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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

On the basis of a diary, Ulrich gives the reader an intimate and densely imagined portrait of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard and her society--a portrait that sheds light on its medical practices, religious squabbles and sexual mores. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Dubois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963

The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography begins with the end of World War I and chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, the little-known political agenda behind it, Du Bois's battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana.

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David S. Reynolds - Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography

This comprehensive, original portrait of the life and work of one of America's greatest poets--set in the social, cultural, and political context of his time--considers the full range of writings by and about Whitman, including his early poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newsp ... More

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Louis R. Harlan - Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915

This book begins in 1901, when Booker T. Washington at the age of forty-five was approaching the zenith of his fame and influence, and ends with his death in 1915. It is a biographical study in the sense that its focus is on the complex, enigmatic figure of Washington, the most powerful black minori ... More

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David Nasaw - The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst

Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Business Week, and GQ, THE CHIEF: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDLOPH HEARST is ?an absorbing and ingeniously organized biography . . . of the most powerful publisher America has ever known? (New York ... More

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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Dubois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

Chronicling the long career of a prime mover in America's nascent civil rights movement, a Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning biography shows the major impact this great and controversial thinker had on America.

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Charles Capper - Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life The Public Years

Transcendentalist, Romantic, feminist- Margaret Fuller was nothing less than the first woman in America to establish herself as a dominant figure in highbrow culture at large. If there was one man or woman whose connections among gender, intellectual culture, and the avant-garde, it was Margaret Ful ... More

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William Leach - Edith Wharton

A biography of the American author known for her psychological examination of the moral and social values of middle-class and upper-class society.

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Joseph Frazier Wall - Andrew Carnegie

A well-knit biography of an enigmatic man which does full justice to a character that was both shrewd and naive, idealistic and grasping, and charming and yet blind to the nature of other persons' psyche.

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