HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
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- Valiant women, the extraordinary American servicewomen who helped win World War II, Lena S. Andrews
- Liberated spirits, two women who battled over Prohibition, Hugh Ambrose, with John Schuttler
- This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed, how guns made the civil rights movement possible, Charles E. Cobb, Jr
- 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
- Stokely, a life, by Peniel E. Joseph
- The odyssey of Echo Company, the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War, Doug Stanton
- Buzz, the stimulating history of the sex toy, Hallie Lieberman
- War fever, Boston, baseball, and America in the shadow of the Great War, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
- 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 winter army, the World War II odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's elite alpine warriors, Maurice Isserman
- 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
- George Marshall, defender of the republic, David L. Roll
- The Moscow rules, the secret CIA tactics that helped America win the Cold War, Antonio & Jonna Mendez ; with Matt Baglio
- 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
- Greater Gotham, a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919, Mike Wallace
- Mercury rising, John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the new battleground of the Cold War, Jeff Shesol
- Marvel Comics, the untold story, Sean Howe
- The library book, Susan Orlean
- The World Remade, America in World War I, G.J. Meyer
- Reaganland, America's right turn, 1976-1980, Rick Perlstein
- Killing King, racial terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the plot to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr., Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock
- The defender, how the legendary Black newspaper changed America : from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama, Ethan Michaeli
- Accidental presidents, eight men who changed America, Jared Cohen
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation, Robert J. Norrell
- 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
- The story of ain't, America, its language, and the most controversial dictionary ever published, David Skinner
- Shoot for the moon, the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11, James Donovan
- The Great War in America, World War I and its aftermath, Garrett Peck
- Sticky fingers, the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine, Joe Hagan
- The ghosts of Langley, into the CIA's heart of darkness, John Prados
- Five days in November, Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin
- One nation under gold, how one precious metal has dominated the American imagination for four centuries, James Ledbetter
- American serial killers, the epidemic years 1950-2000, Peter Vronsky
- Kennedy and King, the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights, Steven Levingston
- The Nixon tapes, edited and annotated by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter
- Active measures, the secret history of disinformation and political warfare, Thomas Rid
- The life of Saul Bellow, to fame and fortune, 1915-1964, Zachary Leader
- Scarface and the untouchable, Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago, Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz
- American caliph, The true story of a Muslim mystic, a Hollywood epic, and the 1977 siege of Washington, DC, Shahan Mufti
- Fifty years of 60 minutes, the inside story of television's most influential news broadcast, Jeff Fager
- Theodore Roosevelt for the defense, the courtroom battle to save his legacy, Dan Abrams and David Fisher
- The gifted generation, when government was good, David Goldfield