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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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4.32 avg rating — 19,192 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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4.36 avg rating — 38,235 ratings
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Diplomacy
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4.25 avg rating — 9,551 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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3.96 avg rating — 15,644 ratings
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The Cold War: A New History
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3.95 avg rating — 8,570 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.09 avg rating — 269,127 ratings
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The Best and the Brightest
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4.27 avg rating — 12,930 ratings
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
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4.30 avg rating — 12,271 ratings
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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
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4.06 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
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4.18 avg rating — 4,752 ratings
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times
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4.01 avg rating — 9,783 ratings
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The Post-American World
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3.86 avg rating — 12,877 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.30 avg rating — 54,849 ratings
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
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3.62 avg rating — 112 ratings
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American Diplomacy
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4.06 avg rating — 706 ratings
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
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4.18 avg rating — 4,662 ratings
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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4.24 avg rating — 12,655 ratings
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
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4.12 avg rating — 4,492 ratings
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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4.09 avg rating — 8,003 ratings
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
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4.11 avg rating — 4,417 ratings
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No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
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3.96 avg rating — 4,181 ratings
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
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Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
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4.02 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
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3.95 avg rating — 2,649 ratings
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
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4.16 avg rating — 3,790 ratings
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The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
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3.97 avg rating — 2,395 ratings
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The Untold History of The United States
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4.19 avg rating — 2,795 ratings
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Globalization and its Discontents
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3.87 avg rating — 8,229 ratings
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
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4.15 avg rating — 4,613 ratings
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The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War
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3.99 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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Madam Secretary
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4.11 avg rating — 9,196 ratings
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
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4.08 avg rating — 5,155 ratings
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
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4.16 avg rating — 5,173 ratings
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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
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4.17 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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4.08 avg rating — 9,049 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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4.12 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
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3.98 avg rating — 4,852 ratings
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Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
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3.81 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
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3.83 avg rating — 1,803 ratings
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
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4.04 avg rating — 6,743 ratings
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
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3.83 avg rating — 2,961 ratings
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American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy
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4.03 avg rating — 188 ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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4.20 avg rating — 30,181 ratings
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
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4.19 avg rating — 216 ratings
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
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4.15 avg rating — 13,220 ratings
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Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
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3.78 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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4.27 avg rating — 1,684 ratings
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
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4.04 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
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3.99 avg rating — 4,916 ratings
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Memoirs, 1925-1950
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4.25 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938
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3.91 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
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Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987
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3.70 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
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3.98 avg rating — 3,501 ratings
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The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
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4.12 avg rating — 275 ratings
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
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4.12 avg rating — 6,983 ratings
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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
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3.82 avg rating — 1,915 ratings
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
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3.65 avg rating — 4,726 ratings
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
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3.92 avg rating — 5,160 ratings
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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4.23 avg rating — 9,438 ratings
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The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
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4.05 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
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War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
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4.18 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
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4.11 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy And The Path To War In Vietnam
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3.90 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
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4.11 avg rating — 4,661 ratings
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America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
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3.93 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
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4.07 avg rating — 969 ratings
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The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
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4.15 avg rating — 5,610 ratings
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
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4.30 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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4.27 avg rating — 14,761 ratings
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
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4.27 avg rating — 2,108 ratings
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The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
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4.04 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
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4.14 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
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4.14 avg rating — 167 ratings
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
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4.26 avg rating — 11,087 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
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4.06 avg rating — 5,247 ratings
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
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4.09 avg rating — 2,672 ratings
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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
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3.92 avg rating — 1,851 ratings
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American Diplomacy: A History
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
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3.87 avg rating — 524 ratings
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
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3.96 avg rating — 4,626 ratings
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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
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3.80 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.06 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories
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4.49 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
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3.97 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
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3.98 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
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Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
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3.62 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
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4.05 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
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Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection
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3.80 avg rating — 172 ratings
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World Orders, Old and New
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3.93 avg rating — 588 ratings
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Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up
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3.69 avg rating — 74 ratings
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From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
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4.04 avg rating — 1,937 ratings
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A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
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4.18 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
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3.67 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
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4.02 avg rating — 1,986 ratings
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
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3.95 avg rating — 1,218 ratings
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The Dark Side of Camelot
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3.69 avg rating — 2,485 ratings
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Chances of a Lifetime: A Memoir
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3.89 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
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3.93 avg rating — 415 ratings
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The Pentagon Papers
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3.71 avg rating — 70 ratings
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