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American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film

By David Seed

Corcoran James : Murder at Twilight

By James Corcoran

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

By J. D. Vance

Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s

By Michael Johns

License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport

By Patrick Bixby

Time. Great events of the 20th century

By N / A

The Concise Guide to American Aircraft of World War II: An Illustrated Guide to American Warplanes of World War II

By David Mondey

Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment

By William Inboden, III

Religion and American Politics

By Mark A. Noll

Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle

By Steven F. Lawson

Brown v. Board of Education:: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

By Patterson

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Colin Grant

Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

By Hampton Sides

The Americans: v.3: The Democratic Experience

By Daniel J. Boorstin

Nixon, Kissinger, and US Foreign Policy Making: The Machinery of Crisis

By Asaf Siniver (University of Birmingham)

i-have-a-dream

By martin-luther-king-jr

The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold War America

By Fried

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

By G Pascal Zachary

The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

By Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

By Michael Hiltzik

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

By Gregg Herken

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

By Hitchens, Christopher

Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost - And How It Can Find Its Way Back

By Mickey Edwards

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

By Charles Thorpe

American Aviation: The First Half Century

By David Willis, Richard Molloy

Big Trouble

By J.A. Lukas

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

By Nathan Ward

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

By Ted Sorensen

What Went Wrong at Enron: Everyone's Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in U.S.History

By Peter C. Fusaro, Ross M. Miller

American Betrayal

By Diana West