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John Lewis
By David Greenberg
A towering figure is given the stellar biography he deserves.
History Matters
By David McCullough; edited by Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill
The celebrated late historian’s advice to writers.
The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President
By Eden Collinsworth
A looseness with the facts undermines this work’s credibility.
The Rising
By Larry Silverstein
Recounting the brutal, protracted fight to reclaim Ground Zero.
A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets
By Andy Shallal
The activist founder of a DC fixture shares how it all began.
Transformed by India: A Life
By Stephen P. Huyler
An anthropologist celebrates the country that reshaped him.
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
By Megan Marshall
A master biographer tells her own poignant story.
A Truce That Is Not Peace
By Miriam Toews
The author parries with an imagined interlocutor in this beguiling memoir.
