United States - 20th Century
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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
$25.99 Add to cartIn the mid 1930s, North America’s Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster’s classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 19… [more below]
- Author: Worster, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0195174887
- Language: English
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The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subv… [more below]
- Author: Robbins, Louise S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133147
- Language: English
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$14.99 Add to cart“No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government,” notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America’s thirty-second president. “And no president… [more below]
- Author: Brinkley, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0199732027
- Language: English
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America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
$19.00 Add to cartA tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserv… [more below]
- Author: Lowenstein, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109847
- Language: English
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The Kindness of Color
$14.99 Add to cartThe true story of two immigrant families, their struggle against racism, and the kindnesses that helped them toward a brighter future.
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“… a book full to the brim with passion, truth and insight. T
- Author: Mendez, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0578946874
- Language: English
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK
Selected by New York Times‘ critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
A Washington Post Best Political- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534608
- Language: English
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The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe New Deal shaped our nation’s politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the “American Way” itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rauchway, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0195326342
- Language: English
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Pipe the Bimbo in Red: Dean Andrews, Jim Garrison and the Conspiracy to Kill JFK
$24.95 Read morePipe the Bimbo in Red is about the connections between Dean Andrews, Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, Lee Oswald and others, and Jim Garrison’s search for the truth in JFK’s assassination.
- Author: Law, William Matson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1634244664
- Language: English
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All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
$25.00 Add to cartIn the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of “famil
- Author: Self, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0809026740
- Language: English
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Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
$26.00 Add to cartStephen Kinzer’s Overthrow provides a fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments — not always to its own
- Author: Kinzer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082409
- Language: English
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
$24.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s.
In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1476782423
- Language: English
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What Has Government Done to Our Money?
$9.99 Add to cartWhat Has Government Done to Our Money? details the history of money, from early barter systems, to the gold standard, to present-day systems of paper money. Rothbard explains how money was originally … [more below]
- Author: Rothbard, Murray N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: October 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1607967758
- Language: English
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
$27.00 Add to cartThe Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.
A national bestseller and “hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant” (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation o- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0374528497
- Language: English
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Countdown to Dallas: The Incredible Coincidences, Routines, and Blind Luck That Brought John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald Together on N
$30.00 Read moreJohn F. Kennedy’s fascination with death–particularly his own–and Lee Harvey Oswald’s love of violence and desire for fame made November 22, 1963 practically inevitable.
With new details from the ve- Author: Brandus, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637581947
- Language: English
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
$25.00 Add to cart“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” –Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
“The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully writte- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 125082964X
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of the Manhattan Project
$41.99 Add to cartThe atomic age began at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, with the explosion of “the Gadget” at Trinity near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Prelude to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which forced the capitu
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Joseph, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1684420741
- Language: English
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Edie: American Girl
$19.00 Add to cartWhen Edie was first published, it quickly became an international bestseller and then took its place among the classic books about the 1960s. Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. S… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: October 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0802134106
- Language: English
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The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings of Theodore Roosevelt: A Reader
$26.99 Add to cartThe first compilation of selections from the major works of Teddy Roosevelt since the resurgence in his popularity due to the major award-winning/bestselling biographies by Edmond Morris and H. W. Bra
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore, IV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0765306719
- Language: English
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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers
$26.00 Add to cartWhen news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, wi… [more below]
- Author: Whitney, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1944869131
- Language: English
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The Insurrectionist: Major General Edwin A. Walker and the Birth of the Deep State Conspiracy
$44.95 Add to cartPeter Adams’s The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 1960s, became a leader of a far-right political movement known f
- Author: Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179922
- Language: English
