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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 45,614 ratings
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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4.26 avg rating — 10,860 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
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4.37 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
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4.33 avg rating — 2,323 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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4.14 avg rating — 441,659 ratings
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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
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3.96 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
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American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
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4.11 avg rating — 362 ratings
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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
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4.28 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
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4.14 avg rating — 2,115 ratings
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
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3.73 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
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3.86 avg rating — 885 ratings
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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
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3.96 avg rating — 873 ratings
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A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
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3.75 avg rating — 2,253 ratings
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
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4.32 avg rating — 769 ratings
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
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4.14 avg rating — 5,611 ratings
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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
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3.95 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
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3.98 avg rating — 894 ratings
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
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4.35 avg rating — 3,031 ratings
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Rose City Vice: Portland in the 70's Dirty Cops and Dirty Robbers
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3.65 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Richard Nixon: The Life
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4.36 avg rating — 3,499 ratings
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
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3.97 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Up In Arms: How The Bundy Family Hijacked Federal Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America's Patriot Militia Movement
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4.02 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise
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3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Glock: The Rise of America's Gun
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3.87 avg rating — 2,584 ratings
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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
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3.97 avg rating — 2,532 ratings
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
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4.04 avg rating — 4,383 ratings
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
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3.95 avg rating — 4,734 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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4.47 avg rating — 3,649 ratings
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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4.43 avg rating — 2,767 ratings
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
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4.24 avg rating — 5,323 ratings
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LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
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4.12 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Road To Disaster: A New History Of America’s Descent Into Vietnam
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4.27 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 800,501 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,196 ratings
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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
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4.10 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 183,737 ratings
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
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3.84 avg rating — 3,450 ratings
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
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3.88 avg rating — 8,496 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
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4.14 avg rating — 18,271 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 5,969 ratings
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
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3.86 avg rating — 7,070 ratings
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When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
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3.92 avg rating — 8,561 ratings
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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4.03 avg rating — 5,118 ratings
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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
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3.90 avg rating — 1,898 ratings
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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
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4.09 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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4.40 avg rating — 16,070 ratings
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Robert Kennedy: His Life
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4.23 avg rating — 3,804 ratings
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The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
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4.08 avg rating — 4,393 ratings
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Pittsburgh and the Great Steel Strike of 1919
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
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4.45 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
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4.41 avg rating — 2,692 ratings
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
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4.24 avg rating — 4,743 ratings
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
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4.24 avg rating — 3,390 ratings
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Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
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3.78 avg rating — 149 ratings
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
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3.99 avg rating — 1,348 ratings
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The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington
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3.79 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
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3.84 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea
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3.98 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
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4.24 avg rating — 726 ratings
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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4.34 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
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4.08 avg rating — 11,242 ratings
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The Korean War: A History
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3.76 avg rating — 1,391 ratings
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Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital
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3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
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4.42 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies
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3.70 avg rating — 449 ratings
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
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4.03 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP
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3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Reckless: Henry Kissinger and The Tragedy of Vietnam
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3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 4,912 ratings
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Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
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4.14 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change 1968-1978
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3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
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4.14 avg rating — 731 ratings
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
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4.16 avg rating — 970 ratings
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We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
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4.57 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception That Plunged America into the Vietnam War
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
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3.79 avg rating — 877 ratings
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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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4.23 avg rating — 1,795 ratings
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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
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3.85 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
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4.19 avg rating — 2,931 ratings
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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 — 61,501 ratings
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Killing the Poormaster: The Depression-Era Murder That Put America's Welfare System on Trial
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3.84 avg rating — 112 ratings
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American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
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4.15 avg rating — 928 ratings
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The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City (V. Ethel Willis White Books xx)
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4.32 avg rating — 56 ratings
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College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now
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3.83 avg rating — 557 ratings
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The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
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4.15 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
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4.30 avg rating — 421 ratings
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1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
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4.10 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
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4.23 avg rating — 4,321 ratings
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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4.11 avg rating — 988 ratings
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942 (FDR at War, #1)
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4.34 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
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3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
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3.91 avg rating — 6,258 ratings
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Dark Realities: America's Great Depression
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
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4.28 avg rating — 3,765 ratings
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
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3.86 avg rating — 3,699 ratings
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Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
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4.12 avg rating — 691 ratings
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A World Of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East- from the Cold War to the War on Terror
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4.18 avg rating — 151 ratings
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