Jahr |
Preisträger |
Titel |
Deutscher Titel
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1950
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Ralph L. Rusk
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1951
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Newton Arvin
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Herman Melville
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1952
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Rachel Carson
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The Sea Around Us
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Geheimnisse des Meeres
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1953
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Bernard A. DeVoto
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The Course of Empire
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1954
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Bruce Catton
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A Stillness at Appomattox
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1955
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Joseph Wood Krutch
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The Measure of Man
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1956
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Herbert Kubly
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An American in Italy
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1957
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George F. Kennan
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Russia Leaves the War
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1958
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
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The Lion and the Throne
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1959
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J. Christopher Herold
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
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Madame de Stae͏̈l
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1960
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Richard Ellmann
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James Joyce
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James Joyce
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1961
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William L. Shirer
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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Aufstieg und Fall des Dritten Reiches
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1962
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Lewis Mumford
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The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects
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Die Stadt
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1963
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Leon Edel
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Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London
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Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years
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1964
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Aileen Ward (Arts and Letters)
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John Keats: The Making of a Poet
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William H. McNeill (History and Biography)
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The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
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Christopher Tunnard (Science, Philosophy and Religion)
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Man-made America
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Boris Pushkarev (Science, Philosophy and Religion)
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1965
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Eleanor Clark (Arts and Letters)
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The Oysters of Locmariaquer
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Louis Fischer (History and Biography)
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The Life of Lenin
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Das Leben Lenins
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Norbert Wiener (Science, Philosophy and Religion)
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God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
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Gott & Golem, Inc.
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1966
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Janet Flanner (Arts and Letters)
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Paris Journal, 1944–1965
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Pariser Tagebuch: 1945–1965
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (History and Biography)
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A Thousand Days
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Die tausend Tage Kennedys
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1967
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Justin Kaplan (Arts and Letters)
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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
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Peter Gay (History and Biography)
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The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism
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Oscar Lewis (Science, Philosophy and Religion)
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La Vida
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La vida
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1968
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William Troy (Arts and Letters)
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Selected Essays
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George F. Kennan (History and Biography)
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Memoirs: 1925–1950
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Memoiren eines Diplomaten
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Jonathan Kozol (Science, Philosophy and Religion)
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Death at an Early Age
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1969
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Norman Mailer (Arts and Letters)
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
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Heere aus der Nacht
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Winthrop D. Jordan (History and Biography)
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White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812
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Robert J. Lifton (The Sciences)
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Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
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1970
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Lillian Hellman (Arts and Letters)
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An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
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Eine unfertige Frau
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T. Harry Williams (History and Biography)
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Huey Long
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Erik H. Erikson (Philosophy and Religion)
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Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
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Gandhis Wahrheit
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1971
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Francis Steegmuller (Arts and Letters)
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Cocteau: A Biography
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James MacGregor Burns (History and Biography)
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Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
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Raymond Phineas Stearns (The Sciences)
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Science in the British Colonies of America
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1972
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Charles Rosen (Arts and Letters)
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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
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Der klassische Stil
