What’s a great biography/autobiography that left an impact on you?
I was looking for some good biographies/autobiographies to pick up at the store soon. Does anyone have a really great biography/autobiography preferably of someone NOT FAMOUS? Just someone with an incredible story. Thanks!!!
Hmmm I think this’ll depend on what you enjoy and a person who does that thing well. Personally I like US history and James Polk is a criminally underrated president. Beyond Jefferson he did more to shape the USA than any other president before or after (I may be stretching this a BIT, but the dude was awesome). It left an impact on me just because I like to see greatness and tenacity and an autisticly focused man accomplish big things with honor. He wasn’t the coolest guy and he wasn’t flashy and has been, like I said, largely overlooked but he bent the world to his will.
I heard Andrew agassis biography isn’t terrible fwiw but haven’t read it
HatenoCheese on
Chasing Beauty by Natalie Dykstra. The subject is Isabella Stewart Gardner (who is as famous as Gilded Age art collectors get, but that isn’t really that famous).
lacroixqat on
Angela Davis’s autobiography is incredible.
Various_Hope_9038 on
Living my Life by Emma Goldman. Made me reconsider if the personal really is the political.
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Hmmm I think this’ll depend on what you enjoy and a person who does that thing well. Personally I like US history and James Polk is a criminally underrated president. Beyond Jefferson he did more to shape the USA than any other president before or after (I may be stretching this a BIT, but the dude was awesome). It left an impact on me just because I like to see greatness and tenacity and an autisticly focused man accomplish big things with honor. He wasn’t the coolest guy and he wasn’t flashy and has been, like I said, largely overlooked but he bent the world to his will.
I heard Andrew agassis biography isn’t terrible fwiw but haven’t read it
Chasing Beauty by Natalie Dykstra. The subject is Isabella Stewart Gardner (who is as famous as Gilded Age art collectors get, but that isn’t really that famous).
Angela Davis’s autobiography is incredible.
Living my Life by Emma Goldman. Made me reconsider if the personal really is the political.