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Holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America

By Winston James

Quotations of Martin Luther King (Quotations of Great Americans)

By King, Martin

Bound for Glory American in Color: America in Color 1939-43

By Hendricks Paul

One Hell of a Gamble: Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Aleksandr Fursenko, Timothy J. Naftali

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

Why Do People Hate America?

By Professor Ziauddin Sardar (Middlesex University), Merryl Wyn Davies

"Time" 100: The Most Influential People of the 20th Century: v. 3: Heroes and Inspirations, Person of the Century

By Time-Life Books

Harry Hopkins and the Grand Alliance of the Second World War

By Hopkins, June

Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America Into the War and Into the World

By Michael Fullilove

Eisenhower: Soldier and President

By Stephen E. Ambrose

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

By Arthur M. Schlesinger

Debating the Kennedy Presidency

By James N. Giglio, Stephen G. Rabe

The Ten-Cent Plague: Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, The

By David Hajdu

What's the Matter with Kansas?

By Thomas Frank

Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968

By Steven F. Lawson, Charles M. Payne

The Longman Handbook of Modern American History. 1763-1996

By Cook, Dr Chris, Waller, David

The Fifties

By David Halberstam

Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' Disaster

By Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen

The Nuremberg Trial

By Ann Tusa, John Tusa

Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography

By Jeffrey Meyers

Eyewitness To Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton

By David Gergen

Documenting America, 1935-1943

By Carl Fleischhauer, Beverly W. Brannan, Lawrence Levine, Alan Trachtenberg

Roosevelt

By Roy Jenkins, Arthur M. Schlesinger

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

By Daniel James Brown

Story of a Death Foretold: Pinochet, the CIA and the Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973

By Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History

By Steve Fraser

The Party Decides - Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform

By Marty Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel, John Zaller

THE FORD CENTURY: FORD MOTOR COMPANY AND THE INNOVATIONS THAT SHAPED THE WORLD.

By Banham, Russ.

Better Together: Restoring the American Community

By Robert Putnam, Lewis Feldstein, Donald Cohen

Nixon: A Life

By Jonathan Aitken