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- 1940 : FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--the election amid the storm
- 1941 : fighting the shadow war : a divided America in a world at war
- A Matter of Honor : Pearl Harbor : Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice
- A call to arms : mobilizing America for World War II
- A cruel and shocking act : the secret history of the Kennedy assassination
- A first-class catastrophe : the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
- A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
- A grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch
- A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history
- 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 new world to be won : John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and the tumultuous year of 1960
- A queer capital : a history of gay life in Washington, D.C.
- A rabble of dead money : the Great Crash and the global depression, 1929-1939
- A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement
- A very principled boy : the life of Duncan Lee, Red spy and cold warrior
- AMERICA'S GREAT GAME : the CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
- 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
- After silence : a history of AIDS through its images
- Agent 110
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- All the presidents' bankers : the hidden alliances that drive American power
- America and the Great War : a Library of Congress illustrated history
- American endurance : Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the vanishing Wild West
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race
- American philosophy : a love story
- An unlikely trust : Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the improbable partnership that remade American business
- Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
- Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Astral weeks : a secret history of 1968
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in America
- Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Building Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright's home of love and loss
- Bunk : the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news
- Carville's cure : leprosy, stigma, and the fight for justice
- Chasing Phil : the adventures of two undercover agents with the world's most charming con man
- Chicago renaissance : literature and art in the Midwest metropolis
- Children of the dream : why school integration works
- Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
- Countdown to Pearl Harbor : the twelve days to the attack
- Country music
- Crash course : from the good war to the forever war
- Creepy crawling : Charles Manson and the many lives of America's most infamous family
- Defenders of the unborn : the pro-life movement before Roe v. Wade
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Down to the crossroads : civil rights, Black power, and the Meredith march against fear
- Dreamers and deceivers : true stories of the heroes and villains who made America
- Eisenhower vs. Warren : the battle for civil rights and liberties
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Enemies of the state : the radical right in America from FDR to Trump
- Enemy of the people : Trump's war on the press, the new McCarthyism, and the threat to American democracy
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fault lines : a history of the United States since 1974
- Fierce enigmas : a history of the United States in South Asia
- Fifty years of 60 minutes : the inside story of television's most influential news broadcast
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- Five days in November
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Forging a President : How the Wild West Created Teddy Roosevelt
- Fracture : Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the racial divide
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Front porch politics : the forgotten heyday of American activism in the 1970s and 1980s
- George Marshall : defender of the republic
- Getting religion : faith, culture, and politics, from the age of Eisenhower to the era of Obama
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Good booty : love and sex, black & white, body and soul in American music
- Good hunting : an American spymaster's story
- Grass roots : the rise and fall and rise of marijuana in America
- Greater Gotham : a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919
- Harlem nocturne : women artists & progressive politics during World War II
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- His Final Battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hitler in Los Angeles : how Jews foiled Nazi plots against Hollywood and America
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hoover's war on gays : exposing the FBI's "sex deviates" program
- Hotel Scarface : where cocaine cowboys partied and plotted to control Miami
- How democracy ends
- How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS
- How we get free : Black feminism and the Combahee River Collective
- I invented the modern age : the rise of Henry Ford
- I like Ike : the presidential election of 1952
- If you ask me : essential advice from Eleanor Roosevelt
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Imbeciles : the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck
- In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- In the shadows of the American century : the rise and decline of US global power
- Injustices : the Supreme Court's history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted
- Inside the Clinton White House : an oral history
- Inside the Dream Palace : the life and times of New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel
- J.D. Salinger : the escape artist
- JFK and the Reagan revolution : a secret history of American prosperity
- JFK and the masculine mystique : sex and power on the New Frontier
- 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
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Liberated spirits : two women who battled over Prohibition
- Lords of the desert : the battle between the United States and Great Britain for supremacy in the modern Middle East
- Lost champions : four men, two teams, and the breaking of pro football's color line
- Louise Thompson Patterson : a life of struggle for justice
- Loyalty and liberty : American countersubversion from World War 1 to the McCarthy era
- Madam President : the secret presidency of Edith Wilson
- Man in Profile : Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Marvel Comics : the untold story
- Mob cop : my life of crime in the Chicago Police Department
- Moral combat : how sex divided American Christians and fractured American politics
- Most of 14th Street is gone : the Washington, DC riots of 1968
- Mothers of massive resistance : white women and the politics of white supremacy
- Murder in the city : New York, 1910-1920
- Murder on Shades Mountain : the legal lynching of Willie Peterson and the struggle for justice in Jim Crow Birmingham
- My Lai : Vietnam, 1968, and the descent into darkness
- Negroland : a memoir
- On democracy
- Once in a great city : a Detroit story
- One nation under God : how corporate America invented Christian America
- One nation under gold : how one precious metal has dominated the American imagination for four centuries
- Operation Chaos : the Vietnam deserters who fought the CIA, the brainwashers, and themselves
