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PAL = Palatka Campus Library | OPC = Orange Park Campus Library
| SAC = St. Augustine Campus Library |
| 2008:
Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and
Her Father by John Matteson - Publisher's
Marketing: "The beloved
author of "Little Women" was torn between pleasing her
idealistic father and planting her feet in the material world.
Louisa May Alcott's name is known universally. Yet, during her youth,
the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson--an eminent teacher, lecturer,
and admired friend of Emerson and Thoreau. Willful and exuberant,
Louisa flew in the face of all her father's intricate theories of
child rearing. She, in turn, could not understand the frugal life
Bronson preached, one that reached its epitome in the failed utopian
community of Fruitlands. In a family that insisted on self-denial
and spiritual striving, Louisa dreamed of wealth and fame. At the
same time, like most daughters, she wanted her father's approval.
As her father struggled to recover from a breakdown and slowly resurrect
his career, Louisa learned to support her family, teaching if she
must, but finally finding her vocation in writing. This story of
their tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's
life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.
26 illustrations."
Call number: SAC - PS1018 .M34 2007
|
2006:
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Publisher's Marketing:
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography
of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb,"
the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture
the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately
after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation-one
of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of
modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress.
He was the author of a radical proposal to place international controls
over atomic materials-an idea that is still relevant today. He opposed
the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized the Air Force's
plans to fight an infinitely dangerous nuclear war. In the now almost-forgotten
hysteria of the early 1950s, his ideas were anathema to powerful
advocates of a massive nuclear buildup, and, in response, Atomic
Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss, Superbomb advocate Edward
Teller and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover worked behind the scenes
to have a hearing board find that Oppenheimer could not be trusted
with America's nuclear secrets.
American Prometheus sets forth Oppenheimer's life and times in
revealing and unprecedented detail. Exhaustively researched, it
is based on thousands of records and letters gathered from archives
in America and abroad, on massive FBI files and on close to a hundred
interviews with Oppenheimer's friends, relatives and colleagues.
We follow him from his earliest education at the turn of the twentieth
century at New York City's Ethical Culture School, through personal
crises at Harvard and Cambridge universities. Then to Germany, where
he studied quantum physics with the world's mostaccomplished theorists;
and to Berkeley, California, where he established, during the 1930s,
the leading American school of theoretical physics, and where he
became deeply involved with social justice causes and their advocates,
many of whom were communists. Then to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where
he transformed a bleak mesa into the world's most potent nuclear
weapons laboratory-and where he himself was transformed. And finally,
to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which he directed
from 1947 to 1966.
American Prometheus is a rich evocation of America at midcentury,
a new and compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex
and flawed man profoundly connected to its major events-the Depression,
World War II and the Cold War. It is at once biography and history,
and essential to our understanding of our recent past-and of our
choices for the future."
Call number: SAC - QC16.O62 B57 2005
|
2005:
de Kooning: An American Master - "The first major
biography of one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Ten years in the making, this exhaustively researched biography
is a masterful portrait of the abstract expressionist Willem de
Kooning, who arrived in New York as a stowaway from Rotterdam in
1926 and underwent a long struggle to become a painter. During the
Depression he was a central figure in the bohemian world of downtown
New York, surviving on WPA and commercial work and slowly gathering
the support of established artists and critics. By 1948, with his
successful first show, he took his place as the romantic and charismatic
leader of the New York School just when American art was beginning
to dominate the international scene. Dashingly handsome, de Kooning
had a tumultuous marriage to Elaine Marie Fried, an acclaimed painter
herself. Days were spent painting powerful abstractions and intense,
disturbing pictures of women--and nights were spent living on the
edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar Bar with such
friends as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Frank O'Hara. In the
1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to Long
Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of pastorals. In
the 1980s, as he slowly declined into Alzheimer's, he created a
late style of haunting, ethereal work. This is an authoritative
and illuminating exploration of the art, life, and world of Willem
de Kooning."
