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Pulitzer Prize Winners — Biography
The first tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Eden's outcasts : the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father by John Matteson
The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
De Kooning : an American master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Khrushchev : the man and his era by William Taubman
The years of Lyndon Johnson : master of the senate by Robert A. Caro
John Adams by David McCullough
W.E.B. Du Bois : the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Personal history by Katharine Graham
Angela's ashes : a memoir by Frank McCourt
God : a biography by Jack Miles
Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life by Joan D. Hedrick
W.E.B. DuBois--biography of a race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
Truman by David McCullough
Fortunate son : the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr by Puller, Lewis B
Jackson Pollock : an American saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
Look homeward : a life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
The life and times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan
Growing up by Russell Baker
Grant : a biography by William S. McFeely
Peter the Great, his life and world by Robert K. Massie
The rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Edith Wharton : a biography by R.W.B. Lewis
The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Luce and his empire by Swanberg, W. A., 1907-
Eleanor and Franklin : the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers by Joseph P. Lash ; foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ; introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
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