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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
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Energy: A Human History
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The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
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It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art
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Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life
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Outside Agitator: The Civil Rights Struggle of Cleveland Sellers Jr.
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A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
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Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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The World According to Tom Hanks: The Life, the Obsessions, the Good Deeds of America's Most Decent Guy
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Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
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Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
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4.31 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 – A New York Times Bestselling Cloak-and-Dagger Biography of Intelligence and Art
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
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My Exaggerated Life: Pat Conroy
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Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists
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Every Day is Extra
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Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
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A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
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Take Down: Inside the Jan Kemp Affair
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Gamble Rogers: A Troubadour's Life
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My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
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From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
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Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
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American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
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Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
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Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory
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Et Tu, Brute?: The Deaths of the Roman Emperors
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Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
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Cowboys, Creatures, and Classics: The Story of Republic Pictures
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Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
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Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues-then and Now
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The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology
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Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
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The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
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Craftsmanship of Jimmy Carter
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
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Becoming Andy Warhol
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Siren Song: My Life in Music
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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
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A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
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I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner Of War In Stalag 2B
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A History of America in Ten Strikes
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Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War
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The Library Book
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Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
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Reckless: Henry Kissinger and The Tragedy of Vietnam
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These Truths: A History of the United States
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Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"
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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
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Been So Long: My Life and Music
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Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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In Pieces
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
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Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story
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The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport
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The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred’s Britain: 789-955
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Kirby & Lee: Stuf’ Said!: The complex genesis of the Marvel Universe, in its
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The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
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The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
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A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
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Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
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On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
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Hot Wheels: 40 Years
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Of Dust & Blood: The Battle at Little Big Horn
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
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Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
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We Can Do It: A Community Takes on the Challenge of School Desegregation
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Robin
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
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Ghostbuster's Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis
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The Comic Book Story of Baseball: The Heroes, Hustlers, and History-Making Swings (and Misses) of America's National Pastime
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Niki de Saint Phalle: The Garden of Secrets
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