Best 20th Century American (U.S.) History - 3.7 Stars and Up

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A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression : A History of the American Worker 1933-1941
A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression : A History of the American Worker 1933-1941 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America 3.92 avg rating — 2,067 ratings
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Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal
Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal
by: Ann Rule
4.08 avg rating — 9,692 ratings
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Rose City Vice: Portland in the 70's Dirty Cops and Dirty Robbers
Rose City Vice: Portland in the 70's Dirty Cops and Dirty Robbers 3.66 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America 3.66 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America 3.81 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers
Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers 4.05 avg rating — 267 ratings
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The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin 4.25 avg rating — 7,006 ratings
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Richard Nixon: The Life
Richard Nixon: The Life 4.36 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
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Broadway, Schrafft's and Seeded Rye: Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side
Broadway, Schrafft's and Seeded Rye: Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 4.76 avg rating — 4,718 ratings
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy 3.96 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern 3.84 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
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Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero 3.80 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld 4.15 avg rating — 776 ratings
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s 4.24 avg rating — 289 ratings
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew 3.73 avg rating — 27,004 ratings
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism 4.10 avg rating — 16,787 ratings
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Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets 3.67 avg rating — 6,426 ratings
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Up In Arms: How The Bundy Family Hijacked Federal Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America's Patriot Militia Movement
Up In Arms: How The Bundy Family Hijacked Federal Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America's Patriot Militia Movement 4.03 avg rating — 143 ratings
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1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies 4.14 avg rating — 720 ratings
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Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History, 2)
Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History, 2) 3.85 avg rating — 68 ratings
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My Mother's Wars
My Mother's Wars 4.07 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America 4.37 avg rating — 4,460 ratings
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Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (Haymarket Series)
Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (Haymarket Series) 3.97 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism
The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography 3.74 avg rating — 5,801 ratings
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote 3.90 avg rating — 935 ratings
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Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise
Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise 3.97 avg rating — 30 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 — 4,264 ratings
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Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
by: Ronin Ro
3.79 avg rating — 260 ratings
228.
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America 4.59 avg rating — 918 ratings
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The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—the Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—the Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea 4.33 avg rating — 4,409 ratings
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Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists 3.80 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America
Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America 3.98 avg rating — 129 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 4.13 avg rating — 4,062 ratings
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New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise
New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Spirit of the Sixties
The Spirit of the Sixties 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address 3.79 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon & the Destruction of Cambodia
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon & the Destruction of Cambodia 4.23 avg rating — 368 ratings
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After the Vote Was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists
After the Vote Was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Glock: The Rise of America's Gun
Glock: The Rise of America's Gun 3.87 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West
Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West 3.82 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War 4.18 avg rating — 2,962 ratings
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Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left
Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left 3.70 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World that Made Him
Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World that Made Him 3.74 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War 4.05 avg rating — 1,327 ratings
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago 4.22 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
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Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot 4.17 avg rating — 537 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 — 2,326 ratings
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War 4.25 avg rating — 4,398 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 4.22 avg rating — 22,143 ratings
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Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars (The Florida History and Culture Series)
Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars (The Florida History and Culture Series) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture 3.84 avg rating — 1,982 ratings
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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence 3.92 avg rating — 594 ratings
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We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk 3.97 avg rating — 2,738 ratings
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Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist
Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist 4.16 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (ALA Notable Books for Adults) 4.04 avg rating — 4,289 ratings
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Rita Moreno: A Memoir
Rita Moreno: A Memoir 4.01 avg rating — 2,154 ratings
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s 3.98 avg rating — 2,341 ratings
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America 4.06 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida
The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear 4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism 4.39 avg rating — 743 ratings
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A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt
A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt 3.97 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud
Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud 4.18 avg rating — 2,601 ratings
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The Valiant Nellie McClung: Collected Columns by Canada's Most Famous Suffragist
The Valiant Nellie McClung: Collected Columns by Canada's Most Famous Suffragist 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century 3.95 avg rating — 4,679 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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One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927 4.10 avg rating — 53,984 ratings
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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels 3.96 avg rating — 835 ratings
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Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy 3.85 avg rating — 1,004 ratings
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Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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American Culture in the 1970s
American Culture in the 1970s really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Suffragists in Washington, DC: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote
Suffragists in Washington, DC: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote 4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings
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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 — 3,602 ratings
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age 4.08 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida 3.91 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957 4.13 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night 3.62 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Huey Long
Huey Long 4.23 avg rating — 2,111 ratings
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam 4.43 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
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Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club: Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age
Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club: Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age 4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul 3.63 avg rating — 13,089 ratings
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Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia
Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings 4.22 avg rating — 430 ratings
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire 4.40 avg rating — 1,984 ratings
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82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle
82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle
by: Art Shaw
3.79 avg rating — 640 ratings
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam 4.23 avg rating — 4,961 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
A Crack in the Edge of the World 3.79 avg rating — 7,187 ratings
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Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics
Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States
Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s 3.73 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
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Up Front
Up Front 4.45 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage
Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval 4.13 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties 3.81 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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The Long Way Home
The Long Way Home 3.91 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Cheesesteak: The West Philadelphia Years
Cheesesteak: The West Philadelphia Years
by: Bob Levin
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents 3.97 avg rating — 1,430 ratings
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