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Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C.F. Martin and His Contemporaries
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Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
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Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman – The Media Icon Who Reimagined Womanhood and Championed Female Ambition
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The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
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Re-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection
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Going Deep: John Phillip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine
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Inventions: The Legendary Works (A) of America’s (B) Most Honored (C) Cartoonist
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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3.93 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
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Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
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Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
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3.57 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
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Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
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The Creative Process: Reflections on Invention in the Arts and Sciences
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3.73 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Forget About Today: Bob Dylan's Genius for (Re)invention, Shunning the Naysayers, and Creating a Personal Revolution
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius
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The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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3.18 avg rating — 3,396 ratings
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Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996
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4.11 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science (Princeton Science Library, 91)
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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
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Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
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4.12 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Roy Orbison: Invention Of An Alternative Rock Masculinity
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York
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3.76 avg rating — 594 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
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The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
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The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
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The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius
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The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
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Inventing American History (Boston Review Books)
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Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida
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The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism
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Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It
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Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age
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3.89 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP
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3.76 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation
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4.05 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
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3.99 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
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