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| Langley, Monica | Tearing Down the Walls |
| Lapham, Lewis | The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay |
| Laqueur, Walter | The Long Road to Freedom: Russia & Glasnost |
| Lardner, James | Crusader: The Hell-Raising Police Career of Detective David Durk |
| Larson, Edward | Summer for the Gods |
| Larson, Erik | The Devil in the White City |
| Laurence, John | The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story |
| Lawson, Dorie McCullough | Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children |
| Lax, Eric | The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle |
| Lazarus, Edward | Closed Chambers |
| Least Heat-Moon, William | River-Horse: A Voyage Across America |
| Leckie, Robert | Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II |
| Lefever, Ernest | The Irony of Virtue: Ethics and American Power |
| Lemann, Nick | The Promised Land |
| Leo, John | Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police |
| Leonard, John | Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures |
| Lesher, Stephen | George Wallace: American Populist |
| Levin, Phyllis Lee | Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House |
| Lewis, Anthony | Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment |
| Lewis, Bernard | What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response |
| Lewis, Charles | The Buying of the Congress |
| Lewis, David Levering | W.E.B. DuBois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
| Lewis, John | Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement |
| Lin, Maya | Boundaries |
| Lingeman, Richard | Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet |
| Lipset, Seymour Martin | American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword |
| Lipsky, David | Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point |
| Loewen, James | Lies My Teacher Told Me |
| Loury, Glenn | The Anatomy of Racial Inequality |
| Lowry, Rich | Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years |
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