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The Power Broker — Robert Moses (1974)—

Napoleon: A Life — Napoleon Bonaparte (2014)—

Alexander Hamilton — Alexander Hamilton (2004)—

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. — John D. Rockefeller (1998)—

Churchill: Walking with Destiny — Winston Churchill (2018)—

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt (1979)—

Truman — Harry S. Truman (1992)—

John Adams — John Adams (2001)—

Team of Rivals — Abraham Lincoln (2005)—

Grant — Ulysses S. Grant (2017)—

Washington: A Life — George Washington (2010)—

Einstein: His Life and Universe — Albert Einstein (2007)—

Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs (2011)—

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life — Benjamin Franklin (2003)—

Leonardo da Vinci — Leonardo da Vinci (2017)—

The Last Lion — Winston Churchill (1983)—

Churchill — Winston Churchill (2002)—

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman — Catherine the Great (2010)—

Peter the Great — Peter the Great (1980)—

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World — Genghis Khan (2004)—

Mao: The Unknown Story — Mao Zedong (2005)—

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power — Joseph Stalin (2014)—

Hitler — Adolf Hitler (1998)—

Hitler: Hubris — Adolf Hitler (1998)—

Hitler: Nemesis — Adolf Hitler (2000)—

Castro: A Life — Fidel Castro (1998)—

Mandela: The Authorized Biography — Nelson Mandela (1999)—

Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World — Mahatma Gandhi (1954)—

Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1 — Eleanor Roosevelt (1992)—

Andrew Jackson — Andrew Jackson (2008)—

A. Lincoln — Abraham Lincoln (1995)—

Lincoln — Abraham Lincoln (1995)—

Lincoln at Gettysburg — Abraham Lincoln (1992)—

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom — Frederick Douglass (2018)—

Samuel Johnson — Samuel Johnson (1791)—

The Life of Samuel Johnson — Samuel Johnson (1791)—

Van Gogh: The Life — Vincent van Gogh (2011)—

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling — Michelangelo (2002)—

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph — Ludwig van Beethoven (2013)—

Mozart: A Life — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1995)—

John Keats — John Keats (1963)—

Dickens — Charles Dickens (1990)—

Tolstoy — Leo Tolstoy (2010)—

Shakespeare: The Biography — William Shakespeare (2005)—

Will in the World — William Shakespeare (2004)—

Jane Austen: A Life — Jane Austen (1997)—

Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame — Lord Byron (1978)—

Chekhov: A Life — Anton Chekhov (1997)—

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time — Fyodor Dostoevsky (2010)—

Marlborough: His Life and Times — John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1933)—

Caesar: Life of a Colossus — Julius Caesar (2006)—

Alexander the Great — Alexander the Great (1973)—

Augustus — Augustus Caesar (2006)—

Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome — Hadrian (2008)—

Cleopatra: A Life — Cleopatra VII (2010)—

Cicero — Marcus Tullius Cicero (2015)—

Sulla: The Last Republican — Lucius Cornelius Sulla (2002)—

Hannibal — Hannibal Barca (2011)—

Richard III — Richard III (2013)—

Henry V — Henry V of England (1984)—

Elizabeth I — Elizabeth I of England (2003)—

Victoria R.I. — Queen Victoria (1964)—

George III — George III (2021)—

Louis XIV — Louis XIV of France (2001)—

Marie Antoinette — Marie Antoinette (2001)—

Napoleon the Great — Napoleon Bonaparte (2007)—

Bismarck: A Life — Otto von Bismarck (2011)—

Disraeli — Benjamin Disraeli (1992)—

The Young Mandela — Nelson Mandela (2010)—

King Leopold's Ghost — King Leopold II (1998)—

Cavour — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1971)—

Garibaldi — Giuseppe Garibaldi (2007)—

Mazzini — Giuseppe Mazzini (1994)—

Charlemagne — Charlemagne (2008)—

Saladin — Saladin (1972)—

Joan of Arc — Joan of Arc (2009)—

The Black Count — Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (2012)—

Catherine de Medici — Catherine de Medici (2003)—

Sun Yat-sen — Sun Yat-sen (1976)—

Chiang Kai-shek: China's Generalissimo — Chiang Kai-shek (2003)—

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China — Deng Xiaoping (2011)—

Zhou Enlai: A Life — Zhou Enlai (2021)—

Ho Chi Minh — Ho Chi Minh (2007)—

Tito — Josip Broz Tito (2020)—

Atatürk — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1999)—

The Life of Thomas More — Thomas More (1964)—

The First Tycoon — Cornelius Vanderbilt (2009)—

The House of Rothschild — Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Family (1998)—

The Years of Lyndon Johnson — Lyndon B. Johnson (1982)—

Robert E. Lee — Robert E. Lee (1995)—

Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior — Douglas MacArthur (2016)—

Eisenhower in War and Peace — Dwight D. Eisenhower (2012)—

American Prometheus — J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005)—

The Wright Brothers — Orville and Wilbur Wright (2015)—

Alan Turing: The Enigma — Alan Turing (1983)—

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Henrietta Lacks (2010)—

The Passage of Power — Lyndon B. Johnson (2012)—