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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

By Coretta Scott King, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life Of Martin Luther King Jr

By Stephen Oates

Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church

By Mark Driscoll

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

The Last Brother

By Joe McGinniss

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

By Hilberg, Raul

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

By Marc Leepson

Andrew Jackson

By Robert V. Remini, Wesley K. Clark

The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton

By Joe Klein

C.L.R. James: A Political Biography

By Kent Worcester

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

By David Treuer

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

American Life

By Ronald Reagan

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

Decision Points

By Bush, George W.

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

By Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman (Fellows and Research Officer, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Fellows and Research Officer, Harvard University.), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

American Cipher: One Soldier's Nightmare in the Afghanistan War

By Matt Farwell, Michael Ames

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Haley, Alex, X, Malcolm, Gilroy, Paul

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

By Mailer, Norman

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

By Madeleine Albright, Bill Woodward

Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman

By Kendricks A. Clements

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

John F. Kennedy: The Life, the Presidency, the Assassination

By David Southwell, Ian Shircore

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

By Conrad Black

Nixon: The Invincible Quest