United States - 20th Century
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Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism
$27.95 Add to cartA survey of the far-reaching measures the U.S. government brought to bear against the CPUSA, from poison-pen letters to the Red Scare and beyond.
Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and end
- Author: Leonard, Aaron J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978841809
- Language: English
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize – Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction – A New Y… [more below]
- Author: Higginbotham, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1982176628
- Language: English
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Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
$35.00 Add to cartWhen eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy da
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Farrell, Amy Erdman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 146968683X
- Language: English
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Mississippi Heroes: White Champions of Racial Justice, 1954-1974
$24.94 Add to cartBetween 1954-1974 hundreds of courageous Black individuals in Mississippi defied intimidation, police arrests, violence, and death to gain justice and equality in the courts, in education, job opportu
- Author: Dollar, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: June 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218682002
- Language: English
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Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
$25.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “Brenda Wineapple’s wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present.”–Jon Meacham
“History at its most- Author: Wineapple, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593229940
- Language: English
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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies
$21.00 Add to cartAccused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. His… [more below]
- Author: Evans, M. Stanton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 1400081068
- Language: English
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The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age
$32.00 Add to cartPresident Truman’s choice to drop the atomic bomb is the most debated decision in the 20th Century. But what if Truman’s actual decision wasn’t what everyone thinks it was?
Eight decades after the bom
- Author: Wellerstein, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0063379430
- Language: English
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One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.’s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom–and how their conflicting vis
- Author: Buccola, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0691230307
- Language: English
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Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
$29.99 Add to cartFrom 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. Sponsoring lavish trips to Africa and Central Asia, the mu
- Author: Lunde, Darrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065672
- Language: English
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No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
$19.99 Add to cartThe Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws–its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the ou
- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096888
- Language: English
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0812982142
- Language: English
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
$22.99 Add to cartThe provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era
We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One N- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097413
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Ghost: Houdini’s War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency
$31.00 Add to cartThe incredible untold story of how the world’s greatest magician, Harry Houdini, waged war upon Spiritualism, uncovering unknown magic, political conspiracies, and surprising secrets along the way.
You- Author: Ricca, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250338905
- Language: English
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The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions o… [more below]
- Author: Witt, John Fabian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1476765871
- Language: English
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The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944: The Summer That Changed Everything
$27.00 Add to cartThe Kennedys considered their home in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod, ‘The big white house’, to be a haven from their busy lives. Yet in the summer of 1944, against the backdrop of WWII, the events that unfol
- Author: Straw, Leigh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1350512583
- Language: English
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Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
$32.99 Add to cart“It is morning again in America,” Reagan’s campaign commercials told us, and for too long we embraced that convenient lie. Indeed, the problems that came to plague us in that decade are with us even m
- Author: Johnson, Haynes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0393324346
- Language: English
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
$35.00 Add to cartFor three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power … [more below]
- Author: Bacon, John U.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324094648
- Language: English
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New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
$21.99 Add to cartThe images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women’s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813793
- Language: English
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Division Street: America
$21.99 Add to cartA landmark reissue of Studs Terkel’s classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast
“Remarkable. . . … [more below]- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979136
- Language: English
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On the Trail of the Assassins: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy
$14.95 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller. about the search for the assassins of JFK. “Garrison’s book presents the most powerful detailed case yet made that President Kennedy’s assassination was the product of a… [more below]
- Author: Garrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1620872994
- Language: English
