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1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of ... More
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2. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Originally published: New York: Henry Holt, 2011.
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3. Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of non-fiction about the shocking assassination ... More
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4. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
by Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the ... More
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5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the ... More
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6. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a ... More
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7. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
by Rick Atkinson
In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa ... More
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8. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
The "New York Times" bestseller that blew the lid off the fast food industry--exposing how they've malled our landscapes, widened the gap between ... More
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9. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan ... More
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10. Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by Michael Moss
This is the story of how the food industry have used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet. In "Salt, Sugar, Fat" Michael ... More
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11. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
by Jon Meacham
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "American Lion" and "Franklin and Winston" brings vividly to life an ... More
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12. Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers' Zeitoun is the winner of the American Book Award and the LA Times Book Award. In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of ... More
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13. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W Loewen
Why do so many Americans have little grasp of the ideas that shaped their nation? In this groundbreaking book, Loewen not only exposes the villain- ... More
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14. A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
by Howard Zinn, Ph.D.
This account of US history from the bottom up tells the real story of the people, rather than the flag-waving official story.
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15. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
by Ronald T Takaki
Upon its first publication, "A Different Mirror" was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Now ... More
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16. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice
Gripping, eye-opening, and powerful, "American Sniper" is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, whose record 255 confirmed kills ... More
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17. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
In the tradition of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," Gwynne presents a stunningly vivid historical account of the 40-year battle between Comanche ... More
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18. Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
Now in paperback, "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal). "The power of Spiegelman's story ... More
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19. Democracy in America
by Professor Alexis de Tocqueville
Classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading ... More
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20. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. ... More
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21. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Philbrick, the bestselling author of "In the Heart of the Sea" and "Mayflower," brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ... More
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22. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
by Rachel Maddow
There's a war going on, argues Maddow: a battle between the priorities of civilian life and of the war machine, and right now the national security ... More
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23. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard
The extraordinary "New York Times"-bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of ... More
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24. The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
by David Stockman
The controversial businessman and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan condemns the corruption of capitalism, ... More
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25. The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World
by W Cleon Skousen
Explains twenty-eight "principles of freedom" as defined by America's founding fathers, discussing the role of religion, the equality of men, the ... More
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