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Holiday book gift guide: Biography and Memoir

Wilson A.Scott Berg Putnam, $40 A meticulously detailed memoir of the 28th president, a professor who championed many Progressive Era reforms and waged a battle with Congress to join the League of Nations.

Wilson


A.Scott Berg
Putnam, $40


A meticulously detailed memoir of the 28th president, a professor who championed many Progressive Era reforms and waged a battle with Congress to join the League of Nations.

  (Stephen Brayda / G.P. Putnams Sons)

Holiday book gift guide: Biography and Memoir

L.A. Son
My Life, My City, My Food


Roy Choi with Tien Nguyen and Natasha Phan
Anthony Bourdain/Ecco, $29.99


The bad boy pioneer of L.A.’s food-truck craze looks back at his life so far, offering some recipes along the way.

  (Ecco / Associated Press)

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