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

By Gregg Herken

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

By J. D. Vance

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

By Richard H. Minear

Why Niebuhr Now?

By John Patrick Diggins

Shockwave

By Stephen Walker

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

By Branch

No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture

By Andrew Ross

The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition

By Joel Schalit

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

By Daniel James Brown

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

By Asaf Siniver (University of Birmingham)

American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film

By David Seed

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

The Americans: v.3: The Democratic Experience

By Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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

By Wesley C. Hogan

The Minutes of the Rainbow Circle

By Michael Freeden

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

By Edmund Russell (Hall Distinguished Professor of US History, University of Virginia)

Three New Deals

By Wolfgang Schivelbusch

The Civil Rights Movement

By Jack E. Davis (University of Florida)