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- 1920 : the year that made the decade roar
- 1940 : FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--the election amid the storm
- A Christmas far from home : an epic tale of courage and survival during the Korean War
- A call to arms : mobilizing America for World War II
- A cruel and shocking act : the secret history of the Kennedy assassination
- A dangerous idea : the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the struggle for indigenous rights
- A force so swift : Mao, Truman, and the birth of modern China, 1949
- A grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A nation without borders : the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910
- A rabble of dead money : the Great Crash and the global depression : 1929-1939
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- AMERICA'S GREAT GAME : the CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Act of war : Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo
- Active measures : the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Ain't got no home : America's great migrations and the making of an interracial left
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Al Capone's beer wars : a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during prohibition
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- All the presidents' bankers : the hidden alliances that drive American power
- All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid
- All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid
- All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race
- American serial killers : the epidemic years 1950-2000
- An idea whose time has come : two presidents, two parties, and the battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- And still I rise : Black America since MLK : an illustrated chronology
- Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
- Aphrodite's daughters : three modernist poets of the Harlem Renaissance
- Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon
- Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon
- Baseless : my search for secrets in the ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Becoming King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of a national leader
- Birdmen : the wright brothers, glenn curtiss, and the battle to control the skies
- Black Power 50
- Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
- Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bootleggers and borders : the paradox of prohibition on a Canada-U.S. borderland
- Breach of peace : portraits of the 1961 Mississippi freedom riders
- Brothers : the hidden history of the Kennedy years
- Bubble in the sun
- Building Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright's home of love and loss
- Building the Great Society : inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
- Bunk : the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news / Kevin Young
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Camelot's court : inside the Kennedy White House
- Chasing Phil : the adventures of two undercover agents with the world's most charming con man
- Children and youth during the Civil War era
- Chop suey, USA : the story of Chinese food in America
- Citizen soldier : a life of Harry S. Truman
- City of scoundrels : the twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago
- Civil rights
- Coast to coast cookery : the best classic recipes across America
- Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
- Colorization : one hundred years of Black films in a white world
- Columbine
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Contempt : a memoir of the Clinton investigation
- Countdown 1945 : the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
- Country music : a history
- Crossfire : the plot that killed Kennedy
- Cruel harvest : a memoir
- Cuba libre! : Che, Fidel, and the improbable revolution that changed world history
- Dallas 1963
- Days of rage : America's radical underground, the FBI, and the first age of terror
- Death of a king : the real story of dr. martin luther king jr.'s final year
- Deep Delta justice : a black teen, his lawyer, and their groundbreaking battle for civil rights in the South
- Deep delta justice : a Black teen, his lawyer, and their groundbreaking battle for civil rights in the South
- Deluxe Jim Crow : civil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America
- Disney's land : Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Dreamers and deceivers : true stories of the heroes and villains who made America
- Drive! : Henry Ford, George Selden, and the race to invent the auto age
- Drive! : Henry Ford, George Selden, and the race to invent the auto age
- Driving while black : African American travel and the road to civil rights
- Elizabeth and Hazel : two women of Little Rock
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Enemies : a history of the FBI
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Engineering Eden : the true story of a violent death, a trial, and a fight over how to restore nature
- Equal means equal : why the time for an equal rights amendment is now
- Equal means equal : why the time for an equal rights amendment is now
- FDR goes to war : [how expanded executive power, spiraling national debt, and restricted civil liberties shaped wartime America]
- Fairy tale interrupted : a memoir of life, love, and loss
- Fear city : New York's fiscal crisis and the rise of austerity politics
- Fifty years of 60 minutes : the inside story of television's most influential news broadcast
- Finding magic : a spiritual memoir
- Finding magic : a spiritual memoir
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor, an American life
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor, an intimate portrait of the first woman supreme Court Justice
- First Women : The Grace And Power Of America's First Ladies
- Five days in November
- Floyd Patterson : the fighting life of boxing's invisible champion
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fracture : Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the racial divide
- Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
- GI brides : the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love
- GI brides : the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love
- Gangsters to governors : the new bosses of gambling in America
- Gentlemen bootleggers : the true story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a small town in cahoots
- George Marshall : defender of the republic
- Ghosts in the schoolyard : racism and school closings on Chicago's South side
- Give us the ballot : the modern struggle for voting rights in America
- Good booty : love and sex, black & white, body and soul in American music
- Gospel of freedom : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from Birmingham Jail and the struggle that changed a nation
- Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
- Grass roots : the rise and fall and rise of marijuana in America
- Harlem nocturne : women artists & progressive politics during World War II
- Harlem nocturne : women artists and progressive politics during World War II
- Harlem on my mind : cultural capital of Black America, 1900-1968
- Hell No : the forgotten power of the Vietnam peace movement
- Henry Ford
- Hidden figures : [the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race]
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the...
