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The Catcher in the Rye
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Truman
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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
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Tales of the South Pacific
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MM-Personal: From the Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe
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Peter Pan
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A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 - The Space Race Begins
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Doris Day: Her Own Story
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Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
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Juan Perón: The Life of the People's Colonel
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China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945–1949
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Johnny Ray - Tommy Steele - Jacqueline Framcois.
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity
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3.94 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Anna and the King of Siam
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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Studebaker: The Complete History
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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It's the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
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The Korean War: A History
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3.76 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
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Jennifer Vanderbes (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
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4.20 avg rating — 586 ratings
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The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward: Sex, Scandal and Deadly Secrets in the Profumo Affair
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4.06 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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4.22 avg rating — 1,826 ratings
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
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4.27 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
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4.13 avg rating — 2,085 ratings
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The Other Guy Blinked: How Pepsi Won the Cola Wars
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3.81 avg rating — 238 ratings
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The Selected Works of Ho Chi Minh
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4.12 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America
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Harry N. MacLean (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 1,430 ratings
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Suez 1956: The Inside Story of the First Oil War
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3.84 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School
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Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
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Anne Sebba (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
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