Social & Urban History Biographies

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

By Hitchens, Christopher

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

By Charles Nicholl

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

By Chandos Michael Brown

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke

Great Minds: Reflections of 111 Top Scientists

By Hargittai, Balazs

Hitler's Violent Youth: How Trench Warfare and Street Fighting Moulded Hitler

By Bob Carruthers

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

By Tom Bissell

The Medical Science of House, M.D.: The Facts Behind the Addictive Medical Drama

By Andrew Holtz

Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

By Peter Galison

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Bertrand Russell: v. 1: 1872-1920 The Spirit of Solitude

By Ray Monk

The Middle Class: A History

By Lawrence James, James, Lawrence

The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

By Robert K Wittman, David Kinney

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

By Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

Bertrand Russell: v.2: 1921-70 The Ghost of Madness

By Ray Monk

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

The Memoirs of Madame Roland: Witness to the French Revolution

By Marie-Jeanne Roland De La Platiere, Evelyn Shuckburgh

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

By Patrick Coffey (Visiting Scholar, Office for the History of Science and Technology, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley)

Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings

By Rosa Luxemburg, Helen C. Scott, Paul Le Blanc incorrect

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

By Heilbroner, Robert L.

Little Gloria - Happy at Last: Biography of Gloria Vanderbilt

By Barbara Goldsmith

All The King's Women

By Wilson, Derek

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Colin Grant

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation

By Wrong, Michela

The Lives of Michel Foucault

By Macey, David

Women of the French Revolution

By Kelly, Linda

Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile

By Eugene Sheppard