Now that I’ve finished my six-year Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies I plan to tackle the best biographies of everyone else.
This is my projected road-map for the first year of the journey (updated October 14, 2019).
Blue titles indicate Pulitzer Prize WINNERS. Blue italicized titles indicate Pulitzer Prize finalists.
| Alexander Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton (2004) by Ron Chernow | REVIEW (5 stars) |
| Henry Ward Beecher | The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (2006) by Debby Applegate | REVIEW (3½ stars) |
| Ulysses S. Grant (*) | American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (2106) by Ronald C. White, Jr. | REVIEW (4 stars) |
| Henry Clay | Henry Clay: A Statesman for the Union (1991) by Robert Remini | REVIEW (3¾ stars) |
| Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson | REVIEW (4 stars) |
| John Quincy Adams (*) | John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit (2016) by James Traub | REVIEW (4¼ stars) |
| Joseph P. Kennedy | The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (2012) by David Nasaw | REVIEW (3¾ stars) |
| Mozart | Mozart: A Life (1995) by Maynard Solomon | REVIEW (2½ stars) |
| James Madison (*) | James Madison: A Life Reconsidered (2014) by Lynne Cheney | REVIEW (3¼ stars) |
| Robert Moses | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) by Robert Caro | REVIEW (4½ stars) |
| Ben Franklin | The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2000) by HW Brands | REVIEW (3¾ stars) |
| Thomas Jefferson (*) | Thomas Jefferson: A Life (1993) by Willard Sterne Randall | [coming soon] |
| Meriwether Lewis | The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness (2011) by Clay Jenkinson | |
| Einstein | Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007) by Walter Isaacson | |
| FDR (*) | Man of Destiny: FDR and the Making of the American Century (2015) by Alonzo Hamby | |
| George Patton | Patton: A Genius for War (1995) by Carlo D’Este | |
| Andrew Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie (2006) by David Nasaw | |
| Herbert Hoover (*) | Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency (2016) by Charles Rappleye | |
| JP Morgan | Morgan: American Financier (1999) by Jean Strouse | |
| Charles Lindbergh | Lindbergh (1998) by A. Scott Berg | |
| Ulysses S. Grant (*) | Grant (2017) by Ron Chernow | |
| John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998) by Ron Chernow | |
| George Custer | Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (2015) by T. J. Stiles | |
| George Washington (*) | Washington (1968 abridgment) by Douglas Southall Freeman | |
| Robert Oppenheimer | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005) by Kai Bird | |
| Winston Churchill | Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2018) by Andrew Roberts |
* Follow-up biography for my Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies.
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