United States - 20th Century
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Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class
$56.67 Add to cartThe largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social consequences
Over the first two-thirds of the twentiet- Series: Politics and Society in Modern America #1
- Author: Fraser, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0691191115
- Language: English
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The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
$35.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake spark- Author: Davenport, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250279275
- Language: English
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
$16.95 Add to cartA bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy,
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: June 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 0872863298
- Language: English
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The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
$32.00 Read more“A captivating group portrait of three ‘titans’ of industry who facilitated the steamship routes by which around 2 million Jewish refugees, fleeing pogroms and discrimination, immigrated from Europe t
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062971875
- Language: English
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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
$34.99 Add to cartForeign Policy Best Book of 2023
The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our ne
Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023- Author: Walton, Calder
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668000695
- Language: English
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
$24.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller – One of the year’s most acclaimed works of nonfiction
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company
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- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063278529
- Language: English
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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
$32.00 Read moreA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education–one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school
America has relied on- Author: Fitzpatrick, Cara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541646770
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the Cia, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
$22.99 Add to cartAn explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful–and secretive–colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the N
- Author: Talbot, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062276174
- Language: English
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Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
$37.99 Add to cartFrom one of the country’s most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social m… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Freedman, Samuel G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0197535194
- Language: English
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
$30.00 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Bestseller
One of The New Yorker‘s best books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of e- Author: Breen, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1538722372
- Language: English
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Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
$35.00 Read moreAn Economist Best Book of 2023 One of The New York Times‘ 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg
“Wherever you sit on the politic- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0374601143
- Language: English
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
$18.95 Add to cartJesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol
- Author: Kobes Du Mez, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 163149905X
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
$18.00 Add to cart50th Anniversary Edition – With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicki- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0679785892
- Language: English
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
$30.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights
- Author: Reid, Joy-Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063068796
- Language: English
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
$33.00 Add to cartA “rip-roaring” (Steve Coll), “staggeringly well-researched” (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, “electric with revelations” (Booklist) about the women who fought to become o… [more below]
- Author: Mundy, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593238176
- Language: English
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of th
- Author: Grann, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18, 2017
- ISBN10: 0385534248
- Language: English
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year – A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year – A N
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0735225265
- Language: English
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Leviathan and Its Enemies
$38.00 Add to cartLeviathan and Its Enemies is Samuel T. Francis’s magnum opus on political theory and the history of the modern world, which had been lost to the world after his untimely death in 2005 and is published
- Author: Francis, Samuel T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 794
- Publish Date: March 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 1593680740
- Language: English
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The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the Fbi’s Battle to Stop It
$32.99 Add to cartHe pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft stairs of the Boeing 727 into the night, and simply di… [more below]
- Author: Wigger, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197695752
- Language: English
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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage
$29.99 Read more“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featurin… [more below]
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1982186100
- Language: English
