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"Fatal Passage" by Ken McGoogan. About the man who discovered the fate of the Franklin Exhibition, a true force of nature, and astonishing personality and resilience. He was vilified by Dickens and died without the recognition which was owed to him.
Mark Twain's Autobiography. I got the first tome for Christmas and am loving it !
"Fatal Passage" by Ken McGoogan. About the man who discovered the fate of the Franklin Exhibition, a true force of nature, and astonishing personality and resilience. He was vilified by Dickens and died without the recognition which was owed to him.
Mark Twain's Autobiography. I got the first tome for Christmas and am loving it !
I should not post whilst on painkillers ! Expedition being the word not exhibition of course !
I also love "Timebends" by Arthur Miller,"Black Elk speaks" by John Neihardt,
and "Zola, a life" by Frederick Brown.
Being a big fan of bio's, I can say that I definitely read those of non celebrities. Ordinary people live their lives in ways that we can all relate to, it's the ability to write about those lives that makes them come alive with interest. We are too used to thinking of our mundane existences as something without value, but, reading someone else's words that describe those things we find ourselves mulling over can be refreshing, and more so than the accounting of another self indulgent actor, politician, or, celebrity life.
I read all of these titles when they were re-published by the Time Reading Program in the 1960s, and I recommend them on that basis alone. The books selected for that book club were invariably excellent choices of great books. Used copies of them are regularly available at Amazon partners at very low prices, most of them for one cent plus shipping (3.99).
Karl Marx: His Life and Environment by Isaiah Berlin
Mistress to an Age: A life of Madame de Staël, by J. Christopher Herold
Disraeli by Andre Maurois
John Paul Jones: a Sailor's Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison
Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Christopher Columbus) by Samuel Eliot Morison
Shakespeare by Ivor Brown
I liked: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
I also don't like biographies of people who are still living (it ain't over until it's over) and really don't like autobiographies because I don't believe they're truthful.
Not on the same level as any of these, but I loved Bossypants by Tina Fey.
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