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Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History

by John Patrick Diggins

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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri

The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by Adam Smith

Adam Bede
by George Eliot

Hitler
by Joachim Fest

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by John Grigg

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