United States -- Biography
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- Latinitas, una celebración de 40 soñadoras audaces, Juliet Menéndez ; traducción de Isabel C. Mendoza
- Letters of the century, America, 1900-1999, edited by Lisa Grunwald & Stephen J. Adler
- Henry Ford, Vincent Curcio
- "If elected--", unsuccessful candidates for the presidency, 1796-1968, the staff of the Historian's Office, National Portrait Gallery, Lillian B. Miller ... [and others]
- Grace beats Karma, letters from prison, 1958-60, Neal Cassady, foreword and notes by Carolyn Cassady
- A walk across America, by Peter Jenkins
- Posterity, letters of great Americans to their children, Dorie McCullough Lawson
- Earl Blackwell's celebrity register
- The silver swan, in search of Doris Duke, Sallie Bingham
- Women's letters, America from the Revolutionary War to the present, edited by Lisa Grunwald & Stephen J. Adler
- Chasing the red, white, and blue, a journey in Tocqueville's footsteps through contemporary America, David Cohen
- American spirit, profiles in resilience, courage, and faith, Taya Kyle and Jim DeFelice
- Milestones into headstones, mini biographies of fifty fascinating Americans buried in Washington, D.C., Peter Exton and Dorsey Kleitz
- She Persisted, 13 American Women Who Changed the World, written by Chelsea Clinton ; illustrated by Alexandra Boiger
- Lower than angels, a memoir of war & peace, W.W. Windstaff ; illustrated & with an introduction by Stephen Longstreet
- Where are they buried?, how did they die, Tod Benoit
- The Last word, the New York times book of obituaries and farewells : a celebration of unusual lives, edited by Marvin Siegel ; foreword by Russell Baker
- The Guggenheims, a family history, Irwin Unger and Debi Unger
- Sea urchin, a childhood at sea, Christina Rees
- Faces of America, how 12 extraordinary people discovered their pasts, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Kaufman's Hill, a memoir, John C. Hampsey
- Uncommon friends, life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh, James D. Newton ; with a foreword by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Memories of men and women, American and British, A.L. Rowse
- The Bushes, portrait of a dynasty, Peter Schweizer and Rochelle Schweizer
- The Bouviers, from Waterloo to the Kennedys and beyond, John H. Davis
- Daughter of China, a true story of love and betrayal, by Meihong Xu and Larry Engelmann
- Life stories, profiles from the New Yorker, edited by David Remnick
- Voices of a people's history of the United States, Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove
- The history of the United States, Allen C. Guelzo, Gary W. Gallagher, Patrick N. Allitt
- Sargent's women, four lives behind the canvas, Donna M. Lucey
- Whistled like a bird, the untold story of Dorothy Putnam, George Putnam, and Amelia Earhart, Sally Putnam Chapman, with Stephanie Mansfield
- Little Red, three passionate lives through the sixties and beyond, Dina Hampton
- Horace Kallen confronts America, Jewish identity, science, and secularism, Matthew J. Kaufman
- Holding on, David Isay ; photographs by Harvey Wang
- What's called love, a real romance, Jim Paul
- The longest road, overland in search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean, Philip Caputo
- American spirit, profiles in resilience, courage, and faith, Taya Kyle and Jim DeFelice
- This living hand, and other essays, Edmund Morris
- One man's America, the pleasures and provocations of our singular nation, George F. Will
- The hunt for "Tokyo Rose", Russell Warren Howe
- Humility, an unlikely biography of America's greatest virtue, David J. Bobb
- Spoonbread and strawberry wine, recipes and reminiscences of a family, by Norma Jean and Carole Darden ; with line drawings by Doug Jamieson ; [wood engravings throughout text by Thomas Bewick]
- In my brother's image, twin brothers separated by faith after the Holocaust, Eugene Pogany
- Andy Grove, the life and times of an American, Richard S. Tedlow
- The year of reading Proust, a memoir in real time, Phyllis Rose
- Faces of America, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS ; a film by Kunhardt McGee Productions and Inkwell Films in association with Ark Media ; written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; senior producers, Barak Goodman and Sue Williams ; executive producers, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William R. Grant, Peter Kunhardt, Dyllan McGee ; a production of Kunhardt McGee Productions, Inkwell Films and THIRTEEN for WNET.ORG
- A Torah giant, the intellectual legacy of Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, edited by Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz ; foreword by Rabbi Avi Weiss ; introduction by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
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