20Th Century category: 9982 books
Jenseits der Oder
Streusandbüchse und eine vorteilhafte Erwerbung
Language: German
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Hans Bentzien hat sich mit seinen historischen Skizzen absichtlich den Gebieten jenseits der Oder zugewendet, die seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu Polen gehören, die durch die Herrschaft der Nationalsozialisten und den angezettelten Zweiten Weltkrieg verspielt worden sind. Jenseits der Oder...
Morgan
American Financier
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U.S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal...
The Gambler
How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Offers an entertaining look at Kerkorian’s outsize life… an interesting portrait of a billionaire.” – Wall Street Journal
The rags-to-riches story of one of America’s wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian—the...
Tom and Jack
The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only...
Wasn't That a Time
The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government--and who changed the world, anyway
Following a series of top-ten hits that became instant American standards, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn't...
by Alistair Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Drawing on a lifetime of journalistic encounters with the great and the famous, Alistair Cooke profiles the six extraordinary men who impressed him the most
Over the course of his sixty-year career as a broadcaster, television host, and newspaper reporter, Alistair Cooke met many remarkable...
Forbidden Music
The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the...
Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America,...
Five Presidents
My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years on the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.
The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and the swearing-in of...
American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography...
by Charlene E. McGee Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Colonel Charles E. McGee fought in World War II in Korea and in Vietnam. He holds the record for the highest three-war total of fighter combat missions of any pilot in the U.S. Air Force history. His military service began as one of the Tuskegee Airmen in the 332nd famed pioneers who fought racial prejudices...
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. What made a failed Austrian artist into the most reviled and destructive personality of the twentieth century? Where did the seeds of his rabid anti-Semitism lie? How did a marginalized loner become such a moving force in Germany? How could a...
Patton And Rommel
Men of War in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
General George S. Patton. His tongue was as sharp as the cavalry saber he once wielded, and his fury as explosive as the shells he’d ordered launched from his tank divisions. Despite his profane, posturing manner, and the sheer enthusiasm for conflict that made both his peers and the public uncomfortable,...
The World Remade
America in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A bracing, indispensable account of America’s epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period
After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the...