20th Century

A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail. In the winter of 1936, Fr...

This Revelatory And Dramatic History Of Disinformation Traces The Rise Of Secret Organized Deception Operations From The Interwar Period To Contemporary Int...

Gal Beckerman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [568]-579) And Index.Categories: HistoryRussia

For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable ...

This acclaimed portrait of heroism and ingenuity captures a watershed moment in human history. The astronauts themselves have called it the definitive acc...

W.j. Rorabaugh. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentUnited States

The Question Of Whether America Should Get Into World War Ii Led To One Of The Largest And Most Consequential Political Feuds In Our History. The British Go...

Mixing aspects of social, political, and institutional history, authors Athan and Jeanne Theoharis survey the quest for equal rights and social justice in...

“The Great Starvation Experimentis wide-ranging, weaving progress in the war into the day-to-day suffering of the hungry volunteers.” —Saint Paul Pioneer ...

Winner Of The National Book Critics Circle Award An American Book Award Finalist Now In Paperback, War Without Mercy Has Been Hailed By The New York Times A...

Unconditional Defeat - the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series - examines the concluding stages of World War II...

in America, In Contrast To Almost Anywhere Else In The World, The Good Life Means Traveling A Long Distance To Get To Work. How And Why This Came To Be Ou...

'meticulously Researched And Beautifully Written, The True Story Of A Japanese American Family That Found Itself On Opposite Sides During World War Ii--an E...

During The Last Four Years Of Richard Nixon's Life, Monica Crowley Served As His Foreign-policy Assistant And Political Confidant - A Trusted Member Of The ...

First Edition, Large Hardcover, 274 pagesCategories: History United States20th Century

A Major American Intellectual Makes The Historical Case That The Reforms Of The 1960s, Reforms Intended To Make The Nation More Just And Humane, Instead Lef...

The opening chapter introduces the book's approach as well as the institutional development of the presidency and its organizational structure. Chapters 2 t...

Repeatedly In The Twentieth Century, The United States Has Been Involved In Confrontations With Other Countries, Each With The Potential For Widespread Inte...

The anti-Vietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune-on college campuses, i...

No single event since World War II has marked this country’s foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is...

Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East fro...

this Book Has Been Long Needed: A Concise, Complete And Dispassionate Survey Of The Vietnam War.... Best Of All, The No-nonsense Approach Answers Question...

Alan Dawley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [359]-386) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPolitical Scie...

Interest in U.S. foreign relations has soared to great heights in the early twenty-first century. Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible Ame...

In this fascinating new interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get thr...

Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam ha...

An exposé of the mid-twentieth-century practice of identifying and institutionalizing children with low IQ scores recounts the story of a group of boys at ...

In this expanded paperback edition of Hitchen's slow motion citizen's cardiac arrest of the Clinton presidency, our protagonist looks at Clinton's baleful ...

Review\“Superb….[Continetti] brings an insider’s nuance and a historian’s dispassion to the ambitious task of writing the American right’s biograp...

Using In-depth Interviews With Participants And Residents, Watson Brilliantly Captures The Tottering Legacy Of Jim Crow In Mississippi, While Vividly Portra...

The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, ...

The story of the hero behind the attempt to kill Hitler, the subject of Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, set for June 2008 release. By July of 1944, the Thi...

From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles—just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Gran...

Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air...

On December 3. 1999, the call crackled in to the men of Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless c...

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in da...

An On-the-ground History Of Ordinary Americans Who Took To The Streets When Political Issues Became Personal. It Is Widely Believed That Americans Of The 19...

Chapter 1. The Accusation -- Chapter 2. Blood Libel In The Modern World -- Chapter 3. Who Done It : The Immigrants? -- Chapter 4. The Massena Case And Ameri...

The compelling untold story of a group of stranded U.S. Army nurses and medics fighting to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. When 26 Army nurses and medics-par...

Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living—from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to relig...

Professor Allan J. Lichtman, Who Has Correctly Forecasted Thirty Years Of Presidential Outcomes, Makes The Case For Impeaching The 45th President Of The Uni...

H.r. Mcmaster. Originally Published: New York: Harpercollins, 1997. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 419-434) And Index.Categories: Politics & So...

America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation's past The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad...

This Is The Dramatic Account Of The Search For Evidence In Recently Opened Files On The Assassination Of The Thirty-fifth President Of The United States ......

The Story Of The Rescue Of America's Newest Submarine, Squalus, From The North Atlantic On The Eve Of World War Ii. Thirty-three Crew Miraculously Survived ...

In This Book, Joanne Freeman Offers A Major Reassessment Of Political Culture In The Early Years Of The American Republic. By Exploring Both The Public Acti...

Presents A Selection Of Letters Written To Tom Brokaw In Response To His Book The Greatest Generation, In Which He Examines The Lives And Experiences Of The...

Volume One Examines How An Immense Diversity Of Ethnic And Religious Groups Ultimately Created A Set Of Distict Regional Societies. Volume Two Emphasises Th...