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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power

By James Traub

Picturing Algeria

By Pierre Bourdieu (SSRC), Craig Calhoun, Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli

Soldier of the Cuban Revolution: From the Cane Fields to General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces

By Luis Alfonso Zayas

Watching War Films With My Dad

By Al Murray

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

Callaghan

By Kenneth O. Morgan

The Battle of the Casbah

By Paul Aussaresses

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century

By Bahru Zewde

King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

By Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Peter Lewis

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

Mussolini

By Jasper Ridley

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By Lessing, Doris

Mandela

By Tom Lodge (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick)

Talk of the Devil

By Riccardo Orizio

The Zookeeper's Wife: An unforgettable true story, now a major film

By Diane Ackerman

Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos

By T. Fahy

Writings: 1939-40

By L. Trotskii, George Breitman, Naomi Allen

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Wheen, Francis

A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot

By mary walton

Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and his Regime, Romania 1940-1944

By D. Deletant

The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War

By James David Robenalt, John W. Dean

George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King

By David Cannadine

Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques

By M. Tonkin

Exile through a Gendered Lens: Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema

By G. Zinn

Zhang Xueliang: The General Who Never Fought

By A. Shai

Eisenhower

By John Wukovits, Wesley K. Clark

Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War (European History in Perspective)

By McDermott, Kevin

The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton

By Joe Klein

The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction

By K. Cooper, E. Short

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

By Neil Sheehan