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Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
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Free Thinker

By Kimberly A. Hamlin ,

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The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
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The Equivalents

By Maggie Doherty ,

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Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life the Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965
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Richard Hofstadter

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Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power
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Spies and Scholars

By Gregory Afinogenov ,

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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
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Wonder Confronts Certainty

By Gary Saul Morson ,

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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
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Psychonauts

By Mike Jay ,

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Larry McMurtry: A Life
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Larry McMurtry

By Tracy Daugherty ,

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