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+)
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