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Sylvia Nasar - Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nas ... More
Score: 4.2 4 Reviews
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Gary Giddins - Visions of Jazz: The First Century
Gary Giddins' idiosyncratic series of essays on key figures in 20th-century jazz doesn't pretend to be an all-inclusive guide to the key players in the first century of the music's history; his introduction makes plain that, aside from obvious inclusions like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, he r ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Edmund S. Morgan - Benjamin Franklin
The author's award-winning portrait of this most American of American Founding Fathers introduces readers to the great contradictions and extraordinary accomplishments of this master statesman, scientist, inventor, businessman, author, and first postmaster of the nation. Reprint. (Biography)
Score: 3.0 1 Review
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Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and modernity, his wielding of power and influence within his country, and that country's conflicts with major powers such as China and the United States. ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impasse between ... More
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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Richard Ellmann - Oscar Wilde
The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde--psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Robin Marantz Henig - The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
In THE MONK IN THE GARDEN, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly evokes a little-known chapter in science, taking us back to the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Shrouded in mystery, Gregor Mendel's quiet life and discoveries make ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Robert A. Caro - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro&#8217;s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. <b>Master of the Senate</b> takes Johnson&#8217;s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most a ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach
Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Claudia Roth Pierpont - Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
Essays exploring the lives and literary achievements of twelve women writers--including Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary McCarthy--focus on how they shaped beliefs about issues ranging from sexual freedom to racial issues to politics.
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James Tobin - Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
A National Book Critics Circle Award-winning classic documents the career of the World War II combat reporter while describing his coverage of the experiences of everyday soldiers, his receipt of a Pulitzer Prize, and his death during the Okinawa campaign.
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Philip Roth - Patrimony: A True Story
In PATRIMONY, a true story, Roth watches as his 86-year-old father, a man famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections, battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his ... More
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Daniel Mendelsohn - The Lost
Noted critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn never knew his uncle Shmiel, who died in the Holocaust, but family members who did never forgot him, and they spoke about him to Daniel, who was moved enough to begin a search to learn of the fate of his uncle, his uncle?s wife, and their four daughters. ... More
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David Nasaw - The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Business Week, and GQ, THE CHIEF: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDLOPH HEARST is ?an absorbing and ingeniously organized biography . . . of the most powerful publisher America has ever known? (New York ... More
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Jean-Yves Tadie - Marcel Proust: A Life
A best-seller in France, this biography by an authority on Proust draws on recently discovered material to tell the story of perhaps the greatest novelist of all time. Tadie illuminates Proust's life and also his art in a definitive critical reading that finds fascinating correspondences between the ... More
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Sylvia Nasar - A Beautiful Mind
This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nas ... More
Score: 4.6 5 Reviews
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Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg - Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
Traces the bluegrass country music achievements of the Carter family, from their early playing for self-entertainment and discovery by a New York record maker to their rise to stardom and eventual breakup, noting their influence on the careers of top performers.
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Barry Werth - The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
An utterly absorbing chronicle of the life and times of an esteemed college professor and literary critic and the ivory tower sex scandal that broke him, <b>The Scarlet Professor</b><i> </i>offers a provocative and unsettling look at American moral fanaticism.<br><br>During his thirty-seven years at ... More
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