Biography & Memoir
The Lives of Isaac Stern
Hardback
A centennial inventory of the career and legacy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest musicians, the first made-in-America violin virtuoso.
The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography
Paperback
“Psychologically rich. . . . Matteson’s book restores the heroism of [Fuller’s] life and work.”—The New Yorker
The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography
Hardback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson, an account of the "Susan Sontag" of nineteenth-century America.
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
Paperback
The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize.
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
Hardback
Largely written out of American history, this book argues that John Quincy Adams is, in fact, a lost Founding Father.