20Th Century category: 9982 books
Harry S. Truman
The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century
In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri....
A Puritan Outpost
A History of the Town and People of Northfield, Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
A Puritan Outpost by Herbert C. Parsons, which was originally published in 1937, is the history of Northfield, Massachusetts, “a distinctive New England town, the farthest venture of Puritan pioneering to the west and north in the seventeenth century, which had to be claimed by venturesome settlers...
The Vanquished
Why the First World War Failed to End
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Winner of the Tomlinson Book Prize
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I—conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century
For the Western Allies, November 11,...
by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer—the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction—wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America’s...
A Bold and Dangerous Family
The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of Italy in the years between the...
America in the Great War
The Rise of the War Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1994
After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets--a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems...
by Vivek Bald
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s boardwalks into the segregated South. Bald’s history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America.
An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire
Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames' ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames' book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria's reign.
This book...
by Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A companion to Oliver Stone’s ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people’s history of the American Empire: “a critical overview of US foreign policy…indispensable” (former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev); “brilliant, a masterpiece!” (Daniel Ellsberg);...
The Spectacle of Disintegration
Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark continues the SI’s story, charting its post-sixties legacy and putting the late work of the Situationists in a broader, deeper context. He uncovers a contemporary relevance and searching...
Europe's Last Summer
Who Started the Great War in 1914?
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable.
In...
A Narco History
How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.
But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from,...
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
An insightful and inspirational biography of the heroic and spiritual poet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844?1889) may well have been the most original and innovative poet writing in the English language during the nineteenth century. Yet his story of personal struggle, doubt, intense introspection,...
Attorney for the Damned
Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and various, but all were marked by his unequivocal sense of justice, as well as his penchant for representing infamous and...