Chronological Period/20th Century
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
$18.95 Read moreExtraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically c… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494929
- Language: English
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The Yellow Admiral
$15.95 Read moreLife ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O’Brian’s best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable thou… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #18
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021705
- Language: English
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The Hundred Days
$15.95 Read moreNapoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #19
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021713
- Language: English
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Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words
$29.99 Read moreDrawing on historical documents and exclusive interviews, authors tell the inspiring story of Clarence Thomas’s rise from a childhood of poverty and prejudice in the segregated South to Supreme Court … [more below]
- Author: Pack, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1684512700
- Language: English
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The Zimmermann Telegram: America Enters the War, 1917-1918; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$21.00 Add to cart“A tremendous tale of hushed and unhushed uproars in the linked fields of war and diplomacy” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August
In January 1917, the war- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0345324250
- Language: English
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Negroland: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural c… [more below]
- Author: Jefferson, Margo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0307473430
- Language: English
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
$17.95 Read moreIn this “penetrating new analysis” (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs
- Author: Katznelson, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328511
- Language: English
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The President Has Been Shot!: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
$18.99 Add to cartA YALSA-ALA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award Finalist
A breathtaking and dramatic account of the JFK assassination by the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Lincoln’s Killer.
In his
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0545490073
- Language: English
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
$16.95 Read moreRevised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes “any verbal nuance, however slight, w… [more below]
- Author: Empson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 1966
- ISBN10: 081120037X
- Language: English
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The Korean War: A History
$22.00 Add to cartA BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 081297896X
- Language: English
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Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
$35.00 Read moreA compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.
‘Both [authors] are former soldiers,- Author: Dannatt, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1472860861
- Language: English
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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
$40.83 Add to cartRevised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup–“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker).
Published to commemorate the fortiet- Author: Kornbluh, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589120
- Language: English
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Rebecca: Lights, Camera, Rebecca!
$7.99 Read moreFor her tenth birthday, Rebecca is invited to visit her cousin Max’s movie studio! When the cameras begin to roll, she finds herself unexpectedly presented with a part to play. Rebecca doesn’t have th… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Greene, Jacqueline Dembar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371453
- Language: English
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LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy: A Coalescence of Interests
$19.95 Add to cartBest-selling, Oxford-educated investigative author Joseph P. Farrell takes on the Kennedy assassination and the involvement of Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Texas “machine” that he controlled. Farrell… [more below]
- Author: Farrell, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1935487183
- Language: English
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
$19.00 Read more*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*
“Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self… [more below]- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 030794817X
- Language: English
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Willa of Dark Hollow
$17.99 Read moreThis enchanting companion to Robert Beatty’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller Willa of the Wood is perfect for any reader who cares deeply about the natural world.
Willa and her clan are the las- Series: Willa of the Wood #2
- Author: Beatty, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1368007600
- Language: English
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Courtney Friendship Superhero
$7.99 Read moreCourtney’s suited up for an epic adventure — just like Crystal Starshooter, the video game hero she invented. Crystal is brave and bold and doesn’t back down. Courtney tries to be the same in real li… [more below]
- Series: American Girl(r) Historical Characters
- Author: Hertz, Kellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1683371704
- Language: English
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The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland
$23.99 Read moreIn the summer of 1967, nineteen-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days lat… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Railey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1467147397
- Language: English
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Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
$21.99 Read moreThe incredible story of one of America’s most publicized–and surprising–criminal trials in history.
No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of P- Author: Abrams, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1335469524
- Language: English
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How High the Moon
$8.99 Read moreTo Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl’s journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of t… [more below]
- Author: Parsons, Karyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 316484016
- Language: English
