Browsing: 20th Century

Millions fought in World War II, each with a story to tell. This book shares firsthand accounts from Americans who served their country in the air — from moments of courage to heartbreaking tragedy.

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author: During World War II, Sir William Stephenson was a debonair spymaster whose exploits may have been the inspiration for James Bond. But what happened afterward? This gripping true story follows the legendary figure during the rise of the Cold War.

#1 New York Times Bestseller Best Books of 2018 –The EconomistA personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth…

In August 1920, Tennessee became the last battleground for the 19th Amendment. This vivid history of the American suffrage movement’s legal victory is “stirring, definitive, and engrossing… The Woman’s Hour is compulsory reading” (NPR).

The author of Lincoln’s Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs…

This absorbing biography of Clark Gable provides a look at the inner workings of the enigmatic Hollywood icon. “Fast-moving and frank…You’ll give a damn” (People).

“A breathless tale” (San Francisco Chronicle): In the early 20th century, Inez Burns gained wealth and notoriety — while also running California’s most famous illegal abortion clinic. This fascinating book follows her extraordinary rise and fall, reading “more like a thriller than an academic biography” (Kirkus Reviews).

From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world. In…

The Sunday Times bestseller that inspired an Academy Award–winning film: In his first days as Britain’s prime minister, Winston Churchill’s fateful decisions would alter the course of World War II. This pulse-pounding history has over 1,200 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

When a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank to the ocean floor, the CIA enlisted billionaire Howard Hughes in a secret mission to retrieve it. The true story comes to life in this “absorbing, suspenseful chronicle of a remarkable Cold War episode” (The Wall Street Journal).