United States - 20th Century
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
$20.00 Add to cartA TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – THE WASHINGTON POST – THE NEW REPUBLIC – AIR MAIL – SLATE
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR OBAMA’S SUMMER READING – THE BOSTON GLOBE – MOTHER JONES – CHICAGO TR- Author: Ganz, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390419
- Language: English
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The Defining Moment: Fdr’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
$18.00 Add to cartThis is the story of a political miracle–the perfect match of man and moment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions- Author: Alter, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0743246012
- Language: English
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Meet the Kellys: The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne
$29.00 Add to cartGangsters. Lovers. Legends. Meet the Kellys–the bootlegging, bank-robbing, husband-wife duo known as “Machine Gun” Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne–who masterminded one of the most infamous kidnappings in A… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 806543051
- Language: English
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Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth about Alger Hiss
$34.99 Add to cartA revelatory political history that uncovers the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss and points a finger at who was really behind one of the most sensational and divisive accusations of the
- Author: Kisseloff, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638334
- Language: English
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Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
$34.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film
Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic in- Author: Hoberman, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1804290866
- Language: English
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Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Birth, a journey into the underground activist networks that have been working to protect women’s autonomy over their bodies amidst legal, political, religious, and cu… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1668053241
- Language: English
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Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the Fbi, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s
The Weathermen. T- Author: Burrough, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0143107976
- Language: English
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Our Lady of the World’s Fair: Bringing Michelangelo’s Piet? to Queens in 1964
$29.95 Add to cartOur Lady of the World’s Fair reveals the remarkable story of how two of New York’s most influential leaders persuaded the Vatican to allow one of the world’s greatest works of art to leave Europe for
- Author: Nelson, Ruth D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501776908
- Language: English
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
$21.99 Add to cartThe vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner–creator of one of America’s most stunning museums–an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabell
- Author: Dykstra, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0063378353
- Language: English
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The Children
$26.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Best and the Brightest, The Reckoning”, and “The Fifties” now tells the story of the civil rights movement, as seen through the eyes of the young people–the … [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: March 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0449004392
- Language: English
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Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
$34.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement–the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and … [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1541675894
- Language: English
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A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination
$24.00 Add to cartThe “fascinating” (The New York Times) true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination … [more below]
- Author: Haverstick, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593727835
- Language: English
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The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Department of Justice Review and Evaluation
$16.99 Add to cartThe full, unexpurgated Department of Justice report on the investigation into the events previously known as the “Tulsa Race Riots” — and the revelation of the government’s own white washing of the m… [more below]
- Author: Department of Justice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1685892213
- Language: English
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So Great the Devastation: The 1916 Flood in Western North Carolina
$10.00 Add to cartIn mid-July 1916, the remnants of two hurricanes collided over western North Carolina, inundating the mountain region and the western Piedmont with historic rainfall. The result was catastrophic. Land… [more below]
- Author: Bandel, Jessica A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0865264813
- Language: English
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The Fifties: An Underground History
$17.99 Add to cartAn “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, br… [more below]
- Author: Gaines, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1439101647
- Language: English
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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
$22.00 Add to cart“Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1439155186
- Language: English
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Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early Years
$45.00 Add to cartRare views of the beginnings of the historic space program, selected and presented by two leading space flight authorities
After the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took a
- Author: Bisney, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1683402057
- Language: English
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The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1859 Great Britain and the United States almost went to war over the Northwest boundary when an American farmer shot a British pig. That July, U.S. Army Captain George E. Pickett looked down the gu
- Author: Vouri, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640025
- Language: English
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Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States
$28.00 Add to cartAs seen on Kudlow on the FOX Business Network!
The definitive history of the effect of the income tax on the economy. Ever since 1913, when the United States first imposed the income tax via constitut- Author: Laffer, Arthur B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1637585640
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
$31.99 Add to cartThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l… [more below]
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0197519644
- Language: English
