20th Century History

This book defines war, rather than liberty, as the primary means by which peoples of North America have defined social, cultural, and political boundaries for the last half-millennium. From the...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb comes this brilliant account of the post-war superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United...

The Endgame is a gripping and authoritative account of the secret military and political effort to pull Iraq from the precipice of full-scale civil war. The book fuses unrivalled access...

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in 1969, they personified an almost unimaginable feat-the incredibly complex task of sending humans safely to another celestial body. This...

Here is the epic story of Vietnam and thesixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey...

With meticulous research and page-turning suspense, Patriots brings to life the American Revolution--the battles, the treacheries, and the dynamic personalities of the men who forged our freedom. George Washington, John...

A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to today's threats from rogue states. For fifty years, the United States has monitored friends and foes...

Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In Khrushchev's Cold War, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors...

In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of...

This title offers the epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America's real secret service. "Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of...

A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "The Christian Science Monitor - St. Louis Post-Dispatch" In his magisterial bestseller "FDR, "Jean Edward Smith gave us a fresh,...

Valley of Death is a gripping, panoramic history taking the reader from 1940 through the aftermath of the harrowing, monumental French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, which ended colonial rule...

The bestselling author of PRESIDENT KENNEDY presents a stunning account of the brilliant and isolated man who destroyed his own presidency. PRESIDENT NIXON shows a man alone in a White...

Introduced by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Ubuntu collection is a unique series of exquisitely produced small-format books that take inspiration from Ubuntu and are each founded on the work and...

The renowned attorney and author of Chutzpah examines several of the most controversial and sensational court trials of the past thirty years, offering insight into how they have shaped present-day...

"Stunning revelations...This is an account that long will be consulted by anyone trying to understand not just Iran but warfare in the 21st century...an important book." -Tom Ricks, "New York...

James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on...

For fans of dungeon crawls and dice rolls-and anyone wanting to know more about them- Side Quest is a stand-alone graphic novel history of roleplaying games (RPGs), from ancient games...

New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint...

The handbag has long been a symbol of status and style - it dominates the fashion scene, adds that all important finishing touch to the outfit, and is the portable...

In the late 80s, a group of high school dropouts, drug dealers, and ex-cons spoke out against racial injustice and police brutality. They did it through hip-hop. Their explosive popularity...

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster by New York Times-bestselling author Adam Higginbotham, based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a...

On the 9th August 1974, Richard Nixon resigned from the Presidency of the United States, the only President ever to have done so. Had he not, he faced impeachment. It...

Written with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, Savage Peace is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It is the...

A New York Times bestseller * A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March * One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books by POC for 2019 * A Refinery 29 Best...

It's 1947 on a U.S. Army base near Roswell, New Mexico, and eleven-year-old Kate's friend and neighbor, Billy, shows her a secret. A CIA agent arrives at Billy's house, to...

Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...

This reference covers the history of the United States from the declaration of independence to the late 1990s. Entries deal not only with key political, diplomatic and military events but...

A New York Times bestsellerNow also an Oscar-nominated documentaryIn Dirty Wars , Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater , takes us inside America's new covert wars....

"A warmhearted story that will resonate with anyone who has ever dreamed of reinventing themselves." - Kirkus Reviews It's 1987, and sixteen-year-old Gracie Byrne wishes her life were totally different....

Unique in its concentration on the postwar presidency, this radical history goes to the heart of the presidential role in the US to discover how and why the power and...

Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...

This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...

The book titled The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations by the author Ron Rosenbaum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Contemporary artists examine the human condition from all sides in this riveting collection of American art that questions how we represent ourselves in the 21st century. In an age of...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES B ESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK Selected by New York Times ' critic Dwight Garner as...

The book titled Dali by the author Gilles Neret. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Barack Obama approaches the US presidency at a critical moment in American history - facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, and healthcare, but most especially in the economy. If...

In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important...

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...

The first account of one of history's most notorious con artists, Victor Lustig, written by acclaimed biographer Christopher Sandford. An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, Victor Lustig was a man...

The book titled Clinton: The President They Deserve by the author Martin Walker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The pilgrimage of American writers to Paris began with Henry James over a century ago, and has continued in waves ever since. This book is not concerned with the "lost...

A funny, intimate memoir by Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood , which recounts her experiences on Gilmore Girls - the first and second time -...

In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had...

The outstanding legacy of the Russian goldsmith and jeweler Carl Faberge has captured the public's imagination for many years. During his lifetime, Faberge's extravagant jewelry and "objects d'art" brought him...