20th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399185830Author Gene WeingartenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Blue Rider PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533191564Author Zed SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a factionalized Republican Party. Coming together were stars such...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian.The life of...

The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449983676Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm...

Was the Vietnam War unavoidable? Historians have long assumed that ideological views and the momentum of events made American intervention inevitable. By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council, Andrew Preston demonstrates...

Two great social causes held center stage in American politics in the 1960s: the civil rights movement and the antiwar groundswell in the face of a deepening American military commitment in Vietnam. In Peace and Freedom, Simon Hall explores two linked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542003Author Christopher C. GorhamFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501170126Author William RosenauFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618134434Author Garry WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 417g

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2015 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfounded fear for the safety...

The second edition of Watergate: A Brief History with Documents presents a collection of relevant historic documents from Nixon's acceptance speech at the 1968 Republican National Convention to his 1974 pardon. Includes transcripts of recently-released...

In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The authors open and close their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497331440Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495987182Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Hailed by critics on its release, this fascinating dual biography looks at two extraordinary lives and the social history of the Progressive Era. Taking on the Trust is a grand achievement by a skilled scholar and proud defender of the ever-necessary act...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494820824Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494820824Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners...

In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530421695Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931083Author Giles WhittellFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2000. Short-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780743200233Author Frances FitzGeraldFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508439929Author Joe WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a...

We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God , historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s.To fight...

Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era in America, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class,...

Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's Academy Award-winning film, The Fog of War. In the companion book,...

This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century...

The initial two essays, "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy" and "Central Issues of American Foreign Policy," appeared in the original edition of this volume and have been retained as backdrops for fifteen major addresses delivered by Mr. Kissinger...

Gateway to the Moon presents the definitive history of the origins, design, and construction of the lunar launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center, the terrestrial site of one of the greatest national adventures of the 20th century, humanity's first...

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Carnegie Medal 2017 and National Book Awards 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781524755935Author David GrannFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930751180Author Thomas FenschFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint New Century BooksPublisher New Century BooksWeight(grams) 939g

If you were beginning to believe that "lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald did kill President Kennedy all by himself, this could be the book to convince you, that there was indeed a conspiracy and a cover-up. The contributors worked independently at...

The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge...

From the author of the #1 NYT bestseller I Heard You Paint Houses / The Irishman Featuring the eyewitness testimony of Earlene Roberts and Victor Robertson With this book, "Dallas" is now completely solved, by a professional and rational analysis.Charles...

In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the movie industry. The blowback was profound: the major...