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• Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (1966)
• The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (1967)
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• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (1974)
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• On Human Nature by E. O. Wilson (1979)
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• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999)
• Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)

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• "A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power (2003)
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• Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (2005)
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