Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Last Honest Man: The Cia, the Fbi, the Mafia, and the Kennedys--And One Senator's Fight to Save DemocracyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "Timely and long overdue... This book should be required reading."―Tom O'Neill, author of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties In this "gripping . . ....
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The Journal of John Woolman and a Plea for the PoorThe "journal" or spiritual autobiography of John Woolman was the characteristic literary expression of Quakerism in its first two centuries. Woolman's Journal was first published in 1774 (shortly after his death). His life, as recorded by himself, was the finest flower of a unique...
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861Henry David Thoreau's Journal was his life's work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right--one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday...
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The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband*A New York Times Bestseller* A warm and hilarious memoir by a man diagnosed with Asperger syndrome who sets out to save his relationship. Five years after David Finch married Kristen, the love of his life, they learned that he has Asperger syndrome. The...
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The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End DeafnessFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize "Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail" (Steve Silberman), this "provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography" (Sylvia Nasar) tells the true--and troubling--story of Alexander Graham Bell's...
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The Innocents Abroad: Or, the New Pilgrims' ProgressThe Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American "New Barbarians" and the European "Old World" provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain--and a remarkably...
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The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the AntarcticHeroic Explorer of the Antarctic. At the turn of the twentieth century, Antarctica is the last unexplored continent. The ice is unforgiving. It can break the human spirit. It takes many men willing to face hardship, danger, and years away from home to journey...
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The House of Beauty: Lessons from the Image IndustrySo begins Arabelle Sicardi's blazingly original collection of essays. A former beauty editor, Arabelle has devoted their entire adult life to the subject of beauty--they have analyzed it, criticized it, praised it, benefited from it, loathed it. Now, in The House of Beauty, they...
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The House by the SeaHere she found the peace and aloneness she sought--and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place.Author: May SartonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 290Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80dISBN: 9780393313901Review Citation(s): New...
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The Hotel on St. James Place: Growing up in Atlantic City between the Boardwalk and the HolocaustThe heyday of Atlantic City were decades in the past. Shabby, rundown and even seedy were often terms used to describe the once vital seaside city duing the 1970s. It was vastly different than the small shtetl in Poland where Holocaust survivors Harry and...
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, RAM Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America"[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read." --Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of...
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The Happy Hooker: My Own StoryThe 30th anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution--with a new Afterword by the author.An international phenomenon upon its initial publication in 1972, The Happy Hooker established Xaviera Hollander--previously the most powerful madam in New York City--as the world's...
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The Greatest of All Time: A History of an American ObsessionAmericans love to talk about 'greatness.' In this book, Zev Eleff explores the phenomenon of 'greatness' culture and what Americans really mean when they talk about greatness. Greatness discourse provides a uniquely American language for participants to discuss their 'ideal' aspirational values and make...
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The Gift & Curse: One Man's Journey with DyslexiaFor students of all ages with learning disabilities, the effects can be debilitating in and outside the classroom. From lack of confidence and low self-esteem to anxiety and apprehension when communicating with others, children and adults can struggle to fit in and find themselves...
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The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California RedwoodsThe definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down. Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California's famous redwoods. Yet...
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The Gardens of Bunny MellonA gorgeous celebration of the gardens and landscapes of Bunny Mellon, written by a leading specialist and sumptuously illustrated with both new and archival photography. "A tome to treasure." --Architectural Digest Throughout her long and storied life, Rachel "Bunny" Mellon's greatest passion was garden...
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The Friedkin Connection"Friedkin's book does the unthinkable: It relates the behind-the-scenes stories of his triumphs like The French Connection and The Exorcist, but also sees Friedkin take responsibility (brutally so) for his wrong calls. . . . In doing so, he captures the gut-wrenching shifts of...
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The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional CharacterIn The Fly Swatter, Nicholas Dawidoff--bestselling author of The Catcher Was a Spy--vividly reconstructs the life of his grandfather, Alexander Gerschenkron-the Harvard professor who knew the most. A fascinating character, Gerschenkron feuded with Vladimir Nabokov and John Kenneth Galbraith, flirted with Marlene Dietrich, and...
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The Ferndale Store: A Time To RememberStep into the Heart of Rockville, Indiana - One Story at a TimeJoin author Donna B. Gray as she takes you on a heartfelt journey from bustling city life to the quiet charm of small-town living in Rockville, Indiana. Her favorite spot? The beloved...
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The Father You Get: And the Ones You Make, Believe In, and BecomeIn a world of imperfect-at-best and bad-at-worst dads, what is the ideal of fatherhood we aspire to? Why does this ideal exist? What is it about fathers and father figures that looms so large in the lives of so many? So wonders Patton Dodd...
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