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Julius Rosenwald

Repairing the World

Hasia R. Diner

10/24/2017, Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780300203219
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Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

Neal Gabler

09/12/2017, Paper

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ISBN: 9780300230611
David

The Divided Heart

David Wolpe

09/12/2017, Paper

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ISBN: 9780300230741
Louis D. Brandeis

American Prophet

Jeffrey Rosen

09/12/2017, Paper

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Warner Bros

The Making of an American Movie Studio

David Thomson

08/08/2017, Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780300197600
Rabbi Akiva

Sage of the Talmud

Barry W. Holtz

03/14/2017, Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780300204872
Yitzhak Rabin

Soldier, Leader, Statesman

Itamar Rabinovich

03/05/2017, Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780300212297
Hayim Nahman Bialik

Poet of Hebrew

Avner Holtzman

02/21/2017, Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780300200669
Steven Spielberg

A Life in Films

Molly Haskell

01/03/2017, Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780300186932
Peggy Guggenheim

The Shock of the Modern

Francine Prose

11/22/2016, Paper

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ISBN: 9780300224290
Moses

A Human Life

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

11/22/2016, Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780300209624
Proust

The Search

Benjamin Taylor

11/22/2016, Paper

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ISBN: 9780300224283
Louis D. Brandeis

American Prophet

Jeffrey Rosen

06/01/2016, Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780300158670
Barbra Streisand

Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

Neal Gabler

04/26/2016, Cloth

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ISBN: 9780300210910
Disraeli

The Novel Politician

David Cesarani

04/26/2016, Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780300137514
Leonard Bernstein

An American Musician

Allen Shawn

03/22/2016, Paper

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ISBN: 9780300219852
Mark Rothko

Toward the Light in the Chapel

Annie Cohen-Solal

03/22/2016, Paper

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ISBN: 9780300219685
Becoming Freud

The Making of a Psychoanalyst

Adam Phillips

03/22/2016, Paper

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ISBN: 9780300219838