Chronological Period/1950-1999
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La Vida Loca (Always Running): El Testimonio de Un Pandillero En Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cart“A los doce años, Luis RodrÃguez ya era un veterano de la guerra entre las pandillas de East Los Angeles. AtraÃdo por una cultura pandillera aparentemente insuperable, fue testigo de un sinfÃn de … [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0743281551
- Language: Spanish
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart
$18.99 Add to cartThe award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in this groundbreaking book.
Armed with startling demographic data, Bill Bishop demonstrate
- Author: Bishop, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0547237723
- Language: English
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The Bodyguard’s Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor
$30.00 Add to cartFor Trevor Rees-Jones the answer is simple: he was in the same hospital as Diana, fighting for his own life a few rooms away. As bodyguard to her companion Dodi Fayed, he was with the couple when, hou
- Author: Rees-Jones, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 09 2004
- ISBN10: 0446527750
- Language: English
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Classic Story of Seduction and Murder
$35.00 Read moreIn 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight yo
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393050297
- Language: English
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat
$17.99 Add to cartThe mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 remained hidden for thirty-three years. In The Secret Man, Woodward tells the story of his lon… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0743287169
- Language: English
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The Gun
$20.99 Add to cartIn a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through … [more below]
- Author: Chivers, C. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0743271734
- Language: English
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Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead’s American Adventure
$22.99 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Carol Brightman brings the Grateful Dead and their history to life in this fascinating and “cogent, intelligent look at the Dead and the structure of … [more below]
- Author: Brightman, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671011170
- Language: English
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
$18.95 Add to cartIn the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Ech
- Author: Echols, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338916
- Language: English
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My Days with Princess Grace of Monaco
$34.95 Add to cartGet to know the real Princess Grace, from the first years of her marriage to the last days of her life. “My Days with Princess Grace of Monaco: Our 25-Year Friendship, Beyond Grace Kelly” chronicles w… [more below]
- Author: Dale, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1895885086
- Language: English
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On Practice and Contradiction
$24.95 Add to cartThese early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references … [more below]
- Series: Revolutions
- Author: Mao Tse-Tung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675874
- Language: English
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History of the 101st Airborne Division: Screaming Eagles: The First 50 Years
$19.95 Add to cartThe History of the 101st Airborne Division is the epic story of the Division from its activation in August 1942 through the completion of Operation Desert Storm in April 1991. The Division’s progressi… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: May 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1596527463
- Language: English
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The Age of Bowie
$18.00 Add to cartAuthor and industry insider Paul Morley explores the musical and cultural legacies left behind by “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”Respected arts commentator and author Paul Morley, an artistic advisor to … [more below]
- Author: Morley, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1501151177
- Language: English
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The Craft of Intelligence: America’s Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World
$18.95 Add to cartIf the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late twentieth century to today, that single book would be Allen W. Dulles’s Th… [more below]
- Author: Dulles, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1493018795
- Language: English
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The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA
$21.99 Add to cartThe Very Best Men is the story of the CIA’s early days as told through the careers of four glamorous, daring, and idealistic men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 141653797X
- Language: English
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Lockheed F-104 G/J/S/AMA Starfighter: Aircraft in Detail
$41.00 Read moreA complete close up of the F-104 Starfighter, both single seat and two-seat versions, including aircraft from the US, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Japan.
- Series: Duke Hawkins
- Author: Pied, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 2931083178
- Language: English
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Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
$19.95 Add to cartOn the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship’s path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge–two ribbons of
- Author: DeYoung, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062977
- Language: English
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Passing Through Customs: New & Selected Poems
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Ruark, Gibbons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0807123625
- Language: English
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Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War
$38.95 Add to cartNow, for the first time, Kissinger gives us in a single volume an in-depth, inside view of the Vietnam War, personally collected, annotated, revised, and updated from his bestselling memoirs and his b… [more below]
- Author: Kissinger, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 09 2008
- ISBN10: 074321532X
- Language: English
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore’s Ford Lynching in Walton County, G… [more below]
- Author: Wexler, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0684868172
- Language: English
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1966-1974
$29.99 Add to cartThe final volume ends as the author wished-not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous, reflective moment on a trip to Bali. “One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Rob… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #07
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 1981
- ISBN10: 0156260352
- Language: English
