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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
4.53 average rating, · 30.8k ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
4.15 average rating, · 39.3k ratings
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.40 average rating, · 16.2k ratings
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Peter Stark
4.10 average rating, · 13.3k ratings
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
4.13 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist
4.45 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
David M. Kennedy
4.21 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
4.29 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
John Ganz
4.07 average rating, · 5k ratings
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The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
David Nasaw
4.09 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
Walter Isaacson
4.11 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
A.J. Baime
4.41 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
Robert B. Reich
4.28 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon
4.26 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
Kurt Andersen
4.21 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
Brian Stelter
4.07 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
Thomas E. Ricks
4.11 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
Luke Harding
4.16 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan
Peggy Noonan
4.23 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Bryan Burrough
4.09 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
Paul Johnson
4.29 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel
4.19 average rating, · 3k ratings
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My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting
William Thomas Hamilton
4.20 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Washington Bullets
Vijay Prashad
4.34 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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