The 20th Century

  • The 20th Century
    The 20th Century
    By Mary Ellen Sterling

    F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the phrase “The Jazz Age,” and his short stories and novels captured the essence of the Roaring Twenties. His work reflected the indulgences and excesses of the times, as well as his personal struggles.

  • The 20th Century: A Visual History
    By Simon Adams

    The 20th Century: A Visual History

  • The 20th Century: A Retrospective
    The 20th Century: A Retrospective
    By Choi Chatterjee

    This book is a collage of human experiences made from overlapping pieces and woven together by themes of crises, revolution, and change, aiming to raise issues that people in the twentieth-century world tried to address.

  • The 20th Century: A Retrospective
    The 20th Century: A Retrospective
    By Choi Chatterjee

    ... avant-garde art and decadence in literature, liberalism and democracy, prostitution and homosexuality. ... In retrospect it seems amazing that a nation and indeed a continent could be beguiled by the illogical ravings ...

  • The 20th Century: A Chronicle in Pictures
    The 20th Century: A Chronicle in Pictures
    By Neil Wenborn

    Uses news photos to document important people and events of the century, and includes wars, disasters, and social trends

  • The 20th Century: The Great Events from the Victorian Age to the Turn of the Millennium

    Every turn of a page in The New York Times The 20th Century will catapult you into the front page coverage -- and continuation of the lead story to its conclusion -- of the major events of the century that closed a millennium.

  • The 20th Century: The Experiences of a Politically Active Eastern European Family
    The 20th Century: The Experiences of a Politically Active Eastern European Family
    By Richard Giedroyc

    This book is a byproduct of the author's research into his family's history. Due to the placement of people at either the right or the wrong place at a moment...