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The conservative weekly Human Events last year asked a panel of 21 scholars to list Ten American Biographies Everyone Should Read. The list follows (11-17-03):
- The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (1918)
- Alexander Hamilton: A Biography by Forrest McDonald (1982)
- Witness by Whittaker Chambers (1952)
- The Life of George Washington by John Marshall (1804-07)
- The Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry Jaffa (1959)
- The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict by Russell Kirk (1995)
- Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1885-86)
- R.E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman (1934)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)
- A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Harry V. Jaffa (2000)
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