Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff 1917 Julia Ward Howe, Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall 1918 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, William Cabell Bruce 1919 The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams 1920 The Life of John Marshall, Albert J. Beveridge 1921 The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok 1922 A Daughter of the Middle Border, Hamlin Garland 1923 The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick 1924 From Immigrant to Inventor, Michael Idvorsky Pupin 1925 Barrett Wendell and His Letters, M. A. DeWolfe Howe 1926 The Life of Sir William Osler, Harvey Cushing 1927 Whitman, Emory Holloway 1928 The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas, Charles Edward Russell 1929 The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick 1930 The Raven, Marquis James 1931 Charles W. Eliot, Henry James 1932 Theodore Roosevelt, Henry F. Pringle 1933 Grover Cleveland, Allan Nevins 1934 John Hay, Tyler Dennett 1935 R. E. Lee, Douglas S. Freeman 1936 The Thought and Character of William James, Ralph Barton Perry 1937 Hamilton Fish, Allan Nevins 1938 Pedlar's Progress, Odell Shepard; Andrew Jackson, Marquis James 1939 Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren 1940 Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, Vols. VII and VIII, Ray Stannard Baker 1941 Jonathan Edwards, Ola E. Winslow 1942 Crusader in Crinoline, Forrest Wilson 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison 1944 The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, Carleton Mabee 1945 George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel, Russel Blaine Nye 1946 Son of the Wilderness, Linnie Marsh Wolfe 1947 The Autobiography of William Allen White 1948 Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Margaret Clapp 1949 Roosevelt and Hopkins, Robert E. Sherwood 1950 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, Samuel Flagg Bemis 1951 John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, Margaret Louise Coit 1952 Charles Evans Hughes, Merlo J. Pusey 1953 Edmund Pendleton, 1721–1803, David J. Mays 1954 The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh 1955 The Taft Story, William S. White 1956 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Talbot F. Hamlin 1957 Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy 1958 George Washington, Douglas Southall Freeman (Vols. 1–6) and John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (Vol. 7) 1959 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet, Arthur Walworth 1960 John Paul Jones, Samuel Eliot Morison 1961 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, David Donald 1963 Henry James: Vol. II, The Conquest of London, 1870–1881; Vol. III, The Middle Years, 1881–1895, Leon Edel 1964 John Keats, Walter Jackson Bate 1965 Henry Adams (3 Vols.), Ernest Samuels 1966 A Thousand Days, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, Justin Kaplan 1968 Memoirs, 1925–1950, George F. Kennan 1969 The Man From New York, B. L. Reid 1970 Huey Long, T. 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