20Th Century category: 9982 books
The Tragedy of European Civilization
Towards an Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The tragedy of European civilization is a protracted historical event spanning the twentieth century and in many ways is ongoing. During this time some of the greatest modern thinkers were active, producing works that both reflected what was happening in history and contributed towards shaping it....
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks...
Mencken
The American Iconoclast
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive...
by Will Norman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical...
The People's Republic of Amnesia
Tiananmen Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of the Year, 2014 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "One of the best analyses of the impact...
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions
The Curious World of the Demoulin Brothers and Their Fraternal Lodge Prank Machi nes - from Human Centipedes and Revolving Goats to ElectricCarpets and SmokingC
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
"This stuff is more than just fancy pranks. It's Americana. Never has nonsense been taken so seriously...This book is a fascinating, appetite- whetting glimpse for the, if you'll pardon the expression, uninitiated."
-David Copperfield, from the foreword
At the beginning of the twentieth...
Dupes
How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“Nothing short of horrifying . . . In terms of putting the last 100 years in perspective, Dupes may be one of the most significant literary offerings of our time.” —Washington Times
In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply...
Hammarskjöld
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
After his mysterious death, Dag Hammarskjöld was described by John F. Kennedy as the "greatest statesman of our century." Second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953 - 61), he is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Through extensive research...
by Martin E Marty
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed...
Grampa's Left Arm and Other Stories
Tracing My Immigrant Roots from Galicia to Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
A memoir and a history, Grampas Left Arm tells the story of Jakob Tirjan and Annie Kaufold, immigrants who settled in southeastern Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Their village on the Austro-Hungarian eastern frontier faded into history when the province of Galicia came under Polish rule after WWI.
The...
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?
David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development...
by Max Beer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published 1935, this title presents a series of recollections, some intimately personal, others bearing on the great social, cultural and political issues that faced the Jews and the European population more generally during the first part of the twentieth century. The author specifically focuses...
The Bill of the Century
The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. It gave the government sweeping powers to strike down segregation, to enforce fair hiring practices, and to rectify bias in law enforcement and in the courts. The Act so dramatically...
Dark Continent
Europe's Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
"A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations." --Los Angeles Times
Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph...