Modern - 20th Century - General
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Pillars of the American Century: FDR, Reagan, and the World They Shaped
$18.95 Add to cartFranklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan were the two most consequential and successful Presidents of the 20th Century. Most casual observers today think of them as polar opposites in their views on gover
- Author: Bumgardner, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893094114
- Language: English
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His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine
$18.99 Add to cartFrom historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall o… [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1982168307
- Language: English
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Burma ’44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East
In Februar
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0802160581
- Language: English
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction
$25.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Asw… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0525509488
- Language: English
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
$29.99 Add to cartThe interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881105
- Language: English
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The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
$36.00 Add to cart- Author: Waller, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593184424
- Language: English
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The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
$24.00 Read moreThe unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics “The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths th- Author: Nichter, Luke a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280130
- Language: English
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Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
$32.00 Add to cartThe never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World … [more below]
- Author: Eicher, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639366423
- Language: English
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”–Dan Rather
To some- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0345455827
- Language: English
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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
$29.95 Add to cartThe Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuri… [more below]
- Author: Arrighi, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1844673049
- Language: English
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Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home
$45.00 Add to cartIntimate stories that offer entertaining perspectives on what it was like to engage with radio when it was new.
Radio, today, can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensatio
- Author: Rubens, Beaty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246312
- Language: English
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Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia
$32.00 Add to cartThe rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity
Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the autom- Author: Berenson, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0300259549
- Language: English
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Going Around: Selected Journalism
$29.95 Add to cartA definitive collection of writings by the legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Murray Kempton (1917-1997) with a foreword by Darryl Pinckney, gathering dozens of columns, essays, and critiques f… [more below]
- Author: Kempton, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214512
- Language: English
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The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic’s Chinese Survivors
$29.95 Add to cartA moving exploration of the origins and fate of the little-known Chinese passengers aboard the Titanic–and how they survived against all odds.
When RMS Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, barely se- Author: Schwankert, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368671
- Language: English
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Snafu: The Definitive Guide to History’s Greatest Screwups
$32.00 Add to cartFrom actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history’s greatest screwups, complete with lively illustrations.
History- Author: Helms, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1538769476
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McMahon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0198859546
- Language: English
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live–and to create–with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish… [more below]
- Author: Watling, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593319664
- Language: English
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Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory
$26.00 Add to cartThe untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history
In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European inte- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Mittelmeier, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 300259301
- Language: English
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The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
$29.99 Add to cartWe often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global populat
- Author: Brands, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 132403694X
- Language: English
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
$33.00 Add to cartA Washington Post most anticipated fall book
“How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently dema
A legendary editor’s reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0374270961
- Language: English
