20Th Century category: 9982 books
Higher
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce...
Mademoiselle
Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth...
The Man in the Glass House
Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A "smoothly written and fair-minded" (Wall Street Journal) biography of architect Philip Johnson--a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award
When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American...
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking,...
A Common Good
The Friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
An illuminating account of the history-making friendship between RFK and the chief of staff to JFK—a bond built on shared ideals, but severed by tragedy.
When they first met at Harvard in 1946, young Bobby Kennedy and Kenny O’Donnell could not have imagined where their lives would take...
The Same Man
George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist. Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals,...
by W. G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The masterworks of W. G. Sebald, now in gorgeous new covers by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund
New Directions is delighted to announce beautiful new editions of these three classic Sebald novels, including his two greatest works, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. All three novels are...
Tibetan Peach Pie
A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.
Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids...
by Seymour M. Hersh
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
**"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." —John le Carré
From the Pulitzer...
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing
“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.”
Memory...
by Anne C. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian...
by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.
As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of...
February House
The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
An “irresistible” account of a little-known literary salon and creative commune in 1940s Brooklyn (The Washington Post Book World).
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
February House is the true story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young...
Papa Hemingway
A Personal Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
An intimate, joy-filled portrait and New York Times bestseller, written by one of Hemingway’s closest friends: “It is hard to imagine a better biography” (Life).
In 1948, A. E. Hotchner went to Cuba to ask Ernest Hemingway to write an article on “The Future of Literature” for Cosmopolitan...