United States - 20th Century
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The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
$30.33 Add to cartA Washington Post Book of the Year
“A masterful study of privacy.”
Winner of the Merle Curti Award
Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize
Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
–Sue Halpern, New York Review- Author: Igo, Sarah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244796
- Language: English
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The Nightingale’s Song
$22.00 Add to cartRobert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. C… [more below]
- Author: Timberg, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 11 1996
- ISBN10: 0684826739
- Language: English
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James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography
$33.95 Add to cartIn this intellectual biography of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century, David T. Byrne reveals the fascinating life of James Burnham.
Beginning his intellectual career
- Author: Byrne, David T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780042
- Language: English
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Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh
$19.99 Add to cartJames Newton’s Uncommon Friends is “a delightful portrayal of five great men who shared special friendships and common visions” (Booklist).Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, a
- Author: Newton, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0156926202
- Language: English
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
$27.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history–the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swe… [more below]
- Author: Fountain, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1101904089
- Language: English
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
$29.00 Add to cartThe veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s … [more below]
- Author: Chase, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 09 2004
- ISBN10: 0375757082
- Language: English
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Little Vic and the Great Mafia War
$29.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning New York Daily News reporter Larry McShane, the gritty, bloody, first definite biography of one of the Mafia’s deadliest contenders for boss, “Little Vic” Orena, who battled it out … [more below]
- Author: McShane, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0806543604
- Language: English
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Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government’s responsibilities.
National security may- Author: Preston, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674737385
- Language: English
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
$20.00 Add to cartA TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – THE WASHINGTON POST – THE NEW REPUBLIC – AIR MAIL – SLATE
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR OBAMA’S SUMMER READING – THE BOSTON GLOBE – MOTHER JONES – CHICAGO TR- Author: Ganz, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390419
- Language: English
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The Defining Moment: Fdr’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
$18.00 Add to cartThis is the story of a political miracle–the perfect match of man and moment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions- Author: Alter, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0743246012
- Language: English
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Meet the Kellys: The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne
$29.00 Add to cartGangsters. Lovers. Legends. Meet the Kellys–the bootlegging, bank-robbing, husband-wife duo known as “Machine Gun” Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne–who masterminded one of the most infamous kidnappings in A… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 806543051
- Language: English
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Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth about Alger Hiss
$34.99 Add to cartA revelatory political history that uncovers the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss and points a finger at who was really behind one of the most sensational and divisive accusations of the
- Author: Kisseloff, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638334
- Language: English
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Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
$34.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film
Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic in- Author: Hoberman, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1804290866
- Language: English
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Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Birth, a journey into the underground activist networks that have been working to protect women’s autonomy over their bodies amidst legal, political, religious, and cu… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1668053241
- Language: English
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Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the Fbi, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s
The Weathermen. T- Author: Burrough, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0143107976
- Language: English
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Our Lady of the World’s Fair: Bringing Michelangelo’s Piet? to Queens in 1964
$29.95 Add to cartOur Lady of the World’s Fair reveals the remarkable story of how two of New York’s most influential leaders persuaded the Vatican to allow one of the world’s greatest works of art to leave Europe for
- Author: Nelson, Ruth D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501776908
- Language: English
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
$21.99 Add to cartThe vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner–creator of one of America’s most stunning museums–an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabell
- Author: Dykstra, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0063378353
- Language: English
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The Children
$26.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Best and the Brightest, The Reckoning”, and “The Fifties” now tells the story of the civil rights movement, as seen through the eyes of the young people–the … [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: March 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0449004392
- Language: English
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Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
$34.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement–the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and … [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1541675894
- Language: English
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A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination
$24.00 Add to cartThe “fascinating” (The New York Times) true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination … [more below]
- Author: Haverstick, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593727835
- Language: English
