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The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair
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4.20 avg rating — 7,424 ratings
""Nasser" "Belgians in the Congo" "Trouble in the Suez" "Charles de Gaulle""
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The Public Burning
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4.01 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
""Rosenbergs" "Joe McCarthy" "Richard Nixon" "Walter Winchell" "
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 91,158 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 — 68,203 ratings
""Belgians in the Congo" The song refers to the time of Congo's independence from Belgium. This book explores the origins of Belgium's vicious colonialism in the area."
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rated it 4 stars
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,861,919 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.99 avg rating — 316,236 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 289,466 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 201,002 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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All the President’s Men
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4.18 avg rating — 57,671 ratings
""Watergate""
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rated it 4 stars
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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 5,958 ratings
""Vaccine" "
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The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory
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3.82 avg rating — 346 ratings
""Santayana goodbye""
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 460,729 ratings
"A thinly veiled criticism of McCarthyism."
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rated it 4 stars
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Rosa Parks: My Story
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4.18 avg rating — 2,714 ratings
""Alabama""
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Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s
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3.72 avg rating — 93 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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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 — 4,472 ratings
"The Cuban Missile Crisis is NOT mentioned.... But Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro all are."
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rated it 4 stars
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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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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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4.20 avg rating — 32,914 ratings
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
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4.09 avg rating — 1,714 ratings
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Eisenhower: Soldier and President
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4.03 avg rating — 12,651 ratings
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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3.94 avg rating — 10,598 ratings
"The song refers to the movie which was based on this novel."
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Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity
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3.94 avg rating — 216 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
""Children of Thalidomide""
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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4.15 avg rating — 37,047 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 — 10,832 ratings
"U-2 incident discussed"
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rated it 3 stars
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
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3.81 avg rating — 1,612 ratings
""Little Rock""
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 102,410 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
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4.08 avg rating — 2,154 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 — 592 ratings
""Bay of Pigs Invasion""
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 445,497 ratings
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Starkweather: Inside the Mind of a Teenage Killer
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3.83 avg rating — 120 ratings
""Starkweather Homicide""
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Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 13,346 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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Cry: The Johnnie Ray Story
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Dimaggio: Setting the Record Straight
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3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Suez Crisis 1956 (Essential Histories, 49)
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3.49 avg rating — 45 ratings
""Trouble in the Suez""
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Chou En-Lai
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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James Dean: The Mutant King: A Biography
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3.76 avg rating — 1,421 ratings
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Three Years in Mississippi
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4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
""Ole Miss""
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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4.20 avg rating — 22,939 ratings
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Reclaiming History – The Assassination of John F Kennedy
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4.12 avg rating — 1,510 ratings
""JFK Blown Away""
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Ho Chi Minh: A Life
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4.15 avg rating — 965 ratings
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The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future – A Must-Read History of the Kim Dynasty's Regime and Collapse
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3.94 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 122,738 ratings
""Red China""
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The Tiananmen Papers
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4.08 avg rating — 198 ratings
""China's under martial law""
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The King and I
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4.24 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Chronicles, Volume One
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3.98 avg rating — 61,253 ratings
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Lawrence of Arabia
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4.04 avg rating — 507 ratings
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The Beatles: The Biography
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4.09 avg rating — 13,363 ratings
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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4.19 avg rating — 36,554 ratings
""Punk Rock""
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The Road to Woodstock
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4.10 avg rating — 1,918 ratings
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The Satanic Verses
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3.70 avg rating — 71,407 ratings
""Terror on the Airlines" Book begins with terrorists blowing up a passenger plane."
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
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4.30 avg rating — 2,010 ratings
""Crack""
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A True History of the Hula Hoop
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3.49 avg rating — 41 ratings
""Hula Hoop""
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
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4.15 avg rating — 13,067 ratings
""Palestine" "
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The Philosophy Of The Revolution
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3.95 avg rating — 91 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
""British Politician Sex""
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