The Looming Tower
2006★ 5.4
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Against the Grain
2017★ 5.5
The World Turned Upside Down
1972★ 5.8
Fire in the Lake
1972★ 5.9
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
1993★ 6.0
W. E. B. Du Bois
1993★ 6.0
Imagined Communities
1983★ 6.3
India After Gandhi
2007★ 6.4
Diplomacy
1994★ 6.4
The Great Game
1990★ 6.4
Citizens
1989★ 6.4
The American Political Tradition
1948★ 6.5
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1960★ 6.5
The Age of Extremes
1994★ 6.5
The Age of Revolution
1962★ 6.6
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
1967★ 6.7
The Secret History
550★ 6.7
Embracing Defeat
1999★ 6.7
American Slavery, American Freedom
1975★ 6.8
The French Revolution
1837★ 6.9