United States - 20th Century
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No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
$19.99 Add to cartThe Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws–its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the ou
- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096888
- Language: English
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0812982142
- Language: English
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
$22.99 Add to cartThe provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era
We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One N- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097413
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Ghost: Houdini’s War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency
$31.00 Add to cartThe incredible untold story of how the world’s greatest magician, Harry Houdini, waged war upon Spiritualism, uncovering unknown magic, political conspiracies, and surprising secrets along the way.
You- Author: Ricca, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250338905
- Language: English
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The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions o… [more below]
- Author: Witt, John Fabian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1476765871
- Language: English
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The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944: The Summer That Changed Everything
$27.00 Add to cartThe Kennedys considered their home in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod, ‘The big white house’, to be a haven from their busy lives. Yet in the summer of 1944, against the backdrop of WWII, the events that unfol
- Author: Straw, Leigh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1350512583
- Language: English
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Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
$32.99 Add to cart“It is morning again in America,” Reagan’s campaign commercials told us, and for too long we embraced that convenient lie. Indeed, the problems that came to plague us in that decade are with us even m
- Author: Johnson, Haynes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0393324346
- Language: English
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
$35.00 Add to cartFor three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power … [more below]
- Author: Bacon, John U.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324094648
- Language: English
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New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
$19.95 Add to cartThe images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women’s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813793
- Language: English
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Division Street: America
$21.99 Add to cartA landmark reissue of Studs Terkel’s classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast
“Remarkable. . . … [more below]- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979136
- Language: English
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On the Trail of the Assassins: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy
$14.95 Read moreThe New York Times Bestseller. about the search for the assassins of JFK. “Garrison’s book presents the most powerful detailed case yet made that President Kennedy’s assassination was the product of a… [more below]
- Author: Garrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1620872994
- Language: English
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October 1964
$21.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR
“October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who’ll relish the opportunity to relive that year’s to-die-for World Series,- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 11 1995
- ISBN10: 0449983676
- Language: English
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You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon’s Fight for Free Speech
$37.99 Add to cartDecades before the impeachment of an American president for a similar offense, Angelo Herndon was charged under Georgia law with “attempting to incite insurrection”–a crime punishable by death. In 19
- Author: Snyder, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036540
- Language: English
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Besieged Beachhead: The Cold War Battle for Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
$32.95 Read moreOn New Year’s Day 1959, Fidel Castro’s revolutionary movement overthrew the ruling regime in Cuba, bringing the Cold War to the United States’ doorstep and setting the island nation and its superpower
- Author: Valdés, J. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0811776794
- Language: English
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UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government’s Search for Alien Life Here–And Out There
$22.00 Add to cart“One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded.” —The Wall Street Journal
From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Wa- Author: Graff, Garrett M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1982196785
- Language: English
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Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade
$29.95 Add to cartHow the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad
Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade–and its devastatin- Author: Schuhrke, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 183976905X
- Language: English
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
$34.00 Read more#1 New York Times Bestseller
NAACP Image Award Winner
From Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America’s struggle for fr
- Author: Reid, Joy-Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0063419181
- Language: English
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Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania
$29.95 Add to cartHow cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets.
In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries bee
- Author: Hughes, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448149
- Language: English
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The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America’s Most Famous Hispanic War Hero
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from “a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer” (David W. Blight, Puli… [more below]
- Author: Sturkey, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600266
- Language: English
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Awakening the Spirit of America: Fdr’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh–And the Battle to Save Democracy
$29.95 Read moreA powerful new work of history that brings President Roosevelt, his allies, and his adversaries to life as he fought to transform America from an isolationist bystander into the world’s first superpow… [more below]
- Author: Sparrow, Paul M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366679
- Language: English
