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The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America’s War Against Russia
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The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917
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When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
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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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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
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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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How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960
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Oil Powers: A History of the U.S. – Saudi Alliance
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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924 – 1965
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
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Sealand: The True Story of the World’s Most Stubborn Micronation and Its Eccentric Royal Family
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
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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 Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
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The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
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The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
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The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A Baker III
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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 Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip
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Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
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JFK vs Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia
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The Economist’s Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
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The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President
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Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
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When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of Our Government Segregated America
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The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
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The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America
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The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise
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Kissinger: 1923 – 1968: The Idealist
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916 – 1931
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Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
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