Chronological Period/21st Century
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Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
$22.00 Add to cartNEW UPDATED EDITION
Bob Dylan is one of the most iconic figures in modern music, and for two decades, Howard Sounes’ Down the Highway has been the definitive biography of an American icon. Based on yea
- Author: Sounes, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0802158641
- Language: English
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The Nra: The Unauthorized History
$21.99 Add to cartFor the first time, the definitive account of America’s most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins.
The National Rifle Association is- Author: Smyth, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1250210305
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership
$30.00 Read moreAn authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China’s growing power poses and how it must be confronted
“Timely and thought-provoking. . . . An unsparing analysis of how Washington’- Author: Prestowitz, Clyde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0300248490
- Language: English
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Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
$33.99 Add to cart“I don’t take responsibility at all.” Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history’s epitaph on his presidency.
A huge swath of Americans has put their fa
- Author: Frum, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0063000229
- Language: English
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Postville U.S.A.
$14.95 Add to cartPostville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew international media. Now people declare the town’s experimen… [more below]
- Author: Grey, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934848646
- Language: English
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9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation
$20.00 Read moreA panel of experts highlight the problems with all major claims of the official account of the 9/11 attacks. Many Americans have been embarrassed by the Trump presidency. But Americans should also be … [more below]
- Author: Griffin, David Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1623719747
- Language: English
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We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
$25.43 Add to cart“Powerful…Iyer catalogues the toll that various forms of discrimination have taken and highlights the inspiring ways activists are fighting back. [She] is an ideal chronicler of this experience.”
–Th… [more below]- Author: Iyer, Deepa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972735
- Language: English
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The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang
$19.99 Read moreThis expos investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions. Interwoven int… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Natalie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613744919
- Language: English
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The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain
$21.99 Add to cartThe Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular cultu… [more below]
- Author: Goldblatt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1568585160
- Language: English
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
$19.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture, this is the first–and only–definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history.When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’… [more below]
- Author: Hansen, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1501153064
- Language: English
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Just- Author: Eisinger, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1501121375
- Language: English
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Paul Simon: The Life
$20.99 Add to cartAcclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn’s “epic” and “definitive” (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon’s full participation–but without his editorial control–that “re… [more below]
- Author: Hilburn, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1501112139
- Language: English
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
$19.99 Add to cart“An important, disturbing, and gripping history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1476763267
- Language: English
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
$17.00 Add to cartIn “a clear-eyed and shrewd examination…of how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable battle against global terrorism” (Publishers Weekly), Mark Danner describes a nation forever alter… [more below]
- Author: Danner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1476747776
- Language: English
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Here We Go Again: My Life in Television
$18.99 Add to cartA memoir of Betty White’s first five decades on television–as irreverent and irresistible as the beloved actress herself–filled “with inspiring cheerfulness” (The New York Times).Betty White first a… [more below]
- Author: White, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1451613695
- Language: English
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Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartFrom two lawyers at the forefront of the reproductive rights movement, this fully updated book shares bold strategies meant to help restore and expand reproductive and sexual rights.
Reproductive free… [more below]
- Author: Kolbert, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0306925648
- Language: English
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
$24.99 Read more“The ‘how-to manual’ for whites to work with people of color to create an inclusive, just world in the 21st century.” –Maggie Potapchuk, racial equity consultant
Over 50,000 copies sold of earlier e
- Author: Kivel, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0865718652
- Language: English
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Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death
$10.99 Add to cartFrom #1 New York Times bestselling true-crime author Ann Rule comes “a convincing portrait of a meticulous criminal mind” (The Washington Post) in this chilling tale about a beautiful and charming wid… [more below]
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 447
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743410130
- Language: English
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Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.” — San Francisco Chronicle
Wael Ghonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google exec- Author: Ghonim, Wael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0547867093
- Language: English
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3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop’s Multibillion-Dollar Rise
$29.00 Add to cartTracing the careers of hip-hop’s three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z.
Being- Author: Greenburg, Zack O’Malley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0316316539
- Language: English
