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  • The Wise Men

    Six Friends and the World They Made

    This “engrossing narrative” examines the six American statesmen who rebuilt the world after WWII—with a new introduction by the authors (The New York Times).Blending personal biography and geopolitical history*, Wise Men* introduces six close friends who used their power and influence to shape the role their country would play in the dangerous years following the Second World War. They were the ... Read more

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  • The War Below

    The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan

    by James Scott ...
    A “beautifully researched and masterfully told” account of the US submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific (New York Times–bestselling author Alex Kershaw).Focusing on the unique stories of three of the war’s top submarines—Silversides, Drum, and Tang—The War Below vividly re-creates the camaraderie, exhilaration, and fear of the brave volunteers who took the fight to the enemy ... Read more

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  • The Brink

    President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983

    by Marc Ambinder ...
    “An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile ICBMs (intercontinental ... Read more

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  • The Truth About Watergate

    A Tale of Extraordinary Lies & Liars

    by Nick Bryant ...
    A delusion is a strong belief or conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. The Watergate delusion, embraced by millions, is that swashbuckling Bob Woodward and the left confronted the malevolent Nixon administration as it cast a sinister pall over America and slayed it with the lance of truth, thereby saving democracy. But the actual evidence demonstrates that Watergate was not a ... Read more

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  • The Day the Sun Rose Twice

    The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945

    Winner of the Western History Association’s Robert G. Athearn Award for outstanding book on the twentieth-century American WestJust before dawn on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated at Trinity Site in an isolated stretch of the central New Mexico desert. It may have been the single most important event of the twentieth century. The Day the Sun Rose Twice tells the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The 1970s

    A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality

    Series Book 12 - America in the World
    A compelling framework for understanding the importance of the 1970s for America and the worldThe 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Eisenhower & Cambodia

    Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War

    This historical study examines America’s Cold War diplomacy and covert operations intended to lure Cambodia from neutrality to alliance.Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, the global ideological struggle with the Soviet Union guaranteed US vigilance throughout Southeast Asia. Cambodia’s leader, Norodom Sihanouk, refused to take sides ... Read more

    $28.99 USD $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil's Pleasure Palace

    The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

    by Michael Walsh ...
    In the aftermath of World War II, America stood alone as the world’s premier military power. Yet its martial confidence contrasted vividly with its sense of cultural inferiority. Still looking to a defeated and dispirited Europe for intellectual and artistic guidance, the burgeoning transnational elite in New York and Washington embraced not only the war’s refugees, but many of their ideas as well ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Supermarket USA

    Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

    This cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today.Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist ... Read more

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  • Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

    “A mash-up of Erik Larson and Richard Preston.” —Tina Jordan, New York Times Book Review podcastOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown—but when corrupt politicians mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fields of Fortune

    'Viking' Farmers in America

    by Robert Dodge ...
    A gripping history of one Norwegian immigrant family’s experience in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to World War II.In the spring of 1853, a family of eight drove their wagon to the wharf in Bergen, Norway. They unloaded their belongings alongside the other stacks labeled, AMERICA, MINNESOTA, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, NEW YORK CITY, CHICAGO and boarded the crowded ship.Hopeful, ... Read more

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  • American Caesars

    $15.99 USD

  • Unknown Chicago Tales

    Chicago's most famous stories tend to crowd out the competition and shout down alternate perspectives. Visit with the man who founded a 150-year-long Chicago political dynasty. Take a peek at some of the lesser-known Chicago film classics. Review Professor Moriarty's Chicago caper and Annie Oakley's cocaine case. Uncover the lengths to which Chicago's long-celebrated Mr. Pioneer Settler went to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Swinging '73

    Baseball's Wildest Season

    Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending. Stuck in a rut, baseball was dying. Then Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, a second-division club with wife-swapping pitchers, leaving the House That Ruth Built not with a slam but a simper. He vowed not to interfere—before soon changing his mind. Across town, Tom Seaver led the Mets’ stellar pitching line-up, and iconic outfielder ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Thirty-first of March

    An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson

    by Horace Busby ...
    An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors.Horace Busby was one of LBJ’s most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship spanned twenty years. In The Thirty-First of March he offers an indelible portrait of a president and a presidency at a time of crisis. From the aftereffects of the Kennedy assassination, when Busby ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

    Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War

    During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the countryside, armed bands of deserters defied local authorities; capturing them required the dispatch of federal troops into three southern states.Jeanette Keith traces southern draft resistance to several ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Smack

    Heroin and the American City

    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital—over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Man Who Never Died

    The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon

    In 1914, Joe Hill was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. Many believed Hill was innocent, condemned for his association with the Industrial Workers of the World-the radical Wobblies. Now, following four years of intensive investigation, William M. Adler gives us the first full-scale biography of Joe Hill, and presents never ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story Of Baby Doe Tabor

    This is a fascinating autobiography of Baby Doe Tabor, the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor, whose rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and at one time hailed as the “best dressed woman in the West.”It was during Baby Doe’s final years of her life living in a shack on the site of the Matchless Mine, enduring great poverty, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smoking Typewriters

    The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

    How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Battle of Ole Miss

    Civil Rights v. States' Rights

    by Frank Lambert ...
    Series series Critical Historical Encounters Series
    James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at Ole Miss. The violent riot that followed would be one of the most deadly clashes of the civil rights era, seriously wounding scores of U.S. Marshals and killing two civilians, and forcing the federal government to send thousands of soldiers to restore the peace. In The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights v. States ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • I Don't Like Mondays

    The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting

    by N. Leigh Hunt ...
    An in-depth look into America’s first modern school shooting, featuring interviews with witnesses, local reporters, and the killer herself.In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She receives a rifle for Christmas and a month later ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Accommodation

    The Politics of Race in an American City

    by Jim Schutze ...
    The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer, and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, and the city ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rising Tide

    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

    by John M. Barry ...
    A “gripping narrative” of natural disaster and human corruption and “an accomplished and important social history, magisterial in its scope” (The New York Times).Rising Tide tells the riveting story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. It is an American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River itself. The flood inundated the homes of almost one million ... Read more

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