20th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568332659Author Anne Collins WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 798g

One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence against the backdrop of the most advanced ship in history...

Superpatriots, writes Michael Parenti, are those people who place national pride and American supremacy above every other public consideration, those who follow leaders uncritically, especially in their war policies abroad. Superpatriotism is the...

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II-an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption-this...

How did a peddler of phony degrees who claimed to be a world famous bishop build a network of contacts that led to the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK? Beyond that central question, what does this foray into the bizarre and esoteric say about our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499164107Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743410526Author TorricelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 702gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of...

An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson's politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors. Horace Busby was one of LBJ's most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship spanned twenty years. In The Thirty-First of March he...

Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and...

Examining over a century of US intervention in Latin America, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin reveals how the region has long served as a laboratory for US foreign policy, providing generations of Washington policy makers with an opportunity to rehearse...

On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado's industrial barons. When the dust...

This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths, not merely to ""contain"" the People's Republic of China, but to isolate it from all diplomatic, cultural,...

With a new introduction, and published on the 50th Anniversary of the year that defined a generation, this is the seminal and classic book on the subject. Lively and concise, here is the book that captures 1969, the year in which man landed on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062863850Author Jr Robert F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)...

To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into...

The talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control at what is now Johnson Space Center occupied a room located on the third floor of Building 30, a room that at first glance looked like just another auditorium in just another government...

In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647486747Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of...

In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed to adulthood as members. Challenging the belief that...

Making History/Making Blintzes is a chronicle of the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard (Dick) and Miriam (Mickey) Flacks, two of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As active members of the Civil Rights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935191933Author George F. WillFormat PaperbackPage Count 750Imprint ISI BooksPublisher ISI Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109846Author Roger LowensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Cundill History Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781101973677Author Matthew ConnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough-an educational reformer with big dreams-embarked on a bold experiment he called the Floating...

Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact on American society. Their influence essentially defined the 1960s-hippie anti-fashion, divergent music, dropout politics and 'make love not war'...

On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first instalment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525536130Author Ken StarrFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USAPublisher Random House USA Inc

On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam,...

Years before Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competing in the sensational transcontinental air race of 1919...

No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the Soviet Union have long been sealed from public view:...

In November 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. His death remains a defining moment for millions of people but few understand the unstoppable forces that were building in the city long before this dramatic event played out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062655066Author Professor Douglas BrinkleyFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679741800Author Daniel J. BoorstinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

On the eve of America's entry into World War II, African American leaders pushed for inclusion in the war effort and, after the war, they mounted a concerted effort to integrate the armed services. Harry S. Truman's decision to issue Executive Order 9981...

When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by neglect, maladministration, and low morale. Soon after his...

They helped conquer the greatest armies ever assembled. Yet no sooner had they tasted victory after World War II than American generals suddenly found themselves governing their former enemies, devising domestic policy and making critical economic...

The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into a national political movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with headquarters in New York City and...

On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor...