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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty Medsger
Vintage Books
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9780804173667
2014
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty Medsger
Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Hardcover
9780307962959
2014
$29.95
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Afghanistan - Aid, Armies and Empires
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Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context
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The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
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Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World
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Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War (American Culture, Vol 6)
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