United States - 20th Century
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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
$18.00 Add to cartA brilliant and visionary argument for America’s role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world–and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.
Recent years h- Author: Kagan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0525563571
- Language: English
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Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: A Long View of History
$12.00 Add to cartWhere did humanity come from?
How did we arrive where we are today?
Why is that even important?Because without understanding how human society, since our remotest ancestors, has been created through soc… [more below]
- Author: Engels, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1604881208
- Language: English
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Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement
$22.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength–including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph … [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 037575881X
- Language: English
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”–events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order t
- Author: Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741801
- Language: English
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
$20.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider’s account of American policy making in Vietnam.
“Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his cou- Author: McNamara, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767495
- Language: English
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1969: The Year Everything Changed
$24.95 Read moreWoodstock, the moon landing, Charles Manson, Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, and more. A must-read for baby boomers and the generations that came after!
Here is a rich, comprehensive narrative, chroni- Author: Kirkpatrick, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1602393664
- Language: English
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To Move the World: Jfk’s Quest for Peace
$21.00 Read moreAn inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy’s presidency–the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office–by the New York Times bestselling author o… [more below]
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0812985125
- Language: English
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Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
$20.00 Read moreA Smithsonian Best History Book of the Year
Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize
Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Winner of the Order of the Coif Award
Winner of the Sidney M. Edelstein Prize
Winn- Author: Seo, Sarah A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260341
- Language: English
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Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
$21.00 Read moreA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
“Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance…You really ought to read it…A tour de force…While Wertheim is- Author: Wertheim, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271130
- Language: English
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City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington
$30.00 Add to cartAn inside look at how midcentury DC journalists silenced their own skepticism and shaped public perceptions of the Cold War.
Americans’ current trust in journalists is at a dismayingly low ebb, parti- Author: McGarr, Kathryn J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 022666404X
- Language: English
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
$21.99 Add to cart“An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan.” — Jay Winik
President Reagan’s dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and a
- Series: Three Days
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0062748432
- Language: English
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Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette
$30.00 Read moreSpanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted–and how the industry’s disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day. … [more below]
- Author: Wailoo, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 022679413X
- Language: English
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Moondoggle: Franklin Roosevelt and the Fight for Tidal-Electric Power at Passamaquoddy Bay
$45.00 Add to cartFor 25 years, Franklin Roosevelt tried to build the world’s first tidal-electric power plant-by harnessing the Bay of Fundy’s giant tides. The enormous project would have dammed-up 110 square miles of… [more below]
- Author: Borton, Mark C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1608937143
- Language: English
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The Shattering: America in the 1960s
$22.00 Read moreOn July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the fol
- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036117
- Language: English
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
$17.95 Read moreProhibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to r
- Author: McGirr, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353524
- Language: English
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Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives
$22.00 Read moreThe variety of LGBTQ life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives has striven to do just that, amassing a wea… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2020
- ISBN10: 022672753X
- Language: English
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The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson
$19.95 Read moreAn intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors.
Horace Busby was one of LBJ’s most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship- Author: Busby, Horace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1477327479
- Language: English
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
$18.95 Read moreExtraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically c… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494929
- Language: English
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
$17.95 Read moreIn this “penetrating new analysis” (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs
- Author: Katznelson, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328511
- Language: English
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
$19.00 Read more*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*
“Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self… [more below]- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 030794817X
- Language: English
