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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
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Comandante: Hugo Chávez's Venezuela
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
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The Earl of Louisiana
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
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The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
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News of a Kidnapping
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
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Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
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Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football
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A Prayer for the City
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
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Black and Gold
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
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Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea (East Gate Book)
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It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower
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Tomorrow Is Another Country
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
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Huey Long
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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Den gåtfulla passionen : Essäer om den spanska världen
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma
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On Being John McEnroe
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