Biography & Memoir

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  • Recovering: A Journal

    May Sarton

    Paperback

    "Sarton's 'art of making exquisite distinctions' and her vulnerability as a human being are her timeless gifts to her readers." —Library Journal

  • Robert E. Lee: A Biography

    Emory M. Thomas

    Paperback

    "The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books

  • John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism

    Alan Ryan, Edwin Burrage Child

    Paperback

    When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives,...

  • Frederick Douglass

    William S. McFeely

    Paperback

    “A masterpiece….[W]ill rightfully assume its place as the standard biography of a truly great figure in the nation’s past.” —New York Newsday

  • Fidel Castro

    Robert E. Quirk

    Paperback

    In this masterly biography, the prize-winning historian Robert E. Quirk paints a portrait of the charismatic leader who for more than three decades—and over eight American presidencies—managed to sustain a communist regime in the western hemisphere.