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WorkYear
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
2016
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder
2016
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History by Andrew Bacevich
2016
Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS by David J. Barron
2016
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb
2016
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government by Fergus M. Bordewich
2016
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon by Rosa Brooks
2016
The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World by Sally Denton
2016
The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich by Lara Feigel
2016
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
2016
The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
2016
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2016
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
2016
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
2016
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor
2016
The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics by Sean Wilentz
2016

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