1900-1999 (20th century)

Discusses how interest groups have influenced American politics and explains how they can help control the outcome of political elections, including the presidential race.

Presents four political dramas by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, and includes an introduction, as well as an analysis of each included play.

A collection offorty-four short stories which examine the unwieldy nature of human experience.

The story of how Bill Clinton fashioned the victory in the campaign of 1992 that made him the forty-second President of the United States.

Discusses the achievements of African-Americans during the first part of the century, focusing on the cultural center formed in Harlem.

Describes the developments of African-American civil rights from the 1970s to the the 1990s.

Examines the movement for civil rights in the United States and some of the people involved in it.

Discusses the lives and political careers of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.

Chronicles the twentieth century in America through an annotated collection of over two hundred black-and-white photographs.

Features the 122 uncollected poems of Dorothy Parker, including cynical commentaries, expermiments with structure, and topics of personal interest.