Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
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118 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
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The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
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These Truths: A History of the United States
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon
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Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President – and Why It Failed
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
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Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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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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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
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His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
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We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Christopher Marlowe
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
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The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777–1780
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
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Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
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Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy—and Why It Failed
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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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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
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The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
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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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There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era
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Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
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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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Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison
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Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
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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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Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
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Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America’s Bravest Warriors
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Come Fly the World: The Jet – Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
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How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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A Black Women’s History of the United States
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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Bag Man: The wild Crimes, Audacious Cover – Up, and Spectacular Downfall of Brazen Crook in the White House
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
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Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchhill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz
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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
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In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
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Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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