20th Century Books


20th Century America: A Social and Political History Best Price: $75.86 This book was used for a class I was taking and was an excellent resource.	Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century: 004	Bitter Harvest: The Birth of Paramilitary Terrorism in the Heartland Best Price: $3.41 A very intense and well researched book. It shows a great insight to the dark side of America...	The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) Best Price: $24.99 This is the most important testament to a now largely forgotten tragedy of American politics. ...	America's Splendid Little Wars: A Short History of U.S. Engagements from the Fall of Saigonto Baghdad Best Price: $4.91 "America's Splendid Little Wars: A Short History of U.S. Engagements from the Fall of...



Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case Best Price: $10.15 I've been vaguely aware of the "Massie Affair" for a couple of years now, but it...	Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream Best Price: $4.96 Every leftist political movement has its `high holy days' of remembrance, or it should. The...	The Candy Bombers	A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West Best Price: $4.88 I just finished this book and really enjoyed it. It is based on just three characters, so I...	V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II Best Price: $12.24 In this look at the American home front, Blum looks at the cultural values that the war nurtured...



Pigskin: The Early Years of Pro Football Best Price: $23.22 If the National Football League is now a mammoth billion-dollar enterprise, it was certainly...	The Judicial Process: An Introductory Analysis of the Courts of the United States, England, and France Best Price: $30.00 Read first two chapters and put away forever. I am not a slacker. I am a straight A student but...	The Human Radiation Experiments Best Price: $45.56 For the first time, an interested reader is able to find a clear treatment of a very sensitive...	Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America Best Price: $26.82 Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of...	Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany Best Price: $39.95 For those who want an eminently readable, but highly valuable scholarly publication on Franklin...

Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy Best Price: $30.22 Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New...	"Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader Best Price: $20.40 I am surprised to see such positive reviews of this book. While the historical element of the...	Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America Best Price: $48.28 After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened...	Past Time: Baseball As History Best Price: $13.96 Jules Tygiel, one of America's finest historians and citizens, died the day before...	Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, Race Reparations, and Reconciliation Best Price: $12.30 Professor Brophy has performed a great public service by writing a powerful, yet concise book...

Remembering Woolworth's: A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime Best Price: $67.78 This book brought back so many memories - and I'm only 41! It's fun to read, with a...	Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History Best Price: $4.99 Background I read Isaac's Storm, by Erik Larson, around 1998. Recently I had occasion to...	America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 Best Price: $18.20 Sit down, and allow me to scare you for a moment. Imagine that the world is gripped in the...	All the President's Men Everyone knows something about Watergate, whether it was some guys breaking into someplace, or...	Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals

Metaphysical Club Best Price: $41.02 A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club...	The SEARCH FOR THE REAL NANCY REAGAN Best Price: $5.76	American Odyssey the United States in the 20th Century Best Price: $15.73 A history of the United States in the twentieth century, featuring sociological and cultural...	1939: The Lost World of the Fair Best Price: $27.50 This book is essential reading for any serious student of American history. David Gelernter...	Real Anita Hill Best Price: $3.80 David Brock is likely to someday be regarded as the Whittaker Chambers of the 1990's. Both...

The Clinton Charisma: A Legacy of Leadership Best Price: $3.98 I thought this book made some fantastic points about Clinton's leadership that was often...	FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, The Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Best Price: $12.72 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) Note: ...	LeMay (Great Generals) Best Price: $6.99 General Curtis E. LeMay is undoubtedly the greatest general of the United States Air Force. ...	Another Part of the Twenties Best Price: $105.34 When most of us think of the 1920s, we envision scenes from the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald or...	The Cold War on the Periphery Best Price: $64.99 Extremely biased book. The lesson learnt: Never write a book about two countries and take one...

The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941 Best Price: $4.50 This far-ranging collection of public and private sources illuminates a revolutionary half...	The Starr Report Disrobed Best Price: $3.95 "What is this strange book" asks Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "that can bring the...	Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States (Columbia Series on Religion and Politics) Best Price: $80.00 Anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must...	THE BIG THREE: CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT AND STALIN IN PEACE AND WAR.	The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from the Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper.

The Clinton Charisma: A Legacy of Leadership Best Price: $3.98 I thought this book made some fantastic points about Clinton's leadership that was often...	FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, The Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Best Price: $12.72 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) Note: ...	LeMay (Great Generals) Best Price: $6.99 General Curtis E. LeMay is undoubtedly the greatest general of the United States Air Force. ...	Another Part of the Twenties Best Price: $105.34 When most of us think of the 1920s, we envision scenes from the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald or...	The Cold War on the Periphery Best Price: $64.99 Extremely biased book. The lesson learnt: Never write a book about two countries and take one...

