1900s-1920s Books


For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shock Chicago Best Price: $13.46 Absolutely abysmal work. The author describes the circumstances of this crime without any...	Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt Best Price: $16.69 This book given to my brother, a history buff, who did not like it. He raved about 1776 by the...	The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country Best Price: $14.87 This reads like a fast paced mystery novel, which in many ways is what it is. One of the US'...	New World Coming: The 1920s And The Making Of Modern America Best Price: $11.81 Miller's book is so liberally biased it is untrustworthy. He has a simplistic liberals good,...	Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920 Best Price: $20.99 In Ministers of Reform, Robert Crunden traces the backgrounds of many of the leading achievers...



1920: The Year of the Six Presidents Best Price: $5.29 David Pietrusza's "1920" is devoted to a dramatic presidential campaign in American...	The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 Best Price: $21.55	T.r.: A Life Best Price: $24.96 I am very pleased to add this book by Brands to my T.R.collection. He gave me more insight to...	Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America Best Price: $34.57 What's left to say about a book after 100+ reviewers have already had their say? Given some of...	Progressivism (American History Series) Best Price: $12.78 This book is a good first book to read on theProgressive era. It covers the basic peopleand...



Woodrow Wilson Best Price: $49.97 This book does a very good job of outlining the life of Woodrow Wilson. If you are not very...	Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era Best Price: $19.39	Peaches and Daddy Best Price: $17.10 On the evening of March 5, 1926, well-known, fifty-one-year-old Manhattan millionaire Edward...	The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction Best Price: $7.99 This is one of the best history books I have ever read. Not only does it focus on a little...	Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (Wiley Investment Classics) Best Price: $18.80 I read this for the first time when I was in sixth grade and it continues to be one of my...

The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s Best Price: $66.59 The history of the United States is in crucial respects the history of a developing country, not...	Theodore Roosevelt: A Life Best Price: $24.85 I feel the same as some of the other reviewers here. The coverage of Roosevelts presidency was...	The Shaping of Modern America, 1877-1920 Best Price: $13.00 De Santis is the preeminent scholar on this period of American history. His book, in all its...	This Fabulous Century: 1900-1910 (This Fabulous Century Series) Best Price: $8.99	Redeeming the Time: A People's History of the 1920s and the New Deal Best Price: $40.00 This is a great book covering a dynamic period of American history. This is the last volume of a...

Drift and Mastery (Spectrum Book: Classics in History Series) Best Price: $14.25 Lippman's erudite and insightful observations about the world around him are still very...	Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 Best Price: $20.00 This is one of the best written books I have ever read. Professor Cooper's writing is concise...	America Enters the World: A People's History of the Progressive Era and World War I (Volume Seven) Best Price: $62.48 In America Enters the World, Page Smith recreates a masterful account of the Progressive Era. He...	Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America Best Price: $12.77 Overall, the book is a good source on Prohibition, but far from comprehensive. Contrary to the...	This Fabulous Century 1910-1920 (This Fabulous Century Series) Best Price: $10.00

Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White Best Price: $37.80 I came across a review of this book when scanning a genealogical magazine. The author of the...	The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Best Price: $7.99 I complement the author for being forthcoming on an unknown massacre in American history. This...	The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914 (The Chicago History of American Civilization) Best Price: $45.97 From the last chapter of the book: "The unifying theme of American history between 1885 and...	Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America Best Price: $3.00 Having survived 4 readings of this gargantuan treatise, I feel eminently qualified to tell you...	Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate Over War, 1895-1919 (Contributions in Women's Studies) Best Price: $62.50 U.S. intervention in World War I occurred in an historical context of widespread anxiety about...

47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster Best Price: $7.95 I read this after reading a book about a silver mine fire in Idaho. This is more of a historical...	The Spirit of Youth and City Streets (Illini Book) Best Price: $11.00 Jane Adams is the female lead of Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club. Here is a review of her...	Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform Best Price: $27.95	Coolidge and the Historians Best Price: $49.99	Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America Best Price: $19.95 The 1920s in America was a decade of rebellion, reform, and reaction as traditional Victorian...

Herbert Hoover As Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice (Herbert Hoover Centennial Seminars ; 2) Best Price: $11.99	Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment Best Price: $54.99 How to lead the people and be one of them? What's a democratic intellectual to do? This...	"We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age Best Price: $21.00 These crucial struggles are traditionally overlooked by scholars who focus instead on other...	Deep'N As It Come: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood Best Price: $21.95 The author, an excellent historian (check out his other books) couldn't seem to make up his mind...	Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties Best Price: $18.62 In Chesapeake Rumrunners Of The Roaring Twenties, Eric Mills tells the story of Prohibition in...

The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson (American Presidency Series) Best Price: $29.60 I was looking for a book that dealt with Woodrow Wilson's handling of World War I and the peace...	Twenty Years at Hull-House (Prairie State Books) Best Price: $3.99 A well written book but a littany of "look at what I did for the less fortunate" Jane...	Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America Best Price: $3.69 Having survived 4 readings of this gargantuan treatise, I feel eminently qualified to tell you...	Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era Best Price: $19.39 With its massive industrialization, rapid urban growth, and immense social change, the...	This Fabulous Century: 1900-1910 (This Fabulous Century Series) Best Price: $8.99

The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s Best Price: $30.00 When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz...	The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding Best Price: $58.24	The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $90.77 Polenberg of Cornell University The introduction to The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti (Penguin...	Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920 Best Price: $20.99 In Ministers of Reform, Robert Crunden traces the backgrounds of many of the leading achievers...	Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race Best Price: $16.95 This provocative study examines Theodore Roosevelt's ideas about race, focusing especially on...

To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in New York Before the First World War Best Price: $74.99 To Be Young Was Very Heaven is both a beautiful and an apt title for this entertaining and...	Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life Best Price: $27.99 Herbert Hoover rose to political leadership in the 1920s, just as consumer society became...	The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Best Price: $27.94 Who would think about reading a book about Calvin Coolidge? I'd like to report though that it...	The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era Best Price: $94.05	Twenty Years at Hull-House (Prairie State Books) Best Price: $3.99 A well written book but a littany of "look at what I did for the less fortunate" Jane...

How dry we were: Prohibition revisited	The Shaping of Modern America: 1877-1920 (Forums American History Series) Best Price: $6.00	Collected Works Taft, Vol. 3: Presendential Addresses & State Papers (Collected Works W H Taft) Best Price: $36.92 This collection of Taft's public papers is the first such endeavor, and a praiseworthy one. ...	American Progressivism: A Reader Best Price: $21.97 This collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive...

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