History biography books
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The 50 Best Biographies of All Time
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Crown The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by Tom Reiss
You’re probably familiar with The Count of Monte Cristo, the 1844 revenge novel by Alexandre Dumas. But did you know it was based on the life of Dumas’s father, the mixed-race General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave? Thanks to Reiss’s masterful pacing and plotting, this rip-roaring biography of Thomas-Alexandre reads more like an adventure novel than a work of nonfiction. The Black Count won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2013, and it’s only a matter of time before a filmmaker turns it into a big-screen blockbuster.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, by Craig Brown
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Hey everyone,
Oooh, I love an annual roudup, don’t you? A chance to look back on the best and brightest of the year, a way to reflect on where we’ve been.
Where I’ve been is reading. I read 100 books this year (if I can finish this last one today), and a lot of them were history and biography. So I thought I’d share them!
Now these are my favorites of what I’ve read in 2024. A lot of them didn’t come out this year. So hopefully this is resurface some old favorites for you.
I wrote a full review of my experience reading this book in October, but this book has really stuck with me. The imagery that
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colors the book with is outstanding, and Sanora Babb’s life was so fascinating. This one had me reading like the wind, if you’ll pardon a pun I’m sure 10,000 other reviewers made.See It On Goodreads
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I’m used to biographies with a more strict narrative structure, so I was pleasantly surprised by this book, which confronts the reality and myth of Owain Glyndŵr by examining the actual documents we have left of him. It looks at records, poems, and chronicles relating to Glyndŵr’s career and his legacy with editorial notes that situate everything in their context. It’s a fascinating look at this revolution
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