Our eBooks (by author)

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Finn Aaserud
Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics


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

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Richard D. Alba
Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity


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Sholom Aleichem
From the Fair


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Henri Alleg
The Question



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Yigal Allon
My Fathers House
Shield of David: The Story of Israel’s Armed Forces

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Luis Alvarez
Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist



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Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold
Global Mission



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Lucie Aubrac
Outwitting the Gestapo



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Virginia Axline
Dibs: In Search of Self



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Odile Ayral-Clause
Camille Claudel: A Life



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Leo Baeck
Das Wesen des Judentums
The Essence of Judaism



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



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Liva Baker
Felix Frankfurter



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




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George W. Ball
The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs




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Bernard Baruch
Baruch: The Public Years




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Michael Bar-Zohar
Spies in the Promised Land: Isser Harel and the Israeli Secret Service



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James Phinney Baxter III
Scientists Against Time




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Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi
Before Golda: Manya Shochat




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



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Richard B. Bernstein
Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, Why Do We Keep Trying to Change It?



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Niels Blaedel
Harmony and Unity: The Life of Niels Bohr



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Kurt Blaukopf
Gustav Mahler




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Charles E. Bohlen
Witness to History: 1929-1969



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



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Ruth Bondy
The Emissary: A Life of Enzo Sereni



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



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Omar Bradley and Clay Blair
A General’s Life: An Autobiography


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Jean-Denis Bredin
The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus


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Richard Breitman
The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution



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



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Robert V. Bruce
Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude
The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876



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Michael Burns
France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History




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William Burrows
Richthofen: A True History of the Red Baron




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Hendrik B.G. Casimir
Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science




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



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Jack Chen
The Chinese of America



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


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Peter Collier and
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David Horowitz
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty




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J. Lawton Collins
Lightning Joe: An Autobiography
War in Peacetime: The History and Lessons of Korea



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Arthur Holly Compton
Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative



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Ruth Schwartz Cowan
More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave


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



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Roger Daniels
Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II



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Lucy S. Dawidowicz
From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947



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Inge Deutschkron
Outcast: A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin



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Carl Djerassi
The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse



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Alfred Döblin
Destiny's Journey



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Lois Dubin
The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture



François Duchêne
Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence

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Francis Duncan
Rickover: The Struggle for Excellence




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Carol Easton
Jacqueline du Pré: A Biography



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Abba Eban
Abba Eban: An Autobiography
Voice of Israel


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Suzy Eban
A Sense of Purpose: Recollections




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



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Amos Elon
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time
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Jerusalem: City of Mirrors
The Israelis: Founders and Sons

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Helen Epstein
A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe
A Living Will
Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer during Covid
Joe Papp: An American Life
Memoir: How I Read, Write and Use It
Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian
Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay
Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians
Scrivere la vita (in Italian)
The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma
Tina Packer Builds A Theater
Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History

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Amos Ettinger
Blind Jump: The Story of Shaike Dan



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Howard M. Feinstein
Becoming William James



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Charles Fenyvesi
Trees: For Shelter and Shade, For Memory and Magic
When the World Was Whole: Three Centuries of Memories


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Benjamin B. Ferencz
Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation



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Laura Fermi
Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe, 1930-41



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Lisa Fittko
Escape Through the Pyrenees



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Harold Flender
Rescue in Denmark




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



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Peter Fraenkel
No Fixed Abode: A Jewish Odyssey to Africa



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Felix Frankfurter
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis for Lawyers and Laymen



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Erwin Frenkel
The Press and Politics in Israel: The Jerusalem Post from 1932 to the Present


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Otto Robert Frisch
What Little I Remember



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Varian Fry
Surrender on Demand




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Elinor Fuchs
Making an Exit



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John Kenneth Galbraith
A Life in Our Times




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



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




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Judith Goodstein
Millikan’s School: A History of the California Institute of Technology



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Samuel Goudsmit
Alsos



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Howard Greenfeld
Ben Shahn: An Artist's Life



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Stephane Groueff
Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb



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Andrew Grove
Swimming Across



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


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Sebastian Haffner
Churchill
Defying Hitler
Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919
Germany: Jekyll and Hyde
The Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler
The Meaning of Hitler
The Rise and Fall of Prussia

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




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Oscar Handlin
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People


Oscar and Lilian Handlin
Abraham Lincoln and the Union

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


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Hans Heiberg
Ibsen: A Portrait of the Artist



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


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Albert P. Heiner
Henry J. Kaiser: Western Colossus



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Ernest Heppner
Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto



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




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Chaim Herzog
Living History: A Memoir



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



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Eva Hoffman
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language


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Banesh Hoffmann
Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel



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



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David Hounshell
From the American System to Mass Production 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States



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Kathryn Hulme
The Wild Place



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J.C. Hurewitz
The Struggle for Palestine




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Henrik Ibsen, translated by Rolf Fjelde
Pillars of Society, Rosmersholm, Little Eyolf, When We Dead Awaken



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Annette Insdorf
François Truffaut



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



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George Jellinek
Callas: Portrait of a Prima Donna



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Alvin Johnson
Pioneer’s Progress: An Autobiography



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



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


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Matthew Josephson
Edison: A Biography

Matthew and Hannah Josephson
Al Smith: Hero of the Cities

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



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


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



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Theodore von Kármán with
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Lee Edson
The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Kármán, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space


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



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George F. Kennan
Memoirs 1925-1950
Memoirs 1950-1963
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin

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Bernice Kert
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family



