United States - 20th Century
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Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism
$35.00 Add to cart“The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written” (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justi… [more below]
- Author: Isserman, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541620038
- 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
$18.00 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… [more below]
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0735225281
- Language: English
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
$24.95 Add to cartCo-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0674979826
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of the White House: Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments
$30.00 Add to cartPresented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of some of the most dramatic events in American history–set right in
- Author: Mead, Corey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 006334338X
- Language: English
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One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 Wto Protests
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests, featuring over 100 original interviews and timed to the event’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
One week in late 1999, more than 5- Author: Gibson, Dw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1668033569
- Language: English
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Here Today: Oklahoma’s Ghost Towns, Vanishing Towns, and Towns Persisting Against the Odds
$24.95 Add to cartThe history of Oklahoma runs through the thousands of towns that sprang up in the wake of statehood and even before then–readable in the traces of bygone days, if you know what to look for. In Here T… [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Jeffrey B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0806193727
- Language: English
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
$30.00 Add to cartONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST‘S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024
Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nati
One of The New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2024- Author: Ganz, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605440
- Language: English
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
$35.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize – Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction – A New Y… [more below]
- Author: Higginbotham, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 198217661X
- Language: English
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Debunking FDR: The Man and the Myths
$32.99 Read moreThe myths about Franklin Delano Roosevelt live on.
For the Left, FDR was a champion of the working class and the oppressed, suffering abuse as a “traitor to his class.” He gave up the lifestyle of th- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1684515688
- Language: English
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Mrs. Cook and the Klan: Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America’s Heartland
$24.95 Add to cartOn the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small … [more below]
- Author: Chorneau, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496235843
- Language: English
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The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City’s Citicorp Tower
$27.95 Add to cartHow an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers
The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most r- Author: Greenburg, Michael M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1479829978
- Language: English
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
$31.99 Add to cart“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsul
- Author: Ansfield, Bench
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 132409351X
- Language: English
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The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
$32.00 Add to cartA sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever–and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation–from the bestselling author of Ladies and G… [more below]
- Author: Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 052551063X
- Language: English
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The Imperial Presidency
$29.99 Add to cartFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., comes one of the most important and influential investigations of the American presidency. The Imperial Presidency traces the
- Author: Schlesinger, Arthur M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 589
- Publish Date: March 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0618420010
- Language: English
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
$22.99 Add to cartA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s essay “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
With an afterword by Reginald Dway
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063425815
- Language: English
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
$17.99 Add to cartA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s essay “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
With an afterword by Reginald Dway
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063425831
- Language: English
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Notre Dame Vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan
$24.95 Read moreTodd tells of the weekend in May 1924 when members of the anti-Catholic organization and students at the Catholic university fought in South Bend, Indiana. To that conflict he traces the decline of th… [more below]
- Author: Tucker, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: August 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0829417710
- Language: English
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The Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago: And the Other Traces of Conspiracy Leading to the Assassination of JFK – A Visual Investigation
$24.95 Add to cartThe Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago and the Other Traces of Conspiracy Leading to the Assassination of JFK: A Visual Investigation delves deep into one of the lesserknown yet critical elemen… [more below]
- Author: Palamara, Vincent Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1634244893
- Language: English
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On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
$35.00 Add to cartAn epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires.
Founded in 1970, NPR is America’s- Author: Oney, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1451656092
- Language: English
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Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop
$32.00 Add to cartA political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics–from The Beat Generation to B… [more below]
- Author: Zamalin, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0807045187
- Language: English
