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1 - King: A Life
Jonathan Eig - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Named a most anticipated book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The Millions, and Literary HubThe first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times. . Vividly written and exhaustively... |
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2 - G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
BEVERLY GAGE - Viking
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A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape.We remember him as a bulldog--squat... |
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3 - Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Winfred Rembert - Bloomsbury Publishing
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Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted... |
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4 - The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne - Liveright
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An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Beginning in 1990 on a quest that would consume him for the rest of his life, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne... |
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5 - Sontag: Her Life and Work
Benjamin Moser - Ecco
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The definitive portrait of one of the American Century's most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private faceNo writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded... |
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6 - The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C Stewart - Oxford University Press, USA
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A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature,... |
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7 - Prairie Fires: The Life and Times of Laura Ingalls Wilder
CAROLINE FRASER - Metropolitan Books
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The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book seriesMillions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls -- the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation... |
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8 - The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
HISHAM MATAR - RANDOM House
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The acclaimed memoir of a son's search for the truth behind his father's disappearance - one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS... |
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9 - Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan - Audible Studios
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Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2016A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer. Barbarian Days is William Finnegans memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful... |
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11 - Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New Englands intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed womens sense of how they could think and live her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal the Dial shaped American... |
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13 - George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis - Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
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Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardSelected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory... |
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14 - Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press HC, The
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From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this... |
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15 - The First Tycoon
T J Stiles - Vintage
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual... |
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16 - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham - Random House Audio
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The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington foreverAndrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern... |
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17 - Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
John Matteson - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
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The beloved author of Little Women was torn between pleasing her idealistic father and planting her feet in the material world. Louisa May Alcott's name is known universally. Yet, during her youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher, lecturer, and admired... |
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18 - The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Debby Applegate - Doubleday
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No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings—especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century’s bestselling... |
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19 - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird - Knopf; 1st edition
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American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most... |
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20 - De Kooning: An American Master
Mark Stevens - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
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Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true painters painter whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American... |
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21 - Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
William Taubman - W. W. Norton
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Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important." - Robert Legvold,... |
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22 - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Robert A Caro - Vintage
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Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnsons story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America,... |
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23 - John Adams
David G McCullough - Simon & Schuster
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life... |
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24 - W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
David Lewis - Henry Holt and Co.
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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963, the second volume of the Pulitzer Prize--winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece". Charismatic, singularly determined, and controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois was a historian, novelist, editor, sociologist, founder... |
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