Chronological Period/1950's
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
$18.00 Add to cart“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”–Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard … [more below]
- Author: Lanier, Carlotta Walls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0345511018
- Language: English
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography–1949-1962
$18.99 Add to cart“The life she describes is heroic…yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel.”– San Francisco Chronicle
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s extraordinary a
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929561
- Language: English
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
$70.82 Add to cartDrawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it show… [more below]
- Author: Moyar, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: March 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0521757630
- Language: English
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Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartSince its publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In “quick, translucent prose” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recoun
- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327280
- Language: English
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The Coup: 1953, the Cia, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
$19.95 Add to cartIn August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United State
- Author: Abrahamian, Ervand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1620970864
- Language: English
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The Lycian Shore: A Turkish Odyssey
$17.95 Add to cart‘There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.’ Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient … [more below]
- Series: Freya Stark Collection
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1848853122
- Language: English
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Korean Short History
$15.99 Add to cartAs pungent and concise as his short histories of both world wars, Stokesbury’s survey of “the half war” takes a broad view and seems to leave nothing out but the details. The first third covers the No
- Author: Stokesbury, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 30 1990
- ISBN10: 0688095135
- Language: English
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Black Like Me
$24.95 Read moreOn October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own–he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discov… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, John Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0916727688
- Language: English
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Lost in the Cold War: The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW
$32.95 Add to cartIn 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richa
- Series: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-E
- Author: Downey, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0231199120
- Language: English
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
$29.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533997
- Language: English
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White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea
$21.95 Add to cartOperating from a clandestine camp on an island off western North Korea, Army Lt. Ben Malcom coordinated the intelligence activities of eleven partisan battalions, including the famous White Tigers. Wi… [more below]
- Series: Memories of War
- Author: Malcom, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574886053
- Language: English
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Unbeatable: How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World
$15.99 Add to cartAttucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.
By winning the- Author: Hoose, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250780705
- Language: English
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
$31.99 Add to cartNo other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the … [more below]
- Author: Fursenko, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317900
- Language: English
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The Fifties
$22.00 Add to cartThe Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of … [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: May 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0449909336
- Language: English
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
$19.99 Add to cartThe riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocitie- Author: Holt, Nathalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0316338907
- Language: English
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All Shook Up: How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America
$23.99 Add to cartThe birth of rock ‘n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy–one critic called it “musical riots put to a switchblade beat”–but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History (Oxford)
- Author: Altschuler, Glenn C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: December 09 2004
- ISBN10: 0195177495
- Language: English
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Inside the Battle of Algiers
$29.95 Add to cartThis gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the… [more below]
- Author: Drif, Zohra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1682570754
- Language: English
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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
$18.00 Add to cartOn December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of televisi… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144128
- Language: English
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
$50.00 Add to cartAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, p
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062405667
- Language: English
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After the Korean War: An Intimate History
$37.00 Add to cartFollowing his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War’s enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate … [more below]
- Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Author: Kwon, Heonik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1108487920
- Language: English
