Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Pauline Frederick Reporting: A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold WarPauline Frederick Reporting is the biography of the life and career of the first woman to become a network news correspondent. After no less an authority than Edward R. Murrow told her there was no place for her in broadcasting, Pauline Frederick (1908-90) cracked...
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Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11In the spring of 2001, George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan's nomination sped through Congress in the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, and he was at his post by early October, though...
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Whispers in the Tall GrassThe previously unpublished second volume of Nick Brokhausen's vivid and riveting memoir of his experiences in MACV-SOG in Vietnam."This battle-scarred memoir is an excellent tribute to the generation that fought, laughed, and died in Southeast Asia." -New York Journal of BooksWhispers in the Tall...
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The Daring Trader: Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. government and local Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fenimore Cooper novel. Controversial, mysterious, and bold during his lifetime, in death Smith has not, until now,...
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Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A MemoirA powerful memoir from Natalie Goldberg--the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country--sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home begins at the grave of Katagiri Roshi, Natalie's...
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What If...: A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for SureWhat if hope is the most dangerous emotion? What if a frog had wings? What if our political leaders actually led? What if Downton Abbey was full of Americans? What if, for some reason, I couldn't be creative and work?Author: Shirley MacLainePublisher: Center PointPublished:...
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Washington Irving: The Definitive Biography of America's First Bestselling AuthorBrian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle" quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer, and fascinating charmer. The first American writer to make his pen his primary means of support, Washington...
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The Autobiography of Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie, the great steel-baron-turned-philanthropist, was an industrialist unlike any other. His famous dictum, that he who dies rich dies disgraced, has inspired a generation of twenty-first-century philanthropists to follow in his footsteps and put their money towards philanthropic causes. He had an unwavering...
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The Backpack: A Wounded Police Officer's Struggle with the Burden All Cops ShareWounded in the line of duty and paralyzed, police officer Brandon Hultink made an amazing journey from despair to hope."I can still remember the taste of metal in my mouth from the barrel of the gun ..." After the shoot-out that put him in...
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The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the BearThe search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the...
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The Life & Times of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague: I Am the LawExplore the controversial life of New Jersey city mayor Frank Hague, whose propensity for corruption inspired a character on the television show Boardwalk Empire.Frank Hague served as the mayor of Jersey City for much of the early twentieth century. While some believed him a...
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A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction - A MemoirA House on Stilts tells the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker's son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his writer/historian mom and his physician father. He was a bright,...
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StalinOn 20th August 1940 Trotsky's life was brutally ended when a Stalinist agent brought an ice pick crashing down on his head. Among the works left unfinished was the second part of his biography of Stalin.Trotsky's Stalin is unique in Marxist literature in that...
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Little Known Facts About Well Known PeopleIn this book Dale Carnegie wrote about characters from all walks of life, some of them his contemporary and some from history and has tried to highlight their habits, including Albert Einstein, Edgar Allan Poe, Cleopatra, Lenin, Christopher Columbus, and more...Author: Dale CarnegiePublisher: www.bnpublishing.comPublished:...
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Earl Nightingale's Greatest Discovery: Six Words that Changed the Author's Life Can Ensure Success to Anyone Who Uses ThemEarl Nightingale's Greatest Discovery will help you acknowledge your own potential and will inspire you to take a step ahead of the crowd and onto a lifetime of success. -- Ken Blanchard, Ph. D., Co-author, The One Minute Manager. ******* About the Author: Earl...
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The Travels of Marco PoloMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war...
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Conversations with Ian McEwanConversations with Ian McEwan collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author of such highly praised novels as Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found...
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Ralph LaurenWhen he graduated from high school Ralph Lauren listed his ambition in life as millionaire. An unlikely goal. But he went on to create one of the most influential fashion houses in history.Author: Joanne MatternPublisher: Chelsea House PublicationsPublished: 03/01/2011Pages: 101Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.79lbsSize:...
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Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942In December 1941, the War Department sent two transports and a freighter carrying 103 P-40 fighters and their pilots to the Philipines to bolster Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Far East Air Force. They were then diverted to Australia, with new orders to ferry the P-40s...
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The Making of a Royal Romance: William, Kate, and Harry -- A Look Behind the Palace Walls (a Revised and Expanded Edition of William and Harry: BehinWilliam and Harry was an overnight sensation when it was published a week before Prince William and Kate Middleton's engagement announcement in November 2010. Now the author, a royal insider and the royal correspondent for The Daily Mail, has updated and added crucial material...
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