United States - 20th Century
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
$30.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights
- Author: Reid, Joy-Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063068796
- Language: English
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
$33.00 Add to cartA “rip-roaring” (Steve Coll), “staggeringly well-researched” (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, “electric with revelations” (Booklist) about the women who fought to become o… [more below]
- Author: Mundy, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593238176
- Language: English
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of th
- Author: Grann, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18, 2017
- ISBN10: 0385534248
- Language: English
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year – A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year – A N
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0735225265
- Language: English
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Leviathan and Its Enemies
$38.00 Add to cartLeviathan and Its Enemies is Samuel T. Francis’s magnum opus on political theory and the history of the modern world, which had been lost to the world after his untimely death in 2005 and is published
- Author: Francis, Samuel T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 794
- Publish Date: March 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 1593680740
- Language: English
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The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the Fbi’s Battle to Stop It
$30.99 Add to cartHe pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft stairs of the Boeing 727 into the night, and simply di… [more below]
- Author: Wigger, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197695752
- Language: English
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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage
$29.99 Read more“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featurin… [more below]
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1982186100
- Language: English
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Apollo 13
$19.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Astronaut Jim Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger’s harrowing account of the Apollo 13 disaster. Serving as the basis for Ron Howard’s blockbuster Apollo 13, the book reveals true… [more below]
- Author: Lovell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0618619585
- Language: English
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
$38.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BEST SELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEED‘S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
“A brilliant and stirring … [more below]- Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0679444327
- Language: English
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Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination
$30.99 Add to cartUpdated with the latest evidence, the essential, acclaimed account of President Kennedy’s assassination by Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers
“He was holding out his hand . . . He looked puzzled …. [more below]- Author: Summers, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: October 01, 2013
- ISBN10: 1480435481
- Language: English
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Last Second in Dallas
$39.99 Add to cartIn this long-awaited follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1967 classic, Six Seconds in Dallas, Josiah Thompson reveals major new forensic discoveries since the year 2000 that overturn previously acce
- Author: Thompson, Josiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 0700630082
- Language: English
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The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
$26.00 Add to cartA history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist.
Creat- Author: Franklin, Samuel W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 022665785X
- Language: English
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I Have a Dream – 60th Anniversary Edition
$19.99 Add to cartWith new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King
A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0063376687
- Language: English
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
$30.00 Read moreInstant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller!
In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most contr- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 125027365X
- Language: English
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American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother
$29.99 Read more“In dazzling, evocative prose, Stillman effectively employs the tools of cultural criticism to shed light on the forces that might have left Marguerite dangerously disillusioned with the American drea
- Author: Stillman, Deanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890687
- Language: English
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The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson
$35.00 Read more“The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud’s couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of Pres
- Author: Weil, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674291611
- Language: English
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Gangbuster: One Man’s Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan
$28.00 Add to cartAs gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one rookie District Attorney, Philip Van Cise, against the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption a… [more below]
- Author: Prendergast, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542128
- Language: English
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State of Silence: The Espionage ACT and the Rise of America’s Secrecy Regime
$32.50 Read moreAn “essential guide” (Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man) to how the Espionage Act gave rise to a vast American security state that keeps citizens in the dark
In State of Silence,&#- Author: Lebovic, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 154162016X
- Language: English
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Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
$35.00 Read more“Masterful.” —The Guardian
“Propulsive.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Leebaert has done the near impossible–crafted a fresh and challenging portrait of the man and his inner circle.”— Richard Norton S- Author: Leebaert, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250274699
- Language: English
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Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush V. Gore
$28.99 Add to cartIn Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bus… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: Patterson, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0195305221
- Language: English
