| Custer | Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles | 2015 |
| Stalin | Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Vol 1) by Stephen Kotkin | 2014 |
| Marx, Karl | Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Lifeby Jonathan Sperber | 2013 |
| Dumas, Alex | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss | 2012 |
| Kennedy, Joseph P | The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P.
Kennedy by David Nasaw | 2012 |
| Washington, George | Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow | 2010 | REVIEW (5 stars) |
| Lincoln, Abraham | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner | 2010 | REVIEW (not rated) |
| Vanderbilt, Cornelius | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.
J. Stiles | 2009 |
| Wilson, Woodrow | Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper | 2009 | REVIEW (3¾ stars) |
| Jackson, Andrew | American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White
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