Call
number: SAC - N6537.D43 S74 2004
|
2004:
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era -
Publisher's Marketing: "Nikita Khrushchev
was one of the most complex and important political figures of the
twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade
after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his
country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience:
revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization,
terror, world war, cold war, Stalinism, post-Stalinism. Complicit
in terrible Stalinist crimes, Khrushchev nevertheless retained his
humanity: his daring attempt to reform communism prepared the ground
for its eventual collapse; and his awkward efforts to ease the cold
war triggered its most dangerous crises.
This is the first comprehensive biography of Khrushchev and the
first of any Soviet leader to reflect the full range of sources
that have become available since the USSR collapsed. Combining a
page-turning historical narrative with penetrating political and
psychological analysis, this book brims with the life and excitement
of a man whose story personified his era."
Call number: SAC - DK275 .K5 T38 2004
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2003:
The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Book Three : Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro - "At the heart of Master of the Senate
is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works, how
the U.S. Senate works, how Lyndon Johnson, on his way to the presidency,
mastered both, and how he used his power to break the southern control
of Capitol Hill and to pass the first civil rights legislation since
Reconstruction.
Interweaving his narrative with a brilliantly astute and concise
history of the Senate, Caro shows us how political initiatives triumph
or fail and how political genius functions."
Call
number: SAC - E847 .C34 2002 |
2002:
John Adams by David McCullough - "In this powerful,
epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey
of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible,
always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence,"
as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for
the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of
the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary
war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as
"out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and
valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American
history.
Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography "Truman,"
David McCullough's "John Adams" has the sweep and vitality
of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly
human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from
an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In
particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between
John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published,
provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it
possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding
era.
As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough
tells the story from within -- from the point of view of the amazing
eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no
sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington,
Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame
Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris "interest" Maria Cosway,
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender,
SallyHemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure
in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams,
the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President.
Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship
between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites -- one a Massachusetts
farmer's son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one
short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict;
Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little.
But they were alike in their devotion to their country.
At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats
and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties,
they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for
the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history.
Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly,
they died on the same day -- their day of days -- July 4, in the
year 1826.
Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many readers.
His courageous voyage on the frigate "Boston" in the winter
of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few
would have dared and that few readers will ever forget.
It is a life encompassing a huge arc -- Adams lived longer than
any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia
in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam,
from the Court of St. James's, where Adams was the first American
to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation,
to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was
the first President to occupy the WhiteHouse.
This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war
and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious
faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching
consequences of noble ideas. Above all, "John Adams" is
an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important
and fascinating Americans who ever lived."
Call
number: SAC - E322 .M38 2001
Call
number: PAL - E322 .M38 2001
|
| 2001:
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century,
1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis - "Charismatic,
singularly determined, and controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois was a historian,
novelist, editor, sociologist, founder of the NAACP, advocate of
women's rights, and the premier architect of the Civil Rights movement.
His hypnotic voice thunders out of David Levering Lewis's monumental
biography like a locomotive under full steam.
This second volume of what is already a classic work begins with
the triumphal return from WWI of African American veterans to the
shattering reality of racism and lynching even as America discovers
the New Negro of literature and art. In stunning detail, Lewis chronicles
the little-known political agenda behind the Harlem Renaissance
and Du Bois's relentless fight for equality and justice, including
his steadfast refusal to allow whites to interpret the aspirations
of black America. Seared by the rejection of terrified liberals
and the black bourgeoisie during the Communist witch-hunts, Du Bois
ended his days in uncompromising exile in newly independent Ghana.
In re-creating the turbulent times in which he lived and fought,
Lewis restores the inspiring and famed Du Bois to his central place
in American history."
Call
number: SAC - E185.97.D73 L48 1993 |
1999:
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg - " Bestselling author
and National Book Award-winner A. Scott Berg is the first and only
writer to be given unrestricted access to the massive Lindbergh archives
-- more than two thousand boxes of personal papers, including reams
of unpublished letters and diaries -- and to be allowed freely to
interview Lindbergh's friends, colleagues, and family members, including
his children and his widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The result is a
brilliant biography that clarifies a life long blurred by myth and
half-truth.