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Ernest J. King and
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Walter Muir Whitehill
Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record




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Egon Erwin Kisch
Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague



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Ronald Kline
Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist



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Richard Kluger
The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune



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



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G. Wilson Knight
Henrik Ibsen



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Teddy Kollek and
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Amos Kollek
For Jerusalem: A Life



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Heda Margolius Kovály
Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968
Prague Farewell (UK edition)


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



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Peter Kurth
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson



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William L. Langer
In and Out of the Ivory Tower: The Autobiography of William L. Langer




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Harold Larrabee
Decision at the Chesapeake




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Joseph Lash
Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal
Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941: The Partnership That Saved the West


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Melvyn Leffler
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War


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Hillel Levine
In Search of Sugihara



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Hillel Levine and
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Lawrence Harmon
The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions


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

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Netanel Lorch
The Edge of the Sword: Israel’s War of Independence 1947-1949




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


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Richard Lourie
Sakharov: A Biography



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Gerstle Mack
Paul Cézanne
Toulouse-Lautrec



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


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Philip Magnus
Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist



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Klaus Mann
The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in this Century, the Autobiography of Klaus Mann


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George W. Martin
Madam Secretary Frances Perkins



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Jan Masaryk
Speaking to My Country



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Melita Maschmann
Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self




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Alpheus Thomas Mason
Brandeis: A Free Man’s Life




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Jeffrey Mehlman
Émigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944




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Albert Memmi
Portrait of a Jew
The Colonizer and the Colonized
The Liberation of the Jew
The Pillar of Salt

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



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Robert A. Millikan
The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan




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Walter Millis
Arms and Men: A Study in American Military History




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Henry Morgenthau III
Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History




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Frederic Morton
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait



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Bruce Allen Murphy
The Brandeis-Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices



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Robert Murphy
Diplomat Among Warriors




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




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Sheldon Novick
Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes



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



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Paul Ornstein
Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst



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Richard Overy
The Air War, 1939-1945



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Tina Packer
The Shakespeare & Company Actor Training Experience



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Yoel Palgi
Into the Inferno: The Memoir of a Jewish Paratrooper behind Nazi Lines




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




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Frederik Philips
45 Years with Philips: An Industrialist’s Life




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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

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Susan Quinn
A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times
Marie Curie: A Life

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Santha Rama Rau
East of Home



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Gus Rancatore
Ice Cream Man: 25 Years at Toscanini's in Cambridge, Mass


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Dan Raviv and
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Yossi Melman
Every Spy A Prince: The Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community


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Patricia Rife
Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age



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John Rigden
Rabi: Scientist & Citizen




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Michael Riordan
The Hunting of the Quark: A True Story of Modern Physics




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Harlow Robinson
Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography




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Theodore Ropp
War in the Modern World




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Charles E. Rosenberg
The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System




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Samuel I. Rosenman
Working with Roosevelt




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Frederick Rudolph
The American College and University: A History




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Peter Salins
Assimilation, American Style




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Junius Irving Scales and
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Richard Nickson
Cause at Heart: A Former Communist Remembers




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




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Bertram Schaffner
Father Land: A Study of Authoritarianism in the German Family




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Simon Schama
Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel




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Anne Gruner Schlumberger
The Schlumberger Adventure



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Vlasta Schönová
Acting in Terezín



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David Schoenbrun
Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance




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Claudio Segrè
Atoms, Bombs and Eskimo Kisses: A Memoir of Father and Son




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Emilio Segrè
A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè
Enrico Fermi, Physicist



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Anita Shapira
Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist, Berl Katznelson 1887-1944
Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948



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Zeev Sharef
Three Days: An account of the last days of the British Mandate and the birth of Israel



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R.C. Simmons
The American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence





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Bradley F. Smith
The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A.




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Leo Spitzer
Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism




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Mark Stoler
Allies in War: Britain and America Against the Axis Powers, 1940-1945
George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century



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



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Susan Rubin Suleiman
Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook



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Christopher Sykes
Crossroads to Israel
Orde Wingate



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Joan Templeton
Ibsen’s Women



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Dorothy Thompson
Listen, Hans



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Nikolaas Tinbergen
The Study of Instinct




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Melvin Urofsky
American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust




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Claudine Vegh
I Didn’t Say Goodbye




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



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Judith Wallerstein and
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Sandra Blakeslee
The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts



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Fredric Warburg
All Authors Are Equal
An Occupation For Gentlemen


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



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Joseph Wechsberg
Homecoming
Prague: The Mystical City
The Opera
The Merchant Bankers
The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood

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Russell F. Weigley
Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany, 1944-1945


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Benno Weiser Varon
Professions of a Lucky Jew



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Victor Weisskopf
The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist



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Chaim Weizmann
Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann



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Vera Weizmann
The Impossible Takes Longer



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Benjamin Welles
Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist




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Simon Wiesenthal and
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Joseph Wechsberg
The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs




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Richard Willstätter
From My Life: The Memoirs of Richard Willstätter




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


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



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Robert S. Wistrich
The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph



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




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Charlotte Wolff
Hindsight: An Autobiography



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




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David Wyman
Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945


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Hiltgunt Zassenhaus
Walls: Resisting the Third Reich — One Woman’s Story



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Zbyněk Zeman
The Masaryks: The Making of Czechoslovakia



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Walter Ziffer
Confronting the Silence: A Holocaust Survivor’s Search for God




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Susan Zuccotti
The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews



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Friderike Zweig
Married to Stefan Zweig



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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
The World of Yesterday
Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky