Biography

Henry H. Adams
Harry Hopkins: A Biography
Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy

Odile Ayral-Clause
Camille Claudel: A Life

Leonard Baker
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews

Liva Baker
Felix Frankfurter

Michael Balfour and Julian Frisby
Helmuth von Moltke: A Leader Against Hitler

Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi
Before Golda: Manya Shochat

William Bentinck-Smith
Building A Great Library: The Coolidge Years at Harvard

Niels Blaedel
Harmony and Unity: The Life of Niels Bohr

Kurt Blaukopf
Gustav Mahler

Felice A. Bonadio
A. P. Giannini: Banker of America

Ruth Bondy
The Emissary: A Life of Enzo Sereni

Thomas Neville Bonner
Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning

Andrew Brown
The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick

Robert V. Bruce
Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude

William Burrows
Richthofen: A True History of the Red Baron

Philip V. Cannistraro and Brian R. Sullivan
Il Duce’s Other Woman

David C. Cassidy
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century

Herbert Childs
An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Father of the Cyclotron

Peter Collier and David Horowitz
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty

Robert D. Crassweller
Trujillo: The Life and Times of a Caribbean Dictator

François Duchêne
Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence

Francis Duncan
Rickover: The Struggle for Excellence

Keith Eiler
Mobilizing America: Robert P. Patterson and the War Effort, 1940-1945

Amos Elon
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time
Herzl

Carol Easton
Jacqueline du Pré: A Biography

Helen Epstein
A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe
Joe Papp: An American Life
Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian
Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay
Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians
Tina Packer Builds A Theater

Howard M. Feinstein
Becoming William James

Raymond Fosdick
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A Portrait

Alexander and Juliette George
Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study

Josephine Clara Goldmark
Impatient Crusader: Florence Kelley’s Life Story

Howard Greenfeld
Ben Shahn: An Artist’s Life

Frederic Grunfeld
Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World
Rodin: A Biography

Sebastian Haffner
Churchill
The Meaning of Hitler

Samuel B. Hand
Counsel and Advise: A Political Biography of Samuel I. Rosenman

Oscar and Lilian Handlin
Abraham Lincoln and the Union

Hugh Hawkins
Between Harvard and America: The Educational Leadership of Charles W. Eliot

Hans Heiberg
Ibsen: A Portrait of the Artist

Anthony Heilbut
Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present

Albert P. Heiner
Henry J. Kaiser: Western Colossus

James Hershberg
James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age

Godfrey Hodgson
The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, 1867-1950

Banesh Hoffmann
Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel

Anthony Holden
The The Man Who Wrote Mozart: The Extraordinary Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte

Richard Hough
Winston & Clementine: The Triumphs & Tragedies of the Churchills

Sheila Isenberg
A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry

George Jellinek
Callas: Portrait of a Prima Donna

James Joll
Three Intellectuals in Politics: Blum, Rathenau, Marinetti

Ernest Jones
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (abridged by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus)

Matthew Josephson
Edison: A Biography

Matthew and Hannah Josephson
Al Smith: Hero of the Cities

Peter Stephan Jungk
Franz Werfel: A Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood

E.J. Kahn, Jr.
Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney
The World of Swope

Robert Kargon
The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science

Shmuel Katz
Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky

Bernice Kert
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family

Ronald Kline
Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist

Anna Klumpke
Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto)biography

Arnold Kramish
The Griffin: The Greatest Untold Espionage Story of World War II

Peter Kurth
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson

Joseph Lash
Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal

Stuart W. Leslie
Boss Kettering: The Wizard of General Motors

Hillel Levine
In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews From the Holocaust

Dorothy Michelson Livingston
The Master of Light: A Biography of Albert A. Michelson

David Loth
Swope of G.E.: The Story of Gerard Swope and General Electric in American Business

Richard Lourie
Sakharov: A Biography

Gerstle Mack
Paul Cézanne
Toulouse-Lautrec

Norman Macrae
John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More

Philip Magnus
Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist

George W. Martin
Madam Secretary Frances Perkins

Alpheus Thomas Mason
Brandeis: A Free Man’s Life

Kurt Mendelssohn
The World of Walther Nernst: The Rise and Fall of German Science 1864-1941

Henry Morgenthau III
Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History

Frederic Morton
The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait

Steven Neuse
David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal

Sheldon Novick
Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes

John Kennedy Ohl
Supplying the Troops: General Somervell and American Logistics in World War II

Joseph E. Persico
Edward R. Murrow: An American Original

Forrest C. Pogue
George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939
George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, 1939-1942
George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943-1945
George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945-1959

Susan Quinn
A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney
Marie Curie: A Life

Patricia Rife
Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

John Rigden
Rabi: Scientist and Citizen

Harlow Robinson
Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography

William Schack
Art and Argyrol: The Life and Career of Dr. Albert C. Barnes

Simon Schama
Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel

David Schoenbrun
The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle

Emilio Segrè
Enrico Fermi, Physicist

Anita Shapira
Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist, Berl Katznelson 1887-1944

Mark Stoler
George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century

Dietrich Stoltzenberg
Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew

Christopher Sykes
Orde Wingate

Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave and John Cullen
Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan

T. H. Watkins
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952

Bernard A. Weisberger
The Dream Maker: William C. Durant, Founder of General Motors

Benjamin Welles
Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist

Nelly Wilson
Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the problem of Jewish identity in late nineteenth-century France

George Wise
Willis R. Whitney, General Electric and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Research

Linnie Marsh Wolfe
Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir

Helen Wright
Explorer of the Universe: A Biography of George Ellery Hale

Zbyněk Zeman
The Masaryks: The Making of Czechoslovakia

Friderike Zweig
Married to Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig
Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy
Amerigo: A Comedy of Errors in History
Balzac
Dostoevsky by Zweig
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Freud by Zweig
Joseph Fouché: Portrait of a Politician
Magellan: Conqueror of the Seas
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Mary Stuart
Mental Healers: Franz Anton Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud
The Right to Heresy: Castellio Against Calvin
The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche
Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky


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