Blue titles indicate Pulitzer Prize WINNERS. Blue italicized titles indicate Pulitzer Prize finalists. Orange indicates a new or recent release.
Updated April 9, 2022 (completed books are sorted by rating).
Robert Oppenheimer | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005) by Kai Bird | REVIEW (4½ stars) |
Salmon Chase | Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival (2022) by Walter Stahr | REVIEW (4¼ stars) |
Simon Bolivar | Bolívar: American Liberator (2013) by Marie Arana | REVIEW (3¾ stars) |
JQA(*) | The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics (2017) by William Cooper | REVIEW (3¾ stars) |
Sam Houston | Sam Houston (2002) by James Haley | REVIEW (3½ stars) |
FDR(*) | Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life (2017) by Robert Dallek | REVIEW (3¼ stars) |
Lincoln(*) | Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (2014) by Richard Brookhiser | REVIEW (3 stars) |
Tip O’Neill | Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century: A Biography (2001) by John Farrell | NOW READING |
Ernest Shackleton | Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer (2014) by Michael Smith | mid May |
James Madison(*) | The Fourth President: A Life of James Madison (1970) by Irving Brant | early June |
Tocqueville | The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville (2022) by Olivier Zunz | late June |
Henry Ford | The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts | mid July |
Jefferson(*) | The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson (2007) by Kevin Hayes | late July |
Lou Henry Hoover | A Woman of Adventure: The Life and Times of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover (2022) by Annette Dunlap | early Aug |
John Wayne | John Wayne: American (1995) by Randy Roberts | late Aug |
Andrew Jackson(*) | The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson (2022) by David S. Brown | mid Sept |
Hitler | Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw | mid Oct |
Wm Randolph Hearst | The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst (2000) by David Nasaw | early Nov |
***TO BE COMPLETED*** | ||
* Follow-up biography for my Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies.
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