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Title: Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (LA Times Book Prize Winner), Author: George Packer
Title: The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, Author: Max Boot
Title: Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character, Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Title: Richard Nixon: The Life, Author: John A. Farrell
Title: In the Darkroom, Author: Susan Faludi
Title: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, Author: T. J. Stiles
Title: The Light of the World, Author: Elizabeth Alexander
Title: Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World, Author: Leo Damrosch
Title: The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, Author: David Nasaw
Title: Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, Author: Michael Gorra
Title: Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, Author: Mary Gabriel
Title: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Author: Manning Marable
Title: The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, Author: Alan Brinkley