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2010
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T.J. Stiles The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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2009
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Jon Meacham. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
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2008
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John Matteson. Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
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2007
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Debby Applegate. The Most Famous Man in America
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2006
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Kia Bird and
Martin Sherwin. American Prometheus
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2005
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Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. de Kooning: An American Master
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2004
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William Taubman. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
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2003
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Robert A. Caro. Master of the Senate
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2002
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David McCullough. John Adams
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2001
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David Levering Lewis. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
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2000
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Stacy Schiff. Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
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1999
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A. Scott Berg. Lindbergh
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1998
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Katharine Graham. Personal History
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1997
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Frank McCourt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
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1996
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Jack Miles. God: A Biography
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1995
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Joan D. Hedrick. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
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1994
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David Levering Lewis. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919
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1993
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David McCullough. Truman
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1992
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Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
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1991
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Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith. Jackson Pollock
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1990
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Sebastian de Grazia. Machiavelli in Hell
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1989
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Richard Ellmann. Oscar Wilde (posthumous)
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1988
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David Herbert Donald. Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
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1987
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David J. Garrow. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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1986
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Elizabeth Frank. Louise Bogan: A Portrait
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1985
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Kenneth Silverman. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
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1984
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Louis R. Harlan. Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
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1983
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Russell Baker. Growing Up
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1982
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William McFeely. Grant: A Biography
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1981
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Robert K. Massie. Peter the Great: His Life and World
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1980
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Edmund Morris. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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1979
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Leonard Baker. Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
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1978
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Walter Jackson Bate. Samuel Johnson
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1977
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John E. Mack. A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence
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1976
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R. W. B. Lewis. Edith Wharton: A Biography
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1975
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Robert Caro. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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1974
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Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill, Son and Artist
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1973
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W. A. Swanberg. Luce and His Empire
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1972
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Joseph P. Lash. Eleanor and Franklin
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1971
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Lawrance Thompson. Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938
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1970
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T. Harry Williams. Huey Long
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1969
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Benjamin Lawrence Reid. The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends
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1968
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George F. Kennan. Memoirs
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1967
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Justin Kaplan. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
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1966
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.. A Thousand Days
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1965
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Ernest Samuels. Henry Adams, three volumes
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1964
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Walter Jackson Bate. John Keats
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1963
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Leon Edel. Henry James
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1962
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(No Award)
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1961
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David Donald. Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
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1960
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Samuel Eliot Morison. John Paul Jones
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1959
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Arthur Walworth. Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet
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1958
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Douglas Southall Freeman. George Washington, Volumes I-VI;, and Volume VII, written by John Alexander Carroll & Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953
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1957
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John F. Kennedy. Profiles in Courage
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1956
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Talbot Faulkner Hamlin. Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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1955
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William S. White. The Taft Story
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1954
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Charles A. Lindbergh. The Spirit of St. Louis
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1953
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David J. Mays. Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803
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1952
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Merlo J. Pusey. Charles Evans Hughes
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1951
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Margaret Louise Coit. John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
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1950
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Samuel Flagg Bemis. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
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1949
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Robert E. Sherwood. Roosevelt and Hopkins
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1948
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Margaret Clapp. Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
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1947
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William Allen White. The Autobiography of William Allen White
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1946
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Linnie Marsh Wolfe. Son of the Wilderness
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1945
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Russell Blaine Nye. George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
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1944
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Carleton Mabee. The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
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1943
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Samuel Eliot Morison. Admiral of the Ocean Sea
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1942
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Forrest Wilson. Crusader in Crinoline
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1941
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Ola Elizabeth Winslow. Jonathan Edward
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1940
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Ray Stannard Baker. Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII & VIII
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1939
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Carl Van Doren. Benjamin Franklin
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1938
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Marquis James. Andrew Jackson, 2 vols.
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1938
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Odell Shepard. Pedlar's Progress
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1937
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Allan Nevins. Hamilton Fish
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1936
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Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and Character of William James
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1935
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Douglas S. Freeman. R. E. Lee
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1934
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Tyler Dennett. John Hay
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1933
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Allan Nevins. Grover Cleveland
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1932
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Henry F. Pringle. Theodore Roosevelt
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1931
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Henry James. Charles W. Eliot
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1930
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Marquis James. The Raven
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1929
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Burton J. Hendrick. The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
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1928
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Charles Edward Russell. The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
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1927
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Emory Holloway. Whitman
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1926
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Harvey Cushing. The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.
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1925
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M. A. Dewolfe Howe. Barrett Wendell and His Letters
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1924
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Michael Idvorsky Pupin. From Immigrant to Inventor
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1923
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Burton J. Hendrick. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
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1922
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Hamlin Garland. A Daughter of the Middle Border
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1921
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Edward Bok. The Americanization of Edward Bok
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1920
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Albert J. Beveridge. The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols.
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1919
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Henry Adams. The Education of Henry Adams
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1918
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William Cabell Bruce. Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
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1917
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Laura E. Richards & Maude Howe Elliott. Julia Ward Howe
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