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  • Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings

    Richard S. Kennedy

    Paperback

    Reissued with a new preface for the centennial.

  • Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

    Erik H. Erikson

    Paperback

    In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the prominent figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.

  • Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

    Erik H. Erikson

    Paperback

    In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.

  • Paine

    David Freeman Hawke

    Paperback

    “Thomas Paine, a singularly injudicious man, requires an exceptionally judicious biographer, and in Mr. Hawke he has at last got one. . . . An absorbing narrative that moves briskly through two revolutions and three countries.” —The New Yorker

  • The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright

    Tom D. Crouch

    Paperback

    The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.