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The 1950s in the United States (nonfiction)
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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The Fifties: An Underground History
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
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Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition
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