Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This is H. G. Wells' 1924 biography of Frederick William Sanderson, “The Story of a Great Schoolmaster”. Frederick William Sanderson (1857 – 1922) was the headmaster at Oundle School between 1892–1922 and was a an esteemed reformer of education at Oundle and Dulwich College. Wells was a close...
by Patricia Hampl
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
**“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"
A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream**
The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue...
by Barbara Branden
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The 2013 edition of the New York Times bestseller revised, updated and with an important new introduction by the author. The Passion of Ayn Rand was the first full-length Ayn Rand biography ever published and this eBook edition is the most comprehensive biographical study of Rand available....
by Book List Guru
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
MICHAEL CONNELLY BOOKS IN ORDER
How To Make Great Thrillers Even Better!
2019 Edition: This is the most comprehensive Michael Connelly book order and checklist available. It's a complete bibliography and biography, which includes:
• Harry Bosch series in order
• Harry Bosch...
John Stuart Mill: Life, Life Lessons & Achievements
Childhood and Early Education, Moral Influences in Early Youth, Youthful Propagandism, Completion of the "System of Logic", Publication of the "Principles of Political Economy", Parliamentary Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
This classic memoir brings the complete biography of the one of the greatest thinkers of the western philosophy. Mill is considered to be the most influential mind of liberalism. His work contributed greatly to the development of social theory, political theory and political economy thanks to which...
Adorno
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work...
Jack Kennedy
Elusive Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biography of John F. Kennedy, by Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball.
“What was he like?”
Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. What was he like, this man whose own wife called...
Mornings on Horseback
The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.
Mornings on Horseback...
Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty
An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
“An intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir of the journalist and social advocate who is now being considered for canonization” (The New York Times), told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter.
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist,...
by John C. Culver, John Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001
The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman—loved and reviled, and finally now revealed.
The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman—loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The first full biography of Henry A. Wallace, a visionary...
John Kennedy
A Political Profile
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The authorized biography of John F. Kennedy offers a fresh and candid look at what shaped the man America came to love and admire, just as he was on the cusp of the presidency
Historian, political scientist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author James MacGregor Burns wrote Roosevelt: The Lion...
All the Best, George Bush
My Life in Letters and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the life of an honorable American leader” (The Washington Post).
“Who knew that beneath George Bush’s buttoned-up propriety pulsed the...
by Ethan Ang
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This is the biography of the late Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, whom Mr. Obama has mentioned as being one of the greatest men in the 20th and 21st century. Mr Lee was nominated as among the top 100 people in Time 100 that affect the world. In this short unofficial biography, you will get to know the intelligence, wisdom and vision of a great leader.
by Sisir K Bose; Alexander Werth; S A Ayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This is the English edition of a trilingual biography of Subhas Chandra Bose, the German and Japanese editions being the other two. The aim of the biography is to place Subhas Chandra Bose in a correct historical perspective with regard to his much publicised revolutionary activities, and to provide...