United States - 20th Century
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October 1964
$21.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR
“October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who’ll relish the opportunity to relive that year’s to-die-for World Series,- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 11 1995
- ISBN10: 0449983676
- Language: English
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You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon’s Fight for Free Speech
$37.99 Add to cartDecades before the impeachment of an American president for a similar offense, Angelo Herndon was charged under Georgia law with “attempting to incite insurrection”–a crime punishable by death. In 19
- Author: Snyder, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036540
- Language: English
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Besieged Beachhead: The Cold War Battle for Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
$32.95 Read moreOn New Year’s Day 1959, Fidel Castro’s revolutionary movement overthrew the ruling regime in Cuba, bringing the Cold War to the United States’ doorstep and setting the island nation and its superpower
- Author: Valdés, J. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0811776794
- Language: English
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UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government’s Search for Alien Life Here–And Out There
$22.00 Add to cart“One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded.” —The Wall Street Journal
From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Wa- Author: Graff, Garrett M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1982196785
- Language: English
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Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade
$29.95 Add to cartHow the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad
Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade–and its devastatin- Author: Schuhrke, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 183976905X
- Language: English
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
$34.00 Read more#1 New York Times Bestseller
NAACP Image Award Winner
From Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America’s struggle for fr
- Author: Reid, Joy-Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0063419181
- Language: English
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Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania
$29.95 Add to cartHow cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets.
In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries bee
- Author: Hughes, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448149
- Language: English
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The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America’s Most Famous Hispanic War Hero
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from “a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer” (David W. Blight, Puli… [more below]
- Author: Sturkey, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600266
- Language: English
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Awakening the Spirit of America: Fdr’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh–And the Battle to Save Democracy
$29.95 Read moreA powerful new work of history that brings President Roosevelt, his allies, and his adversaries to life as he fought to transform America from an isolationist bystander into the world’s first superpow… [more below]
- Author: Sparrow, Paul M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366679
- Language: English
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Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism
$35.00 Add to cart“The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written” (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justi… [more below]
- Author: Isserman, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541620038
- 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
$18.00 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… [more below]
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0735225281
- Language: English
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
$24.95 Add to cartCo-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0674979826
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of the White House: Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments
$30.00 Add to cartPresented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of some of the most dramatic events in American history–set right in
- Author: Mead, Corey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 006334338X
- Language: English
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One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 Wto Protests
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests, featuring over 100 original interviews and timed to the event’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
One week in late 1999, more than 5- Author: Gibson, Dw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1668033569
- Language: English
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Here Today: Oklahoma’s Ghost Towns, Vanishing Towns, and Towns Persisting Against the Odds
$24.95 Add to cartThe history of Oklahoma runs through the thousands of towns that sprang up in the wake of statehood and even before then–readable in the traces of bygone days, if you know what to look for. In Here T… [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Jeffrey B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0806193727
- Language: English
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
$30.00 Add to cartONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST‘S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024
Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nati
One of The New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2024- Author: Ganz, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605440
- Language: English
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 198217661X
- Language: English
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Debunking FDR: The Man and the Myths
$32.99 Read moreThe myths about Franklin Delano Roosevelt live on.
For the Left, FDR was a champion of the working class and the oppressed, suffering abuse as a “traitor to his class.” He gave up the lifestyle of th- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1684515688
- Language: English
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Mrs. Cook and the Klan: Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America’s Heartland
$24.95 Add to cartOn the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small … [more below]
- Author: Chorneau, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496235843
- Language: English
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The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City’s Citicorp Tower
$27.95 Add to cartHow an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers
The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most r- Author: Greenburg, Michael M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1479829978
- Language: English