- Oppose any foe : the rise of America's Special Operations Forces
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Panic at the pump : the energy crisis and the transformation of American politics in the 1970s
- Pesticides, a love story : America's enduring embrace of dangerous chemicals
- Playing with fire : the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics
- RFK : his words for our times
- Raven Rock : the story of the U.S. government's secret plan to save itself -- while the rest of us die
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reagan rising : the decisive years, 1976-1980
- Reaganland : America's right turn, 1976-1980
- Rescue board : the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Robert Oppenheimer : a life inside the center
- Saving Bravo : the greatest rescue mission in Navy SEAL history
- Scarface and the untouchable : Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago
- Separate and unequal : the Kerner Commission and the unraveling of American liberalism
- Shoot for the moon : the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11
- Smoketown : the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance
- Sons of freedom : the forgotten American soldiers who defeated Germany in World War I
- Standoff : how America became ungovernable
- Stokely : a life
- Street warrior : the true story of the NYPD's most decorated detective and the era that created him
- Sunny days : the children's television revolution that changed America
- Tenements, towers & trash : an unconventional illustrated history of New York City
- The 60s : the story of a decade
- The Black Hand : the epic war between a brilliant detective and the deadliest secret society in American history
- The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic
- The China mission : George Marshall's unfinished war, 1945-1947
- The Fractured Republic : Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
- The Great War in America : World War I and its aftermath
- The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers
- 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 Marshall Plan : dawn of the Cold War
- The Nixon tapes : 1971-1972
- The Queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth
- The Vietnam War : an intimate history
- The Vietnam War, 1945-1975
- The Wright brothers
- The accidental president : Harry S. Truman and the four months that changed the world
- The age of daredevils
- The axeman of New Orleans : the true story
- The bill of the century : the epic battle for the Civil Rights Act
- The blood of Emmett Till
- The case for impeachment
- The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America
- The contest : the 1968 election and the war for America's soul
- The cotton kings : capitalism and corruption in turn-of-the-century New York and New Orleans
- The defender : how the legendary black newspaper changed America : from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama
- The doomsday machine : confessions of a nuclear war planner
- The downtown pop underground : New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture
- The electrifying fall of Rainbow City : spectacle and assassination at the 1901 World's Fair
- The end of White Christian America
- The extra woman : how Marjorie Hillis led a generation of women to live alone and like it
- The gatekeeper : Missy LeHand, FDR, and the untold story of the partnership that defined a presidency
- The gatekeepers : how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency
- The gay revolution : the story of the struggle
- The general vs. the president : MacArthur and Truman at the brink of nuclear war
- The ghosts of Eden Park : the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked jazz-age America
- The girl on the velvet swing : sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century
- The good spy : the life and death of Robert Ames
- 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 heavens might crack : the death and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
- The impossible presidency : the rise and fall of America's highest office
- The internationalists : how a radical plan to outlaw war remade the world
- The jungle grows back : America and our imperiled world
- The last 100 days : FDR at war and at peace
- The last pass : Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and what matters in the end
- The library book
- The library book
- The life of the automobile : the complete history of the motor car
- The lost art of dress : the women who once made America stylish
- The lynching : the epic courtroom battle that brought down the Klan
- The man from the train : the solving of a century-old serial killer mystery
- The man who designed the future : Norman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America
- The man who walked backward : an American dreamer's search for meaning in the Great Depression
- The moralist : Woodrow Wilson and the world he made
- The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
- 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 politics of petulance : America in an age of immaturity
- The promise and the dream : the untold story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
- The red and the blue : the 1990s and the birth of political tribalism
- The revolution of Robert Kennedy : from power to protest after JFK
- The ride of her life : the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America
- 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 road to Jonestown : Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
- 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 stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- The suffragents : how women used men to get the vote
- The train to Crystal City : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II
- The trials of Nina McCall : sex, surveillance, and the decades-long government plan to imprison "promiscuous" women
- The voting rights war : the NAACP and the ongoing struggle for justice
- The woman's hour : the great fight to win the vote
- The world of Raymond Chandler : in his own words
- The world remade : America in World War I
- The world's fastest man : the extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first Black sports hero
- The year of fear : Machine Gun Kelly and the manhunt that changed the nation
- Theodore Roosevelt and the assassin : madness, vengeance, and the campaign of 1912
- Theodore Roosevelt for the defense : the courtroom battle to save his legacy
- Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
- Three days in Moscow : Ronald Reagan and the fall of the Soviet empire
- To the promised land : Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice
- True south : Henry Hampton and Eyes on the prize, the landmark television series that reframed the civil rights movement
- 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
- Under a darkening sky : the American experience in Nazi Europe: 1939-1941
- Wallis in love : the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- We believe the children : a moral panic in the 1980s
- We could not fail : the first African Americans in the Space Program
- Why the right went wrong : Conservatism-- from Goldwater to the Tea Party and beyond
- Witness to the revolution : radicals, resisters, vets, hippies, and the year America lost its mind and found its soul
- World War I and America : told by the Americans who lived it
- Worldmaking : the art and science of American diplomacy
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