20Th Century category: 9982 books
Philadelphia Gentlemen
The Making of a National Upper Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Although primarily a Proper Philadelphia story that starts with the city's Golden Age at the close of the eighteenth century, this classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock and Protestant (largely Episcopalian) affiliations is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy, nineteenth-century...
Censoring Racial Ridicule
Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. In this provocative...
by Cornel West, Christa Buschendorf
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick...
Balkan Genocides
Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
During the twentieth century, the Balkan Peninsula was affected by three major waves of genocides and ethnic cleansings, some of which are still being denied today. In Balkan Genocides Paul Mojzes provides a balanced and detailed account of these events, placing them in their proper historical context...
Summits
Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The Cold War dominated world history for nearly half a century, locking two superpowers in a global rivalry that only ended with the Soviet collapse. The most decisive moments of twentieth-century diplomacy occurred when world leaders met face to face-from the mishandled summit in Munich, 1938, which...
My Day
The Best Of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
"I think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely. . . . She's perfect for us as we enter the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roosevelt is a loud and profound voice for people who want to change the world."--Blanche Wiesen...
by Milton Rugoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
"Rugoff's spirited and immensely beguiling book takes a joyful bite out of the nineteenth century." - The New York Times. "King of the Lobbyists" Sam Ward was best known for his talent for throwing parties - courtesy of the U.S. Treasury. And Alva Vanderbilt squandered tens of...
World War One
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the...
The Spanish Civil War
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
“Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”—Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review
A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’sThe Spanish Civil War remains...
The Murder of the Century
The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
“No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.”—Dave Eggers
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover...
The Man from the Train
The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old...
Virginians at Home
Family Life in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1952, this is historian Edmund S. Morgan’s second book on family life in the American colonies. An informative, well-researched and well written book, Morgan sketches the day-to-day life of colonial Virginians. From the planters of the Tidewater to the Scotch-Irish and German...
The Twentieth Century
A People's History
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edition includes two new chapters -- covering Clinton's presidency, the 2000 Election, and the "war on terrorism."
Highlighting not just...
The Center
People and Power in Political Washington
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A portrait of Washington politics during one of the most turbulent eras in American history by the twentieth century’s premier US government insider.
During his three decades as a journalist and political pundit for the New York Herald Tribune and Newsweek magazine, Stewart Alsop covered many...