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Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television
By Todd S. Purdum
He loved Lucy — and the small screen.
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
By Mary Annette Pember
How a vicious institution inflicted pain across generations.
Mark Twain
By Ron Chernow
This stellar biography doesn’t shy away from revealing its subject’s darker side.
Boat Baby: A Memoir
By Vicky Nguyen
A sincere, somewhat bland account of achieving the American Dream.
Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Freidan, Mailer
By David Denby
A quartet of remarkable — if not equally eminent — American Jews.
The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
By Matthew Specktor
All that glitters is gold for a Tinseltown writer.
The Translator’s Daughter
By Grace Loh Prasad
A Taiwanese American woman struggles to reclaim her voice.
The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
By Blake Gopnik
How an irascible iconoclast built a temple to modern art.
