What are some great biographies?
What are some great biographies?
Xavier Stewart
Cooper Garcia
One of the best ones ever written, and its on a really interesting character
Adrian Cox
I need to get that
Leo Cook
Thomas Gomez
his one on Alexander is great too
Nolan Martinez
The biography of Kantorowicz that got released a few years ago is also fun, interesting fellow
His philosophy on politics and myths getting intertwined perfectly with the rise of Hitler make his writings look like straight-up prophecies, and it gets even weirder looking that he was a german-nationalist polish jew that fought with the kemalists during ww1, a member of the secret society that wanted to prepare germany for a new almost messianic ruler (and later on went to plot to assassinate that ruler), became best selling author in nazi germany, escaped to the US with the help of the SS, and ended up as one of main inspiration for Faucault
Reading his other book, Kings Two Bodies, is a task on itself, it mixes Shakespear and Dante to explain how the ideas of kings and kingdoms functioned and evolved into modern states
Owen Collins
Adrian Goldsworthy has several great ones. His Agustus book is fantastic and his Julius book is far denser than Freeman. Freeman's is still good however
Logan Walker
oh great, a virgin thread
Aiden Ramirez
Robert Fisher
but Julius Caesar fucked
Jace Lopez
He fucked so we don’t have to.
Nathaniel Miller
All of Andrew Roberts books are kino and I’ll repeat what user said and recommend all of Adrian goldsworthy work as well
Liam Bailey
Plutarch's Lives
Liam Ward
Reading this now and it's great
Asher Cook
big time this, great book, Joans an exceptional historical figure
Nathaniel Phillips
This one is really good
Ethan Hughes
picked up
Jordan Butler
You guys are obsessed with blood and conquest
Zachary Gonzalez
The "Prophet Armed" trilogy by Isaac Deutscher, about the life of Trotsky.
Chase Perry
Feel free to post more moden bios
Jose Powell
C.S. Lewis, “Surprised by Joy”
Everyone who describes it as a “conversion story” is outing themselves as an absolute pseud, Theism doesn’t even show up until the penultimate chapter, and Christianity gets mentioned in maybe two paragraphs in the final chapter. It’s about a man’s quest to understand the feelings of happiness he could never recapture from his boyhood memories, and it’s beautiful.
Lucas Lopez
Nice i'll give it a look
Carson Evans
Best biography I've ever read.
Levi Roberts
Sports are boring though
Sebastian Collins
Then read about My Chem instead.
David Nelson
now thats a true literary classic
Jacob Jackson
tragic as well
Joseph Cooper
Do I need to read this before War and Peace?
Daniel Robinson
Kevin Howard
A great book about Washington
Justin Wright
*yawn* don't care about ameriods
Levi Gonzalez
My upcoming biography of Norm Macdonald.
Levi Myers
Loved this, any recommendation for next AR book?
Aaron Butler
GW was a great man
James Turner
Thomas Evans
another good one by Freeman
William Hughes
can't wait
Daniel Williams
His latest, last king of America: story of George the third, was genuinely a fresh delight, had no clue about the man before except kingman le BAD due to my American heritage.
Thomas Watson
>No one has posted The Power Broker yet
Noah Gonzalez
Any good Ataturk ones?
Juan Ortiz
Edmund Morris' trilogy on Theodore Roosevelt was excellent.
Does anyone have any recommendations on good FDR biographies?
Tyler Watson
Reading this one right now. It's pretty good, especially in the original german. And yes, Golo is the son of Thomas
Camden Hill
David Ross
It's a shame how every other nation has become irrelevant. WW1 was a mistake
Luis Lopez
>Where Hegel and Hip Hop Collide
Levi Green
The Bruce trilogy and the Wallace. Also suggest Roy Roy and Black Douglas, all Nigel’s books are great. One of my favourite authors.
Owen Howard
Napoleon the great
Robert Andrews
Justin Lopez
Came here to post these. Both Goldsworthy biographies also have phenomenal audiobooks.
I almost feel like writing a biography of Julius Caesar or of Augustus is cheating in a great biographies thread, because their lives are so baller that they could be fiction.
Dominic Thompson
It’s not for nothing though that England itself keeps a statue of Washington on its own soil, and that George III himself was a fan of the other George—Washington for the majority of his life was a British citizen, and in some ways he almost carries the British character of self-effacement and dogged determination to its very end. I will go so far to say that possibly no other peoples on Earth at that time would have had the combination of character and a certain eye to historical impact and image of the magnanimous act of refusing to become king after a successful rebellion than in the English
Juan Barnes
Salisbury: Victorian Titan is a great political biography.
Ryder Smith
Ich liebe dieses Buch! Ein Meisterwerk
Kayden Richardson
Might read the biography to support my new stance that George W was a pussy for not becoming king and it would have been way cooler if he did
Owen Clark
Greatest biography ever written.
Brody Harris
That's a lot for one person
Samuel Fisher
He spent the entire 1850's writing it.
Hunter Martin
That's amazing
Sebastian Price
Because of his preoccupation while writing it his wife was overworked and it probably led to her death in 1866.
>Carlyle struggled to write the book, calling it his "Thirteen Years War" with Frederick. Some of the nicknames he came up with for the work included "the Nightmare," "the Minotaur," and "the Unutterable book". In 1852, he made his first trip to Germany to gather material, visiting the scenes of Frederick's battles and noting their topography. He made another trip to Germany to study battlefields in 1858. The work comprised six volumes; the first two volumes appeared in 1858, the third in 1862, the fourth in 1864 and the last two in 1865. Emerson considered it "Infinitely the wittiest book that was ever written." James Russell Lowell pointed out some faults, but wrote: "The figures of most historians seem like dolls stuffed with bran, whose whole substance runs out through any hole that criticism may tear in them; but Carlyle's are so real in comparison, that, if you prick them, they bleed." The work was studied as a textbook in the military academies of Germany.
Colton Walker
Incredible. I really want this now
Easton Perry
I might be the target audience for this beast, can I buy it anywhere?
Also why is it titled "called the Great," does he not think he was great? After writing all those books and killing his wife over it?
Jaxson Robinson
>can I buy it anywhere?
It hasn't received the same scholarly attention as his French Revolution, I think it's only still printed in his collected works.
'The Great' isn't an official title. Carlyle probably thought it was endearing that men thought to add that title themselves.
Jose Turner
Nice, I would rather read a book about someone the author really liked than a tear down type of thing
Your reading of the title is, in my opinion, cute and I like it. Will try to get my hands on a used copy
Nolan Cook
His Churchill bio is his best. You can just tell he was waiting his entire life to write it.