books by subject

20th Century U.S. History

Filter by available

Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press

By Eddy Portnoy

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

By Robert Putnam

Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times

By George Crile

Understanding The Catcher in the Rye: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

By Sanford Pinsker, Ann Pinsker

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

By David Roediger

The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By Matthew Continetti

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

By Christopher Lasch

Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity

By Samuel P Huntington

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By John Ganz

The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America

By Marisa Chappell

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

Edexcel AS History Student Unit Guide: Unit 1 Pursuing Life and Liberty: Equality in the USA, 1945-68 (Option D5)

By Robin Bunce, Laura Gallagher, Derrick Murphy

The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932

By William E. Leuchtenburg

Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan

By Sean L. Malloy

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

By Gar Alperovitz

The Best of Jazz

By Humphrey Lyttelton

The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton

By Greenstein, Fred I.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

By D. Russell

Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu

By Simon Callow

Deep Undercover

By Jack Barsky

JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President

By Thurston Clarke

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

By Mailer, Norman

Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets

By R. Parthasarathy

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

By Conrad Black

Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story

By Jack Devine, Vernon Loeb

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV

By Alan Schroeder (Northeastern School of Journalism)

The Best of Times: The Boom and Bust Years of America Before and After Everything Changed

By Haynes Johnson

A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West

By Ian Johnson

Rfk: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

By C.David Heymann