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Love on the Hudson

Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley

edited and annotated by Geoffrey C. Ward


McNamara’s Peace

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

by Robert S. McNamara and Brian VanDeMark


Stumbles and Mumbles

Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me

by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey

Brando: The Biography

by Peter Manso

Don Juan DeMarco

a film written and directed by Jeremy Leven


Adders and Other Reptiles

Reptile Journalism: The Official Polish-Language Press under the Nazis, 1939–1945

by Lucjan Dobroszycki, translated by Barbara Harshav

'Jews in the Polish Underground Press, 1939–1945' in Poland

by Lucjan Dobroszycki

Biedni Polacy Patrza Na Getto

by Jan Blonski


Feast of Pliny

The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity

by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey


The Women in the Cowshed

An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution

by Partha Dasgupta


Aristocrats

Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood

by Gerald Early

Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society

by John Edgar Wideman

Colored People: A Memoir

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

by W. E. B. Du Bois

No Day of Triumph

by J. Saunders Redding

The Big Sea

by Langston Hughes

Dust Tracks on a Road in Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writing

by Zora Neale Hurston

The Negro Family: A Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War

by E. Franklin Frazier

Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class in the United States

by E. Franklin Frazier

Coming Up Down Home: A Memoir of a Southern Childhood

by Cecil Brown

Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Home

by Gloria Wade-Gayles

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American Tabloid

by James Ellroy


Who Should Go to College?

City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College

by James Traub


Chronicles of Love and Loss

A Scattering of Salts

by James Merrill


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