Alan Ryan

Oui, the People

The Man who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

By Olivier Zunz

August 2019 Issue

Richard Carwardine

Emancipation and Beyond

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W Blight

May 2018 Issue

Stephen Bates

Joined at the Liver

Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

By Yunte Huang

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March 2018 Issue

Tim Stanley

Jokester-in-Chief

Lincoln’s Sense of Humor

By Richard Carwardine

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December 2017 Issue

Richard Carwardine

Warrior in the White House

Grant

By Ron Chernow

April 2002 Issue

J W M Thompson

He Took a Prostitute to Meet Queen Victoria

American Scoundrel: Love, War And Politics In Civil War America

By Thomas Keneally

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July 2017 Issue

Gavin Weightman

Suspended in Time

Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling – The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge

By Erica Wagner

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March 1994 Issue

Susan Elkin

The Little Woman who Started a Civil War

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

By Joan D Hedrick

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March 2003 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

At Least He Had A Conscience

Carnegie

By Peter Krass

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September 2004 Issue

Patrick O'Connor

He Could Laugh at Everything

Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

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February 2009 Issue

Frank McLynn

Columbus of the Woods

Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America

By Meredith Mason Brown

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February 2009 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

American Idol

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

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September 2007 Issue

Frank McLynn

Catnip to the Señoritas

Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride

By Michael Wallis

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February 2005 Issue

Paul Johnson

Civil Warrior

Robert E Lee: Icon for a Nation

By Brian Holden Reid

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March 2013 Issue

Amanda Foreman

Blazing Sidesaddles

O My America! Second Acts in a New World

By Sara Wheeler

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