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Best Biographies You Have Read
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Dev



Joined: 18 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:52 am    Post subject: Best Biographies You Have Read Reply with quote

Can anyone recommend some good biographies to read. Right now I'm reading

GANDHI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
http://www.amazon.com/Gandhi-Autobiography-Story-Experiments-Truth/dp/0807059099/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237139383&sr=8-2

I'm thinking of reading

FRANK ZAPPA
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Frank-Zappa-Book/dp/0671705725/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237139468&sr=1-1

and

NEIL YOUNG
http://www.amazon.com/Shakey-Youngs-Biography-Jimmy-Mcdonough/dp/0679750967/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237139513&sr=1-1

Has anyone read these? Can you recommend anything?
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hossenfeffer



Joined: 07 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Patton: A Genius for War.

http://www.amazon.com/Patton-Genius-War-Carlo-Deste/dp/0060927623/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237164473&sr=1-2
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

David Niven: The Moon's a Balloon.
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itaewonguy



Joined: 25 Mar 2003

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cagney By Cagney -

the life of Immortal screen legend james cagney...
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sarbonn



Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Michigan

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Starship and the Canoe
Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

(you can search and find the authors. Great books both of them)
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Rex

Both by Edmund Morris. (The second one is about his presidency.)
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ubermenzch



Joined: 09 Jun 2008
Location: bundang, south korea

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gore vidal's first memoir, "palimpsest". it's very catty and he's known almost everyone of note who lived in the 20th century.
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bourquetheman



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Suwon

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok my suggestion is totally different than any of the above but it is well written nonetheless. Mick Foley's "Have a Nice Day" which he hand wrote on writing tablets over a couple of years. I read it when it came out and boy I couldn't put it down. He really knows how to write and he led a very interesting life. I highly recommend it.
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oldtactics



Joined: 18 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Henry Ford's autobio - My Life and Work.

Really interesting read about innovation, libertarian ideals and business practices. One of the best I've ever read.
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rokgryphon



Joined: 12 Apr 2005

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Einstein by Walter Isaacson

Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

Che by Jon Lee Anserson

Kruschev by William Taubman
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Dude Ranch



Joined: 04 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oldtactics wrote:
Henry Ford's autobio - My Life and Work.

Really interesting read about innovation, libertarian ideals and business practices. One of the best I've ever read.


thanks, Henry Ford I have always admired, checking it out now
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CentralCali



Joined: 17 May 2007

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Eighth Moon. It's about a young woman growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution and subsequently escaping to Hong Kong.
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luckysharms



Joined: 15 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They may not be considered biographies per se, but both of Obama's books were easy and interesting to read. It was really refreshing to read thoughts and opinions that were so down to earth despite being a politician. Another great biography (in a completely different direction) was I Am Jackie Chan... His life is as entertaining as his movies.
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TECO



Joined: 20 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris

Lucky Man
Mike j. fox

Just getting ready to start:

1. Heavier than Heaven (Curt Cobain)
2. My Life (Bill Clinton)

and one called "Loose Girl".
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CasperTheFriendlyGhost



Joined: 28 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

American Cesear about Douglas McArthur (the general)
Literary Outlaw about William S.Burroughs (the writer)
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