The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
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The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace
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King Richard: Nixon and Watergate–An American Tragedy
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
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The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
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The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind
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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
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JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity
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American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era
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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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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
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The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism
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The President’s Man: The Memoirs of Nixon’s Trusted Aide
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The Young Lords: A Radical History
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition
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Spies and Traitors: Kim Philby, James Angleton and the Friendship and Betrayal that Would Shape MI6, the CIA and the Cold War
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
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The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the FBI, and the Case That Stirred the Nation
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
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The Economist’s Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
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The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terro
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Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
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Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die
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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
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Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
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The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
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The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
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