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54	2016	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City	Matthew Desmond	7	9	Crown	Penguin Random House
46	2022	G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century	Beverly Gage	5	6	Viking	Penguin Random House
46	2018	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom	David W. Blight	5	8	Simon & Schuster	Simon & Schuster
44	2012	Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity	Katherine Boo	4	9	Random House	Penguin Random House
42	1999	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II	John W. Dower	5	6	The New Press	The New Press
42	2021	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake	Tiya Miles	6	8	Random House	Penguin Random House
40	1988	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam	Neil Sheehan	4	7	Random House	Penguin Random House
38	1988	Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963	Taylor Branch	4	5	Simon & Schuster	Simon & Schuster
38	1980	Walter Lippmann and the American Century	Ronald Steel	4	5	Taylor & Francis	Taylor & Francis
38	2012	The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson	Robert A. Caro	5	7	Knopf	Penguin Random House
36	2013	Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital	Sheri Fink	5	6	Crown	Penguin Random House
36	2006	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11	Lawrence Wright	5	6	Knopf	Penguin Random House

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