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History750
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Biography310
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Mystery, Thriller & Crime62

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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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Grant
Ron Chernow
4.50 average rating, · 45.7k 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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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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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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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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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
4.36 average rating, · 38.8k ratings
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson
4.17 average rating, · 62.1k ratings
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Becoming Madam Secretary
Stephanie Dray
4.45 average rating, · 28.7k ratings
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Vincent Bevins
4.61 average rating, · 19.7k ratings
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
Bill O'Reilly
4.11 average rating, · 63k ratings
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Theodore Rex
Edmund Morris
4.19 average rating, · 51.6k ratings
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The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States
Founding Fathers
4.44 average rating, · 27.7k ratings
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.21 average rating, · 47.2k ratings
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The Path to Power
Robert A. Caro
4.43 average rating, · 27.3k ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
4.45 average rating, · 24.6k ratings
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