American Foreign Policy

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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 4.31 avg rating β€” 18,331 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 4.36 avg rating β€” 36,105 ratings
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Diplomacy
Diplomacy 4.25 avg rating β€” 9,162 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA 3.95 avg rating β€” 14,506 ratings
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The Cold War: A New History
The Cold War: A New History 3.94 avg rating β€” 8,094 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating β€” 259,680 ratings
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The Best and the Brightest
The Best and the Brightest 4.27 avg rating β€” 12,645 ratings
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror 4.29 avg rating β€” 10,839 ratings
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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire 4.06 avg rating β€” 2,526 ratings
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq 4.17 avg rating β€” 4,515 ratings
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times 4.01 avg rating β€” 9,615 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating β€” 51,930 ratings
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The Post-American World
The Post-American World 3.86 avg rating β€” 12,809 ratings
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
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American Diplomacy
American Diplomacy 4.06 avg rating β€” 677 ratings
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals 4.18 avg rating β€” 4,569 ratings
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam 4.24 avg rating β€” 12,399 ratings
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 4.09 avg rating β€” 3,939 ratings
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq 4.09 avg rating β€” 7,790 ratings
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made 4.10 avg rating β€” 4,263 ratings
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No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington 3.95 avg rating β€” 4,085 ratings
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,271 ratings
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Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,144 ratings
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Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,624 ratings
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 4.16 avg rating β€” 3,678 ratings
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The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism 3.98 avg rating β€” 2,379 ratings
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The Untold History of The United States
The Untold History of The United States 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,750 ratings
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Globalization and its Discontents
Globalization and its Discontents 3.87 avg rating β€” 8,112 ratings
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War 4.12 avg rating β€” 4,060 ratings
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The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War 3.98 avg rating β€” 991 ratings
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Madam Secretary
Madam Secretary 4.11 avg rating β€” 9,058 ratings
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield 4.08 avg rating β€” 5,070 ratings
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam 4.16 avg rating β€” 5,003 ratings
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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,304 ratings
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis 4.08 avg rating β€” 8,801 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture 4.12 avg rating β€” 540 ratings
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia 3.98 avg rating β€” 4,735 ratings
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Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,533 ratings
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,771 ratings
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,601 ratings
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam 3.76 avg rating β€” 2,555 ratings
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American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy
American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy 4.03 avg rating β€” 187 ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 4.19 avg rating β€” 28,142 ratings
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth 3.85 avg rating β€” 3,932 ratings
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The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara 4.20 avg rating β€” 204 ratings
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
From Beirut to Jerusalem 4.15 avg rating β€” 12,907 ratings
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Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq 3.78 avg rating β€” 91 ratings
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers 4.27 avg rating β€” 1,619 ratings
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department 4.02 avg rating β€” 404 ratings
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Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam 3.99 avg rating β€” 4,791 ratings
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Memoirs, 1925-1950
Memoirs, 1925-1950 4.26 avg rating β€” 300 ratings
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938 3.90 avg rating β€” 2,277 ratings
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Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 3.71 avg rating β€” 1,170 ratings
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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives 3.97 avg rating β€” 3,277 ratings
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The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House 4.12 avg rating β€” 257 ratings
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning 4.12 avg rating β€” 6,764 ratings
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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,898 ratings
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 3.65 avg rating β€” 4,628 ratings
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid 3.92 avg rating β€” 4,957 ratings
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War 4.22 avg rating β€” 9,182 ratings
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The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq 4.05 avg rating β€” 3,181 ratings
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War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death 4.17 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,127 ratings
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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad 4.11 avg rating β€” 4,506 ratings
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America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy 3.94 avg rating β€” 326 ratings
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic 4.06 avg rating β€” 961 ratings
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy 4.16 avg rating β€” 5,432 ratings
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
by: Gary Webb
4.30 avg rating β€” 1,967 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety 4.27 avg rating β€” 14,174 ratings
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II 4.26 avg rating β€” 2,008 ratings
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The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,859 ratings
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War 4.12 avg rating β€” 447 ratings
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Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin 4.15 avg rating β€” 159 ratings
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 4.26 avg rating β€” 10,876 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram 4.06 avg rating β€” 5,054 ratings
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
George F. Kennan: An American Life 4.09 avg rating β€” 2,589 ratings
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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 3.91 avg rating β€” 1,836 ratings
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American Diplomacy: A History
American Diplomacy: A History 4.27 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy 3.87 avg rating β€” 510 ratings
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
The Trial of Henry Kissinger 3.96 avg rating β€” 4,486 ratings
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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World 3.79 avg rating β€” 487 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
Forty-Ninth 4.13 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
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The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories
The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories 4.52 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy And The Path To War In Vietnam
Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy And The Path To War In Vietnam 3.88 avg rating β€” 407 ratings
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Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq 3.97 avg rating β€” 2,063 ratings
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,855 ratings
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Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience 3.62 avg rating β€” 271 ratings
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,359 ratings
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Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection
Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection 3.80 avg rating β€” 172 ratings
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World Orders, Old and New
World Orders, Old and New 3.91 avg rating β€” 574 ratings
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Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up
Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up 3.74 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,879 ratings
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A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny 4.17 avg rating β€” 298 ratings
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Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk 3.65 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
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The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,911 ratings
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,090 ratings
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The Dark Side of Camelot
The Dark Side of Camelot 3.69 avg rating β€” 2,394 ratings
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Chances of a Lifetime: A Memoir
Chances of a Lifetime: A Memoir 3.91 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 3.94 avg rating β€” 400 ratings
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The Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers 3.70 avg rating β€” 69 ratings
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