What are some good Veeky Forums biographies? Not sure if anyone has made some kind of a chart/list but I'll take any general recommendations.
Biographies
Benjamin Gonzalez
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Ryan Ward
robert a caro's lyndon johnson books
Ethan Nelson
Stoner
Aiden Myers
Any good ones on Nixon?
Angel Lewis
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Caleb Morris
This one is pretty solid. It doesn't try to suck Havel's dick but also doesn't try to demean him like most of the people in this fucking country nowadays.
I also suggest, at least, reading his essay: "The Power of the Powerless"
And if you'd really want to he wrote some plays and most of them are actually very good.
Jace Mitchell
There's probably a great one on Alexander, right?
Good ol' Plutarch?
Nixonland perhaps?
I haven't read it and I think it goes into the time period generally as well, but it looks neat enough
Eli Stewart
(You) may noy like Henry James, but Leon Edel's biography of him is one of the best biographies I have ever read. Richardson's on Emerson (The Mind on Fire), Thoreau, and William James are all top notch too.
John Diaz
William Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill is the greatest biography ever written.
It's about 2400 pages in total and it's not boring for a second.
Churchill was a drunken sociopath who pretty much caused every problem of the last century, but if you want to get a quick primer on "Why the world is the way it is" then this is the best book.
I only read the first 2 volumes so far but it's already pretty safe to say nothing can even come close.
Jeremiah Kelly
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man