- How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS
- How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS
- Hunting Charles Manson : the quest for justice in the days of helter skelter
- I am not your Negro : a major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck
- I invented the modern age : the rise of Henry Ford
- I invented the modern age : the rise of Henry Ford
- Ike's mystery man : the secret lives of Robert Cutler
- In the arena : good citizens, a great republic, and how one speech can reinvigorate America
- In the shadows of the American century : the rise and decline of US global power
- Inside the Clinton White House : an oral history
- Inside the Dream Palace : the life and times of New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel
- 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
- J.D. Salinger : the escape artist
- James Baldwin : the FBI file
- 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
- Killing Kennedy : the end of Camelot
- Killing Patton : the strange death of World War II's most audacious general
- Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America
- Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America
- Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America
- Knock at the door of opportunity : black migration to Chicago, 1900-1919
- Landslide : LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the dawn of a new America
- Leadership in turbulent times
- Lift every voice : the NAACP and the making of the Civil Rights movement
- Loyalty and liberty : American countersubversion from World War 1 to the McCarthy era
- Lucy Stone : an unapologetic life
- Madam : the biography of Polly Adler, icon of the Jazz Age
- Man in Profile : Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker
- Man in Profile : Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Marina and Lee : the tormented love and fatal obsession behind Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Marvel Comics : the untold story
- Maximalist : America in the world from Truman to Obama
- Mayday 1971 : a White House at war, a revolt in the streets, and the untold history of America's biggest mass arrest
- Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds
- Milestones of space : eleven iconic objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Mob cop : my life of crime in the Chicago Police Department
- Monongah : the tragic story of the 1907 Monongah mine disaster, the worst industrial accident in U.S. history
- Moral combat : how sex divided American Christians and fractured American politics
- Moral combat : how sex divided American Christians and fractured American politics
- Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul
- Mr. President, how long must we wait? : Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the fight for the right to vote
- Negroland : a memoir
- Nine lives of a Black Panther : a story of survival
- No surrender : a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism that continues to live on today
- Nothing daunted : the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
- Nothing to fear : FDR's inner circle and the hundred days that created modern America
- On democracy
- On his own terms : a life of nelson rockefeller
- Once in a great city : a Detroit story
- One giant leap : the impossible mission that flew us to the moon
- One nation under God : how corporate America invented Christian America
- One nation under God : how corporate America invented Christian America
- One summer : America, 1927
- Only yesterday : an informal history of the 1920s
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Partners to history : Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the civil rights movement
- Penn Center : a history preserved
- Power to the people : the world of the Black Panthers
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reagan at Reykjavik : forty-eight hours that ended the Cold War
- Reagan rising : the decisive years, 1976-1980
- Reaganland : America's right turn, 1976-1980
- Rebel Cinderella : from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
- Red summer : the summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America
- Renegade : Henry Miller and the making of Tropic of Cancer
- Renegade : Henry Miller and the making of Tropic of Cancer
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Rickey : the life and legend of an American original
- Robert Oppenheimer : a life inside the center
- Robert Oppenheimer : a life inside the center
- Rocket men : the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon
- Rockets and revolution : a cultural history of early spaceflight
- Ronald Reagan : our fortieth president
- Scarface and the untouchable : Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago
- Sea of thunder : four commanders and the last great naval campaign, 1941-1945
- Selected speeches and writings of Theodore Roosevelt
- Separate and unequal : Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism
- Shoot for the moon : the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11
- Since Yesterday : The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929--September 3, 1939
- Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon
- Someone to watch over me : a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt and the tortured father who shaped her life
- Something must be done about Prince Edward County : a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle
- Stars and strikes : baseball and America in the bicentennial summer of '76
- Sticky fingers : the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine
- Stokely : a life
- Stride toward freedom : the Montgomery story
- Sunny days : the children's television revolution that changed America
- Supreme inequality : the Supreme Court's fifty-year battle for a more unjust America
- The Big Fella : Babe Ruth and the world he created
- The Black Panthers : portraits from an unfinished revolution
- The Eighty-Dollar Champion : Snowman, the horse that inspired a nation
- The Great War in America : World War I and its aftermath
- The King years : historic moments in the civil rights movement
- The League : how five rivals created the NFL and launched a sports empire
- The Life of Saul Bellow : to fame and fortune, 1915-1964
- The Life of Saul Bellow : to fame and fortune, 1915-1964
- The Nixon defense : what he knew and when he knew it
- The Nixon tapes : 1971-1972
- The Nixon tapes, 1971-1972
- The Penguin book of outer space exploration : NASA and the incredible story of human spaceflight
- The Prometheus bomb : the Manhattan Project and government in the dark
- The Russian job : the forgotten story of how America saved the Soviet Union from ruin
- The Socialist Party of America : a complete history
- The accidental president : Harry S. Truman and the four months that changed the world
- The affirmative action puzzle : a living history from Reconstruction to today
- The age of entitlement : America since the sixties
- The big rich : the rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes
- The big roads : the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the American superhighways
- The bill of the century : the epic battle for the Civil Rights Act
