Chronological Period/21st Century
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Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America
$24.99 Add to cartIn August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiv… [more below]
- Author: McCartin, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199325200
- Language: English
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Habermas: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJ?gen Habermas is the most renowned living German philosopher. This book aims to give a clear and readable overview of his philosophical work. It analyzes both the theoretical underpinnings of Haberma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Finlayson, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0192840959
- Language: English
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Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
$20.99 Add to cartA former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become th
- Author: Watts, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062795996
- Language: English
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
The epic true story of Dunkirk–now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance
In 1940, the Al
- Author: Levine, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 006274030X
- Language: English
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The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy Seal Leader
$26.99 Add to cartNavy SEAL and author of Overcome Jason Redman’s highly-charged account of his combat missions in Iraq and his miraculous recovery from wounds that might have killed him–if it were not for his grit an
- Author: Redman, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0062278436
- Language: English
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
$19.99 Add to cart“Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants. . . . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex. . . . If the picture Moorhead paints is messi
- Series: Resistance Quartet #2
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062202480
- Language: English
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Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.: How the Working Poor Became Big Business
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries–the business of poverty. Bro… [more below]
- Author: Rivlin, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0061733202
- Language: English
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For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the co-author of KGB: The Inside Story and an acknowledged authority on the subject comes “the most important book ever written about American intelligence.”–David Kahn, author of The Codebreake… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0060921781
- Language: English
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Coffee with Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis
$29.95 Read more*A Telegraph and Spectator Best Book of the Year*
The fascinating story of how an eccentric group of intelligence agents used amateur diplomacy to penetrate the Nazi high command in an effort to preve- Author: Spicer, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362266
- Language: English
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The George Floyd Uprising
$22.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 2020, America experienced one of the biggest uprisings in half a century. Waves of enraged citizens took to the streets to streets in Minneapolis to decry the murder of George Floyd a
- Author: Group, Vortex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639664
- Language: English
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The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945-2020
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an
- Author: Weiner, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 125081622X
- Language: English
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Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
$22.95 Add to cartIn Quagmire you’ll find a range of voices–men and women, military and civilian–and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, and war’s aftermath. These personal responses to war in… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124527
- Language: English
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The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy
$22.00 Add to cartAndrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks m
- Series: Russian and East European Studies
- Author: Kozyrev, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966514
- Language: English
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Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections
$21.95 Add to cartHistorians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of the vote has returned to the headlines, as awareness
- Series: History in the Headlines
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 15 2020
- ISBN10: 082035774X
- Language: English
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Siren’s Song: The Allure of War
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Salinas, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1944193022
- Language: English
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The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel
$39.95 Add to cartIn The Transparent Cabal, Stephen J. Sniegoski, Ph.D., provides the key to understanding “neoconservatism,” its
meaning, and its influence as regards U.S. Middle East policy. Sniegoski’s book is also- Author: Sniegoski, Stephen J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 13 2008
- ISBN10: 1932528172
- Language: English
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Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
$16.95 Add to cartThe Arab Spring captivated the planet. Mass action overthrew Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. The revolutionary wave spread to the far corners of the Arab world, from Morocco to Bahrain. I
- Author: Prashad, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1849351120
- Language: English
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Alexandria
$31.99 Add to cartAlexandria is situated near the center of Douglas County, surrounded by a chain of beautiful lakes. These lakes brought pioneer settlers to the area as early as 1858, when Minnesota achieved statehood… [more below]
- Author: Grover, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1531666531
- Language: English
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Newtown: An American Tragedy
$20.00 Add to cartA journalist for The Daily News (New York) offers a “meticulous account of the Newtown massacre and its aftermath….it’s been a year, and this harrowing book might be a reminder that the debate needs… [more below]
- Author: Lysiak, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 147675375X
- Language: English
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In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartIn his #1 New York Times bestseller, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers a forty-year portrait of American politics and shares unyielding reflections on his role as one of the most steadfast an… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1439176221
- Language: English
