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What Uncle Sam Really Wants: Real Story Series

By Noam Chomsky

The Decline of American Political Parties, 1952-1996: Fifth Edition

By Martin P. Wattenberg

Ethnic America: A History

By Thomas Sowell

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By Heather Cox Richardson (Professor of History, Professor of History, Boston College)

The USA and Vietnam

By Vivienne Sanders

Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb

By Susan Williams

The Myth of the Robber Barons

By Burton W Folsom, Jr.

Food Worth Fighting for: From Food Riots to Food Banks

By Josh Sutton

Bound To Lead: The Changing Nature Of American Power

By Joseph Nye

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

By David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney, Richard Sennett

The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

By Lisa McGirr (Harvard University)

Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and Essays

By Robert McMahon (The Ohio State University)

The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

By Vaughn Davis Bornet

Kissinger's Year: 1973

By Alistair Horne

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

By Lynne Olson

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

By Patricia Bell-Scott

The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008

By Peter Chapman

The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

By Bryan Burrough

Understanding Vietnam

By Neil L. Jamieson

Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

By Brian Doherty

Conspiracy In The Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight

By Jon Weiner

The Sixties: Social and Cultural Transformation in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, 1958-74

By Arthur Marwick

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By Jon Meacham

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By Gilbert King

All the President's Men: 20th Anniversary Ed

By Carl Bernstein

The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam

By Jerry Lembcke

Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century

By Joseph A. Conforti

US In 20th Century: Democracy (Untied States In The Twentieth Century)

By Maidment, Richard

Mary McLeod Bethune

By Sterne, Emma Gelders, Lufkin, Raymond

Vietnam: A History

By Karnow, Stanley