20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Madeleine Albright
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Best Books of 2018 --The Economist
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of America’s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state
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Big Trouble
A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Strugg
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice...
by Steve Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
How a female investigative journalist brought down the world’s greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly.
Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business...
America Reborn
A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-six Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Here is the story of America in the twentieth century as told through the lives of twenty-six of its most remarkable and historically crucial men and women.
The people Martin Walker has chosen to portray are presidents, industrialists, artists, thinkers, entertainers, soldiers, spies, criminals,...
by Jan-Werner Muller
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, both West and East, to appear since the end of the Cold War. Skillfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-Werner Müller elucidates the ideas that shaped the period of ideological extremes...
Twentieth-Century Sprawl
Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Here, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund uses a "follow the money" approach, showing how government policies...
by Carlos Rojas
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Acclaimed translator Edith Grossman brings to English-language readers Rojas’s imaginative vision of Francisco de Goya and the reverberations of his art in Fascist Spain
This historical novel by one of Spain’s most celebrated authors weaves a tale of disparate time periods: the early years...
Hannah's Dress
Berlin 1904 - 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history. Curious to learn more about the city she has lived in for over twenty years, journalist Pascale Hugues investigates the lives of the men, women and children who have occupied her ordinary street during the course of the last century....
Classic Dining
Discovering America's Finest Mid-Century Restaurants
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Over the years, the softly lit wood-paneled interiors, starched tablecloths, curved booths, tuxedoed captains, and tableside service that once defined classic continentalstyle fine dining have gradually disappeared. Equally, the number of historic restaurants filled with character and old-school ambiance...
Manhattan at Mid-Century
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Experience the mosaic of mid-century Manhattan in this exuberant oral history that begins in the post–World War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly went bust. This is the story of a time when great ocean liners were docked in the Hudson River ports,...
Can't Find My Way Home
America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2004
Can't Find My Way Home is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the remarkable story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American Century transformed into the Great Stoned Age.
Martin...
Budapest 1900
A Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
A distinguished historian and Budapest native offers a rich and eloquent portrait of one of the great European cities at the height of its powers.
Budapest, like Paris and Vienna, experienced a remarkable exfoliation at the end of the nineteenth century. In terms of population growth, material...
The Great Railroad Revolution
The History of Trains in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line––the first American railroad––in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort,...
Tax and Spend
The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why many Americans...