Robert B. Downs's Books that Changed America

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Books selected by Robert B. Downs for his "Books that Changed America" (https://www.librarything.com/work/2603165).
1
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
6,080 members
71 reviews
3.9
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
by Joseph Smith
8,199 members
100 reviews
3.2
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Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
1,261 members
8 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
by O W Holmes
5 members
1 review
3
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8
Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
1,899 members
33 reviews
3.8
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9
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19,713 members
209 reviews
3.8
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10
Looking Backward, 2000-1887
by Edward Bellamy
3,412 members
65 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
by A. T. Mahan
839 members
7 reviews
3.8
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12
The Shame of the Cities
by Lincoln Steffens
140 members
1 review
4
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13
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
13,348 members
147 reviews
3.8
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14
Medical education in the United States and Canada
by Abraham Flexner
26 members
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15
Twenty Years at Hull-House
by Jane Addams
916 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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