20th Century

This is a story that Jack Valenti has long tried to keep secret. Freedom and Entertainment is the first book to offer a behind-the-scenes account of the motion picture rating system and the Motion Picture Association of America under Valenti's leadership...

The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in economic development, in political ideology and action, and in natural resource conservation and preservation...

In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly...

How did birth control become legitimate in the United States? One kitchen table at a time, contends Trent MacNamara, who charts how Americans reexamined old ideas about money, time, transcendence, nature, and risk when considering approaches to family...

Across all the boroughs, The Long Crisis shows, New Yorkers helped transform their broke and troubled city in the 1970s by taking the responsibilities of city governance into the private sector and market, steering the process of neoliberalism. ...

Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial...

In Soldiers of a Different Cloth, New York Times best-selling author and military historian John Wukovits tells the inspiring story of thirty-five chaplains and missionaries who, while garnering little acclaim, performed extraordinary feats of courage...

America's Forgotten Colony examines private US citizens' experiences on Cuba's Isle of Pines to show how American influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba (1902-58). This transnational study challenges the notion that US territorial ambitions...

In this fascinating history, Chad Heap reveals that the reality of slumming was far more widespread - and important - than nostalgia-tinged recollections would lead us to believe. From its appearance as a 'fashionable dissipation' centered on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063001749Author Joe PompeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062887689Author Jeffrey E GartenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 454g

Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI-with other agencies-feverishly collected "derogatory information" to undermine the renowned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641601788Author Patrick ParrFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 6g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055616Author John Henry SchlegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly-mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560987482Author Peter L. JakabFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

From women's suffrage to Civil Rights for African Americans, to the environment, and the gay and lesbian liberation movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the...

A comprehensive history of the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States, presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American policy and law from the Revolution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943156665Author Michael BobelianFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Schaffner PressPublisher Schaffner PressWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Was J. Edgar Hoover a homosexual? And did organized-crime leaders, knowing this, blackmail the FBI director into leaving them alone? These charges won almost instant popular acceptance when they were aired in a sensational biography of Hoover in 1993...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780553384246Author Mildred Armstrong KalishFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493057719Author Robert M. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 238mm *...

Hailed as "the definitive biography of Wendell Willkie" (Irwin F. Gellman), The Improbable Wendell Willkie offers an "engrossing and enlightening appraisal" (Ira Katznelson) of a prominent businessman and Wall Street attorney presidential candidate who...

Since the advent of the New Deal, unbalanced budgets have become an almost permanent feature of American government-enlightened economic policy to some, a scourge to others. In Deficit Government, Iwan Morgan makes understandable the main trends of...

In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197519196Author Michelle KuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 272g

Over the past thirty years, Steven F. Lawson has established himself as one of the nation's leading historians of the black struggle for equality. Civil Rights Crossroads is an important collection of Lawson's writings about the civil rights movement...

Alice Echols has never shied away from controversy. Long before it was fashionable, she wrote searing critiques of antiporn feminism. Her subsequent books about the 1960s are trenchant and provocative, and written with unflinching honesty. Now she maps...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596352759Author Annie'sFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint AnniesPublisher AnniesWeight(grams) 567g

Winner of the 2020 Zocalo Public Square Book PrizeA rich, multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, that tells the story of how Jim Crow was built, how it changed, and how the most powerful social movement in American history...

When Lee H. Hamilton joined Congress in 1965 as a US Representative from southern Indiana, he began writing commentaries for his constituents describing his experiences, impressions, and developing views of what was right and wrong in American politics...

From the Opium Wars of the 1840s, to the Red Scare of the 1940s, through the Tiananmen Square "massacre" of 1989, and the Wen Ho Lee "espionage case" of 2000, Chinese-American relations have swung like a pendulum throughout the years. Now in its fourth...

Out of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing. Diplomatic History In Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing...

Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African American Actresses. Charlene Regester poses questions about prevailing racial politics, on-screen and off-screen...

In this first biography of artist Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu, Jennifer Hernandez tells the extraordinary story of a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and a...

As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role...

Why ERA Failed looks at the systemic problems of politics and the amending process. The author, Mary Frances Berry, considers the behavior of the two sides from the perspective of a historian and lawyer. She describes the history of the amending process,...

During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum exhibits and mass media, and civil and criminal law. Ourselves Unborn argues that...

In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely...

The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as 1941 began. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe. Isolationists, political...