20Th Century category: 9982 books
Interesting Times
A Twentieth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.”...
Coco Chanel
An Intimate Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
The controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon.
Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle "Coco'' Chanel was the twentieth century's most influential designer. Her extraordinary and unconventional journey-from abject poverty to a new kind of glamour- helped...
Elsa Schiaparelli
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time.
Her style was a social revolution through clothing-luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy; synonymous with fashion innovation and chicesse....
A Torch Kept Lit
Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**The New York Times Bestseller
William F. Buckley, Jr. remembers—as only he could—the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen.**
In a half century on the national stage,...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.
Winston Churchill, whose mother,...
by Jeremi Suri
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century.
Debtor Nation
The History of America in Red Ink
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did...
America Observed
From the 1940s to the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The definitive survey of Alistair Cooke’s brilliant career as a newspaperman
Few journalists have covered the American scene as thoroughly as Alistair Cooke did. In addition to presenting the Sunday-night Letter from America broadcasts for the BBC, Cooke was the* Guardian*’s chief US...
American Lightning
Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When...
The Patriarch
The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
New York Times Ten Best Books of 2012
“Riveting…The Patriarch is a book hard to put down.” – Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review
In this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story...
The American Experiment
The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.
In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative...
Chicago Renaissance
Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl...
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Poems for the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets—a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.
XX is award-winning poet Campbell...
I Invented the Modern Age
The Rise of Henry Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T—the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America.
Every...