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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 average rating, · 120.7k ratings
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
4.72 average rating, · 46.8k ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
4.69 average rating, · 41.6k ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.28 average rating, · 203.5k ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
4.22 average rating, · 204.8k ratings
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John Adams
David McCullough
4.09 average rating, · 382.3k ratings
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1776
David McCullough
4.11 average rating, · 253.8k ratings
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Grant
Ron Chernow
4.50 average rating, · 45.7k ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
4.26 average rating, · 105.1k ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
4.25 average rating, · 88.7k ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
4.17 average rating, · 121.9k ratings
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The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
4.18 average rating, · 100.4k ratings
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan
4.35 average rating, · 51.8k ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S.C. Gwynne
4.25 average rating, · 70.3k ratings
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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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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
Liz Cheney
4.56 average rating, · 28.6k ratings
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Truman
David McCullough
4.17 average rating, · 92.5k ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Stephen E. Ambrose
4.23 average rating, · 69.2k ratings
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Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow
4.17 average rating, · 85.5k ratings
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
4.05 average rating, · 153k ratings
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
4.22 average rating, · 62.3k ratings
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Bill O'Reilly
4.06 average rating, · 109.6k ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
4.36 average rating, · 38.8k ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
4.41 average rating, · 34.8k ratings
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