20Th Century category: 9982 books
When Lions Roar
The Churchills and the Kennedys
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The first comprehensive history of the deeply entwined personal and public lives of the Churchills and the Kennedys and what their “special relationship” meant for Great Britain and the United States
When Lions Roar begins in the mid-1930s at Chartwell, Winston Churchill's country estate,...
Yours in Truth
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
An intimate profile of the legendary Washington Post editor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys—as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post
“A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.”—The...
Nixon & Rockefeller
A Double Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A fascinating analysis of two of the most important figures in 1960s American politics, written during their battle for the GOP presidential nomination.
Richard Milhous Nixon was one of the most controversial politicians in America’s history: a California congressman, senator, vice president,...
by Joe Eszterhas
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
If the Watergate scandal was a previous generation's National Nightmare, then maybe the Clinton scandal was our National Wet Dream, and who better to narrate it than the screenwriter Joe Eszterhas? In American Rhapsody, Eszterhas, whose credits include Basic Instinct and Showgirls, and Charlie...
Dr. Feelgood
The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F. Kennedy code-named “Dr. Feelgood,” developed a unique “energy formula” that altered the paths of some of the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, including President and Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra,...
Bill Clinton: An American Journey
Great Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, is the quintessential baby boomer: on the one hand blessed with a near-genius IQ, on the other, beset by character flaws that made his presidency a veritable soap opera of high ideals, distressing incompetence, model financial stewardship,...
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?
Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
In this “heroic narrative” (The Wall Street Journal), discover the inspiring and timely account of the complex relationship between leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her fight for women’s equality.
Woodrow Wilson lands in Washington, DC in March of 1913, a...
by Ryan Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The story of Queen Elizabeth's life, from when she was a young princess, to her coronation in 1953 through to becoming the longest-reigning British monarch, is a rich one. This short book charts the key events of her life and reign. Her public life is conveyed from the abdication of her uncle,...
In Command of History
Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Winston Churchill was one of the giants of the twentieth century. As Britain’s prime minister from 1940 to 1945, he courageously led his nation and the world away from appeasement, into war, and on to triumph over the Axis dictators. His classic six-volume account of those years, The Second World...
The Impossible Presidency
The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every president since JFK, with enormously problematic implications for American politics
In The Impossible Presidency, celebrated historian Jeremi Suri charts...
Reagan's Victory
The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Many have pointed to the Iran hostage crisis, others to galloping inflation. In reality, as Andrew Busch makes clear, Ronald Reagan's defeat of President Jimmy Carter in 1980 was attributable to more than any one issue, no matter how galvanizing. It marked the growing ascendancy of conservative attitudes...
The President and the Provocateur
The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
President John F. Kennedy was said to have been murdered by a lone crazed gunman in a Dallas motorcade a half-century ago. The accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also murdered under mysterious circumstances just a couple days later.Alex Cox, like most of the American public, does not buy...
American Girls in Red Russia
Chasing the Soviet Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This...
by Godfrey Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is as relevant today as he was when he led civil rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s. He was an agent and a prophet of political change in this country, and the election of President Barack Obama is his direct legacy.
Now from one of Britain's most experienced...