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The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
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The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age
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Niki de Saint Phalle: The Garden of Secrets
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
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My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius and Rage
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
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3.99 avg rating — 28,783 ratings
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Becoming Andy Warhol
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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
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DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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Bettie Page: The Lost Years: An Intimate Look at the Queen of Pinups, through her Private Letters & Never-Published Photos
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Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
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Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground
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This Noble Woman: Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South (22) (Women of Action)
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The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression
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A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
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Take Down: Inside the Jan Kemp Affair
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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.
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3.76 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Gamble Rogers: A Troubadour's Life
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence
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3.49 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
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3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
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4.42 avg rating — 5,031 ratings
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
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4.49 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography
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4.21 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
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4.39 avg rating — 11,276 ratings
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Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life
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4.39 avg rating — 6,284 ratings
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Outside Agitator: The Civil Rights Struggle of Cleveland Sellers Jr.
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4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
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3.81 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
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The Lost Soldier: The Ordeal of a World War II GI from the Home Front to the Hurtgen Forest
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Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought
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Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
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4.24 avg rating — 179 ratings
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An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor
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Che: A Revolutionary Life
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3.90 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Imagine John Yoko
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Dave Sheridan: Life with Dealer McDope, the Leather Nun, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
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The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
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A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement
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Accidental Brothers: The Story of Twins Exchanged at Birth and the Power of Nature and Nurture
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3.31 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
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Atticus Finch: The Biography
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3.82 avg rating — 392 ratings
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
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Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
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The True Death of Billy the Kid
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3.71 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Golden Thread: A Song for Pete Seeger
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The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
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Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
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4.21 avg rating — 456 ratings
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The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
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3.79 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
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4.05 avg rating — 32,776 ratings
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Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way
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Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever
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3.88 avg rating — 232 ratings
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
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4.04 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
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3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
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4.14 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
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The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
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4.31 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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Working for the Man, Playing in the Band: My Years with James Brown
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3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical
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Is This Guy For Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman
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3.82 avg rating — 958 ratings
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The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
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I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero
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Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
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Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
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The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior
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Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
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The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple
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Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810
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4.36 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
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Someone to Watch Over Me: A Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Tortured Father Who Shaped Her Life
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Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
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3.79 avg rating — 123 ratings
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
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3.81 avg rating — 586 ratings
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President Carter: The White House Years
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3.99 avg rating — 456 ratings
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The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
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3.48 avg rating — 2,159 ratings
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
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4.21 avg rating — 3,515 ratings
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Richard Nixon: The Life
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
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Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within
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4.20 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
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4.51 avg rating — 9,378 ratings
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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
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4.24 avg rating — 181 ratings
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
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3.70 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Betty Before X
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
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4.55 avg rating — 12,456 ratings
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
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Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide
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