From the moment he landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, Lindbergh found
himself thrust on an odyssey for which he was ill-prepared -- becoming
the first modern media superstar, deified and demonized many times
over in a single lifetime. Berg casts dramatic new light on the
lonely, sometimes twisted childhood that formed the aviator's character;
the astonishing transatlantic flight and thrilling, then overwhelming
aftermath; the controversies surrounding the trial of his son's
kidnapper, Lindbergh's fascination with Hitler's Germany and his
leadership of America First; his remarkable unsung work in the fields
of medical research, rocketry, anthropology, and conservation; and,
at the heart of it all, his fascinating, complex marriage to Anne
Morrow Lindbergh, a relationship filled with sudden joy and bitter
darkness.
In all, it is a most compelling story of a most significant life
-- the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep
and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott
Berg, this is Lindbergh the hero -- and Lindbergh the man. "
Call
number: SAC - TL540.L5 B49 1999 |
| 1998:
Personal History by Katharine Graham - "An
extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's
most famous and admired women -- a book that is, as its title suggests,
both personal and history. It is the story of Graham's parents:
the multi-millionaire father who left private business and government
service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post; the
aggressive, formidable, self-absorbed mother, known in her time
for her political and welfare work, and her passionate friendships
with men such as Thomas Mann and Adlai Stevenson. It is the story
of how The Washington Post struggled to succeed -- a fascinating
and instructive business history told from the inside (the paper
has been run by Graham herself, her father, her husband, and now
her son). It is the story of Phil Graham -- Kay's brilliant, charismatic
husband (he clerked for two Supreme Court justices), whose plunge
into manic-depression and eventual suicide are movingly and charitably
recounted. And, best of all, it is Kay Graham herself -- brought
up in great wealth, yet understanding nothing of money; half Jewish,
yet -- incredibly -- unaware of it; naive, awkward, yet intelligent
and energetic, and married to a man she adored. How he fascinated
and educated her, and then in his illness turned from her and abused
her, destroying her confidence and her happiness, is a drama in
itself, followed by the rarer drama of her new life as the head
of a great newspaper and a great company -- a woman famous (and
feared) in her own right. In other words, here is a life that came
into its own with a vengeance -- a success story on every level."
Call
number: SAC - Z 473 .G7 A3 1997
Call
number: OPC - Z 473 .G7 A3 1997
|
| 1997:
Angela's Ashes : A Memoir by Frank McCourt - " "When
I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at
all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood
is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood
is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable
Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era
Brooklyn to Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick,
Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children
since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he
drinks his wages.
Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling -- does
nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a
story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved
Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother
babies.Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing
rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and
gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures
poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and
neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance
and remarkable forgiveness.
"Angela's Ashes," imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's
astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all
the marks of a classic."
Call
number: OPC - E184.I6 M117 1999
|
1996:
God: A Biography by Jack Miles - "Miles shows us God
in the guise of a great literary character, the hero of the Old
Testament. In a close, careful, and inspired reading of that testament
- book by book, verse by verse - God is seen from his first appearance
as Creator to his last as Ancient of Days. The God whom Miles reveals
to us is a warrior whose greatest battle is with himself. We see
God torn by conflicting urges. To his own sorrow, he is by turns
destructive and creative, vain and modest, subtle and naive, ruthless
and tender, lawful and lawless, powerful yet powerless, omniscient
and blind. As we watch him change amazingly, we are drawn into the
epic drama of his search for self-knowledge, the search that prompted
him to create mankind as his mirror. In that mirror he seeks to
examine his own reflection, but he also finds there a rival. We
then witness God's own perilous passage from power to wisdom. For
generations our culture's approach to the Bible has been more a
reverential act than a pursuit of knowledge about the Bible's protagonist;
and so, through the centuries the complexity of God's being and
"life" has been diluted in our consciousness. In this
book we find - in precisely chiseled relief - the infinitely complex
God who made infinitely complex man in his image. Here, we come
closer to the essence of that literary masterpiece that has shaped
our culture no less than our religious life. In God: A Biography,
Jack Miles addresses his great subject with imagination, insight,
learning, daring, and dazzling originality, giving us at the same
time an illumination of the Old Testament as a work of consummate
art and a journey to the secret heart of God."
