The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
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45 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
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Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
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Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
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The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
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The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction
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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
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Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
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Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America’s Bravest Warriors
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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
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Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
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