United States Historical Biographies

Castles Burning

By Magda Denes

Colored People: A Memoir

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Personal Memoirs

By Ulysses S. Grant, E. B. Long

Nixon: A Life

By Jonathan Aitken

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

By Hastings, Max

Promise and Power

By D. Shapley

RFK: Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

By C.David Heyman

Passage To Juneau: A Sea and Its Meaning

By Raban, Jonathan

Barack Obama: In His Own Words

By Rogak, Lisa

The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

By Hilberg, Raul

The Best Defense: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

By Douglas Feith

The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case

By Elliot Goldenberg

Kissinger: A Biography

By Walter Isaacson

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg