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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

8 best books like The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Debby Applegate): De Kooning: An American Master, Master of the Senate, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, The Spirit of St. Louis, Edith Wharton, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity, Lindbergh

De Kooning: An American Master
AuthorMark Stevens
ISBN0375711163
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement...
Master of the Senate
AuthorRobert A. Caro
ISBN0394720954
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
AuthorDavid McCullough
ISBN1501168681
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
AuthorJohn Matteson
ISBN0393059642
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson, an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and...
The Spirit of St. Louis
AuthorCharles A. Lindbergh
ISBN0743237056
The classic, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Charles A. Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight

Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again…

Charles...
Edith Wharton
AuthorR.W.B. Lewis
ISBN0880640200
This biography of Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes when it came out. And I am only on p. 31 at this moment, but I am already finding a lot of thud moments in the writing. His big interpretations seem labored, prosaic, and debatable. I am simultaneously reading Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary...
James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity
AuthorHarry Ammon
ISBN0813912660
http://bestpresidentialbios.com/2013/...

“James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity” by Harry Ammon was originally published in 1971, making it the oldest of the well-read biographies of our fifth president (though this is not a particularly crowded field). Ammon is formerly...
Lindbergh
AuthorA. Scott Berg
ISBN0425170411
This is a most compelling story of a most significant life; the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is at once Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the man.

Awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for...
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