- The breakthrough : politics and race in the age of Obama
- The bully pulpit : a Teddy Roosevelt book of quotations
- The burglary : the discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's secret FBI
- The burning shore : how Hitler's U-boats brought World War II to America
- The burning shore : how Hitler's U-boats brought World War II to America
- The defender : how the legendary Black newspaper changed America : from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama
- The eighty-dollar champion : Snowman, the horse that inspired a nation
- The eve of destruction : how 1965 transformed America
- The fall of Richard Nixon : a reporter remembers Watergate
- The fall of Richard Nixon : a reporter remembers Watergate
- The family Roe : an American story
- The fifties : an underground history
- The forgotten depression : 1921: the crash that cured itself
- The gatekeeper : Missy LeHand, FDR, and the untold story of the partnership that defined a presidency
- The gatekeepers
- The gatekeepers : how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency
- The gatekeepers : how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency
- The general and 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
- The gift of the face : portraiture and time in Edward S. Curtis's the North American Indian
- The gifted generation : when government was good
- The good spy : the life and death of robert ames
- The great democracy : how to fix our politics, unrig the economy, and unite America
- The great quake : how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
- The great rescue : American heroes, an iconic ship, and the race to save Europe in WWI
- The ground breaking : an American city and its search for justice
- The hippest trip in America : Soul Train and the evolution of culture and style
- The impossible presidency : the rise and fall of America's highest office
- The last negroes at Harvard : the class of 1963 and the eighteen young men who changed Harvard forever
- The library book
- The library book
- The life of the automobile : the complete history of the motor car
- The lion and the journalist : the unlikely friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop
- The long night : William I. Shirer and the rise and fall of the Third Reich
- The lost art of dress : the women who once made America stylish
- The lost art of dress : the women who once made America stylish
- The making of the President, 1960
- The man from the train : the solving of a century-old serial killer mystery
- The man who ran Washington : the life and times of James A. Baker III
- The metropolitan revolution : the rise of post-urban America
- The movement : the African American struggle for civil rights
- The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
- The once and future liberal : After Identity Politics
- The once and future liberal : after identity politics
- The ordinary spaceman : from boyhood dreams to astronaut
- The perfect pass : American genius and the reinvention of football
- The queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth
- The race beat : the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation
- The rebellion of Ronald Reagan : a history of the end of the Cold War
- The red and the blue : the 1990s and the birth of political tribalism
- The residence : inside the private world of the White House
- The right path : from Ike to Reagan, how Republicans once mastered politics-- and can again
- The road to Camelot : inside JFK's five-year campaign
- The secret history of Wonder Woman
- The speech : the story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream
- The state must provide : why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right
- The storm on our shores : one island, two soldiers, and the forgotten battle of World War II
- The story of ain't : America, its language, and the most controversial dictionary ever published
- The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- The trials of Nina McCall : sex, surveillance, and the decades-long government plan to imprison "promiscuous" women
- The true flag : Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the birth of American Empire
- The vagabonds : the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's ten-year road trip
- The war : an intimate history, 1941-1945
- The war on leakers : national security and American democracy, from Eugene v. Debs to Edward Snowden
- The winter army : the World War II odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's elite alpine warriors
- The world's fastest man : the extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first Black sports hero
- The world's fastest man : the extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first Black sports hero
- The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
- The year of fear : Machine Gun Kelly and the manhunt that changed the nation
- These few precious days : the final year of Jack with Jackie
- This bright light of ours : stories from the 1965 Voting Rights fight
- This country : my life in politics and history
- 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
- Those angry days : Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's fight over World War II, 1939-1941
- Three days at the brink : FDR's daring gamble to win World War II
- Three days at the brink : FDR's daring gamble to win World War II
- Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
- Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
- Three days in Moscow : Ronald Reagan and the fall of the Soviet empire
- Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man
- Toxic exposures : mustard gas and the health consequences of World War II in the United States
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow south
- Ugly prey : an innocent woman and the death sentence that scandalized jazz age Chicago
- Unexampled courage : the blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
- Unknown valor : a story of family, courage, and sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima
- Walk in my shoes : conversations between a civil rights legend and his godson on the journey ahead
- Wallis in love : untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- War against war : the American fight for peace, 1914-1918
- War on the border : Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American invasion
- Watergate : a new history
- Watergate : a new history
- We could not fail : the first African Americans in the Space Program
- When Reagan sent in the Marines : the Invasion of Lebanon
- When it was just a game : remembering the first Super Bowl
- When the world seemed new : George H. W. Bush and the end of the Cold War
- When the world seemed new : George H. W. Bush and the end of the Cold War
- Where do we go from here : chaos or community?
- Where were you? : America remembers the JFK assassination
- Who stole the American dream? Can we get it back?
- Witness to the revolution : radicals, resisters, vets, hippies, and the year America lost its mind and found its soul
- Year of the hawk : America's descent into Vietnam, 1965
- Zero fail : the rise and fall of the Secret Service
- Zero fail : the rise and fall of the Secret Service
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