Political Biographies in 2025

Bannon: American Street Fighter by Proser, Jim

The Biography of Alexander Hamilton (U.S. Heritage): With Conjectures about the New Constitution, the Federalist Papers and Other Writings from the Fa by Hamilton, Alexander, Conant, Charles A.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (U.S. Heritage): With the Way of Wealth, Book of Virtues and Other Writings from the First American by Franklin, Benjamin

The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's Most Famous Hostess by Gordon, Meryl

Call Me an American by Cao, April, Cao, Hung

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America by Dyson, Michael Eric

She Won the Vote for Women: The Life and Times of Lillian Beynon Thomas by Hawkins, Robert

Anarchism and Other Essays by Goldman, Emma

Citizen: My Life After the White House by Clinton, Bill

The Red Emperor: XI Jinping and His New China by Sheridan, Michael

The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century by Steil, Benn

Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy by Boutwell, Jeffrey

Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro by Geue, Tom

Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Cohen, Jared

Mao Zedong: A True Story by Li, Jie

Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere: Letters to Power by Olayinka Sule, Ahmed

The Autobiography of John Adams (U.S. Heritage): With Diaries and Other Writings from the 2nd President of the United States by Adams, John

Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill by Tsalikis, Catherine

A Woman of Firsts: Margaret Heckler, Political Trailblazer by Heckler, Kimberly

The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (U.S. Heritage): With the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, Notes on Virginia, and Other Writ by Jefferson, Thomas

Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah by Maxwell, John Gary

Making the Weather: Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain by Bogdanor, Vernon

Stalin's Liquidation Game: The Unlikely Case of Oleksandr Shumskyi, His Survival in Soviet Prison, and His Subsequent Arcane Assassination by Slaveski, Filip, Shapoval, Yuri

Kennan: A Life Between Worlds by Costigliola, Frank

Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and Bush by Gillon, Steven M.

Latin America Diaries: The Sequel to the Motorcycle Diaries by Guevara, Ernesto Che

Why I Am an Atheist and Other Works by Singh, Bhagat

Eastward, Westward: A Life in Law by Cohen, Jerome A.

Madam Mayor: Love and Loss in an American City by Miner, Stephanie A.

Gertrude Bell's Moment in the Middle East: A Reappraisal by Lukitz, Liora

American Impresario: William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Elements of American Character by Perelman, Lawrence

Malaparte: A Biography by Serra, Maurizio

No Man Is an Island: Community and Commemoration on Norway's Utøya by Frydnes, Jørgen Watne

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Guevara, Ernesto Che

Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War by Eicher, Jill

Marx & Engels: A Biographical Introduction by Guevara, Ernesto Che

James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography by Byrne, David T.

America's Path Back to Moral Leadership by Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.

Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It by McMorrow, Mallory

Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights by Reuther, Alan

The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers by Gillis, Don

Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights by Reuther, Alan

Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco by Mitchell, Lincoln A.

Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General by Cameron, Nigel M. de S.

Merkel's Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World by Eddy, Melissa

Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George H. W. Bush by Becker, Jean

Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth about Alger Hiss by Kisseloff, Jeff

I Wish Someone Had Told Me . . .: The Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a Meaningful Life by Anon9780063411470

Tucker by Moore, Chadwick

Perpich: A Minnesota Original by Schierer, Benjamin M.

Politics Repackaged: How Eight Words Shape Our World - A Modern History of the Election Slogan by Bruni-Lowe, Chris

Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil by Blanc, Jacob

Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing by Jealous, Benjamin Todd

Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir, with a New Afterword by Sitta, Salman Abu

Winston's Bandits: Churchill and His Maverick Friends by Phillips, Adrian

Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America by Jean-Pierre, Karine

Turmoil: 30 Years of Policing, Politics and Prejudice by Basu, Neil

Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary by Reinsch, Richard M.

Just Around the Corner by Rumbolt-Jones, Yvonne

Thomas More: A Life by Paul, Joanne

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America by Tanenhaus, Sam

The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank Meyer by Flynn, Daniel J.

Vz: Vladimir Zelenskyi and the Making of a Nation by Bykov, Dmitry

Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics by Moseley Braun, Carol

Colonel Benjamin Stephenson and the History of Early Illinois by Denny, Sidney G.

Jfk: Public, Private, Secret by Taraborrelli, J. Randy

Disease Knows No Politics by Zerhouni, Elias, Kriz, Edward

Henry Kissinger, the European by Gallon, Jérémie

The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation by Clyburn, Jim

Georgi Dimitrov: A Biography by Stankova, Marietta