20th Century History

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Turn: Washington's Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of...

A definitive, headline-making expose of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out the largest-scale theft of intellectual property, technology, and data in history-reshaping the global balance of power...

Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration...

The book titled A Woman Named Jackie by the author C.David Heymann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' Rolling Stone magazine...

A cinematic memoir of justice and redemption that traces a former Black Panther's tumultuous life from gang member to Black liberation leader. Russell Shoatz was a gang member from age...

'A formidable freestyle book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' ROLLING STONE The...

A powerful collection of sermons by Martin Luther King, Jr., published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in...

As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social...

Has liberalism lost its way--or merely its voice? This book by one of the nation's most insightful, articulate, and powerful Democrats at last breaks the silence that has greeted the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ILP JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER 2024 'Doesn't so much break the fourth wall as crash through it in a bulldozer' Guardian 'Engrossing, surprising, clever, genre bending'...

Space expert David West Reynolds takes you on a historical journey through the worlds most renowned space program. Featuring a wealth of rare photographs, artwork, and cutaway illustrations, Apollo recaptures...

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the...

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In these provocative and engaging writings, Mr. Kramer explores, in effect, the intellectual history of the cold war and its divisive impact on our politics and culture. Tracing the critical...

Tall and powerfully built, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of conflicting insecurities and ambitions - a white Southerner who championed civil rights and a self-made rich man who declared...

The book titled Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

A necessary and unprecedented account of America's changing relationship with Israel. When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our...

The book titled Gentleman Spy: Life of Allen Dulles by the author Peter Grose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of...

Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...

In the 1980s, when the American art market flourished, critics were heavily concerned with theory. In T he Aesthete in the City David Carrier offers a personal view on the...

In the third volume of their graphic history of US and Middle East relations, Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B. cover the tumultuous period that began with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait...

The book titled Jeff Koons by the author Angelika Muthesius. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), a Mexican artist and writer whose caricatures of New York's theatre, dance and social elite brought him to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and his circle...

Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Drawing on the recent discovery of many of her letters, the book examines the intricate network of...

Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The book titled James Dean: A Portrait by the author Roy Schatt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece- 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the...

In 1959, the doctor who supervised NASA's astronaut selection concluded that women might fare better in space than men. His testing of 25 top female pilots for reactions to isolation,...

Class is an emotive subject, and never more so than today. It is part of the very fabric of our contemporary society and Professor Marwick's major historical study of the...

This is the first volume of letters from William Burroughs, covering the years 1945-1959. The letters are entertaining and revealing, placing Burroughs' work in the context of an extraordinary life...

Born into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimk'e (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career,...

Argues that the ambitious social programmes of the Great Society designed to help the poor and disadvantaged not only did not accomplish what they set out to do, but often...

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...

From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths *LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A proper literary belter' THE TIMES 'Affectionate and endlessly entertaining' RICHARD OSMAN A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero...

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for...

In Hitler, God, and the Bible, international evangelist and best-selling author Ray Comfort exposes Adolf Hitler's theology and abuse of religion as a means to seize political power and ultimately...

Long before two of its members became the most publicized leaders of the Free World, they were part of an amorous, "winner-take-all" love triangle that rocked Hollywood. Published after decades...

Five decades after President John F. Kennedy opened a soaring chapter in American life by calling for a New Frontier, TIME explores the life and legacy of an inspiring leader...

From Fishponds to Warships: Pearl Harbor provides a sweeping view of the region's past, from geologic origins to fishpond days, through the tense moments before and after the attack, and...

In summer 2007 former president Jimmy Carter caused uproar when he described George W. Bush's foreign policy as the worst in history. Not because people disagreed, but because it was...

The Clinton Tapes was a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, Clinton met with...

The explosive first-hand account of a CIA agent hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists - filled with suspense and plot twists to rival Carrie Mathison in Homeland The instant New...

The surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others On farms and in factories, Americans once had...