United States - 21st Century
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Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the 2022 PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a “riveting and tightly argued” history of eugenics and its ripple effects, by acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte.
Betw
- Author: Catte, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1953368190
- Language: English
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The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
$20.00 Add to cart“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”–ERIK LARSON
A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transfor- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593443977
- Language: English
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2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
$32.00 Add to cartIn 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in our history.
“The- Author: Dawsey, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593832531
- Language: English
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Dragon on Centre Street: New York vs. Donald J. Trump
$30.00 Add to cartThe Definitive Account of the Trump Trial. Your behind-the-scenes look at the historic showdown between President Donald Trump and the criminal justice system, told through the eyes of the journalist … [more below]
- Author: Bromwich, Jonah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Charlottesville: An American Story
$35.00 Add to cartIn August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Within an hour o
- Author: Baker, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 164445341X
- Language: English
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Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
$29.95 Add to cartHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War
Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory–but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the cham- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1890951919
- Language: English
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A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
$26.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
“Sweeping…A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars.”
—New Y- Author: Slotkin, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0674301439
- Language: English
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Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America
$32.00 Read moreA blistering expos? of Clarence Thomas and the conservative regime of corruption that has usurped the Supreme Court–by a Democratic activist and former Republican political operative
Public confidenc- Author: Brock, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014385
- Language: English
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Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal about Rising Threats to American Democracy
$30.00 Read moreA clear-eyed assessment of where we go from here–detailing how to combat misinformation and isolation–from the foremost expert on American political violence
“A soulful and significant contribution- Author: Heaphy, Timothy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1586424017
- Language: English
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Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post
$21.99 Read more“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” —The New York Times Book Review
Politics. Money. Media. Tech. …It’s all here in Collision of Power. “- Author: Baron, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1250844223
- Language: English
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The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The Fbi, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, Usa-1939-1956
$16.95 Add to cartThe first book to document the efforts of the FBI against the most famous American folk singers of the mid-twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, ‘Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Burl I… [more below]
- Author: Leonard, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1913462005
- Language: English
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Add to cart“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062275658
- Language: English
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Cracker Horses and Cattle: A History of Florida’s Heritage Breeds
$24.99 Read moreJoin author Carol Matthews on a galloping romp through the long history of Florida’s cracker horses and cattle.
The first horses and cattle to set foot on the North American continent stepped onto Flo
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Matthews, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151009
- Language: English
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Send a Ranger: My Life Serving the National Parks
$19.95 Add to cartSend a Ranger: My Life Serving the National Parks is the story of one park ranger’s journey from Gettysburg to Denali and back, raising a family, contending with bears, and rescuing hikers, in four na
- Author: Habecker, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493066803
- Language: English
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Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers & Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer
$18.95 Read moreLetters from Mississippi offers a riveting, personal and multi-faceted narrative of the dramatic events that took place during the summer of 1964, “Freedom Summer,” when hundreds of people came to Mis
- Author: Martínez, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1938890027
- Language: English
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The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS’s History with David Rubenstein–David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top histori… [more below]
- Author: Rubenstein, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1668067625
- Language: English
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Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America
$30.00 Add to cartA blistering exposé of Clarence Thomas and the conservative regime of corruption that has usurped the Supreme Court–by a Democratic activist and former Republican political operative
Public confiden- Author: Brock, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593802144
- Language: English
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The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The- Author: Jones, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1668009528
- Language: English
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Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the Fbi, and the War on Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartOver the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public
- Author: Rohde, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881962
- Language: English
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Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change
$16.99 Add to cartSchool strikes for the climate. A bold campaign for a Green New Deal. Fossil fuel divestment. Over the last few years, these and other youth-driven climate initiatives have grabbed the public’s attent… [more below]
- Author: Engelfried, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: November 09 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986958408
- Language: English
