Books like Hidden Figures
12 books with a reading profile close to Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
David McCullough recounts the 1788 settlement of Marietta, Ohio, following a group of New Englanders led by Manasseh Cutler and Rufus Putnam into the Northwest Territory.
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2
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Sally Bedell Smith outlines the public and private trajectory of Elizabeth II, from her unexpected transition to heir presumptive to her Diamond Jubilee.
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Laura Hillenbrand recounts the life of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic runner who became a bombardier during the second World War.
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Stephen E.
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5
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Walter Isaacson chronicles the life of the most versatile Founding Father, tracing his evolution from a runaway apprentice in Boston to a world-renowned scientist and diplomat.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Alison Weir’s historical account reconstructs the lives of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Anderson Cooper traces the trajectory of his maternal family from Cornelius Vanderbilt’s nineteenth-century steamship and railroad empire to the eventual depletion of the massive fortune.
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8
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Jon Meacham focuses on the two terms of Andrew Jackson’s presidency, centering the narrative on the White House as a site of both political and domestic struggle.
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9
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Also clear-cut · history, biography
In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler hid in a hollowed-out woodpile for three days before slipping past the outer perimeter of Auschwitz.
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Sonia Purnell chronicles the life of Virginia Hall, an American woman who overcame a prosthetic wooden leg and deep-seated institutional sexism to become a critical operative for the British Special Operations Executive…
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Antonia Fraser reconstructs the life of the last Queen of France, moving from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her execution during the French Revolution.
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The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Peter Bergen documents the biological and ideological trajectory of the man who engineered the September 11 attacks, moving from his origins as a wealthy Saudi son to his final years in a secluded Pakistani compound.
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