20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Nelson Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Nelson Johnson frequently stopped working on Boardwalk Empire to wrestle with how best to handle the thorny subject of race. But he persisted, and the result was a chapter"A Plantation by the Sea"that inspired this powerful sequel. In The Northside, Johnson brings the untold story of Atlantic City's...
Martin's Dream
My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
On August 28, 1963 hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flocked to the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. It was Clayborne Carson's first demonstration. A nineteen year old black...
Out For Good
The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in Ame
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
With a New Preface Written in 2016 by Adam Nagourney
This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement...
The Age of Clinton
America in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Seismic shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the world. At the center of it all was Bill Clinton, the talented, charismatic, and flawed Baby Boomer...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s in-depth look at four media-business giants: CBS-TV, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
In this fascinating New York Times bestseller, the author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, and other acclaimed histories turns his investigative...
by William Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
An up-close look at John F. Kennedy by one of his closest confidants, a New York Times–bestselling biographer.
Written by a prize-winning historian and biographer of such giants as Winston S. Churchill and Douglas MacArthur, this intimately detailed account provides a rare personal glimpse...
Greater Gotham
A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national...
by David Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
“A brilliant, fast-moving narrative history of the leaders who have defined the modern American presidency.”—Bob Woodward
In Republic of Spin—a vibrant history covering more than one hundred years of politics—presidential historian David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House...
This Time, This Place
My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far different...
Pulitzer's Gold
A Century of Public Service Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Joseph Pulitzer Gold Medal for meritorious public service is an unparalleled American media honor, awarded to news organizations for collaborative reporting that moves readers, provokes change, and advances the journalistic profession. Updated to reflect new winners of the Pulitzer Prize for public...
Wilderness of Mirrors
Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
At the dawn of the Cold War, the world’s most important intelligence agencies—the Soviet KGB, the American CIA, and the British MI6—appeared to have clear-cut roles and a sense of rising importance in their respective countries. But when Kim Philby, head of MI6’s Russian division and arguably...
by Robert A Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
Journey back fifty years to explore the decade of baby boomers, the Red scare, and the birth of rock and roll with Robert Rodriguezs The 1950s Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All-American Oddities. America was revving its engines when the fifties came along, and...
The Good Years
From 1900 to the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
This New York Times bestseller by the author of A Night to Remember explores America in the years between the Gilded Age and the beginning of the Great War.
Though remarkable in their own right, the first fifteen years of the 1900s had the misfortune of being sandwiched between—and overshadowed...
by Thomas G. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a story of transformation, Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century.