Chronological Period/1920's
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Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect
$38.99 Add to cartSt. Louis was a city under siege during Prohibition. Seven different criminal gangs violently vied for control of the town s illegal enterprises. Although their names (the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang,… [more below]
- Author: Waugh, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1540204715
- 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
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The Young Hemingway
$24.99 Add to cartMichael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America’s greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway’s persona: his father’s self-destructive battl
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0393317765
- Language: English
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
$50.99 Add to cartIn 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only… [more below]
- Author: Salisbury, Gay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0393019624
- Language: English
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Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism
$45.00 Add to cartPublic interest in Adolf Hitler and all aspects of the Third Reich continues to grow as new generations ponder the moral questions surrounding Nazi Germany and its historical legacy. One aspect of Naz… [more below]
- Author: Luhrssen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1597978574
- Language: English
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Reynolda: 1906-1924
$31.99 Add to cartReynolda–with its family home and gardens, experimental farm, village, and woodland–is an excellent example of the Country Place era. This popular destination in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was c… [more below]
- Author: Babcock Millhouse, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 153165861X
- Language: English
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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
$21.00 Add to cartEdith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York s- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: July 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0684847558
- Language: English
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Boomtime Boca: Boca Raton in the 1920s
$31.99 Add to cartBoca Raton, Florida, was a tiny farming community on
the southeastern coast of Florida when the state’s 1920s real estate boom grew into a national phenomenon. Investors and new residents were drawn t… [more below]- Author: Gillis, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 25 2007
- ISBN10: 1531627188
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: October 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0786868635
- Language: English
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
$19.99 Add to cart“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history of 192
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060956658
- Language: English
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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone
$20.95 Add to cartThe machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century. Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in … [more below]
- Author: Helmer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1581825498
- Language: English
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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice
$21.99 Add to cartLike most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Simonson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138711
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$22.99 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
$49.99 Add to cart“A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time.” –J. Anthony Lukas
“[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 866
- Publish Date: May 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328619
- Language: English
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Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 2: Vol. 2 (1920-1924)
$29.99 Add to cartThe second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf’s development as a writer. “Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama… above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too muc… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #2
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0156260379
- Language: English
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Defying Hitler: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartWritten in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner’s memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 190
- Author: Haffner, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421133
- Language: English
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
$14.99 Add to cartFilled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book by an award-winning author looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social
- Author: Blumenthal, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250034272
- Language: English
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The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and Wwi’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home
$27.00 Add to cartThe Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it n… [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128335
- Language: English
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Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World’s Highest Mountain
$27.95 Read moreThe dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition of 1922.
The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George- Author: Conefrey, Mick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361456
- Language: English
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Obata’s Yosemite: Art and Letters of Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927
$29.99 Add to cartChiura Obata, a gifted Japanese-born artist from California, made his first trip to Yosemite in 1927. The trip left a lasting impression in a remarkable collection of sketches, postcards, and letters…. [more below]
- Author: Obata, Chiura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0939666677
- Language: English
