United States - 20th Century
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Profiles in Courage
$27.99 Add to cartTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0060530626
- Language: English
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The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
$29.95 Add to cartThe shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation
On a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedica- Author: Martin, Lerone A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 069117511X
- Language: English
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Profiles in Courage
$27.99 Add to cartTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0060530626
- Language: English
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Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
$29.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of the “stirring, definitive, and engrossing” (NPR) The Woman’s Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668002698
- Language: English
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The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America’s First Women Astronauts
$20.99 Add to cart“Vivid.” —The Guardian * “Engrossing.” —Booklist * “Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.” –Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures
In this account- Author: Grush, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1982172819
- Language: English
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They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became Chicago
$24.95 Read moreExamining the case that inspired a pop culture phenomenon
In 1924 Beulah Annan was arrested for killing her lover, Harry Kalsted. Six weeks later, a jury acquitted her of murder. Inspired by the- Author: Cosgrove, Charles H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0809339382
- Language: English
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Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential Retreat
$18.99 Add to cartThe first-ever insider account of Camp David, the president’s private retreat, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of its inception.
Never before have the gates of Camp David been opened to the public. In… [more below]- Author: Giorgione, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0316509590
- Language: English
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Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front
$19.95 Read moreWinner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award
“A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation…This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning.”–Boston Globe “The rare book b- Author: Gallagher, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293878
- Language: English
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
$31.99 Add to cartBeginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States V X
- Author: Patterson, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 20 1997
- ISBN10: 0195117972
- Language: English
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Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil
$25.00 Read moreThe first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst.
Reinhold Kulle s- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Soffer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835545
- Language: English
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Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
$32.00 Add to cartThe surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others
On farms and in factories, Americans once had little cho- Author: Chappel, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619528
- Language: English
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The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in America
In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was bor
- Author: Gorton, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063036290
- Language: English
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
$17.00 Add to cartI tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct t… [more below]
- Author: Kalish, Mildred Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0553384244
- Language: English
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Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham
$35.00 Read moreMartin T. Manton was a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. At the time, this was a hugely important story: Manton was considered the highest-r
- Author: Stein, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072560
- Language: English
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Honest Answers about the Murder of President John F. Kennedy: A New Look at the JFK Assassination
$24.95 Read moreThousands of books and articles have been written about the murder of JFK, many of which are large in volume and short on facts. Quite often, these works try to reinvent the wheel, attempting to cover… [more below]
- Author: Palamara, Vincent Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 19 2021
- ISBN10: 163424334X
- Language: English
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
$19.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undes- Author: Cohen, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109995
- Language: English
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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
$23.95 Read moreThe inspiration for the PBS documentary premiering March 2023
The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American e- Author: Orleck, Annelise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0807007978
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
$19.99 Add to cartWhen–and how–did America become so polarized? In this masterful history, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer uncover the origins of our current moment. It all starts in 1974 with
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357708
- Language: English
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
$21.00 Read moreOne of New York Magazine’s best books on Silicon Valley
The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O’Mara became o- Author: O’Mara, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0399562206
- Language: English
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
$30.00 Read moreHow six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II
“A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today’s right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are u- Author: Olmsted, Kathryn S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300256426
- Language: English
