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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 99,834 ratings
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One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark
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4.22 avg rating — 294 ratings
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
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4.47 avg rating — 4,146 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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4.21 avg rating — 26,923 ratings
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Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 51,210 ratings
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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4.17 avg rating — 19,663 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 19,949 ratings
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
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3.98 avg rating — 5,260 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 225,489 ratings
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Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
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3.87 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Scar Tissue
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4.10 avg rating — 101,989 ratings
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Poverty, by America
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4.27 avg rating — 61,759 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,422 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,473 ratings
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Among the Thugs
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4.11 avg rating — 10,905 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 — 56,993 ratings
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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4.08 avg rating — 6,212 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 — 5,403 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 44,188 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 295,485 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.21 avg rating — 77,614 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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3.78 avg rating — 3,105 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.50 avg rating — 47,808 ratings
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
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4.20 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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4.16 avg rating — 54,295 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 — 117,161 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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3.89 avg rating — 4,590 ratings
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
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4.26 avg rating — 2,335 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 — 2,998 ratings
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Life and Death in Shanghai
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4.33 avg rating — 14,022 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 — 148,488 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 — 18,647 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.53 avg rating — 29,167 ratings
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
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4.43 avg rating — 26,650 ratings
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
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4.24 avg rating — 2,720 ratings
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Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
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4.07 avg rating — 4,538 ratings
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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
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4.58 avg rating — 656 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 — 23,521 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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3.78 avg rating — 7,354 ratings
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
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3.84 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Planet of Slums
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,368 ratings
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Magdalena: River of Dreams
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4.34 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
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The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
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4.29 avg rating — 881 ratings
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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3.79 avg rating — 3,269 ratings
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The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
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4.18 avg rating — 263 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 — 355 ratings
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Washington Bullets
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4.36 avg rating — 2,334 ratings
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters
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4.35 avg rating — 3,741 ratings
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Best Evidence
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4.01 avg rating — 642 ratings
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
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4.07 avg rating — 2,755 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 — 14,548 ratings
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Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
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4.12 avg rating — 3,109 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 — 6,934 ratings
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The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda
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4.27 avg rating — 2,909 ratings
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The Anatomy of Fascism
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4.22 avg rating — 5,379 ratings
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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4.26 avg rating — 5,343 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 — 13,862 ratings
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
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4.29 avg rating — 44,053 ratings
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
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4.06 avg rating — 32,779 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 — 28,032 ratings
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
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4.14 avg rating — 4,453 ratings
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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 666 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 — 8,143 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 — 3,223 ratings
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
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4.17 avg rating — 4,655 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 — 415 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.06 avg rating — 81,708 ratings
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Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy
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4.05 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
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4.25 avg rating — 15,863 ratings
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