Call
number: SAC - BS1192.6.M6
|
| 1994:
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by
David Levering Lewis - "William Edward Burghardt Du Bois -
the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America -
was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual
blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the
agitator. This monumental biography - eight years in the research
and writing - treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense
career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois
changed forever the way Americans think about themselves."
Call
number: SAC - E185.97.D73 L48
|
| 1993:
Truman by David McCullough - " Here at last
is the first full-scale biography of Harry S. Truman, his life and
times, by David McCullough, distinguished historian and prize-winning
author.
Huge, ambitious, ten years in the writing, and perfectly realized,
"Truman" is an American masterpiece about that most American
of presidents, "the man from Missouri, " the seemingly
simple, ordinary man who in fact was always much more than met the
eye and who would achieve a greatness of his own after coming to
office in FDR's giant shadow.
No one but David McCullough, with his sure grasp of the American
past and his feeling for people, could have written this extraordinary,
deeply moving biography, at once spare in style yet rich in emotion
and insight.
Much of the story is drawn from newly discovered archival material
and from extensive interviews with Truman friends, family, and figures
once prominent in Truman's Washington. And much will com as a surprise
to many readers.
The story begins with Truman's origins in the raw, expansive world
of the Missouri frontier. It chronicles a small-town, turn-of-the-century
boyhood, family love, family tragedy, and young harry's years on
the farm - years of relentless, often brutal work always cheerfully
performed; of dogged learning, dogged courtship, optimism in the
face of defeat, and courage in the face of war in 19418, the experience
that changed everthing for Truman.
Here in colorful detail is the story of his political beginnings
with the powerful Pendergast machine that ruled Kansas City, and
of Boss Tom Pendergast who sent Truman to the United States Senate,
where rapidly, unexpectedly, he proved himself no small-time party
hack but a man of uncommon vitality andstrength of character.
With a telling account of Truman at Potsdam and his momentous decision
to use the atomic bomb, McCullough's "Truman" shows a
gritty, untried, unprepared new President facing responsibilities
such as had weighed on no man ever before, confronting a new age
and the growing menace of Soviet power, and, in a handful of years,
under terrible pressures, defining the course of American politics
and diplomacy for the next forty years."
Call
number: PAL - E814 .M26 1993
|
1988:
Look Homeward : A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert
Donald - " Thomas Wolfe, one of the giants of twentieth-century
American fiction, is also one of the most misunderstood of our major
novelists. A man massive in his size, his passions, and his gifts,
Wolfe has long been considered something of an unconscious genius,
whose undisciplined flow of prose was shaped into novels by his editor,
the celebrated Maxwell Perkins.
In this definitive and compelling biography, Pulitzer PrizePwinning
historian David Herbert Donald dismantles that myth and demonstrates
that Wolfe was a boldly aware experimental artist who, like James
Joyce, William Faulkner, and John Dos Passos, deliberately pushed
at the boundaries of the modern novel. Donald takes a new measure
of this complex, tormented man as he reveals Wolfe's difficult childhood,
when he was buffeted between an alcoholic father and a resentful
mother; his "magical" years at the University of North
Carolina, where his writing talent first flourished; his rise to
literary fame after repeated rejection; and the full story of WolfeUs
passionate affair with Aline Bernstein, including their intimate
letters."
Call
number: PAL - PS3545.O337 Z674 1987
Call
number: OPC - PS3545.O337 Z674 1987
|
| 1983:
Growing Up by Russell Baker - "This is Russell
Baker's story of growing up in America between the world wars--in
the backwoods mountains of Virginia, in a New Jersey commuter town,
and finally in the Depression-shadowed urban landscape of Baltimore."
Call
number: PAL - PS3552.A4343 Z466 1982
|
| 1982:
Grant : A Biography by William S. McFeely - "The
seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures.
From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and
his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this
Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's
life (1822-1885)."
Call
number: PAL - CWC 973.792 G763yM |
| 1981:
Peter the Great, His Life and World by Robert K.
