United States - 20th Century
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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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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 Read moreFrom 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 Add to cartAuthor 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
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Red Reckoning: The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life
$39.95 Add to cartThough it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed
- Author: Boulton, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180084
- Language: English
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Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey
$32.00 Read moreA new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers
The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived m- Author: Berger, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675363
- Language: English
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
$19.99 Add to cartA major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to … [more below]
- Author: Caldwell, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1501106910
- Language: English
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
$24.99 Add to cartThis first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how “the good life” in America came to be equated with the a home of one’s own surrounded by a grassy yard and located … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Kenneth T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 1987
- ISBN10: 0195049837
- Language: English
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Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
$32.00 Read moreA bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s
Ronald Reagan has long been lionized for building a conservative coalition sustained- Author: Hemmer, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646886
- Language: English
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Superpatriotism
$18.95 Add to cartHow hype, fear, and mindless flag-waving are supplanting informed debate, commitment to democracy, and real patriotism.
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0872864332
- Language: English
