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Category:  Biography (Sorted by Author's last name)


I Had A Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story (1991) - Henry Aaron (1935-)    (Grade:A)

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996) - Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-)    (Grade:A-)

Lindbergh (1998) - A. Scott Berg (-)    (Grade:A+)

Life of Johnson (1791) - James Boswell (10/29/1740 -05/19/1795)    (Grade:A+)

Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. (1965) - Burt Boyar (11/30/1927 -04/04/2018)    (Grade:A+)

Alexander Hamilton, American (1999) - Richard Brookhiser ( -)    (Grade:A+)

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth (2007) - Norman F. Cantor (11/19/1929-09/18/2004)    (Grade:B-)

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth (2007) - Norman F. Cantor (11/19/1929-09/18/2004)    (Grade:B-)

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) - Robert A. Caro (10/30/1935 -)    (Grade:A+)

Anthony Blunt: His Lives (2001) - Miranda Carter (-)    (Grade:F)

Gold: Being the Marvelous History of General John Augustus Sutter (1925) - Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961)    (Grade:C+)

Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution (2007) - David A. Clary (-)    (Grade:A)

Saddam: King of Terror (2002) - Con Coughlin (-)    (Grade:A)

Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! (2010) - Douglas Coupland (12/30/1961-)    (Grade:B)

Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life (2002) - Carlo D'Este (1936-)    (Grade:A)

The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times (2006) - Anthony DePalma (-)    (Grade:A-)

Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life (2007) - Scott Donaldson (1928-)    (Grade:A+)

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1996) - Joseph J. Ellis (-)    (Grade:A-)

Caesar: Life of a Colossus (2006) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969 -)    (Grade:A+)

Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir (1949) - John Gunther (1901-1970)    (Grade:A-)

The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad (2013) - Lesley Hazelton (1945-)    (Grade:B-)

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010) - Laura Hillenbrand (5/15/1967-)    (Grade:A+)

Churchill: A Biography (2001) - Roy Jenkins (11/11/1920-2003)    (Grade:B)

Patrick O'Brian : A Life Revealed (2000) - Dean King (1962-)    (Grade:A)

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (2010) - Michael Korda (10/08/1933 -)    (Grade:A-)

Carnegie (2002) - Peter Krass (-)    (Grade:A)

The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life (2009) - David Lawday (1938-)    (Grade:A-)

First in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton (1995) - David Maraniss (-)    (Grade:A-)

Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003) - George M. Marsden ( -)    (Grade:A+)

The Last Alchemist : Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason () - Iain McCalman (1947-)    (Grade:A)

Truman (1992) - David McCullough (7/07/1933 -8/07/2022)    (Grade:B)

The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (1958) - Edmund S. Morgan (01/17/1916 -7/08/2013)    (Grade:A+)

Benjamin Franklin (2002) - Edmund S. Morgan (01/17/1916 -7/08/2013)    (Grade:A)

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999) - Edmund Morris (-)    (Grade:A)

A Beautiful Mind : A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 (1998) - Sylvia Nasar (-)    (Grade:C)

Ulysses S. Grant : Soldier President (1997) - Geoffrey Perret (-)    (Grade:A+)

Jackie Robinson: A Biography (1997) - Arnold Rampersad (-)    (Grade:B+)

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the NineteenthCentury (1999) - Witold Rybczynski (3/01/1943 -)    (Grade:A-)

The Death and Life of Dith Pran (1980) - Sydney H. Schanberg (1/17/ 1934 -7/09/2016)    (Grade:C+)

Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence (2016) - Lee Siegel (1957-)    (Grade:B)

Boswell's Presumptous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (2001) - Adam Sisman (-)    (Grade:A+)

The Spartacus War (2009) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957 -)    (Grade:A+)

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) - Sam Tanenhaus (-)    (Grade:A)

The Father of Spin : Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of Public Relations (1998) - Larry Tye (-)    (Grade:B-)

Cleopatra : Last Queen of Egypt (2008) - Joyce Tyldesley (-)    (Grade:A-)

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (1999) - George Weigel (-)    (Grade:A+)