Chronological Period/1950's
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
$18.99 Add to cartThe essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy–Parting the Waters; Pillar o… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1451662467
- Language: English
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Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955
$33.00 Add to cartAs World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: April 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531586
- Language: English
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
$90.65 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0521869110
- Language: English
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
$25.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader and R… [more below]
- Author: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 1400076781
- Language: English
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Creative Haven Fabulous Fashions of the 1960s Coloring Book
$7.99 Read moreIf you’re nostalgic for the swinging ’60s or if you dream of dressing in flowery prints, mini-skirts, bell bottoms, and other styles of the era, then this is the coloring book for you Thirty-one page… [more below]
- Series: Creative Haven Coloring Books
- Author: Sun, Ming-Ju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 13 2018
- ISBN10: 486821692
- Language: English
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Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
$20.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
‘A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve’ Simon Sebag Montefiore ‘Harrowing- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1408886367
- Language: English
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Devotion (Movie Tie-In): An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE – From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call.
“In the spirit of Unbroken and- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593722337
- Language: English
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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955
$21.95 Add to cartThe end of World War II led to the United States’ emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that o
- Author: Spector, Ronald H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064447
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954: Vol. 2 Paperback Edition
$22.99 Add to cartOur second paperback volume of the acclaimed Complete Peanuts series finds Schulz continuing to establish his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts’ third full year and a cast of eight: Ch… [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1606997920
- Language: English
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
$20.99 Add to cartA brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s–“Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who love… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501122428
- Language: English
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The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subv… [more below]
- Author: Robbins, Louise S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133147
- Language: English
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartIn modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere–old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romantic… [more below]
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0061712744
- Language: English
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King
$32.95 Read moreThis comic is a unique testimony of resistance, tenacity and courage. A clear sample, that avoids falling into condescension, of the risky inconveniences and the very diverse obstacles that the Revere… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Ho Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 841676378X
- Language: Spanish
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Paris Journal, 1956-65
$17.99 Add to cartThis portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature “Gen黎.” Edited by Will… [more below]
- Series: Paris Journal #2
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 015670949X
- Language: English
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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
$25.00 Add to cartThe 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams’s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Mont- Series: Eyes on the Prize
- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124749
- Language: English
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Korea: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHaving spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons– the South as an economic success story and f… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Seth, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0198830777
- Language: English
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Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977
$26.95 Add to cartA prizewinning historian and journalist who has covered the pop music scene for more than three decades, James Miller brings a powerful and challenging intellectual perspective to his recounting of so… [more below]
- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865602
- Language: English
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K2, The Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World’s Second-Highest Mountain
$19.95 Add to cartThe 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world.
- Author: Houston, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493050249
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
$20.00 Read moreThe second installment in ‘The People’s Trilogy’, the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dik?ter
‘For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this i- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1408886359
- Language: English
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The Korean War
$20.99 Add to cartIt was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle.Max Hastings–preeminent military historian–takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle t
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 391
- Publish Date: October 15, 1988
- ISBN10: 067166834X
- Language: English
