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Reading the Best Biographies of All Time

CusterCuster&#;s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. StilesStalinStalin: Paradoxes of Power, (Vol 1) by Stephen KotkinMarx, KarlKarl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Lifeby Jonathan SperberDumas, AlexThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom ReissKennedy, Joseph PThe Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David NasawWashington, GeorgeWashington: A Life by Ron ChernowREVIEW (5 stars)Lincoln, AbrahamThe Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric FonerREVIEW (not rated)Vanderbilt, CorneliusThe First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. StilesWilson, WoodrowWoodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton CooperREVIEW (3¾ stars)Jackson, AndrewAmerican Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon MeachamREVIEW (3¾ stars)Roosevelt, FranklinTraitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of FDR by H. W. BrandsREVIEW (4¼ stars)Carnegie, AndrewAndrew Carnegie by David NasawNewton, IsaacIsaac Newton by James GleickBeethovenBeethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwo

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Reading the Outstrip Biographies commentary All Time

King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Blog – Posted on Monday, Jan 21

Biographer Richard Holmes once wrote that his work was “a kind of pursuit… writing about the pursuit of that fleeting figure, in such a way as to bring them alive in the present.”

At the risk of sounding cliché, the best biographies do exactly this: bring their subjects to life. A great biography isn’t just a laundry list of events that happened to someone. Rather, it should weave a narrative and tell a story in almost the same way a novel does. In this way, biography differs from the rest of nonfiction.

All the biographies on this list are just as captivating as excellent novels, if not more so. With that, please enjoy the 30 best biographies of all time — some historical, some recent, but all remarkable, life-giving tributes to their subjects.

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