20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Chris R. Pownall
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This book is a sequel to Chris Pownall’s hilarious autobiography entitled “Funny How Things Work Out”. “Onwards and Upwards” recalls more childhood memories generally tinged with humour from Chris’ interesting and colourful life. He reveals more intriguing details from his early life,...
Adventures of a Postmodern Historian
Living and Writing the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Robert Rosenstone was among the first 'postmodern' historians, and remains one of the most renowned. In this honest, revealing and often funny memoir, he shows us how he got there and why.
Adventures of a Postmodern Historian chronicles Rosenstone's research journeys over half a century. Beginning...
At the Dangerous Edge of Social Justice
Race, Violence and Death in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"at the dangerous edge of social justice" is a searing indictment of reprehensible - and often -- murderous racism in America -- from Huck Finn and Nigger Jim on the Mississippi, to the murder of Emmett Till in in Mississippi, in 1955, the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, Martin Luther...
Colonel House
A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson's chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand in crafting...
Ronald Reagan
Champion of Conservative America
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Few politicians in recent American history are as well-known as Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. president. An iconic leader, Reagan shifted the direction of American politics toward a newly vigorous conservatism. Though he began his career as a New Deal liberal, by the end of the 1950s, Reagan had embraced...
Britannia's Zealots, Volume I
Tradition, Empire and the Forging of the Conservative Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Britannia's Zealots, Volume I opens the first longitudinal study to examine the Conservative Right from the late-19th century to the present day. British Conservatism has always contained a significant section fundamentally opposed to progressive reform. A permanent minority in Parliament, dissident...
by Rodney Stich
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Those Ugly Americans: 20th and 21st Centuries, by Captain Rodney Stich This book describes those people, mostly in government, whose conduct justifies the label, Ugly American, and whose conduct either directly caused, or enabled to occur, much of the harm affecting the American people, the...
Whittaker Chambers
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long...
Churchill and Orwell
The Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
**A New York Times bestseller!
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.**
Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came...
Our Man Elsewhere
In Search of Alan Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure,...
The Greatest Comeback
How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency.
After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the...
by Saint John Hunt, Eric Hamburg
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
A father’s last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt, the infamous Watergate burglar and CIA spymaster. In Howard Hunt's near-death confession to his...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
*Comprehensively covers the lives, careers and legacies of the 5 Presidents.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes Bibliographies for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. Among Americas presidents, Harry Trumans presidency produced some of the nations most crucial...
Bunny Mellon
The Life of an American Style Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH IN BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history,...