Chronological Period/1900-1949
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero
$21.99 Add to cartHandcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar.
Since his death eighty-eight years ago, Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreakin- Author: Kalush, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0743272080
- Language: English
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941-1945
$35.99 Add to cartThis true account of spycraft in the UK during World War II is “spellbinding…a compelling insider’s view to the shadow war: intrigue and treachery, double-dealing and deception, hope and despair, tr… [more below]
- Author: Marks, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 068486780X
- Language: English
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartFrom America’s preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945.
This aut- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0684856298
- Language: English
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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
$21.99 Add to cartFROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER — HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA.
San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant… [more below]- Author: Schechter, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671732188
- Language: English
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A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
$33.99 Add to cartIn the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region … [more below]
- Author: Barr, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0393344258
- Language: English
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The Young Hemingway
$24.99 Add to cartMichael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America’s greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway’s persona: his father’s self-destructive battl
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0393317765
- Language: English
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The Circus Fire
$23.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism–the great Hartford circus fire of 1944.
It was a midsumm- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0385496850
- Language: English
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
$22.99 Add to cartFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquet
- Author: Packard, Jerrold M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031230241X
- Language: English
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Anybody Can Do Anything
$22.95 Add to cart“The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty.”
After surviving both the fai
- Author: MacDonald, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0295999799
- Language: English
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Diana of the Dunes: The True Story of Alice Gray
$31.99 Add to cartIn the fall of 1915, Alice Gray traded her life in Chicago for a solitary journey in the remote sand hills of northwest Indiana along Lake Michigan. Living in a fisherman’s shack, she measured herself… [more below]
- Author: Edwards, Janet Zenke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1540224376
- Language: English
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
$22.00 Add to cartFrom before the dawn of the twentieth century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were … [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0802124658
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt (Re-Issue) P
$27.99 Add to cartPringle’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles the incidents that shaped Roosevelt’s career but also offers insight into the character and mind of this colorful american president. Ind… [more below]
- Author: Pringle, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028026
- Language: English
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Woodrow Wilson: The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913-1921
$31.99 Add to cartA comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policy
On the eve of his inauguration as President, Woodrow Wilson commented, It would be the irony of fate- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0805069550
- Language: English
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Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches
$23.99 Add to cartWinston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their … [more below]
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0786888709
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein’s Vienna
$29.85 Add to cartThe life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I-the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. “An independent work…challe… [more below]
- Author: Janik, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1566631327
- Language: English
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Montana Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$16.95 Add to cartFrom a haunted prison in Red Lodge to persistent rumors of bigfoot, from whispered descriptions of the “tommyknockers” who help miners in trouble to a famous union organizer found lynched from a bridg… [more below]
- Series: Legends of the West
- Author: Lawrence, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1493016784
- Language: English
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To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
$17.95 Read morePriscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her pare
- Author: Emberton, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050276
- Language: English
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Leadville
$14.00 Add to cartLeadville is a first-rate frontier epic, with romance and excitement enough for ten cities. The real story of Leadville, Colorado is beyond the portals–it is of the men who worked the mines, of thund… [more below]
- Author: Voynick, Stephen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0878421718
- Language: English
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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog: Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955
$24.95 Add to cartAnglos have been coming to Santa Fe for centuries, and early in the last century the city’s beauty and exotic cultural mix became particularly attractive to artistic immigrants looking for freedom fro
- Author: Farge, John Pen La
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826320155
- Language: English
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Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929
$33.99 Add to cartThe austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership
He was known as Silent Cal. Buttoned up and tight-lipped, Calvi- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Greenberg, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0805069577
- Language: English
