Chronological Period/1920's
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John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks’ Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936
$29.95 Add to cart“Paul Maccabee’s John Dillinger Slept Here is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of local history I have ever read — about any city an
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Maccabee, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513169
- Language: English
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
$22.99 Add to cartIn the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers,
- Author: Lasalle, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0312284314
- Language: English
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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius
$24.00 Add to cartOn the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act taking effect comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system and helped inspire The Great Gatsby.
“[Batchelor] makes this- Author: Batchelor, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1635767385
- Language: English
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Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
$21.95 Add to cartStrikes and union battles occurred throughout American industry during the early part of the twentieth century, but none of these stories compare to the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1912 and 1921. These
- Author: Corbin, David Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1604864524
- Language: English
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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
$29.93 Add to cartWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them–one in which art and architecture… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1538121808
- Language: English
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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
$22.99 Add to cart“An original book…about individuals who used ideas to change the world” (The New Yorker)–the fascinating exploration into the creation and history of the Paris Peace Pact, an often overlooked but t… [more below]
- Author: Hathaway, Oona A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1501109871
- Language: English
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood st
- Author: Mann, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062242199
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$26.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684833638
- Language: English
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus–one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and ha… [more below]
- Author: Spinney, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1541736125
- Language: English
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The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
$19.00 Add to cartThe spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling advent… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1476753873
- Language: English
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Deranged
$16.99 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster and Harold Schechter comes Deranged, the shocking true story of America’s most fiendish killer. Schechter brings his expertise to the shocking true story of a murderer in the ear… [more below]
- Author: Schechter, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0671025457
- Language: English
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
$20.00 Add to cartIt is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America’s most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially
- Author: Cooper, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611749
- Language: English
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
$27.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Reading the West Book Awards
With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the
NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction- Author: Young, Rj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1640095020
- 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
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Washington’s Immortals, The Unknowns takes readers into the heart of combat in the Great War to tell the powerful story behind the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown … [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147178
- Language: English
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Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
$26.95 Add to cartIn the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the c
- Series: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
- Author: Reed, John Shelton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 08, 2014
- ISBN10: 0807156108
- Language: English
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
$21.99 Add to cartA “powerful revisionist history” (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution
In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events whic- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675487
- Language: English
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The Jew Store
$22.99 Add to cart“For a real bargain, while you’re making a living, you should make also a life.” –Aaron Bronson
In 1920, in small-town America, the ubiquitous dry goods store–suits and coats, shoes and hats, work- Author: Suberman, Stella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: September 14 2001
- ISBN10: 1565123301
- Language: English
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartA masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of t- Author: Bogosian, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0316292109
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Third Reich
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive account of Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power and The Third Reich at War.
“The clearest and most grippin… [more below]- Series: History of the Third Reich
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 622
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0143034693
- Language: English
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Hemingway: The Paris Years: The Paris Years (Revised)
$29.99 Add to cartThe 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway’s apprenticeship as a writer, whether he was sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318796
- Language: English
