Grace Holmes Carlson |
The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson by Donna Haverty-Stacke |
Dec 29 |
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Frank J. Cannon |
Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel by Val Holley |
Dec 23 |
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Daili Lama |
His Holiness the Fourteenth Daili Lama by Tenzin Geyche Tethong |
Dec 23 |
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Hubert Harrison |
Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality by Jeffrey Perry |
Dec 22 |
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Sylvia Pankhurst |
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes |
Dec 15 |
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Pope Benedict |
Benedict XVI: The Biography: Volume One by Peter Seewald |
Dec 15 |
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James A. Baker III |
Texas Titans: George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker III: A Friendship Forged in Power by Charles Denyer |
Dec 15 |
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Eliza Pratt Greatorex |
Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex by Katherine Manthorne |
Dec 15 |
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Mozart |
Mozart: The Reign of Love by Jan Swafford |
Dec 8 |
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Robin Williams |
Robin William, American Master by Stephen Spignesi |
Dec 8 |
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Charles de Gaulle |
Charles de Gaulle: A Thorn in the Side of Six American Presidents by William Keylor |
Dec 7 |
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William & Oveta Hobby |
The Governor and the Colonel: A Dual Biography of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby by Don Carleton |
Dec 2 |
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René Magritte |
Magritte: A Life by Alexander Danchev |
Nov 30 |
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Tom Seaver |
Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life by Bill Madden |
Nov 24 |
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Henry Adams |
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by David S. Brown |
Nov 24 |
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General Custer |
Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer’s Life of Service and Lust for Fame by James Mueller |
Nov 19 |
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Adrienne Rich |
The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography by Hilary Holladay |
Nov 17 |
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John Glenn |
The Last American Hero: The Remarkable Life of John Glenn by Alice George |
Nov 10 |
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Raphael |
Raphael: The Life of a Genius by Anna Cerboni Baiardi |
Nov 3 |
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Ted Kennedy |
Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour by Neal Gabler |
Oct 27 |
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Sylvia Plath |
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark |
Oct 27 |
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Tecumseh |
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens |
Oct 27 |
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John Milton |
Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell |
Oct 27 |
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Mario Cuomo |
Mario Cuomo: The Myth and the Man by George Marlin
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Oct 23 |
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Queen of Versailles |
Queen of Versailles: Madame de Maintenon, First Lady of Louis XIV’s France by Mark Bryant |
Oct 22 |
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Malcolm X |
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les & Tamara Payne |
Oct 20 |
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Cary Grant |
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman |
Oct 20 |
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John Steinbeck |
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder |
Oct 13 |
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John McCain |
The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain by Mark Salter
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Oct 13 |
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Francis Bacon |
Francis Bacon: The Measure of Excess by Yves Peyre |
Oct 12 |
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James Beard |
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard by John Birdsall |
Oct 6 |
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Stalin |
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Suny |
Oct 6 |
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
Eleanor: A Life by David Michaelis |
Oct 6 |
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James Baker III |
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker |
Sept 29 |
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Herman Bavnick |
Bavnick: A Critical Biography by James Eglinton |
Sept 29 |
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Siegfried Kracauer |
Kracuer: A Biography by Jörg Später |
Sept 23 |
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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. |
The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War by Luke Nichter |
Sept 22 |
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William Faulkner |
The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962 (Vol 2) by Carl Rollyson |
Sept 22 |
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Malcolm McLaren |
The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman |
Sept 22 |
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Ernest Hemingway |
The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway by Richard Bradford |
Sept 8 |
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Beethoven |
Beethoven, A Life by John Caeyers (transl. by Brent Annable) |
Sept 8 |
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Rembrandt |
Young Rembrandt: A Biography by Onno Blom (transl. by Beverley Jackson) |
Sept 8 |
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Toussaint Louverture |
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh |
Sept 1 |
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Louis XIV |
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel |
Sept 1 |
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Hitler |
Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945 (Vol 2) by Volker Ulrich |
Sept 1 |
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Habsburg Family |
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady |
Aug 25 |
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John Lewis |
