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Five Books On The American Dream

The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation.
- Cullen, Jim.
The New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?
- Wysong, Earl, Robert Perrucci, and David Wright.
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.
- Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes.
- Rank, Mark R.
Vachel Lindsay: Fieldworker for the American Dream.
- Massa, Ann.

Five Books On Concussions

Concussion.
- Laskas, Jeanne Marie.
League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth.
- Fainaru-Wada, Mark and Steve Fainaru.
Concussions and Our Kids: America’s Leading Expert on How to Protect Young Athletes and Keep Sports Safe.
- Cantu, Robert C. and Mark Hyman.
Any Given Monday: Sports Injuries and How to Prevent Them, For Athletes, Parents, and Coaches: Based on My Life in Sports Medicine.
- Andrews, James R. with Don Yaeger.
The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back.
- Elliott, Clark.

Five Books On Bill of Rights

The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins.
- Cogan, Neil H., ed.
The Bill of Rights: Government Proscribed.
- Hoffman, Ronald and Peter J. Albert, eds.
The Bill of Rights: Original Meaning and Current Understanding.
- Hickok, Jr., Eugene W.
The Bill of Rights: A Documentary History.
- Schwartz, Bernard.
From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constitution.
- Goldwin, Robert A.

Five Books On Early Accounts of Yellowstone

The Discovery of Yellowstone Park; Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870.
- Langford, Nathaniel Pitt.
Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition.
- Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed.
A Trip to the Yellowstone National Park in July, August, and September, 1875.
- Strong, William Emerson.
Ho! For Wonderland: Travelers’ Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914.
- Whittlesey, Lee H. and Elizabeth A. Watry, eds.
Camping and Tramping with President Roosevelt.
- Burroughs, John.

Five Books On Monuments and Memory

Commemoration in America: Essays of Monuments, memorialization, and Memory.
- Gobel, David and Daves Rossell.
Confederate Symbols in the Contemporary South.
- Martinez, J. Michael, William D. Richards, and Ron McNinch-Su, eds.
Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation.
- Neff, John R.
Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914.
- Blair, William Alan.
What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South.
- Baker, Bruce E.

Five Books On a Specific Year

1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation.
- Marshall, Peter.
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.
- Mann, Charles C.
1916: A Global History.
- Emmerson, Charles.
1916: A Global History.
- Jeffery, Keith.
1946: The Making of the Modern World.
- Sebestyen, Victor.

Five Books On Truman and Civil Rights

Harry Truman and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
- Shogan, Robert..
Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks
- Gardner, Michael R.
Freedom to Serve: Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981.
- Taylor, Jon E.
The Politics of Civil Rights in the Truman Administration.
- Berman, William C.
American Civil Rights Policy from Truman to Clinton: The Role of Presidential Leadership.
- Hull, Steven A.

Five Books On The Cleveland Indians

Bob Feller: Ace of the Greatest Generation.
- Sickels, John.
Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby.
- Moore, Joseph Thomas.
Indian Summer: The Forgotten Story of Louis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League Baseball.
- McDonald, Brian.
Lou Boudreau: Covering All Bases.
- Boudreau, Lou.
Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend.
- Guy, Timothy M.

Five Books On The Mexican-American War

The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War.
- Guardino, Peter.
The View from Chapultepec: Mexican Writers on the Mexican-American War.
- Robinson, Cecil, ed.
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico.
- Greenberg, Amy S.
Invading Mexico: America’s Continental Dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848.
- Wheelan, Joseph.
So Far From God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848.
- Eisenhower, John S. D.

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