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| Rabinowitz, Dorothy | No Crueler Tyrannies |
| Raines, Howell | Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis |
| Rakove, Jack | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution |
| Randall, Willard Sterne | Thomas Jefferson: A Life |
| Randolph, Eleanor | Waking the Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia |
| Rather, Dan | Deadlines & Datelines: Essays at the Turn of the Century |
| Rauchway , Eric | Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America |
| Ravitch, Diane | Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms |
| Raviv, Dan | Every Spy a Prince |
| Ray, Dixy Lee | Trashing the Planet |
| Reardon, Carol | Pickett's Charge in History & Memory |
| Reed, Roy | Faubus: The Life and Times of An American Prodigal |
| Reeves, Richard | President Kennedy: Profile of Power |
| Rehnquist, William | Grand Inquests |
| Reich, Robert | The Work of Nations: 21st Century Capitalism |
| Reid, T.R. | Confucius Lives Next Door |
| Remini, Robert | Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union |
| Remnick, David | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire |
| Reston Jr., James | The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally |
| Reston, James | Deadline: A Memoir |
| Reynolds, David | Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography |
| Rhodes, Richard | Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer |
| Rich, Frank | Ghost Light: A Memoir |
| Richardson, Jr., Robert D. | Emerson: The Mind on Fire |
| Richburg, Keith | Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa |
| Ritchie, Donald | Press Gallery |
| Roberts, Andrew | Napoleon & Wellington |
| Roberts, Sam | Who We Are: A Portrait of America |
| Robertson, Nan | The Girls in the Balcony |
| Robinson, Eugene | Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race |
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