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham |
Aug 25 |
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Henry Kissinger |
Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography by Thomas Schwartz |
Aug 25 |
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Little Richard |
The Big Life of Little Richard by Mark Ribowsky |
Aug 25 |
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Timothy Findley |
Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley by Sherrill Grace |
Aug 25 |
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Zygmunt Bauman |
Bauman: A Biography by Izabela Wagner |
Aug 17 |
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Izzy Stone |
Izzy: A Biography of I.F. Stone by Robert Cottrell |
Aug 14 |
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Nathalie Sarraute |
Nathalie Surraute: A Life Between by Ann Jefferson |
Aug 11 |
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Charles Dickens |
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson |
Aug 14 |
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Margaret Beaufort |
Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors by Nicola Tallis |
July 28 |
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Butch Cassidy |
Butch Cassidy: The True Story by Charles Leehrsen |
July 14 |
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Coco Chanel |
Chanel: Her Life by Justine Picardie |
July 14 |
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Henry III |
Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule by David Carpenter |
July 14 |
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Joe McCarthy |
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye |
July 7 |
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Francis Poulenc |
Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols |
June 9 |
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Henry Longfellow |
Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas Basbanes |
June 2 |
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Wm Sherman |
The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Brian Holden Reid |
June 1 |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires by Sara Cockerill |
June 1 |
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Sam Colt |
Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter that Changed America by Jim Rasenberger |
May 26 |
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John Maynard Keynes |
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary Carter |
May 19 |
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William Wordsworth |
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate |
May 19 |
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James Longstreet
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The Confederacy’s Most Modern General: James Longstreet and the American Civil War by Harold Knudsen |
May 15 |
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Jerry Brown
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Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown by Jim Newton |
May 12 |
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Pauli Murray |
Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life by Troy Saxby |
May 11 |
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Nat King Cole
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole by Will Friewald |
May 1 |
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John Roebling
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Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling by Richard Haw |
May 1 |
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Henry Kissinger |
The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World by Barry Gewen |
Apr 28 |
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Andy Warhol |
Warhol by Blake Gopnik |
Apr 28 |
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Yogi Berra |
Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask by Jon Pessah |
Apr 14 |
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Doris Duke |
The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke by Sallie Bingham |
Apr 7 |
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David I |
David I: King of Scots, 1124-1153 by Richard Oram |
Apr 6 |
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Beethoven |
From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings by Jeremy Yudkin |
Mar 24 |
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Gunzberg family
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The Gunzbergs: A Family Biography by Lorraine de Meaux |
Mar 24 |
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William Faulkner |
The Life of William Faulkner: The Past is Never Dead, 1897-1934 by Carl Rollyson |
Mar 24 |
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Robert Stone |
Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone by Madison Smartt Bell |
Mar 17 |
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Henry VIII |
Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson |
Mar 3 |
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Joe Louis |
Joe Louis: The Rise and Fall of the Brown Bomber by Thomas Myler |
Mar 1 |
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Piero di Lorenzo de Medici |
Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy by Alison Brown |
Feb 27 |
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Dalai Lama |
The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life by Alexander Norman |
Feb 25 |
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Dave Brubeck |
Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time by Philip Clark |
Feb 18 |
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Ben Franklin |
Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership by Edward Larson |
Feb 11 |
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George Orwell |
Becoming George Orwell by John Rodden |
Feb 4 |
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Calamity Jane |
Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane by Karen R. Jones |
Feb 4 |
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Karl Lagerfeld |
Kaiser Karl: The Life of Karl Lagerfeld by Raphaella Bacque |
Feb 1 |
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Josef Mengele |
Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death” by David Marwell |
Jan 28 |
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Dante |
Dante by John Took |
Jan 28 |
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John Fremont |
Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War by Steve Inskeep |
Jan 14 |
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There is a new bio on John Marshall by Joel Richard Paul: Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times. I am not sure if it will supplant Baker or Smith though.