November 10, 20169 yr Keith Richards' autobiography Life has been a favorite of mine since I read it. McCullough's John Adams was very good, but a little overly long I thought. Where Men Win Glory is excellent, as are most of Krakauer's books. I just finished David Niven's memoir The Moon's A Balloon and really really enjoyed it.
November 10, 20169 yr This was an excellent read, Highly recommend to any baseball lover, as well as, those into sports figures. Joe D was like Dr. Jekell and Mr. Hyde. He was known for his grace on the field and for his well-tailored dignity off it. But DiMaggio wasn't the man presented in the papers, on television, even in advertisements for banks and coffeemakers. He was tight with a dollar, unhappy in love, an often difficult, aloof figure -- a tragic hero, if a hero at all.
November 11, 20169 yr The 2 mist recent for me: The Notorious RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsberg) and Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen ) Adolph Hitler volumes I and II
November 11, 20169 yr To Hell & Back, by Audie Murphy Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin Surprised By Joy, by C.S. Lewis (All autobiographies)
November 11, 20169 yr Author To Hell & Back, by Audie Murphy Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin Surprised By Joy, by C.S. Lewis (All autobiographies) I haven't read To Hell & Back, but Surprised By Joy was very good, and I was VERY entertained by Born Standing Up. Edited November 11, 20169 yr by Colonels_Wear_Blue
November 11, 20169 yr Two religious lives I've always enjoyed: "The Seven Storey Mountain" - Thomas Merton "The Life of Thomas More" - Peter Aykroyd All of Anthony Everitt's biographies of the great men of Ancient Rome: "Cicero" "Caesar" "Augustus" Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton is what inspired the recent Broadway musical. Nicholas Wapshot's "Keynes/Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics" is both an abridged biography of each man's life but also an outline and comparison of their work, much of which is at the heart of modern debates on economic policy.
November 13, 20169 yr I love biographies and have read well over a hundred of them including many of those already mentioned in this thread. Here are some of my favorites that have not been mentioned to this point.... Chernow's "Washington: A Life" McCullough's "Truman". In my humble opinion, the two books written by Edmund Morris, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" and "Theodore Rex", are together the definitive biography of my favorite POTUS. They did scuff up my image of him a bit, though. "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" and "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" by Alice Schroeder "John Quincy Adams: American Visionary" by Fred Kaplan "Iacocca: An Autobiography"
November 14, 20169 yr Last one I read was Manson "Life & Times of Charles Manson" by Jeff Guinn I've also read several of the ones about old wrestlers which I've found to be very interesting.
November 14, 20169 yr Last one I read was Manson "Life & Times of Charles Manson" by Jeff Guinn I've also read several of the ones about old wrestlers which I've found to be very interesting.
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