books by subject
20th Century U.S. History

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

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

Dr.Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

Why Niebuhr Now?

Shockwave

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture

The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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

American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film

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

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

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

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

The Americans: v.3: The Democratic Experience

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

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

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

American Aviation: The First Half Century

Big Trouble

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

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

American Betrayal

On the Freedom Side: How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History

The Minutes of the Rainbow Circle

War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring

Three New Deals
