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Welcome to the Non-Fiction Group. 33 Neoma Aug 2012 Dec 2023 7 52146
"Abraham Lincoln: Selections from His Writings" (pamphlet, just scanned, PDF format) 2 Mrdie Apr 2018 Apr 2018 2 1720
"American Cassandra: the life of Dorothy Thompson," by Peter Kurth, 1990. 1 Timeflyer Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 1378
"Bad City" By Paul Pringle 2 Samrob Sep 2022 Oct 2022 1 1912
"Behind the Beautiful Forevers" is an amazing MUST read book. 10 dixiegrrrrl May 2013 Jun 2013 0 3259
"Believer: My Forty Years in Politics" by David Axelrod 1 eissa May 2018 Aug 2018 3 1402
"Bottom of the 33rd". Great book! 1 bif Jan 2017 Jan 2017 0 2217
"Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control" 3 GeoWilliam750 Feb 2017 Feb 2017 6 1883
"Cabin Fever." 0 kairos12 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 1651
"Dewey Defeats Truman" By A.J. Baime. A review 2 question everything Jul 2020 Sep 2020 5 3795
"Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield" by JEREMY SCAHILL 2 dusty trails Jul 2013 Aug 2013 1 2531
"Emperor of Rome," by Mary Beard. 2 Timeflyer Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 596
"Empire of Pain" 4 kairos12 Jan 2022 Jan 2022 3 1843
"ESCALANTE'S DREAM: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest" 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 1 1667
"Fallout" by Lesley M.M. Blume 6 AngryOldDem Sep 2020 Sep 2020 1 2701
"Fascism" by Madeline Albright 0 no_hypocrisy May 2019 May 2019 5 1608
"Flying Blind 0 kairos12 Mar 2022 Mar 2022 1 1384
"How Democracies Die" is a must read! 2 raccoon Mar 2021 Dec 2021 3 3036
"Hustling Hitler" by Walter Shapiro 0 bucolic_frolic Jan 2017 Jan 2017 2 1708
"I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" by Alaina E. Roberts 0 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 0 3648
"Into the Raging Sea" 1 kairos12 Jun 2018 Jun 2018 0 1413
"Just Kids" by Patti Smith. Here's my review 3 bif Mar 2016 Mar 2016 0 2336
"Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil," by Susan Neiman. 0 Timeflyer Jan 2023 Jan 2023 2 2696
"Leaving the Witness" by Amber Scorah - wow. Really eye opening 4 NRaleighLiberal Aug 2019 Aug 2019 4 1628
"Losing Reality: on Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry," by R. J. Lifton. 0 Timeflyer Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 512
"Mark Twain: Social Critic" (1966 book, PDF format) 2 Mrdie Jan 2018 Jan 2018 4 1753
"On Putin's Blacklist" Documentary (free on Amazon prime) 1 AlexSFCA Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 2237
"Plaintiff in Chief - A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500+ Lawsuits" 0 Tracer Oct 2019 Oct 2019 7 1608
"Premonition" 2 kairos12 Nov 2021 Jan 2022 0 1669
"Profiles in Ignorance: How America's politicians got dumb and dumber," by Andy Borowitz 2 Timeflyer Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 2940

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"Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist" 0 eissa Jul 2019 Jul 2019 2 1174
"Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump" 0 flyingfysh Aug 2017 Aug 2017 1 2722
"Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present" --Ruth Ben-Ghiat 1 lastlib Feb 2022 Feb 2022 2 2435
"Suffrage: women's long battle for the vote," by Ellen Carol Dubois, 2020. 1 Timeflyer Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 947
"The Arsenal of Democracy." Great book 0 bif Apr 2017 Apr 2017 0 4751
"The Best and the Brightest" by David Halberstam 5 Zorro Jul 2019 Jan 2020 7 2943
"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 1390
"The Hard Stuff" by Wayne Kramer 0 bif Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1221
"The House By The Lake", by Thomas Harding 1 Matilda Dec 2016 Dec 2016 0 1607
"The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism", by Tim Alberta. 8 Timeflyer Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1578
"The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar" 3 left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 0 1816
"The Liberation of Paris" by Jean Edward Smith 1 left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1266