The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941 Best Price: $4.50 This far-ranging collection of public and private sources illuminates a revolutionary half...	The Starr Report Disrobed Best Price: $3.95 "What is this strange book" asks Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "that can bring the...	Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States (Columbia Series on Religion and Politics) Best Price: $80.00 Anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must...	THE BIG THREE: CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT AND STALIN IN PEACE AND WAR.	The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from the Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XIV: Soviet Union State Department Publication 10779. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Includes...	A Skillful Show of Strength: U.S. Marines in the Caribbean, 1991-1996 Best Price: $116.27 U. S. Marines in Humanitarian Operations. Describes the involvement of the United...	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXIII: Organization and Management of U.S. Foreign Policy; United Nations Best Price: $12.00 State Department Publication 11041. Editor, Kent Sieg. GeneralEditor, Edward C. Keefer. ...	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XI: South Asia Crisis, 1971 Best Price: $73.84 State Department Publication 11199. Edited by Louis J. Smith. General Editor: Edward C....	Locating Air Force Base Sites: History's Legacy Best Price: $92.22 Air Force History and Museums Program. Edited by Frederick J. Shaw. Describes military,...

The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974 Best Price: $39.97 People changed, not the system. Extremism enriched culture, Marxism disappointed realists....	Constitutional Opinions: Aspects of the Bill of Rights Leonard Levy, whose Origins of the Fifth Amendment received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in...	Freedom Summer Best Price: $69.78 In June 1964, over 1,000 volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in...	The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz Best Price: $12.32 Born of African rhythms, the spiritual "call and response," and other American musical...	Sixties- (Value Pack w/MySearchLab) (3rd Edition) Best Price: $37.00 The Baby Boomers and the media which serves it as well as runs it, is a mighty self...

American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute Best Price: $33.63 James Henry Breasted (1865?1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the...	American Economic Policy in the 1980s (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) Best Price: $22.95 Destined to become the standard guide to the economic policy of the United States during the...	Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare Best Price: $54.97 There was a time when America?s poor faced a stark choice between access to social welfare and...	The Cynical Society: The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American Life Best Price: $11.06 The Cynical Society is a study of the political despair and abdication of (individual)...	Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (Historical Studies of Urban America) Best Price: $22.95 In Selling the Race , Adam Green tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of...

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government Best Price: $22.92 Rarely does a work of history both capture a particular moment in time and resonate so deeply...	The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government Best Price: $23.56 This book is an excellent piece of history and well written. The author extensively researches...	Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930 Best Price: $23.00 In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city...	Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future Best Price: $3.75 Newton Minow?s long engagement with the world of television began nearly fifty years ago when...	U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900 Best Price: $30.00 Interest in U.S. foreign relations has soared to great heights in the early twenty-first...

"To Everything There is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song (New Narratives in American History) Best Price: $8.07 There is no questioning that Pete Seeger is an icon in the music world. He is a folk legend but...	American Modernism and Depression Documentary Best Price: $49.40 "American Modernism and Depression Documentary" is on the ROROTOKO list of...	The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz Best Price: $5.98 If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind...	A More Perfect Union: Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II Best Price: $38.80 In 1962, when the Cold War threatened to ignite in the Cuban Missile Crisis, when more nuclear...	The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York Best Price: $16.04 The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban...

The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vital: Vol. 1. General Introduction, Books I and II (Summary and Extracts), Index Verborum (Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis) Best Price: $148.90 Edited with a facing-page English translation from the Latin text by: Chibnall, Marjorie;	Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual Best Price: $11.78 Sylvia Plath is in the midst of a renaissance. Since the publication of her Unabridged Journals...	All the People: Since 1945 (History of Us) Best Price: $19.92 A History of US is a 10-volume, award-winning series about the birth and development of the...	Timelines: Day by Day and Trend by Trend from the Dawn of the Atomic Age to the Gulf War Best Price: $44.47	World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one...

A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany Best Price: $19.85 Based on an award-winning international research project and photo exhibition, this poignant and...	FDR and Civil Aviation: Flying Strong, Flying Free (The World of the Roosevelts) Best Price: $45.00 The twentieth century is already remembered both as the American Century and as the age of...	Making American Culture: A Social History, 1900-1920 Best Price: $21.28 This was a gift because I my friend knows I like to know the "backstory" of...	Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement: "Another Side of the Story" (Contemporary Black History) Best Price: $12.12 The original essays in this book highlight the destructive impact of McCarthyism on the African...	Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature: West Meets East Best Price: $72.25 The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in...

Challenging US Foreign Policy: America and the World in the Long Twentieth Century Best Price: $68.07 Some categorizations of US power have long governed analyses of American foreign policy - ...	Educational Work of Women's Organizations, 1890-1960 Best Price: $87.55 This book explores women's organizations and their various educational contributions through...	Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night Best Price: $4.98 Single-subject histories on the likes of salt, codfish and even the color red have become a...	Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Needs Best Price: $6.95 "Schooling America is a readable, intelligent, and well-informed synthesis of the history...	Over Here: The First World War and American Society Best Price: $49.49 This is the second book by David Kennedy that I've had the pleasure of reading, and once...

Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany Best Price: $29.88 America's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped...	The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History Best Price: $8.93 This is an interesting little book (103 pages of text). In effect, it is an executive summary...	In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) Best Price: $17.59 Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black...	A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 Best Price: $11.95 Advertised as an overview of the Progressive movement, A Fierce Discontent is more an effort to...	Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 Best Price: $8.53 Author: Kathryn S. Olmsted Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-0-19-518353-6 ...

Living in the Eighties (Viewpoints on American Culture) Best Price: $69.30 Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" when Ronald Reagan revived...	Living in the Eighties (Viewpoints on American Culture) Best Price: $12.46 Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" when Ronald Reagan revived...

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