MCL - Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken--with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...

2) G-man: J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century

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Gage, Beverly

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"A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape."--

3) Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

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Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

4) The education of Henry Adams

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Adams, Henry

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Library of America paperback classics

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His political ideas shaped by two presidential ancestors - great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams - Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. Printed privately in 1907 and published to wide acclaim shortly after the author's death in 1918, The Education of Henry Adams is a brilliant, idiosyncratic blend of autobiography and history that...

5) life of john marshall

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6) From immigrant to inventor

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Pupin, Michael

7) life of sir william osler

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8) whitman an interpretation in narrative

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9) The life and letters of Walter H. Page

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Hendrick, Burton J

10) Grover Cleveland: a study in courage

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Nevins, Allan

11) john hay from poetry to politics

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12) R.E. Lee: a biography

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Freeman, Douglas Southall

13) The thought and character of William James: as revealed in unpublished correspondence and notes, together with his published writings

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Perry, Ralph Barton

14) The life of Andrew Jackson, complete in one volume

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James, Marquis

15) Benjamin Franklin

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Van Doren, Carl

16) Woodrow Wilson: life and letters

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Baker, Ray Stannard

17) Crusader in crinoline: the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Wilson, Robert Forrest

18) Admiral of the ocean sea: a life of Christopher Columbus

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Morison, Samuel Eliot

19) The American Leonardo: a life of Samuel F. B. Morse

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Mabee, Carleton

20) Son of the wilderness: the life of John Muir

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Wolfe, Linnie Marsh

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All who have admired John Muir's ruggedly individualistic lifestyle, or who desire a greater appreciation of the history of environmental preservation in America, will be enthralled and enlightened by this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. Following Muir from his ancestral home in Scotland, through his early years in the harsh Wisconsin wilderness, to his historic pilgrimage to California, Linnie Marsh Wolfe creates a full and rounded portrait of...