Best Books About Twentieth Century History

1.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,383 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War 3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,089 ratings
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Nicholas And Alexandra
Nicholas And Alexandra 4.23 avg rating — 29,464 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 — 89,932 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,887 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,604 ratings
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The Origins Of Totalitarianism
The Origins Of Totalitarianism 4.30 avg rating — 13,914 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,314 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,017 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,219 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,582 ratings
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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember 4.09 avg rating — 27,693 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 4.06 avg rating — 152,017 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin 3.89 avg rating — 215,190 ratings
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Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s 4.19 avg rating — 77,381 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 3.98 avg rating — 42,021 ratings
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War
Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War 4.04 avg rating — 376 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom 4.47 avg rating — 348,519 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram 4.06 avg rating — 5,054 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 426,017 ratings
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia 4.19 avg rating — 6,914 ratings
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The Double Helix
The Double Helix 3.84 avg rating — 19,754 ratings
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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness 4.38 avg rating — 621 ratings
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July Crisis: The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914
July Crisis: The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914
by: T.G. Otte
4.18 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century (Indians of the Southeast
Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century (Indians of the Southeast 3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War 3.93 avg rating — 7,697 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,480 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,865 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 — 72,725 ratings
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All the President’s Men
All the President’s Men 4.18 avg rating — 56,975 ratings
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness & the Love of Words
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness & the Love of Words 3.84 avg rating — 120,607 ratings
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1913: Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts (1913, #1)
1913: Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts (1913, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 6,945 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 3.80 avg rating — 51,854 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War 4.10 avg rating — 24,892 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 22,178 ratings
37.
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley 4.17 avg rating — 9,895 ratings
38.
Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century 3.77 avg rating — 132 ratings
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That Summer in Paris
That Summer in Paris 3.89 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,287 ratings
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People 4.32 avg rating — 2,616 ratings
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic 4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings
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On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser
On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser 4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings
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1906: Zwischen Belle Époque und Moderne
1906: Zwischen Belle Époque und Moderne
by: Alain Fux
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia 4.22 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog
Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog 4.03 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon 4.24 avg rating — 64,217 ratings
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The Edwardian Turn of Mind
The Edwardian Turn of Mind 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century
Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Life in Modern Britain
Life in Modern Britain 3.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America 4.13 avg rating — 2,018 ratings
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Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956 3.70 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses 3.88 avg rating — 24,079 ratings
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror 4.07 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania 4.03 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate 4.04 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The Strange Career of Jim Crow 4.14 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
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Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century (Washington Mews Books)
Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century (Washington Mews Books) 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Singled Out
Singled Out 3.77 avg rating — 892 ratings
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Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy 4.14 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,290 ratings
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Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century
Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,742 ratings
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Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music
Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
66.
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter 4.02 avg rating — 7,615 ratings
66.
The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art 4.04 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 4.39 avg rating — 11,881 ratings
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century 3.61 avg rating — 120 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey 4.21 avg rating — 74,677 ratings
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The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914
The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 4.03 avg rating — 1,419 ratings
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John Dos Passos: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey
John Dos Passos: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War
Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick 3.96 avg rating — 6,507 ratings
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Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 4.26 avg rating — 595 ratings
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America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century 4.56 avg rating — 48 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,426 ratings
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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II 3.90 avg rating — 803 ratings
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 78,161 ratings
81.
Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century
Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century 4.35 avg rating — 54 ratings
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 4.04 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History 3.87 avg rating — 14,312 ratings
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century 4.24 avg rating — 2,741 ratings
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The Fate of the Romanovs
The Fate of the Romanovs
by: Greg King
4.09 avg rating — 898 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927 4.10 avg rating — 53,983 ratings
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The Suffragette View
The Suffragette View 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
88.
Black Klansman: A Memoir
Black Klansman: A Memoir 3.62 avg rating — 21,426 ratings
88.
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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Ship of Dreams
Ship of Dreams 4.02 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England 4.26 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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The Cold War: A World History
The Cold War: A World History 4.30 avg rating — 2,292 ratings
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This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century
This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century 3.59 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War 4.29 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour 4.28 avg rating — 8,510 ratings
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The Red and the Blue: An Exploration of Presidential Politics in the '90s and Its Effects on the Modern Era by America's Most Engaging Election Correspondent
The Red and the Blue: An Exploration of Presidential Politics in the '90s and Its Effects on the Modern Era by America's Most Engaging Election Correspondent 4.20 avg rating — 2,974 ratings
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Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World 3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings
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The Making of the President 1960
The Making of the President 1960 4.15 avg rating — 7,922 ratings
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