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Biography

Cover of Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power
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Sub­ver­sives: The FBI’s War on Stu­dent Rad­i­cals and Rea­gan’s Rise to Power
Seth Rosenfeld
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The Acci­den­tal Fem­i­nist: How Eliz­a­beth Tay­lor Raised Our Con­scious­ness and We Were Too Dis­tract­ed By Her Beau­ty to Notice
M.G. Lord
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Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Con­tro­ver­sial Hero
Mordechai Bar-On
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An Unbro­ken Bond: The Untold Sto­ry Of How The 658 Can­tor Fitzger­ald Fam­i­lies Faced The Tragedy Of 9/11 And Beyond
Edie Lut­nick
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Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fair­ly Fab­ri­cat­ed Sto­ry of a Pair of Pants
Tony Johnston; Stacy Innerst, illus.
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A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordi­nary Nazis and the Holocaust
Mary Ful­brook
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Road To Val­or: A True Sto­ry of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
Aili and Andres McConnon
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Men­achem Begin: A Life
Avi Shilon; Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett, trans.
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A Cen­tu­ry of Wis­dom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Som­mer, the World’s Old­est Liv­ing Holo­caust Survivor
Caroline Stoessinger
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Alice’s Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki; Alice Herz-Sommer, fwd.
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A Dif­fi­cult Woman: The Chal­leng­ing Life and Times of Lil­lian Hellman
Alice Kessler-Harris
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Vik­tor Fran­kl: A Life Worth Living
Anna Redsand
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Who Was Anne Frank?
Ann Abramson; Nancy Harrison, illus.
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Elie Wiesel: Mes­sen­ger for Peace
Heather Lehr Wagner
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Epis­tolophil­ia: Writ­ing the Life of Ona Šimaitė
Julija Šukys
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All Gov­ern­ments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Jour­nal­ist I. F. Stone
Myra MacPherson
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