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The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself

By James Grant

FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance

By Robert Klara

The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton

By Joe Klein

The Welfare State We're in

By James Bartholomew

The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War

By James Bradley

FDR and Civil Aviation: Flying Strong, Flying Free

By A. Dobson

War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals

By David Halberstam

Vietnam: A War Lost and Won

By Nigel Cawthorne

Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Serhii Plokhy

Atlas of Slavery

By James Walvin

American Midnight

By Adam Hochschild

Access to History Context: An Introduction to American History, 1860-1990

By Alan Farmer, Vivienne Sanders

American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-70

By Martin Staniland

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

By Ira Berlin (University of Maryland College Park)

Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life

By Artur Domoslawski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Virago Book of Women and the Great War

By JOYCE MARLOW

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

By Susan Williams

The Battle of Hurtgen Forest (PB)

By Charles Whiting

America, 1870-1975

By J. O'Keeffe

Second World War in the Far East

By H. P. Willmott

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Arthur Meier Schlesinger

One Hundred Red Hot Years: Big Moments of the 20th Century

By Eduardo Galeano

Politics On Trial: Five Famous Trials of the 20th Century

By William Kunstler

Reinhold Niebuhr and His Circle of Influence

By Daniel F. Rice

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

The Woman's Hour

By Elaine Weiss

The Queen: The gripping true tale of a villain who changed history

By Josh Levin

Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War

By Kevin Wilson

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

By Alistair Cooke