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How Italian Food Conquered the World

by John F. Mariani

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More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America

by Robert M. Collins

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Earthrise: How Man First Saw The Earth

by Robert Poole

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Billy gave to: The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History) by Richard White	My rating:
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Billy gave to: The 60's: From Memory to History by David R. Farber read in March, 2009	My rating:
Excellent book. Here's a comp's review for my exams: Chester Pach has argued for the importance of understanding TVs influence during Vietnam in two articles. The first appears in this collection. Entitled “And That’s the Way it Was: The Vietnam War...more
Jul 18, 2011 09:34pm · see review
Billy gave to: Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties by W. J. Rorabaugh	My rating:
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Billy gave to: The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia by Charles F. Irons	My rating:
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Billy gave to: The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Coleman Sellers	My rating:
Tough going...he may have been drunk for parts of it.
Jul 18, 2011 09:32pm · see review
Billy gave to: The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb by Gar Alperovitz (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Billy gave to: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann read in May, 2011	My rating:
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Billy is currently reading: How Italian Food Conquered the World by John F. Mariani	My rating:
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Billy marked as to-read: Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers	My rating:
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Billy gave to: More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America by Robert M. Collins read in May, 2011	My rating:
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