20Th Century category: 9982 books
The Great Escape
Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Extravagantly praised by critics and readers, this stunning story by bestselling author Kati Marton tells of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.
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by Peter Gay
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
“Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review
Peter Gay explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that...
by Geoff Willcocks
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume captures the rich diversity of European performance practice evident in the twentieth and early part of the twenty-first century. Written by leading directors, actors, dancers, scenographers and academics from across Europe, the collection spans a broad range of subject areas including...
Remembering Woolworth's
A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Remembering Woolworth's brings back to life all the nostalgia and magic of the famous five-and-dime that captured the hearts of Americans for over a century
Millions of Americans have fond memories of shopping at Woolworth's, wandering the aisles in search of a humble spool of Woolco thread,...
The Crimson Letter
Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. The Crimson Letter follows the gay...
Dead Wake
The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
**#1 New York Times Bestseller
From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania**
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out...
Killing Kennedy
The End of Camelot
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln
More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction...
Pan Am at War
How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Pan Am at War chronicles the airline?s historic role in advancing aviation and serving America?s national interest before and during World War II. From its inception, Pan American Airways operated as the ?wings of democracy,? spanning six continents and placing the country at the leading edge of international...
1967
The Year of Fire and Ice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Blazing hot meets icy cool in a momentous year in US history
On New Year’s Day in 1967, the 200 million Americans who lived in the United States were about to experience a fascinating, exciting, and sometimes bewildering twelve months that for many formed an iconic portion of their lives....
The Forgotten Depression
1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes” (The Wall Street Journal).
In...
Herbert Hoover
The American Presidents Series: The 31st President, 1929-1933
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
The Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression
Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover—an engineer by training—exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s....
America's Political Dynasties
From Adams to Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The Constitution states that "no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States," yet it seems political nobility is as American as apple pie.
America was founded in rebellion against nobility and inherited status. Yet from the start, dynastic families have been conspicuous...
by Susie J. Pak
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Gentlemen Bankers focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century.
Vietnam
An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for...