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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
by David Brooks
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
by Glenn Beck
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Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
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The Betrayal of the American Dream
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
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The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House
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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias
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