New Books Used & Rare Featured Titles What's New Links About Us Map View Cart Year Title Author 2010 The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt T.J. Stiles 2009 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham 2008 Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father John Matteson 2007 The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Debby Applegate 2006 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin 2005 de Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan 2004 Khrushchev: the Man and His Era William Taubman 2003 Master of the Senate Robert A. Caro 2002 John Adams David McCullough 2001 W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 David Levering Lewis 2000 Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) Stacy Schiff 1999 Lindbergh A. Scott Berg 1998 Personal History Katharine Graham 1997 Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt 1996 God: A Biography Jack Miles 1995 Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life Joan D. Hedrick 1994 W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 David Levering Lewis 1993 Truman David McCullough 1992 Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Lewis B. Puller 1991 Jackson Pollock: An American Saga Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith 1990 Machiavelli in Hell Sebastian Grazia 1989 Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann 1988 Donald Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe David Herbert 1987 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference David J. Garrow 1986 Louise Bogan: A Portrait Elizabeth Frank 1985 The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Kenneth Silverman 1984 Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 Louis R. Harlan 1983 Growing Up Russell Baker 1982 Grant: A Biography William S. McFeely 1981 Peter the Great: His Life and World Robert K. Massie 1980 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris 1979 Days of Sarrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews Leonard Baker 1978 Samuel Johnson Walter Jackson Bate 1977 A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence John E. Mack 1976 Edith Wharton: A Biography R.W.B. Lewis 1975 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert Caro 1974 O'Neill, Son and Artist Louis Sheaffer 1973 Luce and His Empire W.A. Swanberg 1972 Eleanor and Franklin Joseph P. Lash 1971 Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 Lawrence Thompson 1970 Huey Long T. Harry Williams 1969 The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends Benjamin Lawrence Reid 1968 Memoirs George F. Kennan 1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain Justin Kaplan 1966 A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1965 Henry Adams Ernest Samuels 1964 John Keats Walter Jackson Bate 1963 Henry James Leon Edel 1962 No Award given 1961 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War David Donald 1960 John Paul Jones: a Sailor's Biography Samuel Eliot Morison 1959 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet Arthur Walworth 1958 George Washington Volumes I-VI Douglas S. Freeman George Washington Volume VII John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth 1957 Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy 1956 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Talbot Faulkner Hamlin 1955 The Taft Story William S. White 1954 The Spirit of St. Louis Charles A. Lindbergh 1953 Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 David J. Mays 1952 Charles Evans Hughes Merlo J. Pusey 1951 John C. Calhoun: American Portrait Margaret Louise Coit 1950 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy Samuel Flagg Bemis 1949 Roosevelt and Hopkins Robert E. Sherwood 1948 Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow Margaret Clapp 1947 The Autobiography of William Allen White William Allen White 1946 Son of the Wilderness Linnie Marsh Wolfe 1945 George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel Russell Blaine Nye 1944 The American Leonardo: the Life of Samuel F.B. Morse Carlton Mabee 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea: a Life of Christopher Columbus Samuel Eliot Morison 1942 Crusader in Crinoline Forrest Wilson 1941 Jonathan Edwards Ola Elizabeth Winslow 1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, Volumes VII and VIII Ray Stannard Baker 1939 Benjamin Franklin Carl Van Doren 1938 Andrew Jackson, 2 volumes Marquis James Pedlar's Progress Odell Shepard 1937 Hamilton Fish Allan Nevins 1936 The Thought and Character of William James Ralph Barton Perry 1935 R.E. Lee Douglas S. Freeman 1934 John Hay Tyler Dennett 1933 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins 1932 Theodore Roosevelt Henry F. Pringle 1931 Charles W. Eliot Henry James 1930 The Raven: a Biography of Sam Houston Marquis James 1929 The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page Burton J. Hendrick 1928 The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas Charles Edward Russell 1927 Whitman Emory Holloway 1926 The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 volumes Harvey Cushing 1925 Barrett Wendell and His Letters M.A. DeWolfe Howe 1924 From Immigrant to Inventor Michael Idvorsky Pupin 1923 The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page Burton J. Hendrick 1922 A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1921 The Americanization of Edward Bok Edward Bok 1920 The Life of John Marshall, 4 volumes Albert J. Beveridge 1919 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams 1918 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed William Cabell Bruce 1917 Julia Ward Howe Laura E. Richards, Maude Howe Elliott, and Florence Howe Hall Featured Books More Book Lists The Book Escape Home Add a Grab Bag