20Th Century category: 9982 books
The Match King
Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger...
Cataloging the World
Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom has been as...
by Margaret Creighton
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“A marvelous recounting of the 1901 World’s Fair. Every chapter sparkles.… The Buffalo-Niagara Falls extravaganza comes alive in these pages. Highly recommended!” —Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior
The Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, dazzled with its...
Raising Racists
The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order -- especially the young members of the next generation. White children rested at the core of the system of segregation between 1890 and 1939 because their participation was...
Hello, Everybody!
The Dawn of American Radio
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
“A lively overview” of this pre-internet mass-communication tool and “the entrepreneurs and evangelists, hucksters and opportunists” who flocked to it (Publishers Weekly).
Long before the Internet, another young technology was transforming the way we connect with the world. At the dawn...
by Sally Denton, Roger Morris
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Las Vegas—the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. *The Money and the Power *is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five...
The Time of Our Lives: A conversation about America; Who we are, where we've been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dream
A conversation about America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America’s greatness.
“What...
Long Balls, No Strikes
What Baseball Must Do to Keep the Good Times Rolling
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Nobody loves baseball more than Joe Morgan. He's proved it with his hall-of-fame performance on the field and his brilliant color commentary in the broadcast booth. Bob Costas says, "There may not be anyone alive who knows more about baseball than Joe Morgan.
In his playing days, Morgan...
United Germany
Debating Processes and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Since the attempt to unite two parts of a country divided for four decades yielded contradictory results, this volume provides a balance sheet of the successes and failures of German unification during the first quarter century after the fall of the Wall. Five themes, ranging from the transfer of...
Epidemic
A Collision of Power, Privilege, and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for
a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town
of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The American Presidents Series: The 32nd President, 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone
A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predecessors...
The Last Campaign
How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In The Last Campaign, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore ("Dewey Defeats Truman," the Chicago Tribune memorably and erroneously heralded), to give us a fresh look at perhaps the last time the American people could truly distinguish...
by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no president since Lincoln has served through darker or more difficult times. Roosevelt thrived...
The Money Makers
How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong.
With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing...