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Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903-1940

By Gary Giddins

Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don’t Care

Flight: My Life in Mission Control

Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana

By Ronald L. Baker

Encyclopedia of the American: Civil War A Political, Social, and Military History (5 volumes)

By Edited by Heidler

Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fearrn

By Jan Bondeson

Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America’s Past (And Each Other)

By Edited by Carnes

My Misspent Youth: Essays

Carry Me Home Birmingham, Alabamaï¿½The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

By Diane McWhorter

1831: Year of Eclipse

By Louis P. Masur

Best Friends

By Samantha Glen

A Primate’s Memoir

By Robert M. Sapolsky

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

By Laura Hillenbrand

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