| Mark Twain |
The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years (Vol 1) by Gary Scharnhorst |
Mar 30 |
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| Meriwether Lewis |
Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict |
Mar 28 |
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| Tiger Woods |
Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict |
Mar 27 |
New Release Alert |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist by Justin Vaisse |
Mar 26 |
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| Agatha Christie |
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson |
Mar 6 |
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| Billy Graham |
A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story by William Martin |
Feb 20 |
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| Sadiq Khan |
Sadiq Khan: A Biography by George Eaton |
Feb 20 |
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| John Marshall |
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times by Joel Richard Paul |
Feb 20 |
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| 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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| Aaron Hernandez |
All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez by James Patterson |
Jan 29 |
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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, 2018 |
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| Charles Darwin |
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker by A. N. Wilson |
Dec 12, 2017 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Masaji Ishikawa |
A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa |
Dec 1 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser |
Nov 21 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Omar Bradley |
Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General by Steven Ossad |
Nov 19 |
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| Claire L’Heureux-Dube |
Claire L’Heureux-Dube: A Life by Constance Backhouse |
Nov 11 |
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| Lenin |
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen |
Nov 7 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Renoir |
Renoir: An Intimate Biography by Barbara White |
Nov 7 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Richard Henry Lee |
First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call for Independence by Harlow Unger |
Nov 7 |
3rd-party reviews |
| RFK |
Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews |
Oct 31 |
3rd-party reviews |
| George Michael |
Careless Whispers: The Life & Career of George Michael by Robert Steele |
Oct 19 |
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| Leonardo da Vinci |
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson |
Oct 17 |
New Release Alert |
| James Wright |
James Wright: A Life in Poetry by Jonathan Blunk |
Oct 17 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Arthur Vandenberg |
Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century by Hendrik Meijer |
Oct 16 |
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| Al Hirschfeld |
Al Hirschfeld: The Biography by Ellen Stern |
Oct 10 |
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| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian by Richard Aldous |
Oct 10 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Lou Reed |
Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis |
Oct 10 |
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| Khrushchev |
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman |
Oct 5 |
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| Muhammad Ali |
Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig |
Oct 3 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Martin Luther |
Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas |
Oct 3 |
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| Harry Houdini |
Houdini: The Life and Times of the World’s Greatest Magician by Charlotte Montague |
Sept 26 |
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| Gandhi |
Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography by Pramod Kapoor |
Sept 19 |
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| Stan Lee |
Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel by Bob Batchelor |
Sept 15 |
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| George Romney |
George Romney: An American Life by Patrick Foster |
Sept 15 |
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| David Bowie |
David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones |
Sept 12 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Gorbachev |
Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman |
Sept 7 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Newt Gingrich |
Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative by Craig Shirley |
Aug 29 |
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| Al Green |
Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green by Jimmy McDonough |
Aug 29 |
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| Winston Churchill |
Churchill the Young Warrior by John Harte |
Aug 22 |
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| Edwin Stanton |
Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary by Walter Stahr |
Aug 8 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Mozart |
Mozart: The Man Revealed by John Suchet |
Aug 8 |
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| Hannibal |
Hannibal by Patrick Hunt |
Jul 11 |
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| Jane Austen |
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley |
Jul 11 |
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| Isaac Newton |
Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton by Rob Lliffe |
Jul 10 |
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| Thoreau |
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls |
Jul 7 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Martin Luther |
Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval by Heinz Schilling |
Jul 1 |
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| Washington Roebling |
Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, the Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Erica Wagner |
Jun 27 |
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| Barack Obama |
Obama: The Call of History by Peter Baker |
Jun 27 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Toscanini |
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience by Harvey Sachs |
Jun 27 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Marlene Dietrich |
Marlene Dietrich: The Life by Maria Riva |
Jun 6 |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by David Brown |
May 22 |
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| Ernest Hemingway |
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary Dearborn |
