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W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919David Levering Lewis199336 pts4 wins6 listsHenry HoltBiographyBusiness Biography
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963David Levering Lewis199422 pts3 wins4 listsHenry Holt and CompanyBiographyBlack History & Culture+2
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius VanderbiltT. J. Stiles200920 pts2 wins2 listsVintage BooksBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
The Life and Times of Cotton MatherKenneth Silverman197020 pts2 wins2 listsWelcome RainBiographyBusiness Biography
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler DynastyPatrick Radden Keefe202120 pts1 wins4 listsDoubledayBiographyDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+2
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American CenturyGeorge Packer201920 pts1 wins4 listsKnopfBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His WorldLeo Damrosch201320 pts1 wins5 listsYale University PressBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s NarrativeGregg Hecimovich202218 pts2 wins3 listsEccoBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
John Maynard Keynes, Fighting for Britain 1937-1946Robert Skidelsky200118 pts2 wins3 listsVikingBiographyMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+1
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward BeecherDebby Applegate200618 pts1 wins3 listsDoubledayBiographyBusiness Biography
Henry James: The Master, 1901–1916Leon Edel196318 pts1 wins3 listsAvon BooksBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
This Boy’s Life: A MemoirTobias Wolff198914 pts1 wins2 listsPicadorMemoir & AutobiographyBusiness Biography+1
Growing UpRussell Baker198214 pts1 wins2 listsSignetMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+1
The Right StuffTom Wolfe197914 pts1 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxSociety & CultureMemoir & Personal History+1
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A MemoirIngrid Rojas Contreras202214 pts0 wins4 listsDoubledayMemoir & AutobiographyBusiness Biography+2
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled SelfClaire Tomalin200212 pts1 wins3 listsVintage BooksBiographyBusiness Biography
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a RevolutionMary Gabriel201112 pts0 wins3 listsLittle, BrownBiographyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s DisabledAlex Green202510 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMemoir & Personal History+3
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)Rebecca Solnit201810 pts1 wins1 listsHaymarket BooksPolitics & GovernmentLiterature & Writers+2
Chernobyl: History of a TragedySerhii Plokhy201810 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin Publishing GroupHistoryBusiness Biography
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlTimothy Egan200610 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryBusiness Biography
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in AmericaBarbara Ehrenreich200110 pts1 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksMemoir & AutobiographyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+1
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American PioneerJohn Mack Faragher199210 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanBiographyBusiness Biography
Winners and LosersGloria Emerson197610 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseWar & MilitaryMemoir & Personal History+1
Selected EssaysWilliam Troy196710 pts1 wins1 listsRutgers University PressArts & CriticismBusiness Biography
The Lion and the ThroneCatherine Drinker Bowen195710 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownBiographyBusiness Biography
Four Hundred Million Customers: The Experiences—Some Happy, Some Sad, of an American Living in China, and What They Taught HimCarl Crow193710 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureMemoir & Personal History+2
Personal HistoryKatharine Graham199810 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksMemoir & AutobiographyBusiness Biography+1
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard KeynesZachary D. Carter202010 pts1 wins3 listsRandom HouseBiographyMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+2
The Restless Republic: Britain Without a CrownAnna Keay20228 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+1
Having It So Good: Britain in the FiftiesPeter Hennessy20068 pts1 wins2 listsAllen LaneHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
Desert: The American SouthwestRuth Kirk, Louis Kirk19748 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentLiterature & Writers+1
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914David McCullough19778 pts1 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryConstitutional History+2
Untold StoriesAlan Bennett20068 pts1 wins2 listsFaber & FaberMemoir & AutobiographyBusiness Biography
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and ThemselvesAndrew Ross Sorkin20098 pts0 wins2 listsVikingBusiness & EconomicsMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+2
The Last American ManElizabeth Gilbert20028 pts0 wins2 listsBloomsburyBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Freud: A Life for Our TimePeter Gay19898 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintBiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
Thomas Carlyle: A BiographyFred Kaplan19848 pts0 wins2 listsCambridge University PressBiographyBusiness Biography
Being Bernard BerensonMeryle Secrest19808 pts0 wins2 listsHodder & StoughtonBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
The Powers That BeDavid Halberstam19798 pts0 wins2 listsKnopfJournalism & ReportagePresidency & Executive Power+2
