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The American Dream in the 21st Century

The American Dream in the 21st Century

Sandra Hanson & John Kenneth White

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

James R. Hansen

The Left-Handed Woman

The Left-Handed Woman

The Fifties

The Fifties

David Halberstam

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-Do-Wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, ...

Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust-Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour

Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust-Instrum[..] of Hope ...

James A. Grymes

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army

Vasily Grossman & Antony Beevor & Luba Vinogradova

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: Hooke, Halley and the Birth of British Science

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: Hooke, Halley and the Birth of ...

John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa From the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa From the Rise of the Slave ...

SKYJACK: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper

SKYJACK: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper

Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682

Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682

How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply ...

Peter S. Goodman

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

Rebecca Goldstein

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and ...

Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance

Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented ...

The Will of the People: Winston Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy

The Will of the People: Winston Churchill and Parliamentary ...

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

Robert Gerwarth

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World ...

Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East

Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations ...

Irene L Gendzier

Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans

Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans

Malcolm Gaskill

When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl

When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl

Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?

Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?

From Eve to Dawn: Revolutions and the Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century

From Eve to Dawn: Revolutions and the Struggles for Justice ...

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the ...

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists ...

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil ...

Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

Judith Flanders

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death ...

Judith Flanders

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly ...

Lindsey Fitzharris

Burning Books

Burning Books

Matthew Fishburn

Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand ...

David Hackett Fischer

Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories ...

Palgrave Studies in Oral History (1)

Second Wind: Oral Histories of Lung Transplant Survivors

Second Wind: Oral Histories of Lung Transplant Survivors

Palgrave Studies in Oral History (1)

The 1950s Kitchen

The 1950s Kitchen

Hernando Colon's New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of Knowledge

Hernando Colon's New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of ...

Jose Maria Perez Fernandez & Edward Wilson-Lee

The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred

The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred

The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000

The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000

The Third Reich in Power

The Third Reich in Power

Richard J. Evans

Third Reich Trilogy (2)

The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945

The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945

Richard J. Evans

Third Reich Trilogy (3)

The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel

The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín ...

Roberto Escobar & David Fisher

Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View

Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Joseph J. Ellis

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power ...

Wolfram Eilenberger

Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals

David King Dunaway & Molly Beer

Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World

Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the ...

The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War

Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second ...

One minute to midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war

One minute to midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the ...

Ill Winds: Saving Democracy From Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

Ill Winds: Saving Democracy From Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, ...

Inventing Scrooge

Inventing Scrooge

Why Liberalism Failed

Why Liberalism Failed

Patrick J. Deneen

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth ...

J. Bradford DeLong

The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State's History

The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State's ...

Bruce W. Dearstyne

Global Frankenstein

Global Frankenstein

Carol Margaret Davison

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of ...

A Little History of the United States

A Little History of the United States

James West Davidson

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, ...