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

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

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

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

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

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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