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What's the best biography or autobiography you've read recently? 45 pscot Jul 2013 Jan 2018 0 10389
"Mark Twain: Social Critic" (1966 book, PDF format) 2 Mrdie Jan 2018 Jan 2018 4 2143
I can only read this book in short spurts until the pain becomes too great. Read it, I must. 2 NNadir Jan 2018 Jan 2018 5 2158
Here is a chaper from my manuscript in audio 0 Koch Ebola Jan 2018 Jan 2018 0 1580
2018 Book Club List Vote (Poll) 0 Neoma Jan 2018 Jan 2018 0 2573
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff Audiobook #1 3 Goonch Jan 2018 Jan 2018 1 2062
2018 Nonfiction Book Club. 6 Neoma Dec 2017 Jan 2018 1 5293
I'm reading 81 Days Below Zero. It's the story 6 raccoon Dec 2017 Dec 2017 1 2027
Get any great surprise books for Christmas? 14 NNadir Dec 2017 Dec 2017 2 3323
Dylan Thomas, 1952: A Child's Christmas in Wales 0 elleng Dec 2017 Dec 2017 1 1481
Chain of Title by David Dayen 0 octoberlib Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 1322
The Red Web: The Struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the online revolutionaries 0 JonLP24 Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 1345
Anyone read/reading People's History of the United States of America? 5 geardaddy Dec 2015 Dec 2017 1 2999
Just finished reading An American Family by Khizr Khan. 6 onecaliberal Dec 2017 Dec 2017 26 2912
New book:The Despot's Apprentice 1 sweetroxie Dec 2017 Dec 2017 2 1487
Do Yah Want a Book Group? (Poll) 1 Neoma Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 1456
I just finished reading "Hillbilly Elegy". 18 llmart Nov 2017 Dec 2017 0 4978
I am looking for a book about how Germans felt when Hitler came to power 9 Lulu KC Nov 2016 Dec 2017 0 4607
An American Family by Khizr Khan 0 beveeheart Nov 2017 Nov 2017 6 1440
Sun Chief 2 syringis Nov 2017 Nov 2017 6 1721
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen 3 octoberlib Nov 2017 Nov 2017 6 2079
Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by the Guardian journalist 1 JonLP24 Nov 2017 Nov 2017 8 2085
Pete Souza's Obama 1 Ineeda Nov 2017 Nov 2017 1 1437
Smithsonian Libraries -- Books Online. 8 eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 Nov 2017 4 2626
Book: World Without Mind 3 defacto7 Oct 2017 Nov 2017 0 1881
Like Judgment Day by Michael D'Orso 0 struggle4progress Oct 2017 Oct 2017 1 1542
Red Summer by Cameron McWhiter 1 struggle4progress Oct 2017 Oct 2017 0 1508
Just received David Neiwerts latest book. 0 Adsos Letter Oct 2017 Oct 2017 3 1615
Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy 0 JonLP24 Oct 2017 Oct 2017 0 1439
A Fine Old Conflict 4 struggle4progress Oct 2017 Oct 2017 2 1711

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Death in a Promised Land: the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 2 struggle4progress Oct 2017 Oct 2017 3 2795
Anyone recommend a book on the Christian right? n/t 6 lordsummerisle Aug 2016 Sep 2017 0 2071
Sometimes a great notion. Question 0 Watchfoxheadexplodes Sep 2017 Sep 2017 0 1950
After the War: A Southern Tour - May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866 1 SeattleVet Sep 2017 Sep 2017 2 2139
Book by an Ohio Congressman published in 1903 2 AnotherDreamWeaver Sep 2017 Sep 2017 7 3603
"Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump" 0 flyingfysh Aug 2017 Aug 2017 1 2936
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman 0 octoberlib Aug 2017 Aug 2017 1 2463
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder 2 sagesnow Aug 2017 Aug 2017 7 2619
Hillary's new book - I just ordered a Kindle copy and they 3 patricia92243 Jul 2017 Jul 2017 0 2666
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4 kgrandia Jan 2016 Jul 2017 5 3372
Calvin Trillin By the Book: 1 elleng Jul 2017 Jul 2017 1 1963
