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America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States
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3.69 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
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3.67 avg rating — 6,750 ratings
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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
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3.83 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
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4.29 avg rating — 8,157 ratings
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The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
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4.26 avg rating — 289 ratings
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
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3.86 avg rating — 170 ratings
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The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
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4.12 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
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4.22 avg rating — 2,178 ratings
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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
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3.99 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
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Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement
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4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975
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3.97 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
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3.81 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
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3.72 avg rating — 621 ratings
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
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4.14 avg rating — 4,514 ratings
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The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports
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3.96 avg rating — 503 ratings
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The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon
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3.88 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest
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4.26 avg rating — 207 ratings
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1968
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3.95 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
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3.67 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
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4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
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4.02 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
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3.77 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
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4.10 avg rating — 4,363 ratings
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
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4.14 avg rating — 4,358 ratings
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
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4.18 avg rating — 3,024 ratings
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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4.24 avg rating — 4,480 ratings
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
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3.98 avg rating — 2,401 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
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4.10 avg rating — 54,581 ratings
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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4.08 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
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Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club: Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age
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4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,042 ratings
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
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3.81 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
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Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
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3.88 avg rating — 1,593 ratings
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When the World Broke in Two: The Roaring Twenties and the Dawn of America's Culture Wars
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Everyday Klansfolk: White Protestant Life and the KKK in 1920s Michigan
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4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
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3.73 avg rating — 6,685 ratings
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Life Among the Savages
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3.97 avg rating — 9,307 ratings
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Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory
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4.03 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Washington Goes to War
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4.06 avg rating — 547 ratings
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Elvis in the Twilight of Memory
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4.40 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
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4.45 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Elsewhere
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3.77 avg rating — 8,306 ratings
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The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves
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4.24 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
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3.80 avg rating — 506 ratings
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Dust Tracks on a Road
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4.11 avg rating — 8,284 ratings
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Swing That Music
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4.09 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Potlikker Papers
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3.82 avg rating — 2,031 ratings
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Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food
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3.66 avg rating — 483 ratings
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Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (California Studies in Food and Culture, 8)
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3.80 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Car Hops and Curb Service: A History of American Drive-In Restaurants 1920-1960
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
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3.82 avg rating — 1,314 ratings
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The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940
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3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
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4.18 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish Studies, 2)
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3.86 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women
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3.91 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
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3.98 avg rating — 6,098 ratings
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John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal
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4.10 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
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4.21 avg rating — 5,268 ratings
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
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4.05 avg rating — 2,171 ratings
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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4.16 avg rating — 19,494 ratings
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We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
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4.12 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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4.02 avg rating — 11,189 ratings
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
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3.80 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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4.44 avg rating — 138,286 ratings
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
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4.25 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
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4.02 avg rating — 728 ratings
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James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era
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4.41 avg rating — 37 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 — 384 ratings
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Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
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3.95 avg rating — 679 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.15 avg rating — 23,966 ratings
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All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
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4.11 avg rating — 772 ratings
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
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3.74 avg rating — 3,081 ratings
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The Roosevelt Women: A Portrait In Five Generations
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3.87 avg rating — 287 ratings
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The Lady of Sing Sing: An American Countess, an Italian Immigrant, and Their Epic Battle for Justice in New York's Gilded Age
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3.88 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
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4.04 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
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4.05 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Jack London: An American Life
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4.07 avg rating — 492 ratings
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A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
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3.75 avg rating — 514 ratings
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The Letters And Lessons Of Teddy Roosevelt For His Sons
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4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
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4.07 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
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4.09 avg rating — 174 ratings
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An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business
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3.61 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Lincoln Steffens: A Biography
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3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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One Writer's Beginnings
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4.06 avg rating — 4,095 ratings
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
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4.28 avg rating — 1,532 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
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4.13 avg rating — 559 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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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America
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4.49 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World
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4.53 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs
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4.17 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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4.28 avg rating — 26,215 ratings
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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4.57 avg rating — 4,572 ratings
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
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3.97 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
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4.21 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
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4.22 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
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4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings
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On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
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3.91 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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4.43 avg rating — 24,053 ratings
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
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4.42 avg rating — 26,487 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,314 ratings
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