- John Adams by David McCullough
- Hitler by John Toland
- Cicero by Anthony Everitt
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
- The first volume of the LBJ biography by Robert Caro
- Mussolini by Denis Mack Smith
- Stalin by Robert Conquest
- Winston Churchill: A Brief Life by Piers Brendon
I shudder to think of how many great ones I've missed.
Your nominees?
3 comments:
Richard Brookhiser's James Madison is excellent. Also Terry Teachout's biography of Mencken, The Skeptic, and Maynard Solomon's Mozart.
Kurt,
Thanks! I haven't read any of those and will check them out.
Michael
I would recommend what may the the first autobiography: "Confessions" by St. Augustine.
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