8 books recommended by Joe Biden 

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

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JFK by Fredrik Logevall

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Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden

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Evicted by Matthew Desmond

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Supreme Inequality by Adam Cohen

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley

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Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

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