United States - 20th Century
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V Is for Victory: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II
$32.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023
“Belongs in the library alongside the histories and biographies of Martin Gilbert, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and David McCullough.” –Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times best- Author: Nelson, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982122919
- Language: English
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Profiles in Courage
$18.99 Add to cartTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060854936
- Language: English
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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
$21.00 Add to cartA Guardian Best Book of the Year
“A gripping study of white power…Explosive.”
—New York Times “Helps explain how we got to today’s alt-right.”
–Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white power movement in Ame- Author: Belew, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 7, 2019
- ISBN10: 0674237692
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power
$21.99 Add to cartFrom one of America’s foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical and psychological analysis of the Kennedy clan. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills reveals a f
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14, 2002
- ISBN10: 0618134433
- Language: English
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We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
$35.00 Add to cartKirkus 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023
What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for t- Author: Mirski, Sean A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1541758439
- Language: English
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Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
$21.99 Read moreNew York Times Editor’s Pick & Best True Crime of 2022
“Blood & Ink is among 2022’s best works of true crime.” —Washington Post
Vanity Fair‘s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of
- Author: Pompeo, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063001748
- Language: English
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
$15.95 Add to cartDuring the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here
- Author: Kennedy, Robert F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318346
- Language: English
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
$22.99 Add to cartHere, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the sci… [more below]
- Series: Sloan Technology Series
- Author: Rhodes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 6, 1996
- ISBN10: 0684824140
- Language: English
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Nebraska POW Camps: A History of World War II Prisoners in the Heartland
$21.99 Read moreDuring World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POW… [more below]
- Author: Marsh, Melissa Amateis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 162619419X
- Language: English
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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
$28.00 Add to cartThe definitive anthology of Japanese American internment.
“In these stories are lifted up our humanity, our indomitable spirit and dignity, an implacable quest for justice”-Janice Mirikitani
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- Author: Inada, Lawson Fusao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1890771309
- Language: English
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Fascism in America
$34.99 Add to cartHas fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a … [more below]
- Author: Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 461
- Publish Date: September 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1009337432
- Language: English
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All the President’s Men
$18.99 Add to cart50th Anniversary Edition–Now with a new Foreword by Bob Woodward “The work that brought down a presidency…perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)–from the #1 New York T… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 3, 2014
- ISBN10: 1476770514
- Language: English
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The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos
$17.95 Add to cartThis is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to every
- Series: Zia Books
- Author: Church, Peggy Pond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 159
- Publish Date: May 01 1973
- ISBN10: 0826302815
- Language: English
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Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
$32.00 Add to cartHow a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a par- Author: Dallek, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 21-Mar-23
- ISBN10: 1541673565
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
$20.99 Add to cartThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l… [more below]
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0197676316
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
$35.00 Read moreAn evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War
Halfway through the twentieth century, the United States towered over the world in industrial might. After winning the 1948 elec- Author: Bunker, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675541
- Language: English
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
$21.99 Add to cartUpdated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet–the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of w… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: 13-Oct-20
- ISBN10: 1982130849
- Language: English
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
$24.99 Add to cart“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. “The most significant leaks of classified material in American history.” –Washingt… [more below]
- Author: Sheehan, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1631582925
- Language: English
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Our America: A Photographic History
$80.00 Add to cartFrom one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America–a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns’s favorite photographs, with an introduction by Burns, and an essay by … [more below]
- Author: Burns, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0385353014
- Language: English
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The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
$27.00 Read moreBCALA Literary Award Winner
The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr–and a daughter’s quest fo- Author: Seletzky, Leta McCollough
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1640094725
- Language: English
