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12. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. Another mysterious explorer takes center stage in this gripping 2009 biography. Grann tells the story of Percy Fawcett, the archaeologist who vanished in the Amazon along with his son in 1925, supposedly in search of an ancient lost city.

The 21 most captivating biographies of all time. Written by Katherine Fiorillo. Aug 3, 2021, 2:48 PM PDT. The bets biographies include books about Malcolm X, Frida Kahlo, Steve Jobs, Alexander ...

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1. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude (2020) Read More. Shop Now. 2. The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by ...

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Alison Bechdel's beloved graphic novel is an elaborately layered account of life and artifice, family silence and revelation, springing from her father's suicide. He was a distant man who ...

John Adams by David McCullough. Master historian David McCullough was probably the best person to write this riveting biography of America's founding father. John Adams, who also became the second president of the United States, is a great inspiration to many young Americans. McCullough reveals the man of brilliance through his powerful ...

iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by. Jeffrey S. Young. 4.05 avg rating — 10,360 ratings. score: 1,117, and 12 people voted ... For what it's worth, I wouldn't mind see a list of Best Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs and have more books to choose from that are sort of same or at least a similar type ...

Elizabeth Taylor, the author, critic and chair of the National Book Critics' Circle biography committee, discusses their 2021 shortlist for the title of the best biography—including a revelatory new book about the life of Malcolm X, a group biography of artists in the 1960s, and a book built from a cache of letters written in Japan's shogun era. ...

WINNER 19,969 votes. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. by. Patrick Radden Keefe. This year's winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for History/Biography, Empire of Pain is an exhaustively researched profile of the Sackler family, the aristocratic American clan that made its fortune making and marketing the painkiller ...

Discover the lives of remarkable individuals through the best biographies, chosen from a wide array of reputable literary sources and biography enthusiasts. ... Discover the life and genius of history's most creative figure in this new biography. In it, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that shows how Leonardo da Vinci's art and science ...

Ron Chernow has written some of the best biographies of our time. In this 832-page biography of John. D. Rockefeller, he shares the main lessons you would take away from someone like Rockefeller ...

The best biographies give us a satisfying glimpse into a great person's life, while also teaching us about the context in which that person lived. Through biography, we can also learn history, psychology, sociology, politics, philosophy, and more. Reading a great biography is both fun and educational.

From Ulysses S. Grant to Juneteenth, Sylvia Plath to James Baldwin, here are biographies that make you think again about famous historical events and trailblazers. Christina Harcar. June 6, 2021. I was pondering—as one does—what makes history come alive, and I noticed listeners often say, "This is the biography X deserves!" when they ...

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. Amazon. Walter Isaacson—the former editor of Time, best known for his other great biographies of Benjamin Franklin and ...

The Best American Historical Biographies of All Time flag All Votes Add Books To This List. 1: John Adams by. David McCullough. 4.08 avg rating — 362,105 ratings. score: 4,031, and 41 people voted ... A Cultural History by. William Kerrigan (Goodreads Author)

Friends, Lovers and the Terrible Thing: A Memoir, by Matthew Perry. Perry, who played Chandler Bing on "Friends," has been candid about his substance abuse and sobriety. In this memoir, he ...

Goodreads: 4.27-star average rating from 1,777 reviews. "The Nine" tells the story of author Gwen Strauss' great aunt, Hélène Podliasky, who led nine female resistance fighters to escape ...

Open Preview. WINNER 45,806 votes. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. by. Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) From Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents continues a discernible theme in this year's awards: books that take a long, hard look at America itself.

Blain's book is one of two new Hamer biographies released in 2021. The other, Walk With Me by historian Kate Clifford Larson, offers a more straightforward account of the activist's life ...

Best known for his work on electricity and electrochemistry, Faraday proposed the laws of electrolysis. ... Science History Institute. Browse more biographies SEARCH ALL BIOGRAPHIES Paul Ehrlich 1854 1915. Donald F. Othmer 1904 1995. Eleuthère Irénée du Pont 1771 1834. Get the stories of science delivered right to your inbox. ...

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. by. David Grann (Goodreads Author) Journalist and veteran researcher David Grann profiles the bloody fate of an 18th-century British warship that generated two groups of survivors, each telling a different tale of What Really Happened. Perhaps this year's most expansive book, The Wager ...

Penned by former Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died took the world by storm in 2022 and, as of this writing, has spent 23 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller ...

WINNER 22,711 votes. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History. by. Huw Lemmey (Goodreads Author), Ben Miller. Based on the popular podcast series, Bad Gays is a mischievous variation on the usual approach to popular history. Rather than focus on LGBTQ icons and heroes, the book profiles various villains, rogues, and baddies from the pages of history.