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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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The Power Broker

By Robert A. Caro ,

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Things Fall Apart
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All the President's Men
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All the President's Men

By Carl Bernstein , Bob Woodward ,

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Orientalism
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Orientalism

By Edward W. Said ,

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The Monkey Wrench Gang
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The Monkey Wrench Gang

By Edward Abbey ,

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The Origins of Totalitarianism
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The Origins of Totalitarianism

By Hannah Arendt ,

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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

By Edmund Morris ,

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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
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Working

By Studs Terkel ,

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The Best and the Brightest
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The Best and the Brightest

By David Halberstam ,

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Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
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Simple Justice

By Richard Kluger ,

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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
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Boss

By Mike Royko ,

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Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
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Propaganda

By Jacques Ellul ,

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The Manchurian Candidate
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The Manchurian Candidate

By Richard Condon ,

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Conquered City
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Conquered City

By Victor Serge , Richard Greeman (translator) ,

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Being There
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Being There

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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
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States and Social Revolutions

By Theda Skocpol ,

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The Climate of Treason: Five who Spied for Russia
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The Climate of Treason

By Andrew Boyle ,

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McCarthyism: The Fight for America
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McCarthyism

By Joe McCarthy ,

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A Seventh Man
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A Seventh Man

By John Berger ,

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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
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Fire in the Lake

By Frances FitzGerald ,

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Born on the Fourth of July
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Born on the Fourth of July

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Blind Ambition: The White House Years
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Blind Ambition

By John W. Dean ,

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The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences
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The Search for the Manchurian Candidate

By John D. Marks ,

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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
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The Passions and the Interests

By Albert O. Hirschman ,

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Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
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Alcoholic Republic

By William J. Rorabaugh ,

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Playing the Great Game: A Victorian Cold War
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Playing the Great Game

By Michael Edwardes ,

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Air America
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Air America

By Christopher Robbins ,

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The Women's Room
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The Women's Room

By Marilyn French ,

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Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History: The Case of Tanganyika, 1850–1950 (Eastern African Studies)
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Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History

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Hitler (Harvest Book)
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Hitler (Harvest Book)

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The Matarese Circle
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The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage
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The Conquest of the Incas
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Victims of Groupthink: A Psychological Study of Foreign-Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
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By Irving Lester Janis ,

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The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
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A Sense of Where You Are

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The Chancellor Manuscript: A Novel
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The Chancellor Manuscript

By Robert Ludlum ,

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The Boys on the Bus
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

By Hunter S. Thompson ,

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A White House Diary
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A White House Diary

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The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba`thists and Free Officers
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The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq

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Origins of Israeli Policy
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Origins of Israeli Policy

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Saint with a Gun: The Unlawful American Private Eye
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Saint with a Gun

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Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960
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Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960

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Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905
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Advocacy and Objectivity

By Mary O. Furner ,

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Toward a Politics of the Planet Earth
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Toward a Politics of the Planet Earth

By Margaret Sprout , Harold Sprout ,

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Hard Times
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Hard Times

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Stable Peace
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Stable Peace

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A Hall of Mirrors
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A Hall of Mirrors

By Robert Stone ,

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Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland; Or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, This Being a Saga of the Economic Development Administration as Told by Two Sympathetic Observers Who Seek to Build Morals on a Foundation of Ruined Hopes
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Implementation

By Jeffrey L. Pressman , Aaron Wildavsky ,

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Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy
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Imperial Brain Trust

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Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of a National Policy
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Abortion in America

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On Violence
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On Violence

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Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Liberty and Property

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Papers on the War
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Papers on the War

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The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
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The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community

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Where Have All the Voters Gone?
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Where Have All the Voters Gone?

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The Concept of the Political
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The Concept of the Political

By Carl Schmitt , George Schwab (translator) ,

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Law and Marxism: A General Theory
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Law and Marxism

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Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

By Antonio Gramsci , Geoffrey N. Smith (editor) , Quintin Hoare (editor)

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Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860
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Ballots for Freedom

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The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education
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The One Best System

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My Early Life: 1874-1904
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My Early Life

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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge

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The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it
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The American Political Tradition

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I Write What I Like
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I Write What I Like

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The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire
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The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America
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The Populist Moment

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Do It: Scenarios of the Revolution
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Do It

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Leadership
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Rule Britannia
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Rule Britannia

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To Jerusalem and Back
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The Earthly Republic
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The Earthly Republic

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