Modern - 20th Century - General
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$18.99 Add to cart“Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America’s pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely hero
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371413
- Language: English
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The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
$19.95 Add to cart“A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one.”–Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.
A suspenseful, a- Author: Wunsch, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402135
- Language: English
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Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
$19.00 Add to cartA power-hungry baroness with two lovers disrupts life on an Eden-like island in the Gal?pagos, and an isolated community descends into madness and murder–a true story of utopia gone wrong from New Yo… [more below]
- Author: Kahler, Abbott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0451498666
- Language: English
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
$20.00 Add to cart“For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre’s superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life.”–The Washington Post
A thrillin- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593728114
- Language: English
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Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World
$35.00 Add to cartIn the early 1960s, a peaceful world was an imaginable goal. The still-young United Nations was widely respected and regarded as humankind’s best hope for resolving global conflicts. African and Asian
- Author: Myint-U, Thant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051973
- Language: English
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Pillars of the American Century: FDR, Reagan, and the World They Shaped
$18.95 Add to cartFranklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan were the two most consequential and successful Presidents of the 20th Century. Most casual observers today think of them as polar opposites in their views on gover
- Author: Bumgardner, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893094114
- Language: English
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His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine
$18.99 Add to cartFrom historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall o… [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1982168307
- Language: English
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Burma ’44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East
In Februar
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0802160581
- Language: English
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction
$25.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Asw… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0525509488
- Language: English
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
$29.99 Add to cartThe interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881105
- Language: English
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The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
$36.00 Add to cart- Author: Waller, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593184424
- Language: English
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The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
$24.00 Read moreThe unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics “The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths th- Author: Nichter, Luke a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280130
- Language: English
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Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
$32.00 Add to cartThe never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World … [more below]
- Author: Eicher, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639366423
- Language: English
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”–Dan Rather
To some- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0345455827
- Language: English
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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
$29.95 Add to cartThe Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuri… [more below]
- Author: Arrighi, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1844673049
- Language: English
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Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home
$45.00 Add to cartIntimate stories that offer entertaining perspectives on what it was like to engage with radio when it was new.
Radio, today, can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensatio
- Author: Rubens, Beaty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246312
- Language: English
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Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia
$32.00 Add to cartThe rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity
Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the autom- Author: Berenson, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0300259549
- Language: English
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Going Around: Selected Journalism
$29.95 Add to cartA definitive collection of writings by the legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Murray Kempton (1917-1997) with a foreword by Darryl Pinckney, gathering dozens of columns, essays, and critiques f… [more below]
- Author: Kempton, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214512
- Language: English
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The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic’s Chinese Survivors
$29.95 Add to cartA moving exploration of the origins and fate of the little-known Chinese passengers aboard the Titanic–and how they survived against all odds.
When RMS Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, barely se- Author: Schwankert, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368671
- Language: English
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Snafu: The Definitive Guide to History’s Greatest Screwups
$32.00 Add to cartFrom actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history’s greatest screwups, complete with lively illustrations.
History- Author: Helms, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1538769476
- Language: English
