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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 102,594 ratings
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One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark
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4.21 avg rating — 301 ratings
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
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4.46 avg rating — 4,304 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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4.21 avg rating — 27,794 ratings
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Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 51,531 ratings
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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4.17 avg rating — 20,358 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 20,478 ratings
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
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3.97 avg rating — 5,739 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 229,071 ratings
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Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
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3.88 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Scar Tissue
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4.10 avg rating — 103,855 ratings
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Poverty, by America
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4.27 avg rating — 65,304 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 81,010 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 116,769 ratings
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Among the Thugs (Vintage Departures)
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4.11 avg rating — 11,626 ratings
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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4.17 avg rating — 61,244 ratings
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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4.07 avg rating — 6,687 ratings
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
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4.46 avg rating — 5,564 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 44,973 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 300,535 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 80,232 ratings
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The Spartans: The World of the Warrior - Heroes of Ancient Greece, From Utopia to Crisis and Collapse
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3.77 avg rating — 3,159 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.50 avg rating — 49,124 ratings
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
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4.19 avg rating — 3,198 ratings
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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4.16 avg rating — 54,865 ratings
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 121,592 ratings
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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3.88 avg rating — 4,768 ratings
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
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4.25 avg rating — 2,552 ratings
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
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3.79 avg rating — 3,156 ratings
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Life and Death in Shanghai
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4.33 avg rating — 14,156 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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4.23 avg rating — 151,167 ratings
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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4.20 avg rating — 19,370 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.53 avg rating — 30,522 ratings
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
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4.43 avg rating — 27,158 ratings
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
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4.23 avg rating — 2,987 ratings
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Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
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4.06 avg rating — 4,656 ratings
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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
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4.56 avg rating — 748 ratings
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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4.11 avg rating — 24,441 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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3.78 avg rating — 7,510 ratings
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
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3.84 avg rating — 903 ratings
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Planet of Slums
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,432 ratings
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Magdalena: River of Dreams
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4.34 avg rating — 1,833 ratings
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The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
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4.29 avg rating — 956 ratings
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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3.79 avg rating — 3,328 ratings
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The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
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4.16 avg rating — 273 ratings
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A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
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4.26 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Washington Bullets
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4.34 avg rating — 2,509 ratings
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters
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4.35 avg rating — 3,806 ratings
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Best Evidence
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4.01 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
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4.07 avg rating — 2,785 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 — 14,845 ratings
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Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
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4.12 avg rating — 3,126 ratings
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
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4.31 avg rating — 7,122 ratings
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The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda
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4.28 avg rating — 2,953 ratings
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The Anatomy of Fascism
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4.22 avg rating — 5,728 ratings
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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4.26 avg rating — 5,454 ratings
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The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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3.88 avg rating — 14,183 ratings
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
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4.29 avg rating — 45,129 ratings
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
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4.06 avg rating — 34,527 ratings
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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4.22 avg rating — 28,621 ratings
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
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4.15 avg rating — 4,693 ratings
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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 672 ratings
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The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: How the NSA Failed to Protect America from the 9/11 Attacks
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4.32 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
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4.35 avg rating — 8,699 ratings
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
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4.09 avg rating — 3,398 ratings
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
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4.18 avg rating — 4,797 ratings
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NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 429 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.05 avg rating — 84,996 ratings
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Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy
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4.07 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
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4.24 avg rating — 16,407 ratings
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