Best Books Concerning American History (fiction and nonfiction)

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1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,315 ratings
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John Adams
John Adams 4.08 avg rating — 373,219 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,671 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton 4.22 avg rating — 194,759 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 — 259,672 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,335 ratings
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Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups
Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups 3.66 avg rating — 736 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 3.95 avg rating — 46,966 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,285 ratings
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Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life 4.16 avg rating — 79,865 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 90,448 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,554 ratings
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His Excellency: George Washington
His Excellency: George Washington 3.96 avg rating — 42,824 ratings
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The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood 4.13 avg rating — 24,629 ratings
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic 3.97 avg rating — 10,697 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,172 ratings
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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain 3.89 avg rating — 248,102 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life 4.05 avg rating — 147,321 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,986 ratings
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Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely
Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely 3.59 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Democracy in America
Democracy in America 4.05 avg rating — 26,626 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,468 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 — 110 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,329 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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Washington's Crossing
Washington's Crossing 4.16 avg rating — 15,170 ratings
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America 3.89 avg rating — 2,670 ratings
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court 4.09 avg rating — 18,283 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,125 ratings
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The Final Days
The Final Days 4.17 avg rating — 6,374 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America 3.96 avg rating — 9,297 ratings
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House 3.86 avg rating — 55,952 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram 4.06 avg rating — 5,054 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,752 ratings
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Truman
Truman 4.17 avg rating — 90,308 ratings
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams 4.19 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin 4.11 avg rating — 22,669 ratings
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The Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation 4.04 avg rating — 19,435 ratings
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The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy 3.73 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
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Mornings on Horseback
Mornings on Horseback 4.10 avg rating — 34,705 ratings
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The Liberal Record: How Liberals Changed the World
The Liberal Record: How Liberals Changed the World 4.20 avg rating — 15 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 — 14,504 ratings
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Amendment Seventeen: A Blessing? Or a Curse?
Amendment Seventeen: A Blessing? Or a Curse? 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
The Anti-Federalist Papers 4.14 avg rating — 583 ratings
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters 4.35 avg rating — 3,626 ratings
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The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War 4.13 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour 4.29 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation 3.64 avg rating — 8,822 ratings
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 4.06 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy 4.12 avg rating — 215 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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The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court 4.14 avg rating — 5,146 ratings
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A History of the American People
A History of the American People 4.11 avg rating — 2,976 ratings
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The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War
The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War 4.37 avg rating — 466 ratings
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 4.05 avg rating — 4,353 ratings
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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America 4.09 avg rating — 1,595 ratings
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge 4.25 avg rating — 18,111 ratings
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The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72 4.43 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 3.94 avg rating — 8,939 ratings
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
by: Jay Winik
4.08 avg rating — 2,004 ratings
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson 3.94 avg rating — 28,831 ratings
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Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere's Ride 4.16 avg rating — 5,030 ratings
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Writings
Writings 4.25 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage 3.92 avg rating — 14,259 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
The Year of Decision 1846 4.13 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Living History
Living History 3.76 avg rating — 34,055 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
by: Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs 4.30 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution
Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic
Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic 3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings
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On the Trail of the Assassins
On the Trail of the Assassins 4.06 avg rating — 2,145 ratings
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The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder 3.74 avg rating — 846 ratings
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House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds: A Family Divided by War
House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds: A Family Divided by War 3.86 avg rating — 390 ratings
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On Fascism
On Fascism 3.95 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics
Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics 4.01 avg rating — 339 ratings
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The Reagan Casualties: Overseas Atrocities of the Great Communicator
The Reagan Casualties: Overseas Atrocities of the Great Communicator 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History 4.05 avg rating — 70,003 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,880 ratings
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Left by the Indians
Left by the Indians 3.76 avg rating — 896 ratings
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1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War 4.57 avg rating — 301 ratings
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How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions
How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions 4.32 avg rating — 654 ratings
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George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War
George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War 3.75 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
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American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton
American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton 4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War 4.33 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide 4.33 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America 3.97 avg rating — 823 ratings
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Brotherhood of the Revolution: How America's Founders Forged a New Nation
Brotherhood of the Revolution: How America's Founders Forged a New Nation 4.02 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World 4.19 avg rating — 1,968 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 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 — 113,274 ratings
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Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America
Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America 3.52 avg rating — 358 ratings
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The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy 4.25 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 3.99 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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Up Front
Up Front 4.45 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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The Moor's Account
The Moor's Account 4.04 avg rating — 12,546 ratings
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America 4.07 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South
Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Robert Kennedy: His Life
Robert Kennedy: His Life 4.23 avg rating — 3,763 ratings
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Rise to Rebellion
Rise to Rebellion 4.22 avg rating — 10,174 ratings
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To Marry an English Lord: The Victorian and Edwardian Experience
To Marry an English Lord: The Victorian and Edwardian Experience 3.59 avg rating — 5,750 ratings
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