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Great biographies of the famous, including little-known information about each of them.
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
MAXWELL KING - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted... |
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Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II
Robert Hardman - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth IIon the seventieth anniversary of her reignby a renowned royal biographer.Shy but with a steely self-confidence; inscrutable despite ten decades in the public eye; unflappable; devout; indulgent; outwardly reserved, inwardly passionate; unsentimental;... |
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Jane Austen: A Life
Claire Tomalin
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Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black de |
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Theodore Rex
Edmund Morris
Format: Book
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Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biography - and Edmund Morris has provided one. "TR" typifies the "can do" American; his famous maxim, of course, was "Speak softly but carry a big stick." Morris... |
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Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon
Mark Bostridge - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book
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The common soldier's savior, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer: Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of historical characters who are instantly recognizable. Home-schooled, bound for the life of an educated Victorian lady, Nightingale scandalized... |
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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Traces the life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. |
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The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini
Ruth Brandon
Format: Book
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For many performers, stage life and real life are separate identities. For master illusionist Harry Houdini, the two were inextricably linked. In this widely acclaimed biography, Ruth Brandon shows how Houdini’s obsession with his own mortality drove him to create death-defying... |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind... |
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss - It Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1891, 24-year-old Marie Sklodowska moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements... |
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Barnum: An American Life
Robert Wilson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichs for a more nuanced story ... It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." - The Wall Street JournalP. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever... |
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Robert Samuels
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy - from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice,... |
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Eleanor
David Michaelis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired... |
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Rosa Parks
Douglas Brinkley - Viking Adult; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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A portrait of the African-American woman who is immortalized for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger examines who Rosa Parks was before, during, and after her historic act and how her action contributed to the end of the Jim Crow laws. 27,500 first printing. |
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The First Tycoon
T J Stiles - Vintage
Format: Audiobook
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual... |
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
Patrick McGilligan
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time.In a career that spanned six decades and produced more than 60 films - including The 39 Steps, Vertigo, Psycho, a |
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