Now in Paperback: King Stephen
/Now in paperback: the most comprehensive, opinionated, and even-handed biography poor unlucky oath-breaking King Stephen is ever likely to get - or deserve.
Read MoreNow in paperback: the most comprehensive, opinionated, and even-handed biography poor unlucky oath-breaking King Stephen is ever likely to get - or deserve.
Read MoreAn engaging - perhaps a touch too engaging - new biography of fourth four-star general in U.S. history: Phil Sheridan
Read MoreThe passionate, complicated Bronte family is the subject of Juliet Barker's massive, definitive biography, now given a sumptuous new edition
Read MoreAn accessible, well-researched new biography takes a largely approving look at America's fourth president, James Madison.
Read MoreThe first volume in a magisterial new two-volume biography of the greatest Renaissance artist of them all!
Read MoreThe well-spoken son of a lesbian couple becomes a YouTube sensation - and an author.
Read MoreA heapingly generous helping of the letters of history's most popular novelist
Read Morea new book sifts the evidence for a few flash-point topics in the life of Meriwether Lewis
Read MoreA solid, enjoyable new biography of one of ancient Rome's most notorious gay teen-emperors!
Read MoreA big new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, whose vivid and dreamlike artwork caught the sentimentality of his time and shaped it to immortal perfection.
Read MoreA masterful new biography takes Henry VIII down a peg or two
Read MoreA brilliant new biography of the great man of the English Renaissance
Read MoreShe nearly doubled the size of the Russian empire, she debated with philosophers, she endowed the first women's college in Russia, and she was a beloved mother to her people for 34 years - and she had a steady stream of lovers through it all. She was Catherine the Great.
Read MoreArcade Publishing re-issues Frank McLynn's merrily magnificent biography of that pestiferous little Corsican!
Read MoreA lively new biography of the artist whose work - and life - lives on the borderland of light and dark
Read MoreA quietly stunning new biography of England's infamous "Bloody Mary"
Read MoreJoining the innumerable hosts of Byron biographies, a new book looks at the heartthrob poet's brief but legendary sojourn to Geneva
Read MoreFor two centuries, he's been the founding myth of his nation: first in war, first in peace, Washington the paragon. Ron Chernow's new biography does nothing to tarnish that image -- but should it?
Read MoreSteve Donoghue exhumes the sprawling, illuminating writing of Gregory of Tours, the wrongly forgotten 12th-century saint, historian, and natural-born raconteur
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