History - United States - 20th Century
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging SpiritIn Chris Matthews's New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, "Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy's soul. Through tragedy after tragedy we find the man humanized" (Associated Press). With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews profiled of one of America's most...
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical DiscriminationBetween its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable...
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War IIThe untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor...
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Boom: Bubbles and the End of StagnationA timely investigation of the causes of technological and scientific stagnation, and a radical blueprint for accelerating innovation. "Read this book for the alternative history of our age." --Peter Thiel, investor and author of Zero to One "A must-read for those who seek to...
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Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in TexasThe true story of the corrupt and violent town of Borger, Texas in 1927―and the legendary Texas Ranger tasked with taming it. Just a year after the town of Borger, Texas was founded, the press already called it "the wickedest in the state." The...
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Borderlands: Living in Two Worlds the Story of Hispanics in the American SouthwestNo lo que fuiste, sino lo que eres.We are our own history.El Norte, the Southwestern United States, has for centuries been a crossroads of histories, migrations, trade routes, languages, families, and cultural traditions. This is a world where convergance creates a modern tapestry of...
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Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata TrilogyThis epic three-volume history of the mafia continues with Borgata: Clash of Titans, covering 1960 to 1985, as the mob comes into conflict with the American political elite--and confronts internal wars that will shake the organization to its foundations. The first serious external threat...
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nation's urban history. Across that decade, a wave of...
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nation's urban history. Across that decade, a wave of...
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Born on the Fourth of July"Classic and timeless!" --New York Times"As relevant as ever, this book is an education. Ron is a true American, and his great heart and hard-won wisdom shine through these pages." --Oliver Stone, filmmakerThis New York Times best seller (more than one million copies sold),...
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Born to Serve: A History of Texas Southern UniversityOttis Lock Award, Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association2019 Summerlee Book Prize, Center for History and Culture of Southeast TexasTexas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as...
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community*The basis for the documentary Join or Die--now streaming on Netflix!* Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet--the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what...
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Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone MagazineHow the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism. Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the origins and evolution of the magazine during its formative early years in San Francisco....
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Brave Companions: Portraits in HistoryFrom Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has...
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Brave Companions: Portraits in HistoryMaster historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women who shaped the course of history and...
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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary AmericaA Guardian Best Book of the Year "A gripping study of white power...Explosive."--New York Times "Helps explain how we got to today's alt-right."--Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Returning to a country ripped apart by a war...
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Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great DepressionChristopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense...
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Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America"A magnificent achievement--a long, gripping, and enthralling account of the life of America's premier conservative polemicist of the twentieth century."--Max Boot, author of Reagan: His Life and Legend "A rich, immersive biography exposes the roots of the modern conservative movement through the life of...
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Bufalino: Revelations of a Mafia Family, the Teamsters, and the Final Resting Place of Jimmy HoffaWritten by the legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino's cousin, this gripping insider's account is an epic tell-all of the Pennsylvania Mafia family's origins, both personal and criminal, from its coal-mining Black Hand days in Pittston, to their national rise and control of the Teamsters...
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Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture"A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obsession... Gorgeously written and brilliantly researched, this book is both a warning and a wonder." -- Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of...
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