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John Adams
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 655,938 ratings
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 91,138 ratings
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 60,376 ratings
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.52 avg rating — 28,470 ratings
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Personal History: A Memoir
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4.09 avg rating — 24,680 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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4.15 avg rating — 23,004 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 81,873 ratings
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Growing Up
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4.10 avg rating — 7,541 ratings
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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4.31 avg rating — 57,869 ratings
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Profiles in Courage
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3.92 avg rating — 14,512 ratings
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Eleanor and Franklin
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4.26 avg rating — 2,971 ratings
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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
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4.02 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
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A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
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4.16 avg rating — 6,997 ratings
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Lindbergh
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3.98 avg rating — 5,794 ratings
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
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3.86 avg rating — 56,632 ratings
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Huey Long
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4.24 avg rating — 2,147 ratings
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Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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4.18 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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3.91 avg rating — 8,965 ratings
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Washington's Crossing
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4.16 avg rating — 15,247 ratings
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The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
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4.16 avg rating — 3,118 ratings
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Oscar Wilde
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4.01 avg rating — 5,160 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin
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4.17 avg rating — 419 ratings
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God: A Biography
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3.92 avg rating — 2,627 ratings
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Memoirs, 1925-1950
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4.26 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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4.02 avg rating — 21,381 ratings
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Grant: A Biography
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4.05 avg rating — 1,807 ratings
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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4.34 avg rating — 2,257 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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4.38 avg rating — 2,419 ratings
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Machiavelli in Hell: Pulitzer Prize Winner
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3.77 avg rating — 263 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
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4.13 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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4.28 avg rating — 39,507 ratings
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Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
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4.40 avg rating — 2,931 ratings
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Henry James: A Life
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4.27 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
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4.04 avg rating — 314 ratings
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De Kooning: An American Master
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4.13 avg rating — 2,914 ratings
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Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
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4.10 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Edith Wharton
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4.09 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir
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4.07 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
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3.99 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
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4.32 avg rating — 121 ratings
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George Washington (Vol 2): Young Washington
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4.47 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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4.02 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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3.95 avg rating — 20,208 ratings
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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4.11 avg rating — 22,812 ratings
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A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence
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4.20 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage
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3.87 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
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4.09 avg rating — 1,713 ratings
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The Return
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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4.34 avg rating — 4,976 ratings
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Sontag: Her Life and Work
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4.23 avg rating — 2,215 ratings
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Charles Sumner and The Coming of the Civil War
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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4.57 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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The Raven
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4.09 avg rating — 333 ratings
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The Taft Story
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
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4.12 avg rating — 540 ratings
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R. E. Lee: A Biography: Volume I
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John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
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3.94 avg rating — 7,891 ratings
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The Education of Henry Adams
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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4.02 avg rating — 11,182 ratings
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The Making of the President 1960
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4.15 avg rating — 7,938 ratings
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
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4.14 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Henry Adams
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John Keats
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John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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4.16 avg rating — 8,582 ratings
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Robert Frost, the Years of Triumph 1915-1938
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Woodrow Wilson
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3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Thought and Character of William James
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The Autobiography of William Allen White
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Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters
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George Bancroft, Brahmin Rebel
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Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
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3.96 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
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4.09 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
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3.88 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
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4.04 avg rating — 2,162 ratings
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The Life of John Marshall: Volume III & IV: The Chief Justice & The Making of the Supreme Court
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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O'Neill: Son and Artist
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4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Life of John Marshall: Volume I & II: The Chief Justice & The Making of the Supreme Court
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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4.15 avg rating — 12,976 ratings
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Pinckney's Treaty
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3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Life & Letters of Walter H. Page: Journalist, Publisher, Diplomat, and Editor of The Atlantic
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Murder in the Haunted Chamber (Sarah Kennecott and Jack Harden Mystery #2)
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4.46 avg rating — 169 ratings
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From Immigrant to Inventor: The Life Of Michael Pupin: X-Rays, NASA, and Serbian Nationalism
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4.41 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Grant
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4.03 avg rating — 13,001 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed: A Biographical and Critical Study (Complete Edition: Vol. 1&2)
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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King: A Life
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4.64 avg rating — 11,806 ratings
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The Victory at Sea: By the Commander of the Naval Forces Operating in European Waters During World War I
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Walt Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative: A Biography & Critical Analysis
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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With Americans of Past and Present Days: The 1917 History winner in the Pulitzer Prize list.
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Barrett Wendell and His Letters:
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Louise Bogan: A Portrait
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The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
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