United States - 20th Century
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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
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Great Lakes: Collisions, Wrecks and Disasters: Ships 400 to 998 Feet
$24.95 Add to cart“Having spent lots of time in the Chicago area, I’m a big fan of the Great Lakes. These inland seas have a turbulent history and are site of many shipwrecks. This guide to the collisions, wrecks and d… [more below]
- Series: Great Lakes #1
- Author: Kadar, Wayne Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1945772697
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
$28.00 Read morePublished to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this urgent book
from historian Felicia Kornbluh reveals two movement victories in New York that forever changed the politics of repr… [more below]- Author: Kornbluh, Felicia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160689
- Language: English
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The Big Roads
$15.95 Add to cart“Travelers hitting the highways this summer might better appreciate the asphalt beneath their tires thanks to this engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system.”–Los Angeles Times… [more below]
- Author: Swift, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0547907249
- Language: English
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition
$21.00 Add to cartSince it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers … [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0142004944
- Language: English
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Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood
$200.00 Add to cartWhy is cows’ milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the population is lactose-intolerant? Why are gigantic new da
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Mendelson, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0231188188
- Language: English
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Fdr’s Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance
$20.00 Add to cartThe true story of the wartime train that took one dead president, one living one, and 140 of the most influential men of the U.S. government on an adventure that has been shrouded in mystery-until now… [more below]
- Author: Klara, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0230108032
- Language: English
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Farewell America
$26.00 Add to cartAn underground bestseller in Europe, suppressed in the United States, Farewell America is the underground classic that first posited a major conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy. Rumor
- Author: Hepburn, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1954357192
- Language: English
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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
$30.00 Read moreA riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media.
“The whole world is watching!” cried protestors at the 1968 Democra- Author: Hendershot, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 022676852X
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A New History
$19.00 Add to cart“Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.” —The Boston Globe
“Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.” —The New York T- Author: Gaddis, John Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038273
- Language: English
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
$0.00 Read moreJesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol
- Author: Kobes Du Mez, Kristin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 1631495739
- Language: English
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Ike in Love and War: How Dwight D. Eisenhower Sacrificed Himself to Keep the Peace
$35.00 Read moreDwight D. Eisenhower is one of America’s greatest and least appreciated presidents.
Behind the demeanor that made Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower so popular was a cold-as-steel intelligence that kept his c- Author: Striner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1637584229
- Language: English
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
$31.15 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review).
In this “invaluable record” of one o- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 1565846567
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Walt Disney World
$24.99 Read moreAuthor Foxx Nolte gives readers a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth.
Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any re
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Nolte, Foxx
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156183
- Language: English
