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Obstinate Daughters by Denise Kiernan
Denise Kiernan
The Housewives Underground by Kaitlyn Tiffany
Kaitlyn Tiffany


From the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City and The Last Castle comes a sweeping chronicle challenging the traditional mythology of the nation’s beginnings and championing the unsung women behind the American Revolution.

The untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report — the official account of the Kennedy assassination. The Housewives Underground is a riveting history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great American century.

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The Rolling Stones
Bob Spitz
Here Where We Live Is Our Country
Molly Crabapple
Metropolitans
A.M. Gittlitz
We the Women
Norah O'Donnell and Kate Andersen Brower
American Struggle
Jon Meacham
The American Revolution
Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Injustice
Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis
The Look
Michelle Obama
1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
We Survived the Night
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Deadwood
Peter Cozzens
The Gods of New York
Jonathan Mahler
The Fort Bragg Cartel
Seth Harp
The Undiscovered Country
Paul Andrew Hutton
King of Kings
Scott Anderson
America’s Best Idea
Randall Balmer
2024
Josh Dawsey, Isaac Arnsdorf and Tyler Pager
A Marriage at Sea
Sophie Elmhirst
Murderland
Caroline Fraser
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Brothers of the Gun
Molly Crabapple and Marwan Hisham
Paris Undercover
Matthew Goodman
The Peepshow
Kate Summerscale
The Civil War
DK
What We Ask Google
Simon Rogers
Counterrevolution in Egypt
Hossam el-Hamalawy
The Successor
Mikhail Fishman
Vajont
Marco Armiero
The Iron Cage
Rashid Khalidi
The History of the USA Year by Year
DK
The American Revolution
DK
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Selling Opportunity
Mary Lisa Gavenas
After Nations
Rana Dasgupta
Bufalino
Charles Bufalino
When the World Sleeps
Francesca Albanese
The Rolling Stones
Bob Spitz
America, América
Greg Grandin
The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse
Vinh Nguyen
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The Bottom of the Harbor
Joseph Mitchell
Ike and Winston
Jonathan W. Jordan
American Rambler
Isaac Fitzgerald
American Patriarch
H. W. Brands
Tosquelles
Joana Maso
Control Science
Henry Snow
Burnout Market Feminism
Ling Tang
The Prophet Armed
Isaac Deutscher
The Impossible Factory
Josh Dean
The Almighty Dollar
Brendan Greeley
The Year God Died
James Lacey
Countdown 1960
Chris Wallace
East of Dreams
Nastassja Martin
The Radical Jewish Tradition
Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone
Sustainability Inverted
Jin Sato
Freedom of Speech
Christopher M. Finan
We Are the Answer
Timothy J. Heaphy
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
America’s Constitution
Akhil Reed Amar
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Award Winners

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Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
United States: Essays 1952-1992
Gore Vidal
Inventing America
Garry Wills
Negroland
Margo Jefferson
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Wallace Stevens
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis
The Black Count
Tom Reiss
The Passage of Power
Robert A. Caro
Liberty’s Exiles
Maya Jasanoff
George F. Kennan
John Lewis Gaddis
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
David Hoffman
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
The First Tycoon
T.J. Stiles
Passing Strange
Martha A. Sandweiss
Imperial
William T. Vollmann
Slavery by Another Name (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Douglas A. Blackmon
American Lion
Jon Meacham
The Forever War
Dexter Filkins
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