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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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A Night to Remember
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A Writer's Diary
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Cider with Rosie
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
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The Bridge at Remagen: A Story of World War II
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4.08 avg rating — 488 ratings
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The Captive Mind
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Portrait of a Turkish Family
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4.23 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
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4.02 avg rating — 5,593 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
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Night
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Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
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4.46 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Opium of the Intellectuals
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Autobiography
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4.07 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
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The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV
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3.85 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Cretan Runner: The Story of the German Occupation
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3.78 avg rating — 431 ratings
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The Truman Era: 1945–1952 (A Nonconformist History of Our Times, #3)
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3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Roman People
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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England Under the Tudors
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3.87 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Carve Her Name with Pride: The Story of Violette Szabo
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4.22 avg rating — 631 ratings
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The Trojan War
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3.61 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 1,164 ratings
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The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Devils of Loudun
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3.86 avg rating — 3,489 ratings
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Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South
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3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A Soldier's Story
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4.10 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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The Man Who Never Was
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3.96 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
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The Armada
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4.13 avg rating — 916 ratings
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The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery
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3.87 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book)
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3.94 avg rating — 1,708 ratings
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The Cultural Life of the American Colonies
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3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Turn of the Tide
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4.34 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Seeds of Treason: The True Story of the Chambers-Hiss Tragedy
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Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman
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3.81 avg rating — 652 ratings
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The Edge of the Sea
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4.19 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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Garet Garrett's The People's Pottage: The Revolution Was, Ex America, The Rise of Empire
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4.25 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Ben Jonson of Westminster
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score: 91,
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Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
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4.18 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Shanghai Conspiracy: The Sorge Spy Ring, Moscow, Shanghai, Tokyo, San Francisco, New York
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3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Worldly Philosophers
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4.16 avg rating — 8,831 ratings
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The French Broad (Rivers of America, #50)
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3.96 avg rating — 150 ratings
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The Web of Subversion: Underground Networks in the U.S. Government
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3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol 1)
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4.19 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Manstein: His Campaigns and His Trial
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
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4.20 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Assault on Olympus: The Rise of the House of Gramont between 1604 and 1678
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Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
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4.04 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Birth of Britain (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 3,535 ratings
score: 86,
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Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
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3.68 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle
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4.09 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
score: 84,
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Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
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4.10 avg rating — 235 ratings
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1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 20th-century, 20th-century-non-fiction, 20th-century-nonfiction, classic, history
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