Tag Archives: United States/20th Century
Black Soldiers, White Laws
by John HaymondThe first full and definitive narrative of one of the most shocking and largely unknown events of racial injustice in U.S. history: the execution…
Chinese Prodigal
by David ShihFrom an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country
A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life
by Felicia KornbluhHailed as “the first real chronicle of the reproductive rights movement of the past sixty years” (Linda Gordon, University Professor of History, NYU), A Woman’s…
Eight Days at Yalta
by Diana PrestonMeticulously researched and vividly written, published on the 75th anniversary of the historic Yalta conference, Eight Days at Yalta is the definitive new history…
The Black Cabinet
by Jill WattsA magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet.
Tough Luck
by R. D. RosenA remarkable tale of a golden son and his disgraced father, layered over the unforgettable era of Brooklyn mobsters and the rise of the…
The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941
by Paul DicksonThe dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile…
Triangle
by David Von Drehle“[An] outstanding history. . . . [Von Drehle] has written what is sure to become the definitive account of the fire. . . ….
Topsy
by Michael Daly“Michael Daly vividly revives a rollicking pachydermal tale that riveted New Yorkers a century ago.” —New York Times
The Queen of the Ring
by Jeff Leen“In a class by itself. A serious history of one of this country’s goofiest pastimes. . .one senses that [Leen has] left no stone…
