| | Title | Author(s) | Pages | Source | Date
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| 1365 | Les miserables | Victor Hugo | 1492 | c | 8/2/1988
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| 1503 | The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York | Robert A. Caro | 1246 | elp | 1/9/1992
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| 2000 | Master of the senate | Robert A. Caro | 1167 | ewl | 5/30/2002
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| 1941 | Truman | David G. McCullough | 1117 | ut | 8/21/2000
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| 1596 | Atlas shrugged | Ayn Rand | 1084 | ewl | 9/7/1993
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| 1755 | Infinite jest: a novel | David Foster Wallace | 1079 | elp | 8/28/1996
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| 1461 | The powers that be | David Halberstam | 1071 | ewl | 11/6/1990
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| 1862 | Parting the waters: America in the King years 1954-63 | Taylor Branch | 1064 | kl | 7/5/1998
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| 2113 | At Canaan's edge: America in the King years, 1965-68 | Taylor Branch | 1059 | ewl | 4/7/2006
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| 1707 | The witching hour | Anne Rice | 1043 | elp | 11/27/1995
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| 1644 | Liberty and sexuality: the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade | David J. Garrow | 981 | bo | 6/16/1994
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| 2075 | My life | Bill Clinton | 957 | ewl | 7/13/2004
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| 2157 | Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln | Doris Kearns Goodwin | 916 | mc | 1/29/2008
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| 1545 | The making of the atomic bomb | Richard Rhodes | 886 | dcbt | 2/8/1993
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| 2007 | The rise of Theodore Roosevelt | Edmund Morris | 886 | cu | 7/29/2002
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| 1551 | The prize: the epic quest for oil, money, and power | Daniel Yergin | 885 | ewl | 2/27/1993
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| 1662 | The path to power | Robert A. Caro | 882 | ewl | 11/8/1994
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| 2200 | Nixonland: the rise of a president and the fracturing of America | Rick Perlstein | 881 | mc | 2/22/2009
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| 1424 | A bright shining lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Neil Sheehan | 861 | ewl | 2/3/1990
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| 1135 | The leatherstocking tales. Vol. I | James Fenimore Cooper | 833 | c | 3/30/1984
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| 1561 | The second sex | Simone de Beauvoir | 814 | ewl | 4/18/1993
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| 1839 | Girls lean back everywhere: the law of obscenity and the assault on genius | Edward De Grazia | 814 | elp | 1/15/1998
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| 1559 | The house of Morgan: an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance | Ron Chernow | 812 | ewl | 4/3/1993
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| 2145 | A history of the Federal Reserve | Allan H. Meltzer | 808 | ewl | 8/4/2007
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| 1330 | The illuminatus! trilogy | Robert Shea Robert Anton Wilson | 805 | jg | 12/12/1987
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| 1452 | Secrets of the temple: how the Federal Reserve runs the country | William Greider | 798 | carn | 7/26/1990
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| 2222 | The death of American virtue: Clinton vs. Starr | Ken Gormley | 789 | ewl | 3/10/2010
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| 1475 | The reckoning | David Halberstam | 786 | ewl | 3/12/1991
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| 1593 | Conduct unbecoming: lesbians and gays in the U.S. military: Vietnam to the Persian Gulf | Randy Shilts | 784 | ewl | 8/14/1993
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| 1306 | Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter | 777 | ewl | 7/24/1987
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| 2009 | Theodore Rex | Edmund Morris | 772 | cu | 8/21/2002
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| 2290 | Colonel Roosevelt | Edmund Morris | 766 | ewl | 1/1/2011
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| 1494 | Gravity's rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 760 | cu | 11/4/1991
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| 1657 | No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the home front in World War II | Doris Kearns Goodwin | 759 | ewl | 10/7/1994
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| 1951 | Betrayal of trust: the collapse of global public health | Laurie Garrett | 754 | ewl | 1/8/2001
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| 1730 | The coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance | Laurie Garrett | 750 | elp | 4/25/1996
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| 1872 | Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963-65 | Taylor Branch | 746 | apl | 9/24/1998
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| 1028 | Bryan: a political biography of William Jennings Bryan | Louis William Koenig | 736 | c | 2/4/1983
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| 1780 | John Marshall: definer of a nation | Jean Edward Smith | 736 | kl | 1/29/1997
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| 1732 | QED and the men who made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga | S. S. Schweber | 732 | cu | 5/5/1996
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| 1705 | Dark sun: the making of the hydrogen bomb | Richard Rhodes | 731 | ewl | 10/24/1995
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| 1568 | The fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 727 | cu | 5/25/1993
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| 1971 | Body of secrets: anatomy of the ultra-secret National Security Agency: from the Cold War through the dawn of a new century | James Bamford | 721 | ewl | 7/19/2001
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| 2182 | American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Kai Bird Martin J. Sherwin | 721 | mc | 8/15/2008
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| 2215 | The coldest winter: America and the Korean War | David Halberstam | 719 | pg | 9/16/2009
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| 1071 | Einstein: the life and times | Ronald William Clark | 718 | c | 7/5/1983
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| 1743 | Up in the old hotel and other stories | Joseph Mitchell | 718 | cu | 6/26/1996
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| 1714 | 28 Barbary Lane: the Tales of the city omnibus volume I | Armistead Maupin | 713 | elp | 1/6/1996
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| 2649 | The passage of power | Robert A. Caro | 712 | y | 7/1/2012
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| 1385 | The death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963 | William Raymond Manchester | 710 | cbl | 12/19/1988
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| 1100 | The price of power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House | Seymour M. Hersh | 698 | c | 10/1/1983
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| 1360 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 691 | c | 5/24/1988
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| 1388 | The bonfire of the vanities | Tom Wolfe | 690 | elp | 12/27/1988
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| 2560 | Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 | Eric Foner | 690 | ewl | 12/20/2011
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| 2744 | 1493: uncovering the new world Columbus created | Charles C. Mann | 690 | mc | 1/17/2013
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| 1477 | The science of sound | Thomas D. Rossing | 686 | elp | 3/31/1991
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| 1706 | A son of the circus | John Irving | 682 | elp | 11/14/1995
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| 1933 | P.G. Wodehouse five complete novels | P. G. Wodehouse | 682 | xczt | 5/7/2000
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| 1449 | Helter skelter: the true story of the Manson murders | Vincent Bugliosi Curt Gentry | 676 | carn | 7/15/1990
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| 1467 | Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist movement, and the partition of Palestine | Avi Shlaim | 676 | carn | 1/21/1991
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