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Biography

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Al Jaf­fee’s Mad Life: A Biography
Mary-Lou Weisman; Al Jaffee, illus.
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Hank Green­berg: The Hero Who Did­n’t Want to Be One
Mark Kurlansky
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Ablest Nav­i­ga­tor: Lieu­tenant Paul N. Shul­man USN, Israel’s Vol­un­teer Admiral
J. Wandres
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Lee Kras­ner: A Biography
Gail Levin
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The Cam­bridge Intro­duc­tion to Emmanuel Levinas
Michael L. Morgan
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Lenin’s Jew­ish Question
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 978-0-300-15210-4
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Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
Susan Goldman Rubin
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God­dess of the Mar­ket: Ayn Rand and the Amer­i­can Right
Jennifer Burns
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George Gersh­win: An Inti­mate Portrait
Walter Rimler
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The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
Daniel Ammann
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Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles
Panthea Reid
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The Enig­ma of Isaac Babel: Biog­ra­phy, His­to­ry, Context
Gregory Freidin
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Koestler: The Lit­er­ary and Polit­i­cal Odyssey of a Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Skeptic
Michael Scammell
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The Fall of a Spar­row: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner
Dina Porat
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Pulitzer: A Life in Pol­i­tics, Print, and Power
James McGrath Morris
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Stranger from Abroad: Han­nah Arendt, Mar­tin Hei­deg­ger, Friend­ship and Forgiveness
Daniel Maier-Katkin
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