United States - 20th Century
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Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson
$33.99 Add to cartA compelling narrative of the trials and triumphs of tennis champion Althea Gibson, a key figure in the integration of American sports and, for a time, one of the most famous women in the world.
From- Author: Brown, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0197551750
- Language: English
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A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
$42.00 Add to cartHow the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right
When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poi- Series: Politics and Society in Modern America #155
- Author: Lichtenstein, Nelson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245509
- Language: English
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Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences
$32.99 Add to cartStartling new insights into the JFK assassination
In Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and fami- Author: Roth, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1510775439
- Language: English
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Missis… [more below]
- Author: Barry, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0684840022
- Language: English
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
$25.00 Add to cartA leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics
● A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Priz- Series: Henry L. Stimson Lectures
- Author: Sarotte, M. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268033
- Language: English
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in… [more below]
- Author: Abbott, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0451498631
- Language: English
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Behind the Scenes: Covering the JFK Assassination
$29.95 Read moreOn November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F. … [more below]
- Author: Payne, Darwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1574419110
- Language: English
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Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States
$20.99 Add to cart- Author: Hart, Bradley W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 2, 2018
- ISBN10: 1250871883
- Language: English
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America’s World War II Concentration Camps
$32.00 Add to cartIt is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas–and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Eric L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673975
- Language: English
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The Wee Wah Beach Club in Tuxedo Park: An American Story of Social Change
$26.99 Add to cartAmericans have always had a fascination with the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Perhaps you have watched “The Gilded Age” series on HBO by Julien Fellows reliving the life of the socially rich and
- Author: McGregor, Stuart J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: January 15, 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218259969
- Language: English
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Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
$21.00 Add to cartChristopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression… [more below]
- Author: Knowlton, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982128380
- Language: English
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Crooked: The Roaring ’20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scan
$30.00 Add to cartThe riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down
Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime- Author: Masters, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0306826135
- Language: English
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
$30.00 Add to cartIf the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?
In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice P
- Author: Burnham, Margaret A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867854
- Language: English
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V Is for Victory: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II
$32.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023
“Belongs in the library alongside the histories and biographies of Martin Gilbert, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and David McCullough.” –Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times best- Author: Nelson, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982122919
- Language: English
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Profiles in Courage
$18.99 Add to cartTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060854936
- Language: English
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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
$21.00 Add to cartA Guardian Best Book of the Year
“A gripping study of white power…Explosive.”
—New York Times “Helps explain how we got to today’s alt-right.”
–Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white power movement in Ame- Author: Belew, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 7, 2019
- ISBN10: 0674237692
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power
$21.99 Add to cartFrom one of America’s foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical and psychological analysis of the Kennedy clan. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills reveals a f
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14, 2002
- ISBN10: 0618134433
- Language: English
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We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
$35.00 Add to cartKirkus 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023
What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for t- Author: Mirski, Sean A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1541758439
- Language: English
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Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
$21.99 Read moreNew York Times Editor’s Pick & Best True Crime of 2022
“Blood & Ink is among 2022’s best works of true crime.” —Washington Post
Vanity Fair‘s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of
- Author: Pompeo, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063001748
- Language: English
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
$15.95 Add to cartDuring the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here
- Author: Kennedy, Robert F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318346
- Language: English
