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Steven’s Bookshelf

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Wrath of God: The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
A Brief History of Fascist Lies
Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West


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