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Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan It Doesn't Take a Hero by Norman Schwarzkopf Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 1984 by George Orwell A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
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