HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
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- Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The lost art of dress, the women who once made America stylish, Linda Przybyszewski
- The family Roe, an American story, Joshua Prager
- Rising star, setting sun, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and the presidential transition that changed America, John T. Shaw
- Playing with fire, the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Lawrence O'Donnell
- Act of war, Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo, Jack Cheevers
- The burning house, Jim Crow and the making of modern America, Anders Walker
- A nation without borders, the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910, Steven Hahn
- Negroland, a memoir, Margo Jefferson
- The working class Republican, Ronald Reagan and the return of blue-collar conservatism, Henry Olsen
- The winter army, the World War II odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's elite alpine warriors, Maurice Isserman
- Valiant women, the extraordinary American servicewomen who helped win World War II, Lena S. Andrews
- Hitchcock's blondes, the unforgettable women behind the legendary director's dark obsession, Laurence Leamer
- This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed, how guns made the civil rights movement possible, Charles E. Cobb, Jr
- The Prometheus bomb, the Manhattan Project and government in the dark, Neil J. Sullivan
- Marvel Comics, the untold story, Sean Howe
- The library book, Susan Orlean
- The book of Charlie, wisdom from the remarkable American life of a 109-year-old man, David Von Drehle
- A cruel and shocking act, the secret history of the Kennedy assassination, Philip Shenon ; maps by Gene Thorp
- Movie nights with the Reagans, a memoir, Mark Weinberg
- Mercury rising, John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the new battleground of the Cold War, Jeff Shesol
- Reagan, an American journey, Bob Spitz
- The moralist, Woodrow Wilson and the world he made, Patricia O'Toole
- The age of Eisenhower, America and the world in the 1950s, William I. Hitchcock
- A nation of nations, a great American immigration story, Tom Gjelten
- Killing King, racial terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the plot to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr., Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock
- Mob cop, my life of crime in the Chicago Police Department, Fred Pascente, Sam Reaves
- Down to the crossroads, civil rights, Black power, and the Meredith march against fear, Aram Goudsouzian
- The simple faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, religion's role in the FDR presidency, Christine Wicker
- George Marshall, defender of the republic, David L. Roll
- Cuba libre!, Che, Fidel, and the improbable revolution that changed world history, Tony Perrottet
- Fortress America, how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy, Elaine Tyler May
- The great rescue, American heroes, an iconic ship, and the race to save Europe in WWI, Peter Hernon
- The sack of Detroit, General Motors and the end of American enterprise, Kenneth Whyte
- The odyssey of Echo Company, the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War, Doug Stanton
- Inside the Dream Palace, the life and times of New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel, Sherill Tippins
- War fever, Boston, baseball, and America in the shadow of the Great War, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
- We believe the children, a moral panic in the 1980s, Richard Beck
- America's reluctant prince, the life of John F. Kennedy Jr., Steven M. Gillon
- Spies, the epic intelligence war between East and West, Calder Walton
- Rickey, the life and legend of an American original, Howard Bryant
- Injustices, the Supreme Court's history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, Ian Millhiser
- Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA, and the secret history of the sixties, Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring
- Exit right, the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century, Daniel Oppenheimer
- Mission failure, America and the world in the post-Cold War era, Michael Mandelbaum
- The most dangerous man in America, Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the hunt for the fugitive king of LSD, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis
- The Marshall Plan, dawn of the Cold War, Benn Steil
- Accidental presidents, eight men who changed America, Jared Cohen
- King and the other America, the Poor People's Campaign and the quest for economic equality, Sylvie Laurent ; foreword by William Julius Wilson
- Starkweather, the untold story of the killing spree that changed America, Harry N. MacLean