biographies (1 Viewer)

[magicbastarder]

recommendations?

genius by james gleick (about richard feynman)
american prometheus by kai bird and martin sherwin (about robert oppenheimer)
albert speer: his battle with truth by gitta sereny.

the latter is one of the best books i have read.

 

[sarah]

I enjoyed this, pretty sad

Billy Holiday

it's also very short. Good for when you just want a quicky.

 

[Jasper]

I'm a big fan of biographies - three of the best i read are below. Loads of biographies about really interesting people are not well written or too biased one way or another but still i'm a sucker for them!
Kinsey: A Biography by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics by R Parker

 

[Boozin]

No joke, Slash's Autobiography was one of the best books i've read in the last few months. Its hilarious, the man really doesnt give a f**k about anything, brilliant!

 

[cunt]

Alan Greenspan's "the age of turbulence" is interesting to the extent that he sets out the arguments for capitalism in a thoughtful way rather than just coming across like a right-wing nut. His treatment of environmental issues is a bit weird though.

 

[magicbastarder]

colin powell's (ghostwritten) autobiography is worth a read - doesn't cover the period where he worked for bush junior, though, which is a period i'd love to hear about from his point of view.

 

[ann post]

i keep seeing bernadette devilns biography and getting tempted to get into it.