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Things The Grandchildren Should Know
Mark Oliver Everett
4.24 average rating, · 9.5k ratings
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Patrimony
Philip Roth
4.21 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Thomas E. Ricks
4.06 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein
4.25 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
Howard Sounes
4.20 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Henry Miller
4.02 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
David M. Rubenstein
4.39 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
H.W. Brands
4.13 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy
Kash Patel
4.45 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Huey Long
T. Harry Williams
4.24 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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My Life
Lyn Hejinian
4.16 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The Origin
Irving Stone
4.12 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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The Case for Trump
Victor Davis Hanson
4.21 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Mark Twain: A Life
Ron Powers
4.06 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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The Passions of the Mind
Irving Stone
4.05 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
John Matteson
4.02 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America
Russ Baker
4.11 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
Rich Cohen
4.19 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution
A.J. Langguth
4.24 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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In the Freud Archives
Janet Malcolm
4.21 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
Ashley Kahn
4.27 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Elijah Wald
4.02 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Scorsese on Scorsese
David Thompson
4.10 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Molly's Game
Molly Bloom
4.05 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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