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The Imperial Presidency
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 61,721 ratings
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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3.98 avg rating — 14,078 ratings
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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
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3.97 avg rating — 2,286 ratings
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
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Social Darwinism in American Thought
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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3.95 avg rating — 15,220 ratings
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
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4.18 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
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Doktor Faustus
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Juristen
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
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Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
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Raoul Wallenberg: So viele Menschen retten wie möglich
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Der Vorleser
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Night
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No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities
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3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 102,220 ratings
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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4.26 avg rating — 11,020 ratings
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Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
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4.11 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
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4.04 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib
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4.24 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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4.17 avg rating — 3,163 ratings
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The Burden of Southern History
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4.08 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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The Best and the Brightest
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4.27 avg rating — 12,835 ratings
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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4.11 avg rating — 3,656 ratings
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
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3.79 avg rating — 6,995 ratings
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 89,292 ratings
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Der Prozess
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3.94 avg rating — 394,177 ratings
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,446,420 ratings
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Brave New World
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The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
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Es geschah an der Mauer
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I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared
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4.13 avg rating — 54 ratings
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
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4.31 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
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3.72 avg rating — 19,972 ratings
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Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
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4.34 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Rituals Of Blood: The Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries
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3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
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3.72 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919
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3.94 avg rating — 207 ratings
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
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Der SS-Staat. Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager
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4.25 avg rating — 798 ratings
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Hitlers Helfer. Täter und Vollstrecker.
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3.85 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Das Boot: The Boat
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4.26 avg rating — 5,998 ratings
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Schindler’s List
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4.34 avg rating — 165,640 ratings
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 463,564 ratings
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Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
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The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It
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3.90 avg rating — 134 ratings
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
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THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION: The Roots of World Crises, The Death of American Empire & The Rise of a New World Order
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 34,657 ratings
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
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The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
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3.97 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
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Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland
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Mick: The Real Michael Collins
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The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution
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Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
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Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
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The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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4.26 avg rating — 53 ratings
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