Books recommended by Matt "Cushbomb" Christman

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism 4.40 avg rating — 8,495 ratings
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties 4.04 avg rating — 32,244 ratings
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus 4.24 avg rating — 4,637 ratings
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America 4.25 avg rating — 10,668 ratings
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 4.21 avg rating — 6,121 ratings
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class 4.11 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 4.02 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Cloudsplitter
Cloudsplitter 3.93 avg rating — 5,097 ratings
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Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,362 ratings
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The Long Twentieth Century
The Long Twentieth Century 4.24 avg rating — 774 ratings
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NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe 3.99 avg rating — 392 ratings
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The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 4.29 avg rating — 7,612 ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 4.16 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
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Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets off a Struggle for the Soul of America
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets off a Struggle for the Soul of America 4.17 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right 3.78 avg rating — 760 ratings
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan 4.24 avg rating — 3,322 ratings
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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 4.33 avg rating — 2,237 ratings
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 3.81 avg rating — 1,582 ratings
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Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream 4.07 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia 4.10 avg rating — 670 ratings
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln 3.97 avg rating — 1,900 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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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics 3.95 avg rating — 406 ratings
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 4.17 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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Lenin Lives!: Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017
Lenin Lives!: Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017 3.71 avg rating — 70 ratings
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American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1) 4.20 avg rating — 19,751 ratings
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The Dark Tower Series Books Volume 1 - 8 Collection Set by Stephen King
The Dark Tower Series Books Volume 1 - 8 Collection Set by Stephen King 4.57 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,553 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,854 ratings
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Against the Day
Against the Day 4.05 avg rating — 10,019 ratings
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Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,673 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281,967 ratings
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Mindfulness in Plain English
Mindfulness in Plain English 4.15 avg rating — 18,371 ratings
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The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation 4.33 avg rating — 20,298 ratings
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A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File:: The Kennedy assassination,role of the Mafia, Howard Hughes, Onassis
A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File:: The Kennedy assassination,role of the Mafia, Howard Hughes, Onassis it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Culture of Make Believe
The Culture of Make Believe 4.26 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
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The Mothman Prophecies
The Mothman Prophecies 3.51 avg rating — 6,715 ratings