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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Patricia Evangelista
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
Joya Chatterji
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign
Jonathan Allen
Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life
Tiffany Jenkins
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Jeffrey A. Lieberman
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild



























































