United States - 20th Century
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
$24.00 Add to cartHere, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the sci… [more below]
- Series: Sloan Technology Series
- Author: Rhodes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 6, 1996
- ISBN10: 0684824140
- Language: English
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Nebraska POW Camps: A History of World War II Prisoners in the Heartland
$21.99 Read moreDuring World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POW… [more below]
- Author: Marsh, Melissa Amateis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 162619419X
- Language: English
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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
$28.00 Add to cartThe definitive anthology of Japanese American internment.
“In these stories are lifted up our humanity, our indomitable spirit and dignity, an implacable quest for justice”-Janice Mirikitani
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- Author: Inada, Lawson Fusao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1890771309
- Language: English
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Fascism in America
$34.99 Add to cartHas fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a … [more below]
- Author: Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 461
- Publish Date: September 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1009337432
- Language: English
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All the President’s Men
$20.00 Add to cart50th Anniversary Edition–Now with a new Foreword by Bob Woodward “The work that brought down a presidency…perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)–from the #1 New York T… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 3, 2014
- ISBN10: 1476770514
- Language: English
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The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos
$17.95 Read moreThis is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to every
- Series: Zia Books
- Author: Church, Peggy Pond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 159
- Publish Date: May 01 1973
- ISBN10: 0826302815
- Language: English
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Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
$32.00 Add to cartHow a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a par- Author: Dallek, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 21-Mar-23
- ISBN10: 1541673565
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
$21.99 Add to cartThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l… [more below]
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0197676316
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
$35.00 Read moreAn evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War
Halfway through the twentieth century, the United States towered over the world in industrial might. After winning the 1948 elec- Author: Bunker, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675541
- Language: English
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
$21.99 Add to cartUpdated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet–the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of w… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: 13-Oct-20
- ISBN10: 1982130849
- Language: English
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
$24.99 Add to cart“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. “The most significant leaks of classified material in American history.” –Washingt… [more below]
- Author: Sheehan, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1631582925
- Language: English
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Our America: A Photographic History
$80.00 Add to cartFrom one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America–a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns’s favorite photographs, with an introduction by Burns, and an essay by … [more below]
- Author: Burns, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0385353014
- Language: English
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The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
$27.00 Read moreBCALA Literary Award Winner
The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr–and a daughter’s quest fo- Author: Seletzky, Leta McCollough
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1640094725
- Language: English
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American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
$35.00 Add to cartA “lively, fast-paced history” (Adam Hochschild, bestselling author of American Midnight) of America’s anarchist movement and the government’s tireless efforts to destroy it
In the early twentieth ce- Author: Willrich, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1541697375
- Language: English
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The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
$18.95 Add to cartYears before Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competin
- Author: Lancaster, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324094079
- Language: English
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
$30.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through
- Author: Rothstein, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492853
- Language: English
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Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past
$21.99 Add to cartIn this “incisive” (Vanity Fair) and “authoritative” (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our n
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604660
- Language: English
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert… [more below]
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0743250087
- Language: English
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Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourner… [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0307387437
- Language: English
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American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
$30.00 Add to cartIn 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford’s Model Ts to exp
- Author: Davis, Wes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324000325
- Language: English
