United States - 20th Century
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Apollo 13
$19.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Astronaut Jim Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger’s harrowing account of the Apollo 13 disaster. Serving as the basis for Ron Howard’s blockbuster Apollo 13, the book reveals true… [more below]
- Author: Lovell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0618619585
- Language: English
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
$40.00 Read moreNATIONAL BEST SELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEED‘S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
“A brilliant and stirring … [more below]- Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0679444327
- Language: English
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Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination
$30.99 Add to cartUpdated with the latest evidence, the essential, acclaimed account of President Kennedy’s assassination by Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers
“He was holding out his hand . . . He looked puzzled …. [more below]- Author: Summers, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: October 01, 2013
- ISBN10: 1480435481
- Language: English
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Last Second in Dallas
$39.99 Add to cartIn this long-awaited follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1967 classic, Six Seconds in Dallas, Josiah Thompson reveals major new forensic discoveries since the year 2000 that overturn previously acce
- Author: Thompson, Josiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 0700630082
- Language: English
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The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
$26.00 Add to cartA history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist.
Creat- Author: Franklin, Samuel W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 022665785X
- Language: English
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I Have a Dream – 60th Anniversary Edition
$19.99 Add to cartWith new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King
A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0063376687
- Language: English
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
$30.00 Read moreInstant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller!
In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most contr- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 125027365X
- Language: English
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American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother
$29.99 Read more“In dazzling, evocative prose, Stillman effectively employs the tools of cultural criticism to shed light on the forces that might have left Marguerite dangerously disillusioned with the American drea
- Author: Stillman, Deanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890687
- Language: English
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The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson
$35.00 Read more“The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud’s couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of Pres
- Author: Weil, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674291611
- Language: English
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Gangbuster: One Man’s Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan
$28.00 Read moreAs gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one rookie District Attorney, Philip Van Cise, against the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption a… [more below]
- Author: Prendergast, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542128
- Language: English
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State of Silence: The Espionage ACT and the Rise of America’s Secrecy Regime
$32.50 Read moreAn “essential guide” (Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man) to how the Espionage Act gave rise to a vast American security state that keeps citizens in the dark
In State of Silence,&#- Author: Lebovic, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 154162016X
- Language: English
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Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush V. Gore
$29.99 Add to cartIn Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bus… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: Patterson, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0195305221
- Language: English
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1932: Fdr, Hoover and the Dawn of a New America
$28.00 Read moreAn enthralling slice of history with contemporary resonance, this unique account examines the most transformative year in American history — when a battered nation would emerge from the Great Depress… [more below]
- Author: Martelle, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0806541865
- Language: English
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Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America’s First Nuclear Accident
$19.95 Add to cartThe little-known true story of a mysterious nuclear reactor disaster — years before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima
Before the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster, the wo
- Author: McKeown, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 1550225626
- Language: English
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
$28.99 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022
Named one of Vanity Fair‘s “Best Books of 2022“
“Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of hi- Author: Kirchick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871468
- Language: English
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The Family Roe: An American Story
$20.00 Add to cartDespite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager s
- Author: Prager, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036079
- Language: English
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Watergate: A New History
$24.99 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes–this one.” —The Washington Post * “Dazzling.” —The Ne- Author: Graff, Garrett M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 198213917X
- Language: English
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
$17.95 Add to cartWidely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever publi… [more below]
- Author: Rothstein, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494538
- Language: English
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
$19.99 Add to cartThe saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American pol… [more below]
- Author: Arsenault, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0199754314
- Language: English
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Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt’s gla… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0316014001
- Language: English
