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All awards · Topic: Political Biography · Sorted by score · 24 books · filtered
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American CenturyBeverly Gage202246 pts5 wins6 listsVikingBiographyPolitical Biography+2
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanRobert K. Massie201118 pts2 wins3 listsRandom HouseBiographyPolitical Biography+2
Whittaker Chambers: A BiographySam Tanenhaus199718 pts1 wins3 listsRandom HouseBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Means of Ascent: Volume 2 of The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. Caro198214 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of DeclineJohn Elliott198610 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryReligious Biography+3
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect PredatorsRonan Farrow20188 pts0 wins2 listsLittle, BrownJournalism & ReportageIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+2
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private LifeSissela Bok19788 pts0 wins2 listsVintage BooksSociety & CulturePolitical Biography
Greece: Biography of a Modern NationRoderick Beaton20194 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryPolitical Biography
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised BiographyCharles Moore20144 pts0 wins1 listsAllen LaneBiographyPolitical Biography
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the RestorationJenny Uglow20094 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's RussiaAnna Politkovskaya20074 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintJournalism & ReportagePolitical Biography+2
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria WoodhullBarbara Goldsmith19984 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfGender & SexualityLgbtq History & Life+1
Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to RuleReinhard Bendix19784 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressPolitics & GovernmentPresidency & Executive Power+2
Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social ChangePeter L. Berger19744 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksPolitics & GovernmentPolitical Biography
9/11 Commission Report9/11 Commission20044 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentMemoir & Personal History+1
Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal AffairAndy Logan19714 pts0 wins1 listsOrionHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+1
And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS EpidemicRandy Shilts19874 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressMedicine & Public HealthBlack History & Culture+2
Attica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on AtticaGarry Wills19734 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentMemoir & Personal History+2
Posthumous Keats: A Personal BiographyStanley Plumly20084 pts0 wins2 listsW. W. NortonBiographyPolitical Biography
Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian RogueDavid McKie20042 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPolitical Biography+2
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All awards · Topic: Political Biography · Sorted by score · 24 books · filtered