Hiya! ¨̮
There are so many biographies just about one person and there are a lot of people that have biographies written about them. I don’t know how to tell which are worth reading.
Can people please recommend some books for me? 🌻
by ThePrincessSnowy
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Red Comet about Sylvia Plath, if you’re up for it. Redefined scholarship for biographies
I thought the Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson was really interesting.
I’m really enjoying Walter Isaacson’s biography about Leonardo de Vinici rn. Super engaging.
• *Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus* by Samuel Eliot Morison. (Excellent).
• *Henry VIII* by J.J. Scarisbrick.
• *Peter the Great: His Life and World* by Robert K. Massie.
• *Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne.
• *John Adams* by David McCullough.
• *Huey P. Long* by T. Harry Williams. (Excellent).
The River of Doubt – Candace Millard (about Theodore Roosevelt)
I have no way of knowing if you consider them worth reading about, but some of my faves are: Steven Spielberg by Joseph McBride, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, and Life by Keith Richards (with James Fox). That last one is autobiography.
Churchill by Andrew Robert’s
Einstein by Walter Isaacson
Thoreau by Laura Walls
Frederick Douglass by David Blight
All of these are excellent IMO
Call Sign Chaos – Mattis
No time for Spectators – Dempsey
Both retired Generals who commanded during major historical events and well written.
Che- A Revolutionary life by Jon Lee Anderson
“Sticky Fingers”, about Jann Wenner, who created Rolling Stone magazine