Massie - "Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story
of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own
Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power
that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century."
Call
number: SAC - DK131 .M28
Call
number: OPC - DK131 .M28
Call
number: PAL - DK131 .M28
|
| 1980:
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- ""The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" chronicles the
privileged youth, elite education, Western-territory adventures,
military campaigns, braggadocio, family life and assemblage of the
larger-than-life personality that became TR. It is the first volume
of Morris's planned three-volume biography, and concludes on the
day TR takes the White House. The awards and critical praise heaped
on the book are due to Morris's meticulous research and his intricate
and poetic prose style, all of which hauls the form of presidential
biography into the realm of literature."
Call
number: SAC - E757 .M883
Call
number: PAL - E757 .M883
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| 1977:
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by
John E. Mack - "When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography
first appeared in 1976, it rescued T. E. Lawrence from the mythologizing
that had seemed to be his fate. In it, John Mack humanely and objectively
explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his
historically significant actions. Extensive interviews, far-flung
correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished
letters provide the basis for Mack's sensitive investigation of
the psychiatric dimensions of Lawrence's personality. In addition,
Mack examines the pertinent history, politics, and sociology of
the time in order to weigh the real forces with which Lawrence contended
and which impinged upon him."
Call
number: PAL - D568.4.L45 M28 1976
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| 1976:
Edith Wharton : A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis
Call
number: PAL - PS3545.I16 Z696 |
| 1975:
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro - "One of the most acclaimed books of our
time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes,
The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and
mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and
makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost
half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New
York, the shaper not only of the city's politics but of its physical
structure and the problems of urban decline that plague us today.
In revealing how Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities
into a political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of government,
one that could bring to their knees Governors and Mayors (from La
Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks, contractors, labor unions,
insurance firms, even the press and the Church, into an irresistible
economic force--Robert Caro reveals how power works in all the cities
of the United States. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor.
He personally conceived and completed public works costing 27 billion
dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has
ever known. Without ever having been elected to office, he dominated
the men who were--even his most bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
could not control him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller,
the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it) equalled
his own.'
Call
number: PAL - NA9085.M68 C37 1974 |
| 1974:
O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer -"The
turbulent, often tragic life of America's greatest playwright, Eugene
O'Neill, is laid bare in this acclaimed and insightful biography"
Call
number: PAL - 812.5,O58ySH |
| 1973:
Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg
Call
number: PAL - PN4874.L76 S9 1972
|
1972:
Eleanor and Franklin : The Story of Their Relationship, Based
on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash -
"Eleanor and Franklin is one of the most highly acclaimed biographies
written in recent times. Its author, Joseph Lash, won the Pulitzer
and National Book Award in biography, as well as the Francis Parkman
Prize of the Society of American Historians. Its focus is Eleanor
Roosevelt and her complex relationship with FDR. Based on her personal
papers and ranging from her birth in 1884 to the death of her husband
in 1945, this fascinating study reveals new dimensions in a marriage
that had a significant impact on the course of American history.
Written with great insight and sensitivity by an author who was
a close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt's for over twenty years, the volume
explores the personal, familial and social influences that shaped
Eleanor and prepared her for role as first lady and chief counselor
to the president. In many ways Eleanor was her husband's conscience.
Her idealism dictated the terms of the complex partnership she evolved
with her husband during his rise through local and national politics."
Call
number: PAL - E807.1 .R572 1971 |
| 1970:
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams - "Winner of
the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this work describes
the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in American political
history."
Call
number: SAC - E748.L86 W48 1969
Call
number: PAL - E748.L86 W48 1970
|
| 1968:
Memoirs by George F. Kennan - "A beautifully
written autobiography of one of America's most distinguished diplomats."
Call
number: PAL - E748.K374 A3 |
| 1967:
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, A Biography by Justin
Kaplan - "With brilliant immediacy, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual personae symbolized
the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality and
freewheeling ambition. As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat
pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of pretension, and the author
of such classics as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. As Mr. Clemens,
he was the star who married and heiress, built a palatial estate,
threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes, and lived
the extravagent life that Mark Twain despised. Set against the richly
drawn background of the post-Civil War period that Mark Twain dubbed
the "Gilded Age," Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain is sure to
entertain and enlighten both general readers and scholars alike."
