Required reading for realistic radicals.

1.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating β€” 39,730 ratings
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We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement 4.48 avg rating β€” 277 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating β€” 115,177 ratings
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement 4.60 avg rating β€” 3,777 ratings
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I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars
I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars 3.95 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 4.27 avg rating β€” 90,010 ratings
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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South 4.54 avg rating β€” 147 ratings
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History 4.32 avg rating β€” 757 ratings
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Foundations #4)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Foundations #4) 4.24 avg rating β€” 8,242 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating β€” 27,266 ratings
11.
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 4.47 avg rating β€” 3,602 ratings
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State and Revolution
State and Revolution 4.25 avg rating β€” 17,448 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 4.19 avg rating β€” 24,331 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating β€” 29,696 ratings
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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible 4.24 avg rating β€” 882 ratings
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Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time
Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time 3.89 avg rating β€” 149 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 4.13 avg rating β€” 7,494 ratings
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Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future
Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future 4.46 avg rating β€” 83 ratings
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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression 4.37 avg rating β€” 1,287 ratings
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It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior
It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior 4.29 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism 4.26 avg rating β€” 9,469 ratings
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Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti: Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things
Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti: Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things 3.82 avg rating β€” 77 ratings
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The Theory of Need in Marx
The Theory of Need in Marx 3.66 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation 4.24 avg rating β€” 517 ratings
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Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Dialectical and Historical Materialism 3.91 avg rating β€” 2,032 ratings
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Philosophy for Militants
Philosophy for Militants 3.54 avg rating β€” 392 ratings
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution 4.21 avg rating β€” 1,042 ratings
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The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism 4.54 avg rating β€” 121 ratings
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Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms 4.37 avg rating β€” 102 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating β€” 749 ratings
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Liberalism: A Counter-History
Liberalism: A Counter-History 4.39 avg rating β€” 1,089 ratings
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Negroes with Guns
Negroes with Guns 4.51 avg rating β€” 1,078 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating β€” 7,035 ratings
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by: J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating β€” 1,027 ratings
35.
Identity Poetics
Identity Poetics 4.07 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
35.
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family 3.74 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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The Historical Failure of Anarchism: Implications for the Future of the Revolutionary Project
The Historical Failure of Anarchism: Implications for the Future of the Revolutionary Project 3.32 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 4.21 avg rating β€” 37,071 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating β€” 5,509 ratings
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Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics 4.18 avg rating β€” 2,958 ratings
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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump (Volume 2)
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump (Volume 2) 4.38 avg rating β€” 147 ratings
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom 4.33 avg rating β€” 569 ratings
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Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.
Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. 3.65 avg rating β€” 262 ratings
44.
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century 4.37 avg rating β€” 7,461 ratings
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A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman 3.78 avg rating β€” 550 ratings
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The Revisionist Theory of the β€œLiberation” of Science From Ideology
The Revisionist Theory of the β€œLiberation” of Science From Ideology really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of KimberlΓ© Crenshaw
On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of KimberlΓ© Crenshaw 4.42 avg rating β€” 249 ratings
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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw 4.22 avg rating β€” 489 ratings
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Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform
Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform 4.13 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Reform or Revolution
Reform or Revolution 4.21 avg rating β€” 4,611 ratings
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Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,780 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Selections from the Prison Notebooks 4.20 avg rating β€” 5,187 ratings
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity 3.94 avg rating β€” 2,177 ratings
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
The Secret History of Wonder Woman 3.73 avg rating β€” 16,562 ratings
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Black Wall Street
Black Wall Street 4.08 avg rating β€” 266 ratings
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The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works
The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works 3.71 avg rating β€” 269 ratings
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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control 4.15 avg rating β€” 120 ratings
57.
Real War Stories No. 1
Real War Stories No. 1 4.13 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Real War Stories No.2 Citizen Soldier
Real War Stories No.2 Citizen Soldier really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
60.
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 521 ratings
60.
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life 3.98 avg rating β€” 4,476 ratings
62.
Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues 4.26 avg rating β€” 227 ratings
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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence 3.96 avg rating β€” 2,326 ratings
64.
The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory 4.15 avg rating β€” 741 ratings
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Images of American Radicalism
Images of American Radicalism 4.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
66.
A People's History of American Empire
A People's History of American Empire 4.15 avg rating β€” 2,940 ratings
67.
Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History 3.30 avg rating β€” 326 ratings
68.
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me 3.67 avg rating β€” 1,177 ratings
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture 3.66 avg rating β€” 526 ratings
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All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.05 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
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Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments 4.13 avg rating β€” 344 ratings
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century 4.26 avg rating β€” 2,337 ratings
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum 3.78 avg rating β€” 187 ratings
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era 4.43 avg rating β€” 2,081 ratings
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Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration 4.10 avg rating β€” 458 ratings
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Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 3.92 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 4.14 avg rating β€” 9,094 ratings
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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics 4.41 avg rating β€” 2,638 ratings
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HuαΊΏ 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
HuαΊΏ 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam 4.33 avg rating β€” 7,779 ratings
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War Crimes and the American Conscience
War Crimes and the American Conscience it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing 4.40 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,567 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€” 36,114 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 4.04 avg rating β€” 44,512 ratings
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,339 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom 4.17 avg rating β€” 12,342 ratings
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Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 4.44 avg rating β€” 853 ratings
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The Blood of Emmett Till
The Blood of Emmett Till 4.27 avg rating β€” 8,802 ratings
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Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920
Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 4.02 avg rating β€” 136 ratings
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America 4.31 avg rating β€” 3,488 ratings
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The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox 3.84 avg rating β€” 345 ratings
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present 4.23 avg rating β€” 6,454 ratings
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The Fifties: An Underground History
The Fifties: An Underground History 3.79 avg rating β€” 263 ratings
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The Children
The Children 4.50 avg rating β€” 1,357 ratings
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3,110 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating β€” 72,729 ratings
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History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times 3.63 avg rating β€” 122 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€” 259,728 ratings
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
Voices of a People's History of the United States 4.32 avg rating β€” 2,152 ratings
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The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace
The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace 4.22 avg rating β€” 180 ratings
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