United States - 20th Century
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1932: Fdr, Hoover and the Dawn of a New America
$28.00 Read moreAn enthralling slice of history with contemporary resonance, this unique account examines the most transformative year in American history — when a battered nation would emerge from the Great Depress… [more below]
- Author: Martelle, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0806541865
- Language: English
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Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America’s First Nuclear Accident
$19.95 Add to cartThe little-known true story of a mysterious nuclear reactor disaster — years before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima
Before the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster, the wo
- Author: McKeown, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 1550225626
- Language: English
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
$28.99 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022
Named one of Vanity Fair‘s “Best Books of 2022“
“Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of hi- Author: Kirchick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871468
- Language: English
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The Family Roe: An American Story
$20.00 Add to cartDespite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager s
- Author: Prager, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036079
- Language: English
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Watergate: A New History
$24.99 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes–this one.” —The Washington Post * “Dazzling.” —The Ne- Author: Graff, Garrett M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 198213917X
- Language: English
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
$17.95 Add to cartWidely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever publi… [more below]
- Author: Rothstein, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494538
- Language: English
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
$19.98 Add to cartThe saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American pol… [more below]
- Author: Arsenault, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0199754314
- Language: English
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Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt’s gla… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0316014001
- Language: English
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller. A Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and Amazon Best Book of the Year.
A dramatic account of the worst forest fire in American history by the au
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0547394608
- Language: English
