United States - 20th Century
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Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980
$25.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020
From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power. Over- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1476793069
- Language: English
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Power and Human Rights, 1975-2020
$42.99 Add to cartThe dual biography of the powerful First Couple who attempted to use their presidency to bring peace, human rights, and justice to all peoples of the world and dedicated the remainder of their long li… [more below]
- Author: Godbold Jr, E. Stanly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 904
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0197581560
- Language: English
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Paradise Falls: A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement
$18.00 Read moreThe staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical’s deadly secret of Love Canal–exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and spar… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0593312090
- Language: English
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
$19.95 Read moreIf the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?
In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice P
- Author: Burnham, Margaret A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066059
- Language: English
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
$24.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time… [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1416547878
- Language: English
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The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.
In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of- Author: Checkoway, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1455523453
- Language: English
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The Best and the Brightest
$25.00 Add to cartDavid Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
“A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”–The New- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0449908704
- Language: English
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
$28.00 Add to cartIn Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: November 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671687425
- Language: English
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
$23.00 Add to cartThe first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.
Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestse- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0743250451
- Language: English
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
$37.50 Add to cartThe vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner–creator of one of America’s most stunning museums–an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabell
- Author: Dykstra, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1328515753
- Language: English
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When Winter Came: A Country Doctor’s Journey to Fight the Flu Pandemic of 1918
$21.99 Add to cartMaintain isolation – practice good hygiene – wear a mask – be kind. We all know these methods of fighting COVID-19, but this prescription comes from the 1918 experience of Dr. Pierre Sartor, who battl… [more below]
- Author: Sartor Obermeyer, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1945564156
- Language: English
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to d… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1982129158
- Language: English
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
$22.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscien… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0618127496
- Language: English
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartFrom former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America’s repeated failure to stop genocides aroun… [more below]
- Author: Power, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: December 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0465061516
- Language: English
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
$32.57 Add to cart“Powerful and important . . . an instant classic.”
The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, re
—The Washington Post Book World- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974347
- Language: English
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Empire’s Workshop (Updated and Expanded Edition): Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic
$19.99 Add to cart“A pathbreaking work about how policies forged in blood and fire in Latin America were then exported to every corner of the globe. This brilliant and up-to-the-minute new edition is absolutely crucial
- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1250753295
- Language: English
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
$23.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s rac
- Author: Brinkley, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062655078
- Language: English
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The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize
Winner of the C. L. R. James Award
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A ProMarket Best Politi- Author: Winant, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292197
- Language: English
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
$18.00 Add to cartCombining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jer… [more below]
- Author: Capuzzo, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 21 2002
- ISBN10: 0767904141
- Language: English
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
$26.00 Read more“Perlstein…aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times
“Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of mo- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 074324303X
- Language: English
