Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan"Exceptional . . . Deeply researched and elegantly written . . . As a description of the politics and pressures under which modern independent central banking has to operate, the book is incomparable." --Financial Times The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman...
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The Life of Francis Marion: The "Swamp Fox"Francis Marion became known as the "Swamp Fox" for his gutsy guerilla warfare conducted against the British during the American Revolution. Marion's knowledge of the woods and swamps of South Carolina were used as a weapon against the hapless Colonel Tarleton, who had been...
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The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley: Volume 7With a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show during the latter half...
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The Hero Returns: Lafayette and the Legacy of RevolutionThe return of a revered revolutionary and the meaning of independence in a divided nation--in the 1820s and todayIn 1824, the legendary French hero of the American Revolution, Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, commenced an epic tour of the United States at the invitation...
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The History of William MarshalThe career of William Marshal (1146/7-12), who rose from being the penniless, landless younger son of a middle-ranking nobleman to be regent of England in the minority of Henry III, is one of the most extraordinary stories of theMiddle Ages. His biography was completed...
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The Dead MilkmenThe Dead Milkmen emerged from the Philadelphia hardcore scene in 1983, released their debut album Big Lizard in My Backyard in 1985, and quickly became hard-touring college rock chameleons who eviscerated American exceptionalism, Generation X, and even their own left-field MTV success. When alternative...
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The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the RingIn his New York Times bestselling memoir, one of America's greatest boxing legends faces his single greatest competitor: himself "Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world....
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The Best Little Boy in the World Grows UpJohn Reid's The Best Little Boy in the World was hailed as a classic memoir of growing up gay in a straight world. But "John Reid" didn't write it. Years would pass before the writer could reveal his true identity as Andrew Tobias, America's...
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The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius SeverusSeptimius Severus was Rome's black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD 211. A giant of an emperor, whose career...
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Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and MeIn this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls "moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare blackand- white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family's journey through a harrowing...
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Summer of '71: Five Months That Changed AmericaFrom award-winning journalist and author John A. Jenkins comes a revolutionary exploration of the summer before Watergate--a parallel world of a half-century ago when America faced events and crises strikingly similar to those of today--told through the lives and words of those who lived...
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Success Unshared Is FailureJohn Paul DeJoria's journey to becoming a billionaire started in the back seat of his car. Rarely will you find such diversity in a person's life, business, philanthropy, and philosophy as you will with John Paul DeJoria. His professional journey began when he was...
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Speed: The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American IconOn December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-looking aircraft and roared into aviation history. Developed at the super-secret Skunk Works, the SR-71 Blackbird was a technological...
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Satan: An AutobiographyIt's been said that the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing us that he doesn't exist. Using the literary device of an "as told by" autobiography, the Kabbalah Centre reveals the concept of the Adversary, which plays a major role in kabbalistic...
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Savage, An Unbroken SpiritThis book started being written in 1994, after Virginia was held hostage in a standoff with police at a Buddhist ceremony. It took more than 30 years to complete because life continued with more transformational events. Reflections on these events provided a clear understanding...
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Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionThe legend tells us of Sacagawea ("Bird Woman") as the guide showing Lewis and Clark the way over the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, and fictionalized accounts have embroidered on her life as it might have been. In fact, however, her life as it...
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Red Woman: My Southern Ute Journey from Poverty to Wall StreetIn this singular memoir, Pearl E. Casias tells the story of her rise from poverty to chair of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in rural southwest Colorado. Casias grew up in poverty and was raised by alcoholic parents. She endured domestic violence in one...
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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. MungerFrom the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life."A timeless classic that will change how you approach life. There is a billion-dollar education inside this book."--Shane Parrish, founder of Syrus Partners and Farnam Street"Spend...
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Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist"Before he became an artist named Tyrus Wong, he was a boy named Wong Geng Yeo. He traveled across a vast ocean from China to America with only a suitcase and a few papers. Not papers for drawing--which he loved to do--but immigration papers...
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Papi: My StoryWITH A NEW AFTERWORD "Baseball fans of all loyalties will enjoy learning about [Ortiz's] unique experiences in and out of the game." --Library Journal David "Big Papi" Ortiz is a baseball icon and one of the most popular figures ever to play the game....
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