20th Century

An examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of "the free flow of information" into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences. When the dust settled after World War II, the United States stood as the world's...

Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485060Author Joe FloodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of CODES Notable Books Council Award and New York Times Notable Book and Theatre Library Association Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143115038Author Mark HarrisFormat...

From the mind of legendary political insider Roger Stone, here is the sensational New York Times bestseller that reveals the truth about who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.From the mind of consummate political insider Roger Stone,...

In 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For three years, every major rock band played the Fillmores, performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425257425Author Chuck TatumFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486496238Author W.E.B. Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAs a correspondent for Newsweek, as well as a number of Southern dailies, Stephen Lesher covered Wallace from the time of the Montgomery boycott to the end of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060921071Author Marilyn YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982115340Author Matt StollerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany's former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable transformation resulted from a network of liberal American...

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063329096Author The AthleticFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries. The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice is prominent throughout Christian history and has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451195081Author John L. PlasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

The description for this book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980, will be forthcoming.Reviews"As the twenty-first century approaches, a new generation of scholars is providing fresh historical perspectives on the twentieth. The...

In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President...

This book is the authoritative introduction to the history of black civil rights in the USA. It provides a clear and useful guide to the political, social and cultural history of black Americans and their pursuit of equal rights and recognition from 1865...

The Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards's classic of activist scholarship arrives even as a new generation engages with the issues he explored. Edwards's new...

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument of American power during the Cold War. In this groundbreaking study Roham Alvandi offers a revisionist account of the shah's relationship with the United States by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618773473Author Timothy EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490734743Author Deanna SpingolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 794Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Author Solutions

God's Marshall Plan tells the story of the American Protestants who sought to transform Germany into a new Christian and democratic nation in the heart of twentieth-century Europe. James D. Strasburg follows the American pastors, revivalists, diplomats,...

Few events have been the subject of more conspiracy theories than the assassinations of the two Kennedy brothers. Indeed, a great many people consider that there were other individuals than Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan involved in both murders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756474Author Fredrik LogevallFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982130848Author Robert D. PutnamFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Picturing Apollo 11 is an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely-seen views of the people, places, and events...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098732868Author Charles River EditorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 216g

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But...

On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than...

Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804170482Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Beat Generation writers revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took...

Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore himself and his life in the company of those who live on the edges of society. Denis Johnson travels between...

Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Like its predecessor, this book overturns the conventional wisdom using a treasure trove of new sources,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762617Author Scott RitterFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062439000Author Steve KornackiFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127824Author Benn SteilFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 160mm *...

From its invention as a cocaine-laced patent medicine in the Gilded Age to its globe-drenching ubiquity as the ultimate symbol of consumer capitalism in the twenty-first century, Coca-Cola's dramatic history unfolds as the ultimate business saga. In this...