Non-FIction Listed on LitHub's Bookmarks -- Part I

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Gratitude
Gratitude 4.18 avg rating — 23,489 ratings
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Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal 3.91 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left 4.05 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life 4.16 avg rating — 480 ratings
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The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 4.12 avg rating — 20,840 ratings
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl 3.83 avg rating — 36,215 ratings
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My Life on the Road
My Life on the Road 4.07 avg rating — 36,282 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 4.18 avg rating — 63,003 ratings
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M Train
M Train 4.02 avg rating — 48,831 ratings
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
The Witches: Salem, 1692 3.25 avg rating — 23,705 ratings
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter 3.84 avg rating — 28,503 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4.06 avg rating — 76,902 ratings
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The Art of Memoir
The Art of Memoir
by: Mary Karr
4.14 avg rating — 8,177 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,488 ratings
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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS 4.32 avg rating — 15,919 ratings
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1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
by: Jay Winik
4.10 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries 3.90 avg rating — 911 ratings
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The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude
The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude 3.71 avg rating — 692 ratings
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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads 3.78 avg rating — 5,798 ratings
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 4.06 avg rating — 2,430 ratings
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Eve's Hollywood
Eve's Hollywood 3.91 avg rating — 8,238 ratings
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life 4.29 avg rating — 1,869 ratings
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Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art 3.99 avg rating — 1,264 ratings
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Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age
Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age 3.63 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World
The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World 3.42 avg rating — 2,221 ratings
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Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue
Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue 4.08 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama 4.09 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Drinking in America: Our Secret History
Drinking in America: Our Secret History 3.29 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink 3.82 avg rating — 3,878 ratings
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No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy 3.78 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Sinatra: The Chairman
Sinatra: The Chairman 4.25 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge 3.92 avg rating — 3,419 ratings
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Reporting Always: Writings from The New Yorker
Reporting Always: Writings from The New Yorker 3.77 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America 4.15 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
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The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 526 ratings
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The Givenness of Things: Essays
The Givenness of Things: Essays 3.96 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
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The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir 3.69 avg rating — 84 ratings
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street
St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street 4.06 avg rating — 1,314 ratings
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London Fog: The Biography
London Fog: The Biography 3.49 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind 3.82 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs 3.71 avg rating — 3,249 ratings
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The Art of the Publisher
The Art of the Publisher 3.80 avg rating — 786 ratings
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Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency
Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency 3.99 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge 4.12 avg rating — 4,872 ratings
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Great Is the Truth: Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice at the Horace Mann School
Great Is the Truth: Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice at the Horace Mann School 3.93 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There 4.23 avg rating — 848 ratings
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The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe 4.05 avg rating — 2,109 ratings
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A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity
A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity 3.78 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Augustine: Conversions to Confessions
Augustine: Conversions to Confessions 3.80 avg rating — 257 ratings
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John le Carré: The Biography
John le Carré: The Biography 3.95 avg rating — 987 ratings
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This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason 3.79 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Letters to Vera
Letters to Vera really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money 3.96 avg rating — 449 ratings
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The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession
The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession 3.81 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991
The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 3.78 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires
Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires 3.69 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll 3.99 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health 4.28 avg rating — 946 ratings
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The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes
The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes 4.27 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Dear Mr. You
Dear Mr. You 3.78 avg rating — 7,260 ratings
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Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern
Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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This Old Man: All in Pieces
This Old Man: All in Pieces 4.04 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane 4.12 avg rating — 134 ratings
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America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk
America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century 3.98 avg rating — 671 ratings
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About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter
About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter 3.69 avg rating — 147 ratings
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What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing 4.17 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Portraits: John Berger on Artists
Portraits: John Berger on Artists 4.31 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy
Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy 4.18 avg rating — 433 ratings
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Boys in the Trees
Boys in the Trees 3.67 avg rating — 11,697 ratings
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And Yet ...
And Yet ... 3.96 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State 3.82 avg rating — 414 ratings
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First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat 3.89 avg rating — 3,452 ratings
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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire 4.28 avg rating — 4,260 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries 4.04 avg rating — 929 ratings
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Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe 3.92 avg rating — 4,569 ratings
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Drawing Blood
Drawing Blood 3.96 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair
Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair 3.65 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution 3.88 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America 3.96 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility
Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility 3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificant Fury
The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificant Fury 3.79 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence 3.15 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter 3.83 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Sharon Tate: A Life
Sharon Tate: A Life 2.95 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author
Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author 3.80 avg rating — 577 ratings
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley 3.79 avg rating — 4,239 ratings
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One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
by: Mei Fong
3.96 avg rating — 3,257 ratings
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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume 2: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume 2: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow 4.39 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Shame and Wonder: Essays
Shame and Wonder: Essays 3.24 avg rating — 94 ratings
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp 4.02 avg rating — 3,370 ratings
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Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson 3.98 avg rating — 971 ratings
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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles
Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles 4.01 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination 3.75 avg rating — 948 ratings
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Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary
Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary 3.65 avg rating — 182 ratings
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United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists
United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists 4.07 avg rating — 896 ratings
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Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship 3.90 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995 4.06 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America 4.33 avg rating — 454 ratings
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The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet 3.82 avg rating — 412 ratings