United States - 20th Century
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Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
$21.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus Reviews
From an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthy- Author: Risen, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1982141816
- Language: English
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Keeping Hope Alive: Sermons and Speeches of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
$25.00 Add to cartFor over fifty years, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., a Baptist minister, activist, and organizer, has worked for civil rights, peace, and the promise of true democracy. From his years in the Civil Rig… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Jesse L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1626985758
- 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
$21.99 Add to cart“Thoroughly researched and beautifully written history.”–New York Times Book Review
“Absorbing . . . a David-and-Goliath tale of the industrial age.”–Wall Street Journal
A propulsive human drama that
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0062971883
- Language: English
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The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America’s Innovation Machine
$36.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary true story of Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works”–the radical innovation hub that designed the greatest airplanes of the twentieth century–and the visionary who made it all possible
It- Author: Dean, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1524745510
- Language: English
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Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
$32.00 Add to cartHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.
Yuppies- Author: Gottlieb, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067424897X
- Language: English
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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
$34.00 Add to cartA history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.
“A tour de force … Read it now.” –Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Aboliti- Author: Schrader, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608038
- Language: English
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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II
$21.99 Add to cartOne of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called “Good War.” The Greatest Generation, we’re told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then return… [more below]
- Author: Childers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0547336926
- Language: English
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
$16.99 Add to cartA powerful multicultural history of Americans in World War II, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror.
A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically divers- Author: Takaki, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0316831565
- Language: English
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The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935
$35.00 Add to cartThe Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first t
- Series: Age of Roosevelt #2
- Author: Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 669
- Publish Date: July 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0618340866
- Language: English
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The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy
$32.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Hitler in Los Angeles, the definitive story of the intrepid activists and spies who fought against a resurgent movement of hate in America.
Americans today l- Author: Ross, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1635578000
- Language: English
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Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas
$31.00 Add to cartThe true story of the corrupt and violent town of Borger, Texas in 1927―and the legendary Texas Ranger tasked with taming it.
Just a year after the town of Borger, Texas was founded, the press a- Author: Pappalardo, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1250287561
- Language: English
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Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America
$27.50 Add to cartSons of Britches. The Great American Chuckwagon Dinner Show. The Haygoods. The Grand Jubilee. These are just a couple of the many shows performed in Branson, MO,
Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain- Author: Das, Joanna Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226828409
- Language: English
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Great Society: A New History
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challeng
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0061706434
- Language: English
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The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
$22.99 Add to cartFifty years ago, a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century. The Church Committee confirmed the nation’s worst fears
- Author: Guariglia, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1324089377
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
$21.99 Add to cartIn this fully updated second edition of their masterful history, leading historians and best-selling authors Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer uncover the origins of our current moment, answering t
- Series: Fault Lines
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324035544
- Language: English
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Rogue Elephant: How the Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos
$29.95 Add to cartA crucial explanation of the Republican party’s increasing radicalization over the past fifty years
Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, arguing- Author: Heideman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 180429408X
- Language: English
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North Toward Home
$21.00 Add to cartWith his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country’s finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0375724605
- Language: English
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The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known: Dramatic Readings Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of Dissent
$9.99 Add to cartCollected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.
To celebrate the millionth copy sold of his book A People’s History of the United States, Ho
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: March 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0060578262
- Language: English
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Teddy Roosevelt: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Theodore Roosevelt Who Served as the 26th President of the United States of America
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating life of Teddy Roosevelt, then keep reading…
The Roosevelt family would become a political dynasty in the United States, spanning from the late 19th century to
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: April 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1647486831
- Language: English
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The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare
$35.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning journalist and coauthor of The 15:17 to Paris, an affecting human history of the first self-steering bomb
Paveway, the first “smart” bomb, was created to be a more precise and osten- Author: Stern, Jeffrey E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1524746428
- Language: English
