100 Most Popular Political Biographies

"The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965" by William Manchester and Paul Reid

"Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" by David W. Blight

"Gandhi: An Autobiography" by Mahatma Gandhi

"Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator" by Oleg Khlevniuk

"Thatcher: The Authorized Biography" by Charles Moore

"A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton" by Carl Bernstein

"The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World" by A.J. Baime

"Winston Churchill: A Biography" by Roy Jenkins

"Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times" by Anne C. Heller

"King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild

"The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli" by Richard Aldous

"Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship" by Jon Meacham

"The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage" by Anne Edwards

"Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi" by Katherine Frank

"Louis XIV: The Power and the Glory" by Josephine Wilkinson

"Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life" by Marshall Frady

"Ida: A Sword Among Lions" by Paula J. Giddings

"The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War" by Ben Macintyre

"The Last Tycoon: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co." by William D. Cohan

"The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters" by Laura Thompson

"A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety" by Jimmy Carter

"Khrushchev: The Man and His Era" by William Taubman

"Charles de Gaulle: A Biography" by Julian Jackson

"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" by Jeanne Theoharis

"Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch" by Sally Bedell Smith

"The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963" by Laurence Leamer

"Franco: A Biography" by Paul Preston

"The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage" by Anne Edwards

"Mao: A Biography" by Ross Terrill

"Lincoln" by David Herbert Donald

"The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt" by T.J. Stiles

"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" by Jeanne Theoharis

"Gorbachev: His Life and Times" by William Taubman

"Queen Victoria: A Personal History" by Christopher Hibbert

"American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by Jon Meacham

"The Prince: The Secret Story of the World's Most Intriguing Royal, Prince Bandar bin Sultan" by William Simpson

"Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister" by Michael Jago

"Theodore Rex" by Edmund Morris

"The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One" by Miranda Carter

"John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life" by Robert Dallek

"Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America" by Rick Perlstein

"FDR" by Jean Edward Smith

"Truman" by David McCullough

"Wilson" by A. Scott Berg

"The Life of John Marshall" by Albert J. Beveridge

"Disraeli: A Biography" by Stanley Weintraub

"Bismarck: A Life" by Jonathan Steinberg

"Kissinger: A Biography" by Walter Isaacson

"The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan" by Sebastian Mallaby

"Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" by Simon Sebag Montefiore

"Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson

"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" by Jon Meacham

"Napoleon: A Life" by Andrew Roberts

"Eisenhower in War and Peace" by Jean Edward Smith

"Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times" by H.W. Brands

"Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" by Robert K. Massie

"Reagan: The Life" by H.W. Brands

"The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill" by William Manchester

"No Ordinary Time" by Doris Kearns Goodwin

"George Washington: A Life" by Willard Sterne Randall

"Grant" by Ron Chernow

"Henry Kissinger: The American Oracle" by Niall Ferguson

"The Years of Lyndon Johnson" by Robert A. Caro

"Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One: 1884-1933" by Blanche Wiesen Cook

"Richard Nixon: The Life" by John A. Farrell

"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris

"Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography" by Charles Moore

"Churchill: A Life" by Martin Gilbert

"Mao: The Unknown Story" by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

"John Adams" by David McCullough

"Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow

"Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama

"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

"Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin

"The Path to Power" by Robert A. Caro

"A Promised Land" by Barack Obama

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

My Life by Bill Clinton

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela