Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the PastA "supremely entertaining" (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world's history--from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns--and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which...
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Makers of the Modern MindThis comprehensive study examines the lives and works of some of the greatest thinkers of the modern world. From Freud and Darwin to Einstein and Freud, this book provides a detailed and insightful analysis of their contributions to philosophy, science, and culture. A perfect...
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Lord, Write My StoryLord, Write My Story is a love letter written to Beth's children in which she shares how God's word encouraged and guided her through the struggles and adversities she faced in her thirty-three years of fire service. Filled with scripture and accounts of calls...
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Loon: A Marine Story"Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam," writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with...
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Living with a Ghost: Who We Are and Why We Do What We DoThis is not a book about ghosts. It is a book about being haunted by destructive thoughts, and how to stop them.After years of medical practice, meeting and getting to know people from all walks of life - from criminals to heads of state,...
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Listening to Survivors: Four Decades of Holocaust Memorial Week at Oregon State UniversityListening to Survivors presents the voices of nineteen Holocaust survivors and two witnesses who shared their personal experiences with audiences at Oregon State University over the past four decades as part of the university's Holocaust Memorial Week observance. The speakers recount revolts in Nazi-run...
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Liar Liar: Breaking the Silence on Sexual Assault'Powerful and heart-wrenching ... I cannot recommend this book highly enough' Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be and The Last to Let GoLike any student about to start university, Laurie Katz was excited to see what...
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Letters from a WWII Airman: How his faith sustained himLetters from a WWII Airman: How his faith sustained him, is the true story of one of those men from what we acknowledge as "the "Greatest Generation". Like so many who experienced war, Ken Hathaway (1918-2001) was reluctant to talk about those experiences, but...
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Lessons in Becoming MyselfA deeply personal and electrifying memoir by Ellen Burstyn, renowned actress and six-time Academy Award nominee. By the time Ellen Burstyn arrived in New York to study acting, she'd already worked as a Texas fashion model, a Montreal chorus girl, suffered numerous toxic relationships,...
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Lenin: A BiographyThe critically acclaimed biography of Lenin by one of the greatest Russian history experts and bestselling author of Trotsky, Stalin and Comrades.Author: Robert ServicePublisher: Pan PublishingPublished: 04/16/2010Pages: 626Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.60dISBN: 9780330518383This title is not returnable
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King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the SouthFrom the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. "Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism...
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Kim Porter Biography: A Life Lived with Purpose and PassionKim Porter's life was one of extraordinary beauty and grace, a story far beyond fame's flashing lights. She was a woman whose kindness and strength radiated in everything she did-from high fashion runways to the quiet moments with her children. In a world often...
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Karen: A Brother RemembersOn July 1, 1975, Kelsey Grammer's younger sister, 18-year-old Karen Grammer, was raped and murdered--now, for the first time, Kelsey discusses how it has affected him and the hope and healing he has found in the decades since.Karen by Kelsey Grammer delves into the...
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Justice for All: Dick T. Morgan, Frontier Lawyer and Common Man's CongressmanJustice for All chronicles the career of Dick T. Morgan, an Oklahoma founding father whose public service reflects a passion for fairness that was sorely lacking in Gilded Age America. After arriving in the Unassigned Lands (later, central Oklahoma) with the first wave of...
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Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem RenaissanceA vibrant, deeply researched biography of A'Lelia Walker--daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance--written by her great-granddaughter. Dubbed the "joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s" by poet Langston Hughes, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker...
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Journey to the Presidency: Biography of Donald Trump Children's Biography BooksDonald Trump is the 45th president of the United States. Unlike other elected leaders of this nation Trump has had zero experience in politics and so played the underdog during the campaign period. For those who do not know much about President Trump here's...
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John B. StetsonThe book ""John B. Stetson"" by Elbert Hubbard is a biography of the famous American hat maker and entrepreneur, John B. Stetson. The book provides a detailed account of Stetson's life, from his humble beginnings as a hat maker in Philadelphia to his rise...
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Jenson Button: Life to the Limit: My AutobiographyJenson Button is one of the greatest racing drivers of his generation. His 17 years in Formula 1 have seen him experience everything from nursing underpowered cars around the track to winning World Championships and everything in between. Jenson's World Championship victory for the...
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James RodriguezFor the past decade, the same remarkable players have been dominating the headlines for soccer, but, finally, they have met their match Colombia's young star James Rodriguez burst onto the scene in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, where he was awarded the Golden...
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James Baldwin: The Life AlbumAn intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a...
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