May 16 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Otis Redding |
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life by Jonathan Gould |
May 16 |
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| Goethe |
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by Rüdiger Safranski |
May 16 |
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| Joe DiMaggio |
Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero by Rock Positano |
May 9 |
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| Wm F Buckley Jr |
A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. by Alvin Felzenberg |
May 2 |
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| Edward IV |
The Private Life of Edward IV by John Ashdown-Hill |
May 1 |
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| Henry VIII |
Henry VIII: The Son of Magna Carta by Matthew Lewis |
May 1 |
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| Hitler |
Hitler: The Man Behind the Monster by Michael Kerrigan |
May 1 |
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| Czeslaw Milosz |
Milosz: A Biography by Andrjez Franaszek |
Apr 24 |
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| Ernest Hemingway |
Hemingway’s Brain by Andrew Farah |
Apr 18 |
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| Robert Frost |
Life of Robert Frost by Henry Hart |
Apr 17 |
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| Prince Charles |
Prince Charles: Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life by Sally Bedell Smith |
Apr 4 |
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| Casey Stengel |
Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character by Marty Appel |
Mar 28 |
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Becoming Leonardo: An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Mike Lankford |
Mar 28 |
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| Leo Durocher |
Leo Durocher: Baseball’s Prodigal Son by Paul Dickson |
Mar 21 |
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| Elvis Presley |
Being Elvis: A Lonely Life by Ray Connolly |
Mar 21 |
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Dean Acheson
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Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power by Michael Hopkins |
Mar 17 |
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| Charlton Heston |
Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon by Marc Eliot |
Mar 14 |
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| Martin Luther |
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper |
Mar 14 |
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| Yitzhak Rabin |
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich |
Mar 5 |
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| Margaret Thatcher |
Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy by David Cannadine |
Mar 1 |
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| Jonathan Swift |
Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel by John Stubbs |
Feb 28 |
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| Hermann Rorschach |
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing by Damion Searls |
Feb 21 |
Release Alert |
| William Faulkner |
William Faulker: A Life Through Novels by Andre Bleikasten |
Feb 13 |
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| Dean Smith |
Dean Smith: A Basketball Life by Jeff Davis |
Feb 7 |
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| Eva Peron |
Evita: The Life of Eva Peron by Jill Hedges |
Jan 30 |
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| Montaigne |
Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan |
Jan 24 |
Release Alert |
| Albert Schweitzer |
Albert Schweitzer: A Biography by Nils Ole Oermann |
Jan 24 |
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| Thoreau |
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau by Kevin Dann |
Jan 3 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Mario Cuomo |
Mario Cuomo: Remembrances of a Remarkable Man by William O’Shaughnessy |
Jan 2 |
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| Prince |
Prince: Purple Reign by Mick Wall |
Dec 27, 2016 |
Release Alert |
| David Bowie |
The Golden Years: David Bowie by Roger Griffin |
Dec 20 |
Release Alert |
| George Lucas |
George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones |
Dec 6 |
Release Alert |
| Rasputin |
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith |
Nov 22 |
Release Alert |
| Queen Victoria |
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird |
Nov 22 |
Release Alert |
| Alexander Hamilton |
Alexander Hamilton: The Illustrated Biography by Richard Sylla |
Nov 15 |
Release Alert |
| Freud |
Freud: In His Time and Ours by Elisabeth Roudinesco |
Nov 7 |
Release Alert |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After (1939-1962) (Volume 3) by Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Nov 1 |
Release Alert |
| Peter O’Toole |
Peter O’Toole: The Definitive Biography by Robert Sellers |
Nov 1 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Bach |
Bach: A Musical Biography by Peter Williams |
Oct 31 |
Release Alert |
| Brett Favre |
Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre by Jeff Pearlman |
Oct 25 |
Release Alert |
| Al Capone |
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy and Legend by Deirdre Bair |
Oct 25 |
Release Alert |
| Einstein |
Einstein’s Greatest Mistake: A Biography by David Bodanis |
Oct 18 |
Release Alert |
| Enrico Fermi |
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segre |
Oct 18 |
Release Alert |
| Edith Wilson |
Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson by William Hazelgrove |
Oct 17 |
Release Alert |
| Alan Greenspan |
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby |
Oct 11 |
Release Alert |
| Ulysses Grant |
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C. White, Jr. |
Oct 4 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Karl Marx |
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones |
Oct 3 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair that Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn |
Sept 27 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Winston Churchill |
Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard |
Sept 20 |
3rd-party reviews |
| FDR & Missy LeHand |
The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR and the Untold Story of the Partnership that Defined a Presidency by Kathryn Smith |
Sept 6 |
3rd-party reviews |
| Hitler |
Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich |
Sept 6 |
3rd-party reviews |
| FDR |
His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph Lelyveld |
Sept 6 |
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| Robert Kennedy |
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye |
July 5 |
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| George W. Bush |
Bush by Jean Edward Smith |
July 5 |
3rd-party reviews |
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.