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The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011
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Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
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3.51 avg rating — 555 ratings
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
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3.79 avg rating — 1,730 ratings
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The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
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4.05 avg rating — 647 ratings
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
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4.05 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars
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4.16 avg rating — 1,688 ratings
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
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4.28 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice
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3.60 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
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3.46 avg rating — 2,005 ratings
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
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4.52 avg rating — 3,101 ratings
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
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3.57 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
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3.98 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism
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4.08 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
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4.38 avg rating — 662 ratings
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The Bloomsbury Group
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3.87 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table
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3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table
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3.20 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Gays on Broadway
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3.42 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide
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4.01 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags: The Wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table
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3.33 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
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3.64 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
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4.01 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
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3.63 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
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3.97 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 113,506 ratings
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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3.54 avg rating — 13,426 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.94 avg rating — 20,601 ratings
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
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4.07 avg rating — 989 ratings
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We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution
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4.06 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
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3.67 avg rating — 3,833 ratings
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But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups
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4.03 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers
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4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Quilts of Gee's Bend
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4.17 avg rating — 308 ratings
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The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women
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4.04 avg rating — 1,951 ratings
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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
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4.05 avg rating — 4,411 ratings
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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
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4.65 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
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3.51 avg rating — 387 ratings
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists
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3.98 avg rating — 2,890 ratings
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In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
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3.67 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
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3.88 avg rating — 2,981 ratings
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
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3.67 avg rating — 4,651 ratings
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
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3.42 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
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3.71 avg rating — 742 ratings
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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
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4.41 avg rating — 3,259 ratings
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
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4.04 avg rating — 1,050 ratings
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More Than Words: Illustrated Letters From The Smithsonian's Archive of American Art
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4.19 avg rating — 70 ratings
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With Love: Artists' Letters and Illustrated Notes
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3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
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4.29 avg rating — 558 ratings
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Harlem Renaissance
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4.10 avg rating — 198 ratings
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When Harlem Was in Vogue
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3.94 avg rating — 356 ratings
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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
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4.08 avg rating — 8,891 ratings
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The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues
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4.13 avg rating — 528 ratings
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
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3.85 avg rating — 4,174 ratings
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
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4.41 avg rating — 4,966 ratings
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
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4.53 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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When Brooklyn Was Queer
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4.31 avg rating — 1,938 ratings
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
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4.27 avg rating — 3,432 ratings
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The Bowery: The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street
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3.81 avg rating — 401 ratings
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A Big Life In Advertising
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3.86 avg rating — 283 ratings
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
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4.06 avg rating — 1,372 ratings
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All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930
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3.86 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s
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3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
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4.34 avg rating — 579 ratings
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The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
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3.60 avg rating — 4,418 ratings
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Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang: Fifty Makers, Shakers and Heartbreakers from the Victorian Era
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3.87 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock 'n' Roll Glitter Queens Who Revolutionized Culture
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3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
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4.08 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
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Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix
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3.97 avg rating — 112 ratings
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
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3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
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4.09 avg rating — 67 ratings
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They All Sang on the Corner: A Second Look at New York City's Rhythm and Blues Vocal Groups
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, a Movement, a Celebration
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4.50 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession
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3.62 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
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3.66 avg rating — 543 ratings
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The Masters Of Bebop: A Listener's Guide
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4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana 1718-1868
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED: Protest Music After Fukushima
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4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
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4.22 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
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3.61 avg rating — 1,920 ratings
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