Call
number: PAL - PS1331 .K33 1966
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| 1966:
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - "As special assistant to the
president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and
personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration.
Schlesinger"s close relationship with JFK, as a politician
and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate
account in which the president "walks through the pages, from
first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing" (John Kenneth
Galbraith). A THOUSAND DAYS is "at once a masterly literary
achievement and a work of major historical significance" (New
York Times)."
Call
number: PAL - E841 .S3 1965
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| 1964:
John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate - "The life
of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary
greatness and of what permits or encourages its development."
Call
number: PAL - PR4836 .B3 1963
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| 1963:
Henry James by Leon Edel
Call
number: SAC - PS2123 .E353
Call
number: PAL - PS2123 .E353
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| 1961:
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
by David Donald
Call
number: OPC - E415.9.S9 D6 1960
Call
number: PAL - CWC E415.9.S9 D6 1981
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| 1960:
John Paul Jones, A Sailor's Biography by Samuel
Eliot Morison - "This Pulitzer Prize-winning book vividly portrays
the illustrious career of John Paul Jones, from his early training
at sea in the British West Indian merchant trade to his command
in the newly independent American Navy and his eventual award of
flag status."
Call
number: PAL - E207 .J7 M6 1959
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1957:
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy - " During
1954– 1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator, chose eight
of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding
integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include
John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert
A. Taft.
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, "Profiles in Courage --
now featuring a new Introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well as
Robert Kennedy’ s Foreword written for the 1964 memorial edition
-- resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues
and is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit.
It is, as Robert Kennedy writes, "not just stories of the past
but a book of hope and confidence for the future. What happens to
the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others
have left us." "
Call
number: PAL - E176 .K4 1956
Call
number: OPC - E176 .K4 1956
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1955: The Taft Story by William S. White
Call
number: PAL - 328.73 T124yW 1954
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| 1954:
The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
- "Charles A. Lindbergh captured the world's attention when
he completed his famous nonstop flight from New York to Paris in
1927. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning account, Lindbergh carries the
reader from his barnstorming days of youthful vision to his world-famous
flight that would change history. This exciting and eloquent account
brings to life the energy and foresight that inspired Lindbergh
to brave the Atlantic in a single-engine plane.
Call
number: PAL - TL540.L5 A85
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1952: Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey
Call
number: OPC - KF8745.H8 P8 1951
Call
number: PAL - KF8745.H8 P8 1951
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| 1951:
John C. Calhoun, American Portrait by Margaret
L. Coit
Call
number: PAL - E340.C15 C63 1961
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| 1950:
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign
Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
Call
number: PAL - E377 .B45 1969
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| 1949:
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History by Robert
E. Sherwood - "Roosevelt and Hopkins is the classic account
of FDR's foreign policy during World War II and how Harry Hopkins,
his friend and closest confidant, became the President's "point
man" with Stalin, Churchill and other allied leaders. It is
also the inside history of America's inevitable wartime rise as
a great power, written in a clear and readable style by White House
speechwriter and playwright Robert Sherwood."
Call
number: OPC - E807 .S45 1950
Call
number: PAL - E807 .S45 1950
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| 1947:
The Autobiography of William Allen White - "One
of the most unforgettable personality of his age, a gifted writer,
highly admired journalist, politician, friend of presidents, White's
life history spans from the time of buffalo and wild Indians in
his native Kansas to the age of FDR."
Call
number: PAL - PN4874.W52 A3 1946
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| 1946:
Son of the Wilderness : The Life of John Muir by
Linnie Marsh Wolfe - "Working closely with Muir's family and
with his papers, Linnie Marsh Wolfe was able to create a full portrait
of her subject, not only as America's firebrand conservationist
and founder of the national park system, but also as husband, father,
and friend. All readers who have admired Muir's ruggedly individualistic
lifestyle, and those who wish a greater appreciation for the history
of environmental preservation in America, will be enthralled and
enlightened by this splendid biography."
