United States - 20th Century
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The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell During World War II
$19.95 Add to cartWith the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States the first of six s… [more below]
- Series: War and the Southwest #8
- Author: Killebrew, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1574412728
- Language: English
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The American Dream: A Cultural History
$24.95 Add to cartThere is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather than just a powerful philosophy or ideology, the Dream is thoroughly woven into th
- Author: Samuel, Lawrence R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: August 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0815610076
- Language: English
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In the Enemy’s House
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chro
- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0062458264
- Language: English
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Earthrise: Leadership Lessons from the Apollo Space Missions
$30.99 Add to cartOn Sunday July 20, 1969, at 10:56 pm EST, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot upon the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission represented a moment of profound inspiration a
- Author: Appelquist, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: March 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1634895509
- Language: English
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
$26.00 Add to cartA narrative history of America’s deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings
After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers bel- Author: McWhirter, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1250009065
- Language: English
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Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience
$27.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,” Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars. In Doughboys on the Great War the voices of thousands of s… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Guti?rrez, Edward A
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0700624449
- Language: English
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
$39.00 Add to cartA revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions
The first hundred days of FDR’s presidency a- Author: Woolner, David B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0465048714
- Language: English
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Conversations with Kennedy
$22.99 Add to cartBen Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy’s death. They also had a … [more below]
- Author: Bradlee, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0393301893
- Language: English
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
$20.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture “The Front Runner” starring Hugh Jackman
An NPR Best Book of the Year In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart–a dashing, reform-minded Democrat–seemed a lock for the party- Author: Bai, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0307474682
- Language: English
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The Making of the President 1968
$16.99 Add to cart“White unites a novelist’s knack of dramatization and a historian’s sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the lapels.” —Newsweek
The third book in Theodore H. White
- Series: Landmark Political
- Author: White, Theodore H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0061900648
- Language: English
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The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to “incite, organize, promote, and encourage” antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants includ
- Author: Schultz, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2020
- ISBN10: 022676074X
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
$17.99 Add to cartLook for Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s new book, Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Audie Finalist–History/Biography
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- Author: Fisher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1335081917
- Language: English
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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
$25.00 Add to cartThe past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained st… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 12 2003
- ISBN10: 1578065232
- 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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TWA 800: Behind the Cover-Up and Conspiracy
$16.99 Read moreFrom the disastrous crash to the nefarious, high-level cover up, historian Jack Cashill introduces new documents and testimonies in his shocking account of the true chain of events leading to the trag… [more below]
- Author: Cashill, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 168451455X
- Language: English
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A High Courage: A Novel Based on a Young Woman’s Journey to Protect Her Children
$27.99 Add to cartWidowed. Homeless. Alone.
How will a brave young woman support her six children in a man’s world?
When her husband dies suddenly in 1928, North Carolina farmwife, Mary Heath, has to figure out how to ra
- Author: Piner, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988116103
- Language: English
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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
$25.99 Add to cartRome’s genial new book . . . brings to life another era. —Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay rit- Author: Rome, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0865477744
- Language: English
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St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
$34.95 Add to cartThe culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most importan
- Author: Parham, Claire Puccia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0815609132
- Language: English
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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
$19.99 Add to cartCompleted shortly before Ambrose’s untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation’s history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians.
Ambrose ro- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743252128
- Language: English
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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why
$27.99 Add to cartThe Warren Commission’s major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the “lone assassin” of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating dissection of… [more below]
- Author: McKnight, Gerald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0700619399
- Language: English