"The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" 0 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 2 1321
"The New Yorker Book of War Pieces". 0 bif Mar 2017 Mar 2017 1 1556
"The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World," 0 Timeflyer Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 2513
"The Pope At War." 0 kairos12 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 1145
"The Spy Who Loved" The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, by Clare Mulley. 0 Paladin Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1523
"The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip" by Jeff Guinn 0 left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 1 1350
"The Year of Living Constitutionally" by A.J. Jacobs 0 Timeflyer Dec 19 Dec 19 5 313
"U.S. Labor and the Vietnam War" (1989 book, just scanned, PDF format) 0 Mrdie Feb 2018 Feb 2018 0 1259
"Uncultured: a memoir," by Daniella Mestyaned Young. 0 Timeflyer Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 2343
"War" by Bob Woodward 0 Mike 03 Nov 22 Nov 22 7 531
"When Religion Hurts You: Healing from religious trauma and the impact of High-Control Religion," by Laura E. Anderson, 4 Timeflyer Jun 2024 Aug 2024 10 782
"Why People Believe Weird Things," by Michael Shermer. 0 Timeflyer Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 4075
"Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World" (Nature book review) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 559
"A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby....." by Ben Macintyre 0 Paladin Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1507
"And Then All Hell Broke Loose -- Two Decades in the Middle East" by Richard Engel 3 Auggie Feb 2016 Mar 2016 2 2409
"Anyone who stands in the way of American interests will be arrested" 0 dixiegrrrrl Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 1708
"Liberation Square" comes out tomorrow (about Tahrir) 0 riverwalker Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1766
"Skipping Towards Gomorrah" 2 Democrats_win Dec 2013 Apr 2014 0 1800

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"Somebody Had to Do It First": The Story of Shirley Chisholm 1 marmar Dec 2013 Dec 2013 0 1693
"The Horse, The Wheel, and Language" by David Anthony. 4 Odin2005 Nov 2014 Dec 2014 1 2802
"Thinking Fast and Slow" -- Kahneman 22 bemildred Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 6961
'67 Shots' dispels myths about shooting of Kent State students in 1970 2 struggle4progress May 2016 Jun 2016 8 1807
'Corporations Are Not People' ..... a book review by Thom Hartmann 0 marmar Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 1849
'Decent' Harry Truman, thrust into the presidency, kept US afloat in wartime 2 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 0 2574
'Gray Love': Yes, Older People Have Desires 2 niyad Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 2403
'Murders & Mysterious Deaths in the Pennsylvania Wilds' is released 4 left-of-center2012 Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 2732
'The anti-pet of bourgeois life': why the world needs big cat energy 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1258
'The Pioneers' by David McCullough 6 left-of-center2012 May 2019 May 2019 6 1635
'Twilight of the Gods' -- The magisterial final volume of Ian W. Toll's Pacific War trilogy 5 Auggie Sep 2020 Sep 2020 4 2009
10 Book Recommendations for Conscientious Eaters 0 marmar Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 1579
10 illuminating books about North Korea 7 davidpdx Apr 2013 Apr 2013 1 2531
10 Lessons of Conservative Cowardice - Book on Sale 0 Across-the-Desk Dec 2022 Dec 2022 1 2102
12/10/18 What Non-Fiction Are You Reading? 8 violetpastille Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1624
15 NF standouts for reading this year 2 hermetic Jan 2021 Jan 2021 5 2215
2012: what are you reading? 3 Neoma Aug 2012 Sep 2012 0 2091
2013: What are you reading at the moment? 18 Neoma Jun 2013 Mar 2014 0 5235
2014: What are you reading at the moment? 33 Neoma Mar 2014 Sep 2016 0 21290
2018 Book Club List Vote (Poll) 0 Neoma Jan 2018 Jan 2018 0 2146
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