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Joseph P. Lash (Biography)
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Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers
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Stewart Brand (Contemporary Affairs)
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The Last Whole Earth Catalogue
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Allan Nevins (History)
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Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863–1864 and The Organized War to Victory
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Martin E. Marty (Philosophy and Religion)
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Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
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George L. Small (The Sciences)
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The Blue Whale
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1973
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Arthur M. Wilson (Arts and Letters)
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Diderot
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James Thomas Flexner (Biography)
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George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799
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Frances FitzGerald (Contemporary Affairs)
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
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Robert Manson Myers (History)
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The Children of Pride
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Isaiah Trunk (History)
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Judenrat
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Sydney E. Ahlstrom (Philosophy and Religion)
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A Religious History of the American People
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George B. Schaller (The Sciences)
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The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations
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1974
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Pauline Kael (Arts and Letters)
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Deeper into the Movies
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John Leonard Clive (Biography/History)
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Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
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Douglas Day (Biography)
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Malcolm Lowry: A Biography
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Murray Kempton (Contemporary Affairs)
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The Briar Patch
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Maurice Natanson (Philosophy and Religion)
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Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks
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S. E. Luria (The Sciences)
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The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations
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Leben, das unvollendete Experiment
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1975
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Roger Shattuck (Arts and Letters)
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Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
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Lewis Thomas (Arts and Letters/The Sciences)
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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Das Leben überlebt
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Theodore Rosengarten (Contemporary Affairs)
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All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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Bernard Bailyn (History)
|
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
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Robert Nozick (Philosophy and Religion)
|
Anarchy, State and Utopia
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Anarchie, Staat, Utopia
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Silvano Arieti (The Sciences)
|
Interpretation of Schizophrenia
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1976
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Paul Fussell (Arts and Letters)
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The Great War and Modern Memory
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Michael J. Arlen (Contemporary Affairs)
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Passage to Ararat
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David Brion Davis (History and Biography)
|
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823
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1977
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W. A. Swanberg (Biography and Autobiography)
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The Last Idealist
|
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Bruno Bettelheim (Contemporary Thought)
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
|
Kinder brauchen Märchen
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Irving Howe (History)
|
World of Our Fathers
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1978
|
W. Jackson Bate (Biography and Autobiography)
|
Samuel Johnson
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Gloria Emerson (Contemporary Thought)
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Winners & Losers
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David McCullough (History)
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914
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Sie teilten die Erde
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1979
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (Biography and Autobiography)
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Robert Kennedy and His Times
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Peter Matthiessen (Contemporary Thought)
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The Snow Leopard
|
Auf der Spur des Schneeleoparden
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Richard Beale Davis (History)
|
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763
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1980
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Lauren Bacall (Autobiography, Hardcover)
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Lauren Bacall by Myself
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Mein Leben
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Malcolm Cowley (Autobiography, Paperback)
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And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978
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Edmund Morris (Biography, Hardcover)
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
|
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A. Scott Berg (Biography, Paperback)
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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
|
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Julia Child (Current Interest, Hardcover)
|
Julia Child and More Company
|
|
Christopher Lasch (Current Interest, Paperback)
|
The Culture of Narcissism
|
Das Zeitalter des Narzissmus
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Tom Wolfe (General Nonfiction, Hardcover)
|
The Right Stuff
|
Die Helden der Nation
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Peter Matthiessen (General Nonfiction, Paperback)
|
The Snow Leopard
|
Auf der Spur des Schneeleoparden
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Elder Witt (General Reference Books, Hardcover)
|
The Complete Directory
|
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Tim Brooks (General Reference Books, Paperback)
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The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present
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Earle Marsh (General Reference Books, Paperback)
|
Henry A. Kissinger (History, Hardcover)
|
The White House Years
|
Memoiren
|
Barbara W. Tuchman (History, Paperback)
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
|
Der ferne Spiegel
|
Elaine Pagels (Religion/Inspiration, Hardcover)
|
The Gnostic Gospels
|
Versuchung durch Erkenntnis
|
Sheldon Vanauken (Religion/Inspiration, Paperback)
|
A Severe Mercy
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Eine harte Gnade / Und wenn es doch wahr wäre?
