History - United States - 20th Century

"Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." --...

A new perspective on women's Black Power leadership legacies Academics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s-that it was male dominated and overrun with autocratic leaders. Yet women's strategizing, management, and sustained work were...

"What an incredible life of triumph and tragedy, faith, and love." -- Anderson Cooper, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vanderbilt"A daughter's tender homage to a consequential woman." -- Kirkus ReviewsA vivid, intimate biography of American icon Ethel Kennedy by her daughter Kerry...

THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT WITH FOILED DETAILS AND CUSTOM END PAPERSA fond and nostalgic cultural history of It's a Wonderful Life, celebrating the beloved holiday film's actors and creators, its unexpected journey from public domain to holiday classic, and what its enduring legacy reveals...

In the tradition of The Old, Weird America and Deliver Me from Nowhere, cultural critic Steven E. Jones explores American pop culture through the work of record producer Tom Wilson, and the artists with whom he collaborated in the miraculous year 1966. 1966 was...

A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing...

A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing...

From an executive producer of the hit HISTORY(R) network series The Proof Is Out There(R), an evidence-based peek behind and beyond some of the world's greatest mysteries. In recent years the assumed existence of UFOs/UAPs, the widespread acceptance of government interference in the truth,...

The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as...

The 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams's celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement;...

This New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director. Gene Kranz was present...

Sons of Britches. The Great American Chuckwagon Dinner Show. The Haygoods. The Grand Jubilee. These are just a couple of the many shows performed in Branson, MO, Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain mecca of wholesome entertainment, has been home to countless stage shows espousing...

A definitive history of the United States' recovery from the Great Depression--and the New Deal's true part in it. FDR's New Deal has long enjoyed a special place in American history and policy--both because it redefined the government's fundamental responsibilities and because Roosevelt's "bold...

An underground bestseller in Europe, suppressed in the United States, Farewell America is the underground classic that first posited a major conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy. Rumored to have its origins in secret investigations conducted by French intelligence on behalf of none...

Rising US capitalism presented itself to the world with freedom, democracy, and prosperity. However, the practices of America First-genocide, labor exploitation, and warlike plunder of foreign property-were merely modernized.The First World War became the first major global business venture, making allies dependent. After the...

Ernest K. Gann's classic pilot's memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. "Few writers have ever drawn readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is hear that Mr. Gann is truly...

In this fully updated second edition of their masterful history, leading historians and best-selling authors Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer uncover the origins of our current moment, answering the question: When--and how--did America become so polarized? It all starts in 1974 with...

A fiftieth-anniversary edition of the cult classic of gonzo journalism, hailed as "the best book on the dope decade" (The New York Times Book Review), featuring Ralph Steadman's original drawings and an introduction by Caity Weaver The inspiration for the major motion picture directed...

The 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s--and a founding document of "gonzo journalism"--featuring the original artwork by Ralph Steadman and a new introduction by Caity...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of...