Historical Figures in 1997

The Pacific Way: A Memoir by Mara, Ratu Kamisese

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

Patriot-Improvers: Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume One, 1743-1768, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 226) by Jr.

Young Hamilton by Flexner, James T.

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

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

Cowboys and Dog Tales by O'Byrne, Tim

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

Caesar: A Biography by Meier, Christian

Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History by Miller, Joaquin

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

And Peace Never Came by Raab, Elisabeth M.

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

The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist by Burstein, Andrew

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

Gruffudd AP Cynan: A Collaborative Biography by

A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece by Breece, Hannah

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

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

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

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

Antigonus II Gonatas: A Political Biography by Gabbert, Janice J.

Wild Steps of Heaven by Villasenor, Victor

Ironclad Captain: Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864 by Slagle

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 Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze by Ekedahl, Carolyn, Goodman, Melvin A.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Life in the Saddle: Volume 21 by Collinson, Frank

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

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

Reuven Shiloah - the Man Behind the Mossad: Secret Diplomacy in the Creation of Israel by Eshed, Haggai

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

A Hoosier Holiday by Dreiser, Theodore

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

Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: A Great-Granddaughter's Pilgrimage by Allen, Madelene Ferguson

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

Beyond the Yellow Star to America by Auerbacher, Inge

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

Doc: Orra A. Phelps, M.D., Adirondack Naturalist and Mountaineer by Arakelian, Mary

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.

Oliver Cromwell by Gaunt, Peter, Gaunt

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

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

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

Florence Nightingale by Goldie, Sue M.

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

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 Man by de Erauso, Catalina

Ranald MacDonald: Pacific Rim Adventurer by Roe, Jo Ann

Invisible Allies by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

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

A Life of Albert Pike by Brown, Walter Lee

Cary Grant: A Class Apart by McCann, Graham

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.

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

Lee by Freeman, Douglas Southall

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

Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood by Simon, Kate

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

First Elizabeth by Erickson, Carolly

Great Harry: A Biography of Henry VIII by Erickson, Carolly

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

Deng: A Political Biography by Yang, Benjamin

Marietta Wetherill: Life with the Navajos in Chaco Canyon by Wetherill, Marietta

Prierias: The Life and Works of Silvestro Mazzolini Da Prierio (1456-1527) by Tavuzzi, Michael

A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile by Agosín, Marjorie

Here at the New Yorker by Gill, Brendan

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

The Gates of November by Potok, Chaim

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

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

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

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

Alias Frank Canton by Dearment, Robert K.

First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander MacKenzie Volume 14 by Gough, Barry

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 Fitch, Suzanne P., Mandziuk, Roseann

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 Salmon P. Chase Papers, Volume 4: Correspondence, April 1863-1864 by

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

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

Barry Goldwater by Goldberg, Robert Alan

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

A Time to Speak by Lewis, Helen

The Many Landfalls of John Cabot by Pope, Peter

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

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

Confessions of an Art Addict by Guggenheim, Peggy

An Enlightenment Tory in Victorian Scotland: The Career of Sir Archibald Alison by Michie, Michael

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

All But My Life by Klein, Gerda Weissmann

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

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

Granddaddy Was Airborne! by Hagerman, Bart

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

Joseph Banks: A Life by O'Brian, Patrick

Snow Man: John Hornby in Canada's Barren Lands by Waldron, Malcolm

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

The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin by Anderson, Douglas

Perikles and his Circle by Podlecki, Anthony J.

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