20Th Century category: 9982 books
Worldmaking
The Art and Science of American Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A new intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the present
Worldmaking is a compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than retelling the story of realism versus idealism, David Milne suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been...
Voices in Our Blood
America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
**A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present—including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis **
Editor Jon Meacham has chosen...
One Summer
America, 1927
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
**A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
A GoodReads Reader's Choice
In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.**
The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events...
Breaking White Supremacy
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This magisterial follow-up to The New Abolition, a Grawemeyer Award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel’s history.
The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with...
Stalin
Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band...
China 1945
Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations
As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing...
Common Nonsense
Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Who is this guy and why are people listening?
Forget Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity—Glenn Beck is the Right’s new media darling and the unofficial leader of the conservative grassroots. Lampooned by the Left and Lionized by the far Right, his bluster-and-tears brand of political...
by Susan Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s...
by G. J. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Drawing on exhaustive research, this remarkable, intimate account tells the story of how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.
On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian...
Inferno
The World at War, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.
World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five...
The Glass Universe
How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian,...
Bobby Kennedy
A Raging Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In Chris Matthews’s New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, “Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy’s soul. Through tragedy after tragedy we find the man humanized” (Associated Press).
With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews profiled of one of...
Negroland
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015
New York Times: Dwight Garner’s Best Books of 2015
Washington Post: 10 Best Books of 2015
Los Angeles Times: 31 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
Marie...
The Flight
Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
"GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT.****" — WALL STREET JOURNAL • From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh’s death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. Louis
On the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known...