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton PlanterTheodore Rosengarten19868 pts0 wins2 listsWilliam MorrowBiographyBusiness Biography
Gorbachev: His Life and TimesWilliam Taubman20178 pts0 wins3 listsW. W. NortonBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
William Wells Brown: An African American LifeEzra Greenspan20106 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBlack History & Culture+2
Stuart: A Life BackwardsAlexander Masters20056 pts0 wins2 listsFourth EstateBiographyBusiness Biography
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall StreetDavid McClintock19836 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+1
The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art CollectionJerry Brotton20066 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismBusiness Biography
Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica MitfordCarla Kaplan20254 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Betty Friedan: Magnificent DisruptorRachel Shteir20234 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressBiographyGender & Feminism+2
Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience GrayAdam Federman20174 pts0 wins1 listsChelsea Green PublishingBiographyBusiness Biography+2
Little FailureGary Shteyngart20144 pts0 wins1 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century LifeJonathan Sperber20134 pts0 wins1 listsLiverightBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year HistoryNicholas A. Basbanes20134 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryBusiness Biography
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and DeathJill Lepore20124 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryMemoir & Personal History+2
The Autobiography of an ExecutionDavid Dow20104 pts0 wins1 listsTwelveMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American CenturyAlan Brinkley20104 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity EvolvesMatt Ridley20104 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
The Life of Kingsley AmisZachary Leader20074 pts0 wins1 listsJonathan CapeBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil LibertyArthur H. Cash20064 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressBiographyConstitutional History+2
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary StuartJohn Guy20054 pts0 wins1 listsHoughton MifflinBiographyBusiness Biography
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American CenturySteven Watts20054 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
The Working Poor: Invisible in AmericaDavid Shipler20044 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfSociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the BountyCaroline Alexander20034 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryBusiness Biography
Borrowed Finery: A MemoirPaula Fox20014 pts0 wins1 listsPicadorMemoir & AutobiographyBusiness Biography+1
An Uncommon Woman: The Empress FrederickHannah Pakula19974 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908–1958Cary Reich19964 pts0 wins1 listsDoubledayBiographyBusiness Biography
Hugo Black: A BiographyRoger K. Newman19944 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBusiness Biography+1
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American CultureWilliam Leach19944 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksSociety & CultureLiterature & Writers+2
Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of CelebrityNeal Gabler19944 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
An Evil CradlingBrian Keenan19924 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyBusiness Biography
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High SchoolSamuel G. Freedman19904 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureBusiness Biography
Strong Drink, Strong LanguageJohn Espey19904 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBusiness Biography
The Paper: The Life and Times of the New York Herald TribuneRichard Kluger19864 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfJournalism & ReportageBusiness Biography
Thomas More: A BiographyRichard Marius19844 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBusiness Biography
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern WorldDavid S. Landes19834 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
American Dreams: Lost and FoundStuds Terkel19814 pts0 wins1 listsBallantine BooksSociety & CultureBusiness Biography
Front and CenterJohn Houseman19794 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food SupplyDan Morgan19794 pts0 wins1 listsVikingBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
The Duke of DeceptionGeoffrey Wolff19794 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
Economics and the Public PurposeJohn Kenneth Galbraith19734 pts0 wins1 listsHoughton MifflinBusiness & EconomicsMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+2
Run-ThroughJohn Houseman19724 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyBusiness Biography
Indian Man: A Life of Oliver La FargeD'Arcy McNickle19714 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and EthicsKenneth E. Boulding19684 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+1
Starting Out in the ThirtiesAlfred Kazin19654 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClurePeter Lyon19634 pts0 wins1 listsScribnerBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
The Fabulous Life of Diego RiveraBertram D. Wolfe19634 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Importance of LivingLin Yutang19374 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureBusiness Biography
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All awards · Topic: Business Biography · Sorted by score · 123 books · filtered