Great pre-school book: A is for Activist! 0 Fluke a Snooker Jul 2017 Jul 2017 1 1811
REC: 'The Deep State' by Mike Lofgren (reformed Republican) 2 pablo_marmol Jun 2017 Jun 2017 0 3715
REC: "The Retreat of Western Liberalism" by Edward Luce. 1 Binkie The Clown Jun 2017 Jun 2017 1 2716
After 54 Years, We Fell in Love. After Five Months, I Got Leukemia. 3 elleng May 2017 May 2017 3 7089
"The Arsenal of Democracy." Great book 0 bif Apr 2017 Apr 2017 0 5119
A shout-out for a friend's book 0 Orrex Mar 2017 Mar 2017 1 1915
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather writing book on patriotism 1 Eugene Mar 2017 Mar 2017 0 1830
"The New Yorker Book of War Pieces". 0 bif Mar 2017 Mar 2017 1 1882
I just finished THE RACE FOR WHAT'S LEFT by Michael T. Klare. 1 raccoon Mar 2017 Mar 2017 2 1730
City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York 2 Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 Feb 2017 0 1683
"Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control" 3 GeoWilliam750 Feb 2017 Feb 2017 6 2276
"Hustling Hitler" by Walter Shapiro 0 bucolic_frolic Jan 2017 Jan 2017 2 2004
"Bottom of the 33rd". Great book! 1 bif Jan 2017 Jan 2017 0 2699
Can anyone recommend a good biography of Thomas Edison? 2 bif Jun 2016 Jan 2017 0 1775
"The House By The Lake", by Thomas Harding 1 Matilda Dec 2016 Dec 2016 0 1887
Tribe by Sebastian Junger 6 PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2016 Nov 2016 1 2459
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 skorpo Nov 2016 Nov 2016 0 1223
"The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" 1 TexasProgresive Nov 2016 Nov 2016 0 1698
One of the best books I've read in a long time. 2 bif Sep 2016 Sep 2016 1 2154

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I'm reading up on The Cold War 3 pscot Nov 2015 Sep 2016 0 2104
To End All Wars (Adam Hochschild 2011) 2 struggle4progress Jun 2016 Sep 2016 0 1626
2014: What are you reading at the moment? 33 Neoma Mar 2014 Sep 2016 0 23200
I'm looking for a book about the real reasons for various wars. 15 raccoon May 2014 Aug 2016 1 5052
Here is account of my last 3 years in San Jacinto California 0 Koch Ebola Aug 2016 Aug 2016 0 1662
Trader Vic's Autobiography 2 bif Aug 2016 Aug 2016 0 1966
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt. 1 SheilaT Jul 2016 Jul 2016 1 1706
'67 Shots' dispels myths about shooting of Kent State students in 1970 2 struggle4progress May 2016 Jun 2016 8 2201
Death Be Not Proud by, John Gunther. Just finished it. 18 Hiraeth Mar 2016 Apr 2016 2 3217
Enjoyed this book a lot! 0 oldandhappy Apr 2016 Apr 2016 0 1594
The Lone Assassin: The Epic True Story of the Man Who Almost Killed Hitler 0 Hiraeth Mar 2016 Mar 2016 0 1706
Just about half-way through Eisenhower's "So Far From God: The U. S. War With Mexico, 1846–1848." 5 Adsos Letter Nov 2015 Mar 2016 0 2297
"And Then All Hell Broke Loose -- Two Decades in the Middle East" by Richard Engel 3 Auggie Feb 2016 Mar 2016 2 2837
"Just Kids" by Patti Smith. Here's my review 3 bif Mar 2016 Mar 2016 0 2822
Reading Pfanz's trilogy on the battle of Gettysburg. 0 Adsos Letter Feb 2016 Feb 2016 2 1934
Galileo's Middle Finger: Persecuting Scientists Whose Findings Are Seen As Politically Incorrect 4 HuckleB Feb 2016 Feb 2016 0 3109
I'm really enjoying the book about human perspectives in history 0 applegrove Feb 2016 Feb 2016 1 1782
Just finished "H is for Hawk". Fascinating book. 0 bif Jan 2016 Jan 2016 1 2033
Anyone know of a book about old, unrepentant Nazis? Someone mentioned one on DU not 1 raccoon Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 2138
Recently finished "Rise of the Warrior Cop". 9 A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 Nov 2015 1 4342
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