United States - 20th Century
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American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
$35.00 Add to cartA “lively, fast-paced history” (Adam Hochschild, bestselling author of American Midnight) of America’s anarchist movement and the government’s tireless efforts to destroy it
In the early twentieth ce- Author: Willrich, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1541697375
- Language: English
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The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
$18.95 Add to cartYears before Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competin
- Author: Lancaster, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324094079
- Language: English
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
$30.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through
- Author: Rothstein, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492853
- Language: English
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Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past
$21.99 Add to cartIn this “incisive” (Vanity Fair) and “authoritative” (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our n
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604660
- Language: English
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert… [more below]
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0743250087
- Language: English
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Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourner… [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0307387437
- Language: English
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American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
$30.00 Add to cartIn 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford’s Model Ts to exp
- Author: Davis, Wes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324000325
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class
$53.33 Add to cartThe largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social consequences
Over the first two-thirds of the twentiet- Series: Politics and Society in Modern America #1
- Author: Fraser, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0691191115
- Language: English
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The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
$35.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake spark- Author: Davenport, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250279275
- Language: English
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
$16.95 Add to cartA bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy,
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: June 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 0872863298
- Language: English
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The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
$32.00 Add to cart“A captivating group portrait of three ‘titans’ of industry who facilitated the steamship routes by which around 2 million Jewish refugees, fleeing pogroms and discrimination, immigrated from Europe t
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062971875
- Language: English
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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
$34.99 Add to cartForeign Policy Best Book of 2023
The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our ne
Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023- Author: Walton, Calder
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668000695
- Language: English
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
$24.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller – One of the year’s most acclaimed works of nonfiction
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company
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- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063278529
- Language: English
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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
$32.00 Read moreA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education–one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school
America has relied on- Author: Fitzpatrick, Cara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541646770
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the Cia, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
$22.99 Add to cartAn explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful–and secretive–colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the N
- Author: Talbot, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062276174
- Language: English
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Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
$35.99 Add to cartFrom one of the country’s most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social m… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Freedman, Samuel G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0197535194
- Language: English
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
$30.00 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Bestseller
One of The New Yorker‘s best books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of e- Author: Breen, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1538722372
- Language: English
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Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
$35.00 Read moreAn Economist Best Book of 2023 One of The New York Times‘ 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg
“Wherever you sit on the politic- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0374601143
- Language: English
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
$18.95 Add to cartJesus 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 163149905X
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
$18.00 Add to cart50th Anniversary Edition – With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicki- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0679785892
- Language: English
