Historical Figures in 1997

Irene: King and Autocrat by Kara-Kolias, Gabriella

The Pacific Way: A Memoir by Mara, Ratu Kamisese

Young Hamilton by Flexner, James T.

Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War by Denes, Magda

Young Hamilton by Flexner, James T.

Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945 by

A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile by Nesaule, Agate

Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long (Revised) by Hair, William Ivy

Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History by Miller, Joaquin

Never Give in: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill by Mansfield, Stephen

And Peace Never Came by Raab, Elisabeth M.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick

The Inner Jefferson by Burstein, Andrew

James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest Volume 12 by Malone, Michael

Gruffudd AP Cynan: A Collaborative Biography by

Caesar: A Biography by Meier, Christian

Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry by Vaughan, David J.

In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey by Gilbert, Martin

Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee by Wilkins, J. Steven

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter by Souhami, Diana

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Frank, Anne

A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness by Duke, Patty

Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism by Black, Allida

Wild Steps of Heaven by Villasenor, Victor

A Jewish Girl Finds New Roots by Orfali, Stephanie Braun

Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph by Bosworth, Albert Brian

Founding Father by Brookhiser, Richard

The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle by Williams, Charles

The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution by Steinberg, Mark D., Khrustalëv, Vladimir M.

The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering by Siebenschuh, William R., Tsering, Tashi, Goldstein, Melvyn C.

The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering by Tsering, Tashi, Goldstein, Melvyn C., Siebenschuh, William R.

Rebel Watchdog: The Confederate States Army Provost Guard by Radley, Kenneth J.

Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures by Jones, Bryan L.

New Light at the Cape of Good Hope: William Porter, the Father of Cape Liberalism by McCracken, J. L.

Rebel Private: Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier by Fletcher, William A.

The Papers of George Washington: February-December 1787 Volume 5 by Washington, George

The Papers of George Washington: January-September 1788 Volume 6 by Washington, George

Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade by

Attlee by Pearce, Robert

Sylvia Plath by

John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance by Sherman, William H.

A Sketch of Sam Bass, the Bandit, Volume 6 by Martin, Charles L.

Sarah Childress Polk: A Biography of the Remarkable First Lady by Bumgarner, John R.

Rebel Bishop: Augustin Verot, Florida's Civil War Prelate by Gannon, Michael

Julian the Apostate by Bowersock, G. W.

Mazarin: The Crisis of Absolutism in France by Treasure, Geoffrey

A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox 1856-1876 by Fox, Tryphena Blanche H.

A Man Divided: Michael Garfield Smith, Jamaican Poet and Anthropologist 1921-1993 by Hall, Douglas

A Heritage of Woe: The Civil War Diary of Grace Brown Elmore, 1861-1868 by

The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner by

An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us by Carroll, James

Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War by Symonds, Craig L.

Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times by Bronner, Stephen Eric

Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux by Larson, Robert W.

A Hoosier Holiday by Dreiser, Theodore

The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa by McCord, Margaret

Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Fellman, Michael

Dear Miye: Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946 by Tomita, Mary Kimoto

My Years in Theresienstadt: How One Woman Survived the Holocaust by Spies, Gerty

Only Child by O'Connor, Frank

Hogan: A Biography by Sampson, Curt

The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of Nuclear Fixer by Weinberg, Alvin M.

Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now by Wong, Jan

Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor by Lewis, Henry Clay

The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family by Baker, Jean H.

Diary of Anna Green Winslow by Winslow, Anna Green

Robert E. Lee: A Biography (Revised) by Thomas, Emory M.

A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum by Roberts, Robert

Florence Nightingale by Goldie, Sue M.

Custer by Wert, Jeffry D.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Broyard, Anatole

From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival by Blatt, Thomas Toivi

Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Sime, Ruth Lewin

William Edward Dodd: The South's Yeoman Scholar by Bailey, Fred Arthur

Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped from a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a by de Erauso, Catalina

Daylight in the Swamp: Memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney by

Invisible Allies by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Brothers in Gray: The Civil War Letters of the Pierson Family by

Whistled Like a Bird: The Untold Story of Dorothy Putnam, George Putnam, and Amelia Earhart by Chapman, Sally Putnam

The Ocean of Truth: The Story of Sir Isaac Newton by McPherson, Joyce

Oliver Cromwell by Gaunt, Peter

Reflected Glory by Smith, Sally Bedell

The Children of Henry VIII by Weir, Alison

Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism by Le Beau, Bryan F.

Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered by Martin, James K.

Where Light and Shadow Meet: A Memoir by Schindler, Emilie, Rosenberg, Erika

Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood by Simon, Kate

Lee by Freeman, Douglas Southall

The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan Volume 19 by

Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin by Ahmed, Akbar

First Elizabeth by Erickson, Carolly

Great Harry by Erickson, Carolly

Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives by Radzinsky, Edvard

Einstein by Brian, Denis

Wide Ruins: Memories from a Navajo Trading Post by Wagner, Sallie

Here at the New Yorker by Gill, Brendan

The Gates of November by Potok, Chaim

Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography by Dod, Andrew, Volkan, Vamik, Itzkowitz, Norman

Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. Records by Records, Laban Samuel

Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas by Duncan, David E.

The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott: Volume 76 by Elliott, Richard S.

Alias Frank Canton by Dearment, Robert K.

James Madison: The Founding Father by Rutland, Robert

Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Tefertiller, Casey

Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song by Mandziuk, Roseann M., Fitch, Suzanne Pullon

Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery by Wyatt-Brown, Bertram

My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin by

Jimmy Carter American Moralist: The Life Story and Moral Legacy of Our Thirty-Ninth President by Morris, Kenneth E.

Turned Inside Out: Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac by Wilkeson, Frank

The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909 by Washburn, Josie

The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family by Lessard, Suzannah

Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Fraser, Antonia

Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright by Blood, Thomas

Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol by Painter, Nell Irvin

Barry Goldwater by Goldberg, Robert Alan

Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder by

The Many Landfalls of John Cabot by Pope, Peter

Rough Rider: Buckey O'Neill of Arizona by Walker, Dale L.

Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition: Admiral Sir George Cockburn 1772-1853 by Morriss, Roger

The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra by Alexandra, Tsaritsa

Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm by Peat, F. David

Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy by Lamson, Roswell Hawks

An Uncommon Woman by Pakula, Hannah

Quantrill's War: The Life & Times of William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865 by Schultz, Duane P.

A Time to Speak by Lewis, Helen

Granddaddy Was Airborne! by Hagerman, Bart

The Hammonds: A Marriage in History by Weaver, Stewart A.

Cobb's Ordeal: The Diaries of a Virginia Farmer by

Lemady: Episodes of a Writer's Life by Roberts, Keith

Granddaddy Was Airborne! by Hagerman, Bart

Andrew Johnson: A Biography by Trefousse, Hans Louis, Treffousse, Han

Joseph Banks: A Life by O'Brian, Patrick

Catherine de'Medici by Knecht, R. J.

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Obeyesekere, Gananath

Nature and Artifice: The Life and Thought of Thomas Hodgskin, 1787-1869 by Stack, David

Perikles and His Circle by Podlecki, Anthony J.

A Russian Advocate of Peace: Vasilii Malinovskii (1765-1814) by Ferretti, P.

Jannus, an American Flier by Reilly, Thomas