Sir Walter Raleigh...excellent. Thank you!
Another great biography-which was just recently published-is "Lincoln's War", by Geoffrey Perret, one of my favorite military historians.
It traces the leadership of Abraham Lincoln-and to a lesser extent, his entire war cabinet, including Sec'y Stanton-from before Lincoln's inauguration-when Ft. Sumter was being menaced-all the way to the conclusion of the war.
A very fascinating-and engrossing-read, in my estimation.