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  • Nixon

    The Rise and Fall of the President at the Heart of the Watergate Scandal

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the career of Richard Nixon in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and political career of Richard Nixon. In 1974, Nixon made history as the first ever US president to resign from office. Although he is now best known for the Watergate scandal that led to his downfall, he did ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cigarette

    A Political History

    by Sarah Milov ...
    Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Willie Lee Rose PrizeWinner of the PROSE Award in United States HistoryHagley Prize in Business History FinalistA Smithsonian Best History Book of the Year“Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov’s thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse.”—New York Times Book ReviewFrom Jamestown. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Confessions of a Recovering Racist

    The memoir of a dyed-in-the-wool racist forced to change his beliefs to succeed in the progressively changing times of twentieth-century America.This true story is about George O’Hare and his upbringing in a segregated, White, Irish Catholic, Chicago neighborhood. As an adult moving up the corporate ladder at a time when America was transitioning from Jim Crow to Civil Rights, George was asked by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blacklisted by History

    The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies

    Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Charles Manson (1934-2017) - An American Cult Leader and Criminal Mastermind

    Step into the enigmatic world of Charles Manson, a man who forever altered the course of history as an American cult leader and criminal mastermind. In this gripping account, follow the life of Manson from his troubled childhood to the formation of the infamous Manson Family and their disturbing descent into violence.Delve into the charismatic personality that allowed Manson to exert a chilling ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pacific Thunder

    The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944

    On 27 October 1942, four 'Long Lance' torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to build over 15 years, only three were left: USS ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Absolutely Indispensable Man

    Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire

    by Kal Raustiala ...
    A wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche. A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. The first African American to obtain a political science Ph.D. from Harvard and a celebrated diplomat at the United Nations, he was once so famous he ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Man Who Talks with Flowers

    The Intimate Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver

    by Glenn Clark ...
    During his life time George Washington Carver was referred to as the black Leonardo da Vinci. His research into alternative crops to replace cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes revolutionized Southern farming. Carver was born into slavery, once slavery was abolished Carver traveled expensively to study and educate himself. He was the first head of the Agricultural Department at ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sons of Mississippi

    A Story of Race and Its Legacy

    They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazineor that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kennedy and King

    The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights

    A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick"Kennedy and King is an unqualified masterpiece of historical narrative . . . A landmark achievement." -- Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Rosa ParksKennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders, their powerful impact on each other and on the shape of the civil rights battle between 1960 and 1963. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Army Life in a Black Regiment

    Civil War Memories Series

    Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "Army Life in a Black Regiment" is an ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Gay History

    The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights

    by Eric Marcus ...
    “Rich and often moving . . . at times shocking, but often enlightening and inspiring: oral history at its most potent and rewarding.” — Kirkus ReviewsA completely revised and updated edition of the classic volume of oral history interviews with high-profile leaders and little-known participants in the gay rights movement that cumulatively provides a powerful documentary look at the struggle for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Gilded Age Cocktails

    History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of CocktailsThe decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane—but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the “cocktail.”The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Manhattan and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Washington's New Cold War

    A Socialist Perspective

    As the American people delude themselves once more into thinking of the United States as a liberating force for peace in the world, Waging a New Cold War invites us, instead, to think for ourselves. Behind the scenes the plans to wage war have been laid—either by proxy, as in Ukraine, or directly, against the U.S.’s old twentieth-century foes. Waging a New Cold War: A Socialist Perspective makes a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Gay Revolution

    The Story of the Struggle

    “This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we’ve been waiting for.” —The Washington PostThe sweeping story of the struggle for gay and lesbian rights—based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day.The fight for gay and lesbian civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

    “Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system.” —Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington PostFrom one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding of the post–civil rights era.What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Run

    Book One

    First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award–winning team behind March—Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell—comes the first book in their new, groundbreaking graphic novel series, Run: Book One.Run**, the Eisner Award–Winner for Best Graphic Memoir, is one of the most heralded books of the year including being named a:**New York Times Top 5 YA Book... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing the Big Book

    The Creation of A.A.

    The definitive history of writing and producing the"Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous, told through extensive access to the group's archives.Alcoholics Anonymous is arguably the most significant self-help book published in the twentieth century. Released in 1939, the “Big Book,” as it’s commonly known, has sold an estimated 37 million copies, been translated into seventy languages, and spawned ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Platt Lynes

    The Daring Eye

    George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye is a life of the gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. From age 18, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Intending to pursue a literary and small press ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Inga

    Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime Suspect

    Inga Arvad was the great love of President John F. Kennedy’s life, and also Adolf Hitler’s special guest at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She was an actress, a foreign correspondent, a popular Washington columnist, an explorer who lived among a tribe of headhunters, one of Hollywood’s most influential gossip columnists, and a suspected Nazi spy. The latter nearly got Kennedy cashiered out of the Navy, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • All the Truth Is Out

    The Week Politics Went Tabloid

    by Matt Bai ...
    **Now a major motion picture "The Front Runner" starring Hugh JackmanAn NPR Best Book of the Year**In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart—a dashing, reform-minded Democrat—seemed a lock for the party’s presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper’s stakeout of Hart’s home resulted in a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cult City

    Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco

    In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong.November 1978. Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America.Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sinatra

    The Life

    Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled relationships with U.S. presidents. Exclusive ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Forsaken

    An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia

    **“Gripping and important . . . an extremely impressive book.” —Noel Malcolm, Telegraph (London)A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends**In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers, except ... Read more

    $8.99 USD