20Th Century category: 9982 books
Mark Felt
The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Liam Neeson.
The covert Watergate whistleblower tells the story of the dramatic showdown between the FBI and the Nixon White House
In the 1970s, Mark Felt was given the code name "Deep Throat" and shared intelligence on the Watergate break-in...
Poisoning the Press
Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
It is March 1972, and the Nixon White House wants Jack Anderson dead.
The syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, the most famous and feared investigative reporter in the nation, has exposed yet another of the President's dirty secrets. Nixon's operatives are ordered to "stop Anderson at all...
Edward Kennedy
An Intimate Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
This revealing look at the youngest Kennedy is “an entertaining, psychologically acute rendition of a man and a mystique” (Publishers Weekly).
In this groundbreaking biography of Edward Kennedy, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines a lifetime of research and reporting with a lively...
Cousteau
An Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
One of the most influential men of the twentieth century, Jacques Cousteau was an eco-emissary whose own life of derring-do brought him fame and the means to proselytize his cause. Ecologist, adventurer, celebrity, businessman—Cousteau was a brilliant and complex individual, and Madsen’s biography...
by Clayton Colman Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. II was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most notably Clayton Colman Hall. The book is relevant today because of its unique views of the development...
American Infidel
Robert G. Ingersoll, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The definitive biography of the man who more than any other figure in the history of the United States influenced the course of popular thought in the realm of unorthodoxy.
“…one of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen.”
Rediscover Robert Green...
Gandhi
The Power of Nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Mahatma Gandhi in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Gandhi’s life and achievements. In the 19th century, European countries had colonised large parts of Asia and Africa to increase...
Slaughterhouse
Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
From the minute it opened—on Christmas Day in 1865—it was Chicago’s must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look...
Ich bin ein Berliner!
„Ich bin ein Berliner!“ The Story of U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Germany, June 1963
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
The endless attempts over the past half century, by historians, journalists and producers of television documentaries to demystify the Kennedy administration have generally failed. To this day, John F. Kennedy is still the second most popular President since Abraham Lincoln, according to polls taken....
The People’s Songs
The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.
Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – just sometimes – changed the way we feel. Beginning...
Washington on the Brazos
Cradle of the Texas Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
With Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic, noted historian Richard B. McCaslin recovers the history of an iconic Texas town. The story of the Texas Republic begins and ends at Washington, but the town’s history extends much further. Texas leaders gathered in the new town on the...
Funding Feminism
Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst,...
The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South
Or, Leaving Behind the Plow
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
The story of the long struggle of African Americans to attain civil rights, particularly in the South, is well documented. The story of the public library movement in America is also well documented. However, the story of the African American struggle for access to public libraries in the South is...
First World War
Still No End in Sight
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This book argues that the battle of ideas which crystallised during the course of the Great War continue to the present....