Cultural Biographies

Question 7

'True Biographies of Nations?': The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography

Forty Autumns

A Family's Story of Survival and Courage on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

Weird but Normal

Essays

Fame Game

An Insider's Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes

Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend

Wendy Carlos

A Biography

Rhythm Man

Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America

A Generous Vision

The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

Music by Max Steiner

The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer

Straighten Up and Fly Right

The Life and Music of Nat King Cole

Sportin' Life

John W. Bubbles, An American Classic

Hope Heals

A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love

Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands

What's Your Excuse?

Making the Most of What You Have

Faith of Barack Obama Revised and Updated

A Spiritual Biography of an American President

Unruled Body

A Poet's Memoir

Black Boy, Black Boy

Stranger Than Fiction

Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Another Now

Dispatches from an Alternative Present

From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

The House of Hidden Meanings

A Memoir

Debt

The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded

Dylan Goes Electric!

Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties

Thanks, Obama

My Hopey, Changey White House Years

I Don't Want to Go Home

The Oral History of the Stone Pony

From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

Oscar Wars

A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears