20th Century U.S. History

America, 1870-1975

By J. O'Keeffe

Second World War in the Far East

By H. P. Willmott

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Arthur Meier Schlesinger

One Hundred Red Hot Years: Big Moments of the 20th Century

By Eduardo Galeano

Politics On Trial: Five Famous Trials of the 20th Century

By William Kunstler

Reinhold Niebuhr and His Circle of Influence

By Daniel F. Rice

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

The Woman's Hour

By Elaine Weiss

The Queen: The gripping true tale of a villain who changed history

By Josh Levin

Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War

By Kevin Wilson

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

By Alistair Cooke

A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958

By Alessandro Brogi

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By David Leonhardt

Let Every Nation Know: John F. Kennedy in His Own Words

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

By Madeleine Albright, Bill Woodward

The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia

By Mike Dash

Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right

By Benjamin Balint

Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated History

By Dan Van der Vat

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank

By Oney, Steve

The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration

By Blumenthal, W. Michael

A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust

By David S. Wyman

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

By Norman Mailer

The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case

By Elliot Goldenberg

America on Trial: The Cases That Define Our History

By Alan M. Dershowitz

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

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

By Haynes Johnson

Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

By Woodward

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books)

By Thompson, Hunter S.