November 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671687425
- Language: English
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
$23.00 Add to cartThe first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.
Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestse- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0743250451
- Language: English
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
$37.50 Add to cartThe vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner–creator of one of America’s most stunning museums–an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabell
- Author: Dykstra, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1328515753
- Language: English
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When Winter Came: A Country Doctor’s Journey to Fight the Flu Pandemic of 1918
$21.99 Add to cartMaintain isolation – practice good hygiene – wear a mask – be kind. We all know these methods of fighting COVID-19, but this prescription comes from the 1918 experience of Dr. Pierre Sartor, who battl… [more below]
- Author: Sartor Obermeyer, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1945564156
- Language: English
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to d… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1982129158
- Language: English
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
$22.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscien… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0618127496
- Language: English
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
$24.99 Add to cartFrom former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America’s repeated failure to stop genocides aroun… [more below]
- Author: Power, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: December 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0465061516
- Language: English
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
$32.57 Add to cart“Powerful and important . . . an instant classic.”
The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, re
—The Washington Post Book World- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974347
- Language: English
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Empire’s Workshop (Updated and Expanded Edition): Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic
$19.99 Add to cart“A pathbreaking work about how policies forged in blood and fire in Latin America were then exported to every corner of the globe. This brilliant and up-to-the-minute new edition is absolutely crucial
- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1250753295
- Language: English
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
$23.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s rac
- Author: Brinkley, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062655078
- Language: English
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The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize
Winner of the C. L. R. James Award
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A ProMarket Best Politi- Author: Winant, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292197
- Language: English
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
$18.00 Add to cartCombining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jer… [more below]
- Author: Capuzzo, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 21 2002
- ISBN10: 0767904141
- Language: English
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
$26.00 Add to cart“Perlstein…aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times
“Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of mo- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 074324303X
- Language: English
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Tribal Laws, Treaties, and Government: A Lakota Perspective
$13.95 Add to cartOglala Chief Red Cloud is quoted as saying, “The white man made many promises to us, but he kept only one; he promised to take our land and he took it.”
Initially the method of taking Indian land was
- Author: Lee, Patrick A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1475986866
- Language: English
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The Twentieth Century: A People’s History
$19.99 Add to cart“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history….[His] chapter on Vietnam–bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, mass
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0060530340
- Language: English
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The Great Depression: A Diary
$19.99 Add to cartWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set dow… [more below]
- Author: Roth, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31, 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489011
- Language: English
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The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story
$23.00 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century
Their names ar- Author: Williams, John Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1250867169
- Language: English
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My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
$18.99 Add to cartI think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely. . . . She’s perfect for us as we enter the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roose… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 8, 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810107
- Language: English
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The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America
$30.00 Read moreA gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s
“Excellent and exhaustive.”–Colin Dickey, Slate In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill- Author: Bowman, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300251386
- Language: English
