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Anonymous Wed May 5 14:08:34 2021 No.18182073 [Reply] [Original]

What's your favorite biography of a historical person?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 14:12:46 2021 No.18182109 Mein Kamph or the Confessions, which arent even biographies really. Who reads biographies?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 14:13:44 2021 No.18182117 File: 22 KB, 225x346, 518MvbFy+5L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18182073

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 14:20:46 2021 No.18182160 >>18182073 The Invention of Nature Machiavelli in Hell Gray Eminence

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 16:34:56 2021 No.18183051 >>18182073 Elizabeth Longford's chatty, vaguely snobby Wellington. Also Rich Ellmann's Joyce.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 17:13:58 2021 No.18183266 File: 65 KB, 358x500, 2472360.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18182073 herm, this jewish artist sure draws lots of kids

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 18:42:46 2021 No.18183826 >>18182073 The last viking is great. Reads like an adventure novel. The American Caesar is good too.might be little outdated, considering it was published in the mid 70s.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 18:45:39 2021 No.18183845 >>18182117 stop posting this fag, not even romanians like him

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 18:57:12 2021 No.18183914 >>18182073 Anne Frank has been unironically my type since when I was a kid. In fact I refused to read the diary because I was afraid of fantasizing about a dead girl

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:00:50 2021 No.18183940 >>18183914 The diary is boner fuel. You owe it to her to at least masturbate once to it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:04:08 2021 No.18183953 Kantorowicz, Frederick II

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:05:19 2021 No.18183962 File: 23 KB, 300x404, 1614456970455.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18183845

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:06:26 2021 No.18183966 >>18182073 Holmes' Shelley

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:07:03 2021 No.18183969 >>18182117 based

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:10:47 2021 No.18183992 >>18183953 Didn't know about Kantorowicz. Looks interesting

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:13:15 2021 No.18184010 I enjoyed Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:33:01 2021 No.18184124 File: 15 KB, 176x270, nappy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18182073 Emil Ludwig's bio of Napoleon.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:50:34 2021 No.18184199 >>18182073 Duff Cooper's Talleyrand

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:52:34 2021 No.18184207 I've only read Ray Monk's bio of Wittgenstein. So, that.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 19:52:37 2021 No.18184208 >>18183962 It's better when your approved thought originates from some teenagers online?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 22:20:56 2021 No.18184934 File: 378 KB, 2022x764, 1619049641675.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18182073 Never cared for biographies but this one is moving and really great

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>>	Anonymous Thu May 6 04:39:42 2021 No.18186534 I like Volkogonov's Lenin He'd absolutely post here if he was born a century later