Call
number: PAL - 333.72 M953yW 1947
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| 1943:
Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a Life of Christopher Columbus
by Samuel Eliot Morison - "Telling the story of the greatest
sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid
and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages
that, for better or worse, changed the world."
Call
number: SAC - E 111 .M8 1962
Call
number: PAL - E111 .M86 1942a
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1939:
Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren - "From
Benjamin Franklin's beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his
retirement from public affairs at eighty-two, there was no break in
his activity and accomplishments. As a writer, inventor, and statesman,
he was--and still is--unsurpassed by anyone in the range of his natural
gifts and the important uses to which he put them.
In this monumental biography, which won the Pulitzer Prize when
first published in 1939, Carl Van Doren incorporates materials from
Franklin's letters, manuscripts, journals, and published works to
give the most accurate and comprehensive portrait ever written of
this great American."
Call
number: PAL - E302.6.F8 V36 1956 |
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1938: Andrew Jackson, Portrait of a President by
Marquis James
Call
number: PAL - E392 .J273 1937
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| 1935:
R. E. Lee, a Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman
Call
number: OPC - E467.1.L4 F83
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| 1933:
Grover Cleveland : A Study in Courage by Allan
Nevins
Call
number: PAL - E697 .N46 1958
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| 1932:
Theodore Roosevelt : A Biography by Henry F. Pringle
- "Pringle's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles
the incidents that shaped Roosevelt's career but also offers insight
into the character and mind of this colorful american president."
Call
number: PAL - E757 .P967 1956
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| 1924:
From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Pupin - "A
Pulitzer Prize winning book, Pupin's main objective in this narrative
was to describe the rise of idealism in American science and particularly
in physical sciences and the related industries. He was a witness
to this gradual development and everything he describes was an attempt
to qualify as a witness whose testimony has competence and weight."
Call
number: PAL - 530 P984yP 1951
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| 1922:
A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
- "Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel to A Son of the Middle Border
continues the autobiographical theme of that book and deals with
Garland's marriage and later career. A sensitive study of individuals,
their relationships, and the colorful drama that made up their daily
lives. Among the most perceptive regional works in American literature,
this volume about the trials and challenges of pioneer life in mid-America
will be of interest to history students and anyone fascinated by
the 19th-century cultural scene."
Call
number: PAL - 813.09 G233yG2 |
| 1921:
The Americanization of Edward Bok : The Autobiography of
a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
Call
number: PAL - PN4874.B62 A4
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| 1920:
The Life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge
- "John Marshall (1755-1835) became the fourth chief justice
of the U.S. Supreme Court despite having had almost no formal schooling
and after having studied law for a mere six weeks. Nevertheless,
Marshall remains the only judge in American history whose distinction
derives almost entirely from his judicial career. During Marshall's
nearly 35-year tenure as chief justice, he wielded the Constitution's
awe-inspiring power aggressively and wisely, setting the Supreme
Court on a course for the ages by ensuring its equal position in
the triumvirate of the federal government of the United States and
securing its role as interpreter and enforcer of the Constitution.
Marshall's judicial energies were as unflagging as his vision was
expansive. This four-volume life of Marshall received wide acclaim
upon its initial publication in 1920, winning the Pulitzer Prize
that year, and makes fascinating reading for the lawyer, historian,
and legal scholar."
Call
number: PAL - E302.6.M4 B584
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| 1919:
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams - "A
scion of the famous Adams family of American statesmen, historian
Henry Adams was more drawn to scholarship than to politics. His
well-known autobiographical work--privately printed in 1907 and
published posthumously in 1918--reflects his constant search for
order and unity in a world he regarded as teetering on the brink
of self-destruction. Adams subtitled his work "A Study of 20th-Century
Multiplicity" and cast himself as a modern everyman, seeking
coherence in a fragmented universe and concluding that his education
was inadequate for the demands of modern society."
Call
number: SAC - E175.5.A2 A3
Call
number: OPC - E175.5.A2 A3
Call
number: PAL - E175.5 .A172 1946
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