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Rosa Parks: My Story
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4.18 avg rating — 2,714 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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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 460,692 ratings
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My Story
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4.06 avg rating — 6,256 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,861,699 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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4.20 avg rating — 3,004 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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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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4.24 avg rating — 4,471 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 — 68,197 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 289,451 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,275 ratings
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
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3.50 avg rating — 4,011 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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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,149 ratings
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Senator Joe McCarthy
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3.74 avg rating — 85 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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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: The FBI Files
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 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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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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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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3.86 avg rating — 10,831 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
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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4.15 avg rating — 12,988 ratings
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
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4.26 avg rating — 3,152 ratings
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Ho Chi Minh: A Life
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4.15 avg rating — 964 ratings
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Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall
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The Tiananmen Papers
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4.08 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Dien Bien Phu (Battle book ; no. 33)
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3.91 avg rating — 22 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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Chronicles, Volume One
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3.98 avg rating — 61,251 ratings
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The Road to Woodstock
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4.10 avg rating — 1,918 ratings
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
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4.30 avg rating — 2,009 ratings
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Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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4.23 avg rating — 594 ratings
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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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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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4.08 avg rating — 8,918 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 — 6,943 ratings
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Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography Of Buddy Holly
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4.12 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Bay of Pigs
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3.68 avg rating — 186 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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Woodstock: Three Days That Rocked the World
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4.29 avg rating — 213 ratings
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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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The Free Speech Movement
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4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement
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3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Six-Day War
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3.85 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Six-Day War: A Retrospective
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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4.08 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Rush to Judgment: A Critique of the Warren Commission's Inquiry into the Murder of President
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4.09 avg rating — 547 ratings
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Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 25,168 ratings
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Angels in America
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4.30 avg rating — 23,346 ratings
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On the Trail of the Assassins
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4.07 avg rating — 2,182 ratings
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