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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
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3.99 avg rating — 28,778 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
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3.78 avg rating — 2,163 ratings
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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4.12 avg rating — 445,424 ratings
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Becoming
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4.44 avg rating — 1,197,447 ratings
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House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery
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4.07 avg rating — 2,974 ratings
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
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4.09 avg rating — 49,530 ratings
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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.
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3.76 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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3.87 avg rating — 65,380 ratings
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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
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4.41 avg rating — 10,773 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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4.05 avg rating — 32,771 ratings
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The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age
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4.03 avg rating — 149 ratings
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My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
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4.27 avg rating — 3,508 ratings
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Betty Ford: First Lady, Womens Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
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4.46 avg rating — 1,783 ratings
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Robin
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4.12 avg rating — 19,390 ratings
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
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3.68 avg rating — 9,118 ratings
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Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground
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4.27 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
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3.86 avg rating — 14,216 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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4.17 avg rating — 12,667 ratings
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
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4.21 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
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A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
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4.09 avg rating — 911 ratings
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Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography
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4.21 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
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4.19 avg rating — 845 ratings
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
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4.05 avg rating — 406 ratings
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
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3.81 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
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3.60 avg rating — 3,095 ratings
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Full Disclosure
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3.58 avg rating — 3,136 ratings
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The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
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3.66 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
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3.85 avg rating — 3,512 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 422,642 ratings
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Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters
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3.92 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Niki de Saint Phalle: The Garden of Secrets
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3.62 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Bad Monkey (Andrew Yancy, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 55,165 ratings
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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4.43 avg rating — 24,135 ratings
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The Quest for Queen Mary
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3.68 avg rating — 833 ratings
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
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3.82 avg rating — 854 ratings
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
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3.72 avg rating — 2,586 ratings
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
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3.64 avg rating — 888 ratings
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
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4.30 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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4.65 avg rating — 81,099 ratings
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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
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3.70 avg rating — 3,152 ratings
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
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3.92 avg rating — 467 ratings
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My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius and Rage
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4.34 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
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4.51 avg rating — 9,376 ratings
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The Baltimore Book of the Dead
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4.01 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
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4.31 avg rating — 16,087 ratings
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Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
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3.80 avg rating — 2,947 ratings
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Becoming Andy Warhol
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2.70 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 267 ratings
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DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Betty Before X
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4.14 avg rating — 2,289 ratings
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Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
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4.08 avg rating — 2,219 ratings
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Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
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3.98 avg rating — 3,175 ratings
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The Incomplete Book of Running
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3.85 avg rating — 5,969 ratings
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Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black
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4.19 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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4.52 avg rating — 88,403 ratings
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Ghostbuster's Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis
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3.98 avg rating — 766 ratings
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Bettie Page: The Lost Years: An Intimate Look at the Queen of Pinups, through her Private Letters & Never-Published Photos
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4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
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4.30 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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This Noble Woman: Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South (22) (Women of Action)
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3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression
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3.73 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Take Down: Inside the Jan Kemp Affair
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Gamble Rogers: A Troubadour's Life
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4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
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3.76 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence
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3.49 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
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3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
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4.42 avg rating — 5,031 ratings
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
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4.49 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
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4.39 avg rating — 11,268 ratings
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Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life
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4.39 avg rating — 6,283 ratings
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Outside Agitator: The Civil Rights Struggle of Cleveland Sellers Jr.
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4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
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3.81 avg rating — 480 ratings
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The Lost Soldier: The Ordeal of a World War II GI from the Home Front to the Hurtgen Forest
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
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3.60 avg rating — 2,617 ratings
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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought
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4.09 avg rating — 983 ratings
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Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
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4.24 avg rating — 179 ratings
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An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor
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4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Che: A Revolutionary Life
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3.90 avg rating — 613 ratings
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Imagine John Yoko
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4.37 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Dave Sheridan: Life with Dealer McDope, the Leather Nun, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
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3.98 avg rating — 3,821 ratings
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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
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4.23 avg rating — 1,985 ratings
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A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement
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3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Accidental Brothers: The Story of Twins Exchanged at Birth and the Power of Nature and Nurture
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3.31 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
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4.28 avg rating — 1,537 ratings
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Atticus Finch: The Biography
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3.82 avg rating — 392 ratings
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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4.34 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
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4.03 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
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Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
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4.23 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The True Death of Billy the Kid
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3.71 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Golden Thread: A Song for Pete Seeger
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3.83 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
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4.13 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
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4.21 avg rating — 456 ratings
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The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
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3.79 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
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4.05 avg rating — 32,771 ratings
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Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way
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3.87 avg rating — 1,207 ratings
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Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever
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3.88 avg rating — 232 ratings
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
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4.04 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
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3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
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4.14 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
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3.82 avg rating — 4,367 ratings
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