Chronological Period/1950-1999
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American Dreams: The United States Since 1945
$18.00 Add to cartThe story of our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone from bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands
With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, H. W. B- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119559
- Language: English
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Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the most exhilarating true adventures in history, the race into space was marked by courage, duplicity, political paranoia, astonishing technological feats, and unbelievable triumphs in the fac
- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0061176281
- Language: English
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
$19.95 Add to cartAs a newly commisioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald’s first combat was war at its most hellish–the Battle of the Bulge. In this plain-spoken but eloquent narrative, we live each minu… [more below]
- Author: MacDonald, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 19 1999
- ISBN10: 1580800386
- Language: English
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Six Flags Great America
$31.99 Add to cartMarriott’s Great America first opened in Gurnee, Illinois, on May 29, 1976. Located midway between Chicago and Milwaukee, it was the second of two Marriott Corporation theme parks. Great America was c… [more below]
- Series: Images of Modern America
- Author: Wilson, Steven W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1540226026
- Language: English
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Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing
$26.95 Add to cartDesigned for philosophers as well as readers with no particular philosophical background, the essays in this lively book are grouped into four amusing acts. Act One looks at the four Seinfeld characte… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy #1
- Author: Irwin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 1999
- ISBN10: 0812694090
- Language: English
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Bo’s Warriors
$19.95 Add to cartA giant tsunami hit the staid Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan in 1969 when it was announced that Glenn Edward “Bo” Schembechler was to be the new head football coach, replacing the belo… [more below]
- Author: Lieberman, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1629370517
- Language: English
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Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana
$47.93 Add to cartHistory is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their … [more below]
- Author: Leogrande, William M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1469626608
- Language: English
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Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World
$22.95 Read moreOn the eve of World War II, news of an astonishing breakthrough filtered out of Germany. Scientists there had split uranium atoms. Researchers in the United States scrambled to verify results and furt
- Author: Williams, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0874223075
- Language: English
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Perfect Storm
$45.99 Add to cart“Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he’s thirty feet higher than the men trying to
- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 039304016X
- Language: English
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
$22.99 Add to cartGail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women’s lives over the past 50 years, with her usual “sly wit and unfussy style” (People).
When Eve- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0316014044
- Language: English
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Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines
$49.95 Add to cartSubmarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposi… [more below]
- Author: Polmar, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574885308
- Language: English
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Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
$17.00 Add to cart“A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips–before portable DVD players, smartphone… [more below]
- Author: Ratay, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1501188755
- Language: English
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Why We’re Polarized
$28.00 Add to cartONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t br- Author: Klein, Ezra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 147670032X
- Language: English
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Bitter Harvest
$20.99 Add to cartTrue crime icon Ann Rule presents a “must-read” (People) New York Times bestseller–and inspiration behind the Lifetime movie A House on Fire–following a woman whose apparent perfect life hides a har… [more below]
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1668008718
- Language: English
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War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat
$39.95 Add to cartWar by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By
- Author: Lawrence, Christopher A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1612348866
- Language: English
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Decision Points
$37.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this candid and gripping memoir, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.
George W. Bush served as pres- Author: Bush, George W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0307590615
- Language: English
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JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation
$28.00 Add to cartFinally, the information you’ve been waiting for: who really killed JonBenet?
Perhaps the most compelling murder case of our day, the death of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey galvanized the nation-and ye- Author: Thomas, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 413
- Publish Date: November 15 2000
- ISBN10: 1250054796
- Language: English
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Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
$16.99 Add to cartIn Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix–a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood r
- Author: Edwards, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0062273175
- Language: English
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Capturing Education: Envisioning and Building the First Tribal Colleges
$12.95 Add to cartCapturing Education examines the founding of the first tribally controlled American Indian colleges in the late 1960s and early 1970s and follows their subsequent growth and development, especially in… [more below]
- Author: Boyer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 193459413X
- Language: English
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
$40.00 Add to cartThe internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.
In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to- Author: Levine, Yasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1610398025
- Language: English