|
Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science, Hardcover)
|
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Gödel, Escher, Bach – ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band
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Gary Zukav (Science, Paperback)
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The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
|
Die tanzenden Wu-li-Meister
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1981
|
Justin Kaplan (Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover)
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Walt Whitman
|
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Deirdre Bair (Autobiography/Biography, Paperback)
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Samuel Beckett
|
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Maxine Hong Kingston (General Nonfiction, Hardcover)
|
China Men
|
Die Söhne des Himmels
|
Jane Kramer (General Nonfiction, Paperback)
|
The Last Cowboy
|
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John Boswell (History, Hardcover)
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Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
|
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Leon F. Litwak (History, Paperback)
|
Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
|
|
Stephen Jay Gould (Science, Hardcover)
|
The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History
|
Der Daumen des Panda
|
Lewis Thomas (Science, Paperback)
|
The Medusa and the Snail
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Die Meduse und die Schnecke
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1982
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David McCullough (Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover)
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Mornings on Horseback
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Ronald Steel (Autobiography/Biography, Paperback)
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Walter Lippmann and the American Century
|
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Tracy Kidder (General Nonfiction, Hardcover)
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The Soul of a New Machine
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Die Seele einer neuen Maschine
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Victor S. Navasky (General Nonfiction, Paperback)
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Naming Names
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Father Peter John Powell (History, Hardcover)
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People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879
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Robert Wohl (History, Paperback)
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The Generation of 1914
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Donald C. Johanson (Science, Hardcover)
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The Beginnings of Humankind
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Maitland A. Edey (Science, Hardcover)
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Fred Alan Wolf (Science, Paperback)
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Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
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Der Quantensprung ist keine Hexerei
|
1983
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Judith Thurman (Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover)
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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
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Tania Blixen. Ihr Leben und Werk
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James R. Mellow (Autobiography/Biography, Paperback)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times
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Fox Butterfield (General Nonfiction, Hardcover)
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China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
|
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James Fallows (General Nonfiction, Paperback)
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National Defense
|
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Alan Brinkley (History, Hardcover)
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
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Frank E. Manuel (History, Paperback)
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Utopian Thought in the Western World
|
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Fritzie P. Manuel (History, Paperback)
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Lisa Goldstein (Original Paperback)
|
The Red Magician
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Der Rabbi und der Magier
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Abraham Pais (Science, Hardcover)
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“Subtle is the Lord…”: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
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„Raffiniert ist der Herrgott …“
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Philip J. Davis (Science, Paperback)
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The Mathematical Experience
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Erfahrung Mathematik
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Reuben Hersh (Science, Paperback)
|
1984
|
Robert V. Remini
|
Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845
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1985
|
J. Anthony Lukas
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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1986
|
Barry Lopez
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Arctic Dreams
|
Arktische Träume
|
1987
|
Richard Rhode
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The Making of the Atom Bomb
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1988
|
Neil Sheehan
|
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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Die große Lüge: John Paul Vann und Amerika in Vietnam
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1989
|
Thomas L. Friedman
|
From Beirut to Jerusalem
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Von Beirut nach Jerusalem
|
1990
|
Ron Chernow
|
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
|
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1991
|
Orlando Patterson
|
Freedom
|
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1992
|
Paul Monette
|
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
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Coming Out
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1993
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Gore Vidal
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United States: Essays 1952–1992
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1994
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Sherwin B. Nuland
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How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter
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Wie wir sterben
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1995
|
Tina Rosenberg
|
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism
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Die Rache der Geschichte
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1996
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James Carroll
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An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
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1997
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Joseph J. Ellis
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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1998
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Edward Ball
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Slaves in the Family
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Die Plantagen am Cooper River
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1999
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John W. Dower
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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2000
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Nathaniel Philbrick
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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Im Herzen der See
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2001
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Andrew Solomon
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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Saturns Schatten
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2002
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Robert A. Caro
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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2003
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Carlos Eire
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
|
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2004
|
Kevin Boyle
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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2005
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Joan Didion
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Das Jahr magischen Denkens
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2006
|
Timothy Egan
|
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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2007
|
Tim Weiner
|
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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CIA: Die ganze Geschichte
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2008
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Annette Gordon-Reed
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
|
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2009
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T. J. Stiles
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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2010
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Patti Smith
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Just Kids
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Just Kids
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2011
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Stephen Greenblatt
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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Die Wende
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2012
|
Katherine Boo
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Annawadi oder Der Traum von einem anderen Leben / Slum
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2013
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George Packer
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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Die Abwicklung
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2014
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Evan Osnos
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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Große Ambitionen
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2015
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Between the World and Me
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Zwischen mir und der Welt
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2016
|
Ibram X. Kendi
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Gebrandmarkt
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2017
|
Masha Gessen
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The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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Die Zukunft ist Geschichte
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2018
|
Jeffrey C. Stewart
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
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2019
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Sarah M. Broom
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The Yellow House
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Das gelbe Haus: Leben und Überleben einer Familie in New Orleans
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2020
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Les Payne, Tamara Payne
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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2021
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Tiya Miles
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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2022
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Imani Perry
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon To Understand the Soul of a Nation
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2023
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Ned Blackhawk
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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