20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Esther Crain
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover.
In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, as well as sprawling...
Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics
A Sideways Look at Twentieth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
London's forgotten scandals, secrets and personalities from the twentieth century, told by the writer of the popular blog Another Nickel in the Machine.
Bellow
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events—the Depression,...
The Big Change
America Transforms Itself, 1900–1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The New York Times–bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century—five decades that transformed America—from the author of Only Yesterday.
During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, the United States saw two world wars, a devastating economic depression, and...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The second volume of Burns’s acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government...
A Grand Complication
The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Two wealthy and powerful men engage in a decades-long contest to create and possess the most remarkable watch in history.
James Ward Packard of Warren, Ohio, was an entrepreneur and a talented engineer of infinite curiosity, a self-made man who earned millions from his inventions, including...
William Randolph Hearst
The Early Years, 1863-1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1998
William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the present day. Now, in William Randolph Hearst, Ben Procter gives us the most authoritative account of Hearst's...
by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Stephen C. Schlesinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
This extraordinary collection gathers the never-before-seen correspondence of a true American original—the acclaimed historian and lion of the liberal establishment, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
An advisor to presidents, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and tireless champion of progressive government,...
News Is a Verb
Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
"When screaming headlines turn out to be based on stories that don't support them, the tale of the boy who cried wolf gets new life. When the newspaper is filled with stupid features about celebrities at the expense of hard news, the reader feels patronized. In...
An Unlikely Trust
Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
At the dawn of the twentieth century*,* Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan were the two most powerful men in America, perhaps the world. As the nation’s preeminent financier, Morgan presided over an elemental shift in American business, away from family-owned companies and toward modern corporations...
Uprooted
How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers...
The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The phrase “a strong work ethic” conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America’s Puritan heritage, perceptions of work ethic have actually...
The Big Jump
Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero
The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won...
Babies Made Us Modern
How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Placing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies during the twentieth century. She examines how babies shaped American society and culture and led their families into the modern world to become more accepting...