Chronological Period/1950's
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Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
$22.00 Add to cartThis wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the fight to implement it–and its implica
- Author: Motley, Constance Baker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0374526184
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
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In the Enemy’s House
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chro
- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0062458264
- Language: English
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Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History
$34.95 Add to cartJournalists began to call the Korean War “the Forgotten War” even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just … [more below]
- Author: Cline, David P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1469664534
- Language: English
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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The Korean War
$21.99 Add to cartIn December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of the United Nations … [more below]
- Author: Ridgway, Matthew B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: January 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0306802678
- Language: English
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Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
$21.99 Add to cartNewcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite differe… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Dunnigan, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135704
- Language: English
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Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971
$26.95 Add to cartIn this riveting collection, available for the first time in paperback, we follow Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, two giants of the post-World War II period who were primarily responsible for the Ma
- Author: Truman, Harry S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803245262
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles
When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a- Author: Podair, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192790
- Language: English
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1959: The Year Everything Changed
$17.95 Add to cartAcclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America
While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of p
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470602031
- Language: English
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
$23.93 Add to cartThe story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago. “An absorbing account…a tale of terr… [more below]
- Series: Illinois
- Author: Cowan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 156663217X
- Language: English
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The Darkest Summer
$24.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed, dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War, when outnumbered and outgunned Marines and GIs executed two of the greatest military operations in history and saved South Ko… [more below]
- Author: Sloan, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416571752
- Language: English
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What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
$19.99 Add to cartWith a New Afterword by the Author
The New York Times bestseller, praised as “hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic a- Author: Frank, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 080507774X
- Language: English
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The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake
$21.99 Add to cart- Series: Disaster
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119962
- Language: English
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Hang on and Fly: A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival
$21.99 Add to cartHang on and Fly. A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival
Passenger planes are crashing three and four times a month in 1951 just as Americans are beginning to fly. Then a load
- Author: Lake, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 31 2015
- ISBN10: 099673600X
- Language: English
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Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos serve… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180315
- Language: English
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Korean War: A Captivating Guide to Korean War History
$29.99 Add to cartExplore how the Korean War Started, the Aftermath and the Events in Between
The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the United States, tells the tale of a conflict between two
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1647485517
- Language: English
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Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
$32.57 Add to cartFew philosophers have had as strong an influence on the way we think about power and knowledge as Michel Foucault (1926-1984). His work has influenced the teaching of any number of disciplines and rem
- Series: Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 1565844343
- Language: English
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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog: Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955
$24.95 Add to cartAnglos have been coming to Santa Fe for centuries, and early in the last century the city’s beauty and exotic cultural mix became particularly attractive to artistic immigrants looking for freedom fro
- Author: Farge, John Pen La
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826320155
- Language: English
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Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950
$40.00 Add to cartYou know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling phot… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Vieira, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 24 2016
- ISBN10: 0762455233
- Language: English
