Biography & Memoir
Recovering: A Journal
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"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
Paperback
"The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
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
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
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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.