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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

A Square Meal: A Culinary History Of The Great Depression

By Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe

Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond

By Senior Fellow E J Dionne, Jr

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

By David Maraniss

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

By Mailer, Norman

Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets

By R. Parthasarathy

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

By Conrad Black

Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story

By Jack Devine, Vernon Loeb

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV

By Alan Schroeder (Northeastern School of Journalism)

JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President

By Thurston Clarke

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books)

By Thompson, Hunter S.

Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

By Woodward

The Best of Times: The Boom and Bust Years of America Before and After Everything Changed

By Haynes Johnson

Rfk: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

By C.David Heymann

A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West

By Ian Johnson

America on Trial: The Cases That Define Our History

By Alan M. Dershowitz

The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case

By Elliot Goldenberg

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

By Norman Mailer

A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust

By David S. Wyman

The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration

By Blumenthal, W. Michael

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank

By Oney, Steve

Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated History

By Dan Van der Vat

Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right

By Benjamin Balint

The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia

By Mike Dash

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

By Madeleine Albright, Bill Woodward

Let Every Nation Know: John F. Kennedy in His Own Words

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By David Leonhardt

A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958

By Alessandro Brogi

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

By Alistair Cooke