Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Saving Sadie: How a Dog That No One Wanted Inspired the World"An uplifting story with tremendous heart. I couldn't put it down." --Helen Brown Joal Derse Dauer was donating blankets at a local no-kill shelter when an injured and despondent dog caught her eye. With three "fur babies" already at home, Joal wasn't looking to...
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O'Sullivan (O'Suilleabhainn), the Earliest Irish Royal Family: History and Genealogy. Third EditionThis superb genealogical and historical account traces the O'Sullivan sept a full thirty-one generations from the author's Carolina origins to the family's Irish roots in 170 AD. Mr. McCreight demonstrates that the O'Sullivans may be the oldest documented royal family on record, based on...
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Nantucket GenealogiesThe island of Nantucket was settled in the 1640s by English Puritans who had grown discontented with the rule of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. This work consists of detailed genealogies of the majority of the First Purchasers of Nantucket (the original owners of...
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Orozco: The Life and Death of a Mexican RevolutionaryOn August 31, 1915, a Texas posse lynched five "horse thieves." One of them, it turned out, was General Pascual Orozco Jr., military hero of the Mexican Revolution. Was he a desperado or a hero? Orozco's death proved as controversial as his storied life,...
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Emory Upton, 60: Misunderstood ReformerEmory Upton (1839-1881) is widely recognized as one of America's most influential military thinkers. His works--The Armies of Asia and Europe and The Military Policy of the United States--fueled the army's intellectual ferment in the late nineteenth century and guided Secretary of War Elihu...
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So Long for Now: A Sailor's Letters from the USS FranklinElden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteenth birthday. Write home often, the navy told sailors like Elden, thinking it would keep up morale among...
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Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz helped found the Women's Liberation Movement, part of what has been called the second wave of feminism in the United States. Along with a small group of dedicated women in Boston, she produced the first women's liberation journal, No More...
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When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber BaronBorn in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona--and in...
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Calamity Jane: The Woman and the LegendForget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert's gritty portrayal on HBO's Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you've never encountered. That is, until now.This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known...
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Best of Covered Wagon Women: Emigrant Girls on the Overland TrailsThe diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best first-person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who...
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Inkpaduta: Dakota LeaderLeader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta (1815-79) participated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn. But the attack in 1857 on forty white settlers known as the Spirit Lake Massacre gave Inkpaduta...
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Jesse Chisholm: Ambassador of the PlainsThe Chisholm Trail, traveled by Texas longhorn cattle moving northward across present-day Oklahoma to Kansas, was named for mixed-blood Cherokee Jesse Chisholm (1805-1868). Though Chisholm's prominence in western lore rests largely on this connection, he was active on the frontier long before the naming...
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Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian CaptivityThe Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor's wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield...
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Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield ScottThe hero of the War of 1812, the conqueror of Mexico City in the Mexican-American War, and Abraham Lincoln's top soldier during the first six months of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott was a seminal force in the early expansion and consolidation of...
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Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An AutobiographyMedicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life. As the principal...
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The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American WestFew western American have been more often written about than William F. Cody, the "Buffalo Bill" of history, the dime novel, and popular lore. There are several important aspects of this biography. The whole career of the plainsman is presented - it is the...
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Bill Sublette: Mountain ManBill Sublette (1799-1845) led two lives. Renowned as a hardy mountain man, he ranged the Missouri, Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Sweetwater River country between 1823 and 1833 hunting beaver, fighting Indians, and unwittingly opening the West for settlers (he proved that wagons could be...
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No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the SystemA deeply disturbing and human look at the American prison system's practice of lifelong solitary confinement, and the two killers who changed modern day corrections. No Human Contact by the New York Times bestselling author of THE HOT HOUSE, Pulitzer Prize finalist Pete Earley...
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And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-As this concluding volume of his moving and revealing memoirs begins, Elie Wiesel is forty years old, a writer of international repute. Determined to speak out more actively for both Holocaust survivors and the disenfranchised everywhere, he sets himself a challenge: "I will become...
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Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the LegendThe flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who shot their way across Depression-era America, based on archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood--now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the lovers' own voices, with verisimilitude...
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