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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,861,104 ratings
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.99 avg rating — 316,184 ratings
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 460,598 ratings
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 445,412 ratings
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Peter Pan
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4.03 avg rating — 372,603 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 102,400 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 325,756 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 289,411 ratings
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East of Eden
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4.44 avg rating — 626,732 ratings
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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3.94 avg rating — 10,595 ratings
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Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 13,341 ratings
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Tales of the South Pacific
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4.04 avg rating — 16,564 ratings
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 70,570 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 351,033 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 68,175 ratings
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,297,152 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,147 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 122,703 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,199,700 ratings
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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3.98 avg rating — 332,903 ratings
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
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3.50 avg rating — 4,006 ratings
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My Story
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4.06 avg rating — 6,255 ratings
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Rosa Parks: My Story
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4.18 avg rating — 2,713 ratings
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The Satanic Verses
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3.71 avg rating — 71,399 ratings
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The Road to Woodstock
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4.10 avg rating — 1,918 ratings
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The King and I
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4.24 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 91,145 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,271 ratings
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 301,432 ratings
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All the President’s Men
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4.18 avg rating — 57,664 ratings
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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4.03 avg rating — 37,642 ratings
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The Uncommon Reader
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3.73 avg rating — 59,598 ratings
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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4.08 avg rating — 8,918 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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3.86 avg rating — 10,827 ratings
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Marilyn
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3.72 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
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3.79 avg rating — 490,377 ratings
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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4.24 avg rating — 4,468 ratings
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Psycho (Psycho, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 76,762 ratings
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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4.20 avg rating — 32,903 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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4.20 avg rating — 22,936 ratings
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The Making of the President 1968
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4.17 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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4.20 avg rating — 22,074 ratings
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The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
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4.19 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean
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3.80 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
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3.88 avg rating — 29,170 ratings
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Ho Chi Minh: A Life
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4.15 avg rating — 964 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 — 110 ratings
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The Making of the President 1960
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4.15 avg rating — 7,940 ratings
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The Tiananmen Papers
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4.08 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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4.20 avg rating — 3,003 ratings
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Chronicles, Volume One
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3.98 avg rating — 61,246 ratings
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Senator Joe McCarthy
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3.74 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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4.23 avg rating — 593 ratings
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Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Lawrence of Arabia
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4.04 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41
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3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.68 avg rating — 195,130 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 200,948 ratings
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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4.15 avg rating — 12,983 ratings
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
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4.26 avg rating — 3,151 ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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4.15 avg rating — 37,031 ratings
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The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963
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3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 25,166 ratings
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Rock Around the Clock
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
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4.37 avg rating — 12,966 ratings
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The Suez Crisis 1956 (Essential Histories, 49)
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3.49 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Public Burning
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4.01 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
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Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation
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4.04 avg rating — 6,004 ratings
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Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev And The U-2 Affair
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4.22 avg rating — 464 ratings
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The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
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3.84 avg rating — 502 ratings
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The Bay of Pigs
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3.68 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 98,664 ratings
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Eisenhower: Soldier and President
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4.03 avg rating — 12,651 ratings
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
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3.81 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon
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3.99 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
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4.36 avg rating — 10,032 ratings
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To Have and Have Not
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3.51 avg rating — 36,565 ratings
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Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
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4.09 avg rating — 3,905 ratings
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Doris Day
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3.58 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed
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3.40 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: The FBI Files
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Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis – The Definitive Biography of Legendary Fighters and a Tragic Battle
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3.97 avg rating — 706 ratings
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The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair
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3.93 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination
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4.35 avg rating — 238 ratings
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The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
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3.98 avg rating — 6,941 ratings
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Winchell Exclusive: "Things that Happened to Me — and Me to Them"
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3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
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4.15 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Studebaker 1933 Through 1942: Photo Archive
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Meeting Mr Kim : or How I Went To Korea And Learned To Love Kimchi
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3.19 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
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4.17 avg rating — 10,090 ratings
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The Boys of Summer
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4.13 avg rating — 12,586 ratings
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Walt Disney's Peter Pan
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4.35 avg rating — 48,212 ratings
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Dien Bien Phu (Battle book ; no. 33)
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
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4.30 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
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Toscanini
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The Devil and Sonny Liston
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3.84 avg rating — 794 ratings
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The Philosophy Of The Revolution
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3.95 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Six-Day War: A Retrospective
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Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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3.91 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The song's lyrics, for reference:
Harry Truman Doris Day Red China Johnnie Ray
South Pacific Walter Winchell Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy Richard Nixon Studebacker television
North Korea South Korea Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs H-bomb Sugar Ray Panmunjom
Brando The King and I and The catcher in the Rye
Eisenhower vaccine England's got a new queen
Maricano Liberace Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
it was always burning
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the fire
no we didn't light it
but we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin Malenkov Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller Campanella communist block
Roy Cohn Juan Perón Toscanini dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls Rock Around the Clock
Einstein James Dean Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett Peter Pan Elvis Presley Disneyland
Bardot Budapest Alabama Krushchev
Princess Grace Peyton Place trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
it was always burning
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the fire
no we didn't light it
but we tried to fight it
Little Rock Pasternak Mickey Mantle Kerouac
Sputnik Chou En-Lai Bridge on the River Kwai
Lebanon Charles de Gaulle California baseball
Starkweather homicide children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly Ben Hur space monkey Mafia
Hula hoops Castro Edsel is a no-go
U2 Syngman Rhee payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker Psycho Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
it was always burning
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the fire
no we didn't light it
but we tried to fight it
Hemingway Eichmann Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan Berlin Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia British Beatlemania
Ole Miss John Glenn Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul Malcolm X British politican sex
JFK blown away what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fire
it was always burning
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the fire
no we didn't light it
but we tried to fight it
Birth control Ho Chi Minh Richard Nixon back again
moonshot Woodstock Watergate punk rock
Begin Reagan Palestine terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune Sally Ride heavy metal suicide
foreign debts homeless vets AIDS cracks Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
it was always burning
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the fire
but when we are gone
will it still burn on and on and on and on
and on and on and on and on