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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

Jonathan M. Katz

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Picador Classic)

Adam Hochschild

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Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

Jim Frederick

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The Return of the Progressive Atrocity

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Over the course of the twentieth century, Haitians, escaping poverty and unrest, sought refuge in the Bahamas as well. It was and remains a deeply stratified place, sitting at a crossroads, with the global elites and their tax havens at the top and poor Haitians living in shanties at the bottom. It is one of the tragic ironies of global history tha

Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

Steven Johnson

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-A Problem From Hell-

Samantha Power

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E Baptist

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