United States - 20th Century
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
$19.00 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller, now in paperback!
In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard ta- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250864623
- Language: English
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
$20.00 Add to cartA riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln.
The basis for th- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10, 2016
- ISBN10: 1250092337
- Language: English
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Capone: The Man and the Era
$24.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire.
B- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0684824477
- Language: English
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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80’s
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson’s second volume of the “Gonzo Papers” is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0743250443
- Language: English
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One Summer: America, 1927
$22.00 Add to cartA Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newa
A GoodReads Reader’s Choice- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0767919416
- Language: English
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UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government’s Search for Alien Life Here–And Out There
$32.50 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982196777
- Language: English
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Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s
$30.00 Read moreAs the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprisin… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0226847411
- Language: English
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Bad Friday
$16.95 Add to cartOn March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake lasting more than five minutes rocked south central Alaska, leveling waterfronts, collapsing bridges, and crumbling landscapes. The most powerful quake in
- Author: Freedman, Lew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 17
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1935347241
- Language: English
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A Sleepy Town Awakens: The Civil Rights Movement in the Town of Plaquemine 1963
$20.95 Add to cart“When we catch Farmer, we’re going to lynch him.” On a warm night in Plaquemine, Louisiana, September 1, 1963, two young black girls heard State Troopers utter these words. What was later coined “Plaq
- Author: Canova, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1977288472
- Language: English
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
$26.00 Add to cartA SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial e- Author: Miller, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0812979281
- Language: English
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Hollywood vs. Nazis: How the Movie Studios Took on Nazis Infiltrating Los Angeles
$29.00 Read moreThe true story of Hitler’s plot to turn Hollywood’s Dream Factory into a Nazi propaganda machine–and the Jewish moguls’ clandestine operation to sabotage the Reich’s insidious reach.
World War II beg- Author: Benson, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544783
- Language: English
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Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
$21.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus Reviews
From an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthy- Author: Risen, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1982141816
- Language: English
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Keeping Hope Alive: Sermons and Speeches of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
$25.00 Add to cartFor over fifty years, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., a Baptist minister, activist, and organizer, has worked for civil rights, peace, and the promise of true democracy. From his years in the Civil Rig… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Jesse L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1626985758
- Language: English
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The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
$21.99 Add to cart“Thoroughly researched and beautifully written history.”–New York Times Book Review
“Absorbing . . . a David-and-Goliath tale of the industrial age.”–Wall Street Journal
A propulsive human drama that
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0062971883
- Language: English
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The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America’s Innovation Machine
$36.00 Read moreThe extraordinary true story of Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works”–the radical innovation hub that designed the greatest airplanes of the twentieth century–and the visionary who made it all possible
It- Author: Dean, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1524745510
- Language: English
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Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
$32.00 Read moreHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.
Yuppies- Author: Gottlieb, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067424897X
- Language: English
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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
$34.00 Read moreA history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.
“A tour de force … Read it now.” –Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Aboliti- Author: Schrader, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608038
- Language: English
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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II
$21.99 Add to cartOne of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called “Good War.” The Greatest Generation, we’re told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then return… [more below]
- Author: Childers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0547336926
- Language: English
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
$16.99 Add to cartA powerful multicultural history of Americans in World War II, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror.
A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically divers- Author: Takaki, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0316831565
- Language: English
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The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935
$35.00 Add to cartThe Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first t
- Series: Age of Roosevelt #2
- Author: Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 669
- Publish Date: July 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0618340866
- Language: English
