M.B - 20th Century 8

The National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government. In Federalizing the Muse, Donna Binkiewicz assesses the leadership and goals of Pre……続きを見る

The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a cen……続きを見る

The New York Times said of Józef Hieronim Retinger that he was on intimate terms with most leading statesmen of the Western World, including presidents of the United States. He has been repeatedly a……続きを見る

James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at Ole Miss. The violent riot that followed would be one of the most deadly clashes of the civil rights era, seri……続きを見る

The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned is the dramatic, complete account of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. In the early morning of that day, the sleeping city was rocked by a violent earth……続きを見る

Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by Madge Lambert. It was July 1944 when Madge stepped……続きを見る

Mario Cuomo was the most important Democratic officeholder during the Reagan era. The three-term governor of New York was also a famously eloquent defender of the Democratic Party's progressive lega……続きを見る

"Highly accessible and sprightly written."ーLibrary Journal Winner of the Kansas State Library's Kansas Notable Book Award In this engaging, fast-paced biography, Louis Galambos follows the career o……続きを見る

No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller Bestselling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch – King Charles III King Charles faces many challenges as he succeeds his mother to the throne. Despite his ……続きを見る

They Also Served is a collection of memories, bringing to life the experiences of women during World War II. None of the women profiled achieved great renownthese were the neighbors next door, the t……続きを見る

Winner: D.B. Hardeman Prize From its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversigh……続きを見る

The late Ambassador David Abshire lived a quintessentially American life, one that spanned the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War. He graduated from West Point, fought in the Korean War……続きを見る

Un ebook unico nel suo genere, un’opera che desidera raccogliere le parole più significative lasciateci nel tempo dai più illustri intellettuali, politici, capi di Stato e Papi. Si parte da Menenio ……続きを見る

«UN NUOVO EDEN». Così Adolf Hitler, nel luglio del 1941, descriveva lo stato dell’Europa dopo la prevista vittoria nazista: un continente ripulito da tutti gli individui razzialmente indesiderabili ……続きを見る

Queste “Cronache di Masera” sono frutto di una ricerca condotta sulla stampa ossolana pubblicata tra il 1895 e il 1970. Si parla delle vicende liete e tristi avvenute in paese nell’arco di 75 anni (……続きを見る

Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different……続きを見る

***Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black Studies Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African A……続きを見る

Author William Bradford Huie was one of the most celebrated figures of twentieth-century journalism. A pioneer of "checkbook journalism," he sought the truth in controversial stories when the truth ……続きを見る

Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork ……続きを見る

Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate**Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941 explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, j……続きを見る

Come gli altri libri di Umberto De Petri, Cronache di Buttogno nasce dalla meticolosa ricerca e riduzione di cronache e storie locali in un periodo compreso tra la fine del 1800 e la seconda metà de……続きを見る

A Heartbeat and a Guitar tells of the collaboration of two distinct yet connected musicians--iconoclast Johnny Cash and pioneering folk artist Peter La Farge-- Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American ……続きを見る

Dopo aver raccolto le cronache di Vanzone con San Carlo dal 1895 al 1960, Umberto De Petri ha raccolto ancora una volta cronache della Valle Anzasca, quelle di Ceppomorelli. Presso la Biblioteca G. ……続きを見る

From an acclaimed historian comes an authoritative and balanced biography of FDR, based on previously untapped sources No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin D……続きを見る

After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of ……続きを見る

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities ……続きを見る

This is the first comprehensive study of U.S. policy toward China during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, a critical phase of the Cold War immediately preceding the dramatic Sino-American rapproche……続きを見る

Il y a 50 ans, Neil Amstrong posait le pied sur la Lune, marquant ainsi le début de la conquête spatiale ! Hergé et Verne en avaient rêvé, ils l’ont fait. Le 21 juillet 1969, Neil Armstrong est le p……続きを見る

During the 1980s and 1990s, aging Baby Boomer parents constructed a particular type of memory as they attempted to laud their own parents’ wartime accomplishments with the label "The Greatest Genera……続きを見る

The British Empire entered the twentieth century in a state of crisis, with many in the legal establishment fearing that the British constitution could no longer cope with the complexity of imperial……続きを見る