| Queen Eliz II |
Queen of the World by Robert Hardman |
Dec 25 |
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| Alexander the Great |
Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great by F. S. Naiden |
Dec 13 |
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| Daniel Morgan |
Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life by Albert Zambone |
Dec 12 |
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| Rock Hudson |
All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson by Mark Griffin |
Dec 4 |
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| Napoleon |
The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonapart by Susan Jaques |
Dec 4 |
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| John Lennon |
Being John Lennon: A Restless Life by Ray Connolly |
Nov 27 |
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| Winston Churchill |
Churchill by Andrew Roberts |
Nov 27 |
Third party reviews |
| Che Guevara |
Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson |
Nov 13 |
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| Al Gore, Sr. |
Albert Gore, Sr.: A Political Life by Anthony Badger |
Nov 13 |
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| John Marshall |
John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court by Richard Brookhiser |
Nov 13 |
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| Clay, Webster, Calhoun |
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster by H.W. Brands |
Nov 13 |
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| William Penn |
William Penn: A Life by Andrew Murphy |
Nov 8 |
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| Saul Below |
The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife by Zachary Leader |
Nov 6 |
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| Thomas Cromwell |
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Oct 30 |
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| Eric Clapton |
Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton by Philip Norman |
Oct 30 |
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| Nietzsche |
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideax |
Oct 30 |
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| Johnny Cash |
Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black by Alan Light |
Oct 30 |
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| Debussy |
Debussy: A Painter in Sound by Stephen Walsh |
Oct 23 |
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron de Hart |
Oct 16 |
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| Chopin |
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times by Dr. Alan Walker |
Oct 16 |
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| Babe Ruth |
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy |
Oct 16 |
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| Napoleon |
Napoleon: A Life by Adam Zamoyski |
Oct 16 |
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| Frederick Douglass |
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight |
Oct 16 |
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| Picasso |
Picasso: An Intimate Portrait by Olivier Widmaier Picasso |
Oct 16 |
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| Oscar Wilde |
Oscar: A Biography by Matthew Sturgis |
Oct 4 |
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| Thelonious Monk |
Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution by Youssef Daoudi |
Sept 25 |
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| Eliza Hamilton |
Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton by Tilar J. Mazzeo |
Sept 18 |
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| Wendell Willkie |
The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country by David Levering Lewis |
Sept 18 |
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| Benjamin Franklin |
Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity by Nick Bunker |
Sept 18 |
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| Schumann |
Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Judith Chernalk |
Sept 18 |
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| Betty Ford |
Betty Ford: First Lady, Women’s Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer by Lisa McCubbin |
Sept 11 |
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| Adam Smith |
Adam Smith: Father of Economics by Jesse Norman |
Sept 11 |
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| Benjamin Rsh |
Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation by Harlow Unger |
Sept 11 |
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| Benjamin Rush |
Rush, Revolution, Madness and Benjamin Rush: The Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried |
Sept 4 |
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| Fred Rogers |
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King |
Sept 4 |
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| Hubert Humphrey |
Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country by Arnold Offner |
Aug 21 |
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| Arthur Ashe |
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault |
Aug 21 |
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| Marilyn Monroe |
Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon by Charles Casillo |
Aug 14 |
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| Charles de Gaulle |
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson |
Aug 13 |
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| Albert Gallatin |
Jefferson’s Genius: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation From Debt by Gregory May |
Aug 7 |
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| Julius Caesar |
Julius Caesar: A Life by Patrician Southern |
Aug 1 |
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| Henry Clay |
Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President by James Klotter |
Aug 1 |
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| Nikola Tesla |
Prodigal Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla by John O’Neill |
July 26 |
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| J.R.R. Tolkien |
Tolkein: Maker of Middle Earth by Catherine McIlwaine |
July 15 |
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| Errol Flynn |
Errol Flynn: An Epic Life by Kevin McAleer |
July 9 |
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| George Custer |
Custer: The Making of a Young General by Edward Longacre |
July 3 |
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| Verdi |
Verdi: The Man Revealed by John Suchet |
July 3 |
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| Richard I |
Richard the Lionheart: The Crusader King of England by W B Bartlett |
July 1 |
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| Oscar Wilde |
Making Oscar Wilde by Michele Mendelssohn |
July 1 |
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| Mary Shelley |
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson |
June 5 |
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| Bruce Lee |
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly |
June 5 |
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| Queen Eliz I |
Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Jane Dismore |
June 1 |
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| Napoleon III |
The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III by Alan Strauss-Schom |
May 28 |
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| William Allen White |
Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White by Charles Delgadillo |
May 25 |
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| Harvey Milk |
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman |
May 22 |
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| Warren Spahn |
Warren Spahn: A Biography of the Legendary Lefty by Lew Freedman |
May 22 |
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| Robin Williams |
Robin by Dave Itzkoff |
May 15 |
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| Paul Simon |
Paul Simon: The Life by Robert Hilburn |
May 8 |
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| Benedict Arnold |
The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life by Joyce Lee Malcolm |
May 1 |
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| Karl Marx |
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx by Sven-Eric Liedman |
May 1 |
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| Richard III |
Richard III: England’s Most Controversial King by Chris Skidmore |
Apr 24 |
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| Giuliano de Medici |
Giuliano de’ Medici: Machiavelli’s Prince in Life and Art by Josephine Jungic |
Apr 13 |
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| Francis I |
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda |
Apr 10 |
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| John Wilkes Booth |
John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him by E. Lawrence Abel |
Apr 9 |
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| Barry White |
White Music: The Barry White Story by Tom Rubython |
Apr 7 |
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| Napoleon |
Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810 (Vol 2) by Michael Broers |
Apr 3 |
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| Eunice Kennedy |
Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World by Eileen McNamara |
Apr 3 |
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| Jim Wright |
Speaker Jim Wright: Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics by J. Brooks Flippen |
Apr 1 |
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| Anne Boleyn |
Anne Boleyn: Adultery, Heresy, Desire by Amy Licence |
Apr 1 |
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| Mark Twain |
The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years (Vol 1) by Gary Scharnhorst |
Mar 30 |
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| Tiger Woods |
Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict |
Mar 27 |
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| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist by Justin Vaisse |
Mar 26 |
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| Meriwether Lewis |
Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis by Patricia Tyson Stroud |
Mar 23 |
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| Agatha Christie |
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson |
Mar 6 |
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| Apostle Paul |
Paul: A Biography by N. T. Wright |
Feb 27 |
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| Billy Graham |
A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story by William Martin |
Feb 20 |
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| John Marshall |
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times by Joel Richard Paul |
Feb 20 |
Third party reviews |
| Frederick Douglass |
Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet by D H Dilbeck |
Feb 14 |
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| Princess Margaret |
Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts by Christopher Warwick |
Feb 6 |
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| Kirk Kerkorian |
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Dealmaker in Capitalist History by William Rempel |
Jan 23 |
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| Henry III |
Henry III: The Great King England Never Knew It Had by Darren Baker |
Jan 1 |
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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.
For what it is worth:
Andrew Roberts will be releasing a new bio on Winston Churchill in the US early next month. (The UK is already enjoying it.)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/284/284916/churchill/9780241205631.html
Strike this. I see it in the Upcoming Section!