Chronological Period/1900-1949
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
$23.99 Add to cartWith America’s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle cl… [more below]
- Author: McGerr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0195183657
- Language: English
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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
$45.00 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association
True West Magazine Editors’ and Readers’ Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year Wyatt Earp is on- Author: Young, Roy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: July 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1574417738
- Language: English
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Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
$21.95 Add to cartCharles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry–an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this bri
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #21
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141956
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth
$8.95 Add to cartThe enlightening memoir of the industrialist as famous for his philanthropy as for his fortune.
His good friend Mark Twain dubbed him “St. Andrew.” British Prime Minister William Gladstone called him- Author: Carnegie, Andrew
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0451530381
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
$22.00 Add to cartThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magn… [more below]- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812975294
- Language: English
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In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
$26.95 Add to cartThe beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877-1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden’s powerful horn from
- Author: Marquis, Donald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0807130931
- Language: English
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Burning Lights
$19.00 Add to cartThis charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in… [more below]
- Author: Chagall, Bella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: March 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0805208631
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
$19.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Notable Book
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hi
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307455262
- Language: English
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
$21.99 Add to cartAmelia Earhart (1897-1937) captured the hearts of America after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Nine years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight brought h
- Author: Butler, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: August 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 030681837X
- Language: English
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Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
$29.95 Add to cartThis biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United
- Author: Meine, Curt D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 676
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0299249042
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man
$21.00 Add to cartWhat turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to … [more below]
- Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Author: Hamann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1848852770
- Language: English
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21st Century Ellis: Operational Art and Strategic Prophecy for the Modern Era
$25.95 Add to cartFor years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lt. Col. “Pete” Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater would be won. Now the w… [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Foundations
- Author: Friedman, Brett A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1612518079
- Language: English
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Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell
$21.99 Add to cartIn the 1930s, while the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression sent most of America into the doldrums, a lively intellectual and artistic community formed in the West, revolving around three legendary fri
- Author: Tamm, Eric Enno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 28 2005
- ISBN10: 1560256893
- Language: English
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Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century
$24.95 Add to cartSince its initial publication a decade ago, Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century has captivated readers with its unprecedented blend of serious history, fascinating images, and heartfe… [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0967820448
- Language: English
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Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik
$19.95 Add to cartHayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is considered Israel’s national poet and one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time. Several of his poems, particularly his immensely popular children’s verse, were s
- Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
- Author: Hadari, Atar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606052
- Language: English
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Trotsky
$27.99 Add to cartTrotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twent
- Author: Geary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0809095084
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero
$21.99 Add to cartHandcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar.
Since his death eighty-eight years ago, Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreakin- Author: Kalush, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0743272080
- Language: English
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941-1945
$35.99 Add to cartThis true account of spycraft in the UK during World War II is “spellbinding…a compelling insider’s view to the shadow war: intrigue and treachery, double-dealing and deception, hope and despair, tr… [more below]
- Author: Marks, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 068486780X
- Language: English
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartFrom America’s preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945.
This aut- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0684856298
- Language: English
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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
$21.99 Add to cartFROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER — HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA.
San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant… [more below]- Author: Schechter, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671732188
- Language: English
