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Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 22:06:16 2011 No.1502144 [Reply] [Original]

Hey guys, I was just wondering if you could give me some biography suggestions. I'm a history major so I'm pretty interested in historical figures (especially powerful historical figures who have been disfigured & demonized over time)
Favourites include Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser and more recently Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Thanks!

>>	Nicola'sNose !!tw6RKbAX4Ph Fri Jan 28 22:10:16 2011 No.1502151 Go home!

>>	Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 22:11:16 2011 No.1502155 File: 177 KB, 1600x1200, Titanic_117.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1502151 Shit!

>>	Nicola'sNose !!tw6RKbAX4Ph Fri Jan 28 22:12:16 2011 No.1502157 >>1502155 yea I've got my eyes on you.....

>>	Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 22:16:16 2011 No.1502166 File: 206 KB, 1600x1200, Titanic_363.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1502157 I'm sorry! The crossover thread on /tv/ just made me want to pick up a book!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 28 22:22:16 2011 No.1502179 you must be new here we don't talk about any woman except ayn rand

>>	Nicola'sNose !!tw6RKbAX4Ph Fri Jan 28 22:24:16 2011 No.1502181 >>1502166 Well you're lucky I found you here. If you would have gone to any other board.... knucklecrack

>>	Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 22:35:16 2011 No.1502199 File: 197 KB, 1600x1200, Titanic_682.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1502181 Guess I'll just slinker back home then... I wish someone would answer though, this board is quite slow.

>>	Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 23:00:16 2011 No.1502236 bump~

>>	Nicola'sNose !!tw6RKbAX4Ph Fri Jan 28 23:04:16 2011 No.1502240 >>1502236 GO HOME just go read Antony and Cleopatra

>>	Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 23:06:16 2011 No.1502243 File: 163 KB, 1600x1200, Titanic_809.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1502240 That's not a biography!!! :( SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE!! I promise I'll leave!!

>>	Nicola'sNose !!tw6RKbAX4Ph Fri Jan 28 23:10:16 2011 No.1502253 >>1502243 Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig Marie Antoinette: A Play by Upton Sinclair there both about your queen

Anonymous Fri Jan 28 23:12:16 2011 No.1502256
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>>1502144
Sincerely, I was planing on posting about Thomas Paine soon, on account of the mans birthday this Saturday.

Aside from reading his own works, a quick and exciting biography/American history book called Thomas Paine and the American Promise, by Harvey J Kaye, is an excellent starting point.

Anonymous Fri Jan 28 23:20:28 2011 No.1502272 [DELETED]

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Napoleon: A Political Life by Steven Englund
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
The autobiographies of Frederick Douglas
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Washington by Ron Chernow
Truman by David McCullough
John Adams by David McCullough
Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude
Plutarch’s Lives
The History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. by Peter Green
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
St. Patrick of Ireland by Philip Freeman
Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman

Anonymous Fri Jan 28 23:21:51 2011 No.1502277 [DELETED]

Napoleon: A Political Life by Steven Englund
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
The autobiographies of Frederick Douglas
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Washington by Ron Chernow
Truman by David McCullough
John Adams by David McCullough
Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude
Plutarch’s Lives
The History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. by Peter Green
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
St. Patrick of Ireland by Philip Freeman
Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Anonymous Fri Jan 28 23:22:16 2011 No.1502282
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Napoleon: A Political Life by Steven Englund
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
The autobiographies of Frederick Douglas
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Washington by Ron Chernow
Truman by David McCullough
John Adams by David McCullough
Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude
Plutarch’s Lives
The History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. by Peter Green
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
St. Patrick of Ireland by Philip Freeman
Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda

>>	Nicola'sNose !!tw6RKbAX4Ph Fri Jan 28 23:25:16 2011 No.1502287 >>1502282 >Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy EXACTLY EAT IT, EAMES!

>>	Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 23:26:16 2011 No.1502291 File: 174 KB, 1600x1200, Titanic_440.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1502272 >>1502256 Thank you very much!

>>	Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 23:29:16 2011 No.1502297 File: 167 KB, 1600x1200, Titanic_423.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1502287 Loooool I'm sorry thought it was the Shakespeare play :) i shall never doubt your words again dear nicola <3

Anonymous Fri Jan 28 23:29:16 2011 No.1502298

I'm >>1502282
Some interesting documentaries if you have a basic knowledge of history:

Peter the Great: The Tyrant Reformer (Biography)
Catherine the Great (PBS)
Marie Antoinette (PBS)
Alexander the Great: The Man Behind the Myth (National Geographic)
Napoleon (PBS - narrated by David McCullough)
The Buddha (PBS)

>>	Nicola'sNose !!tw6RKbAX4Ph Fri Jan 28 23:30:16 2011 No.1502301 >>1502297 Good :3 And I was talking about the play :p No takebacks!

>>	Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 23:33:16 2011 No.1502306 >>1502298 Haha I've watched them all besides The Buddha & Peter the Great. I love PBS. Thanks though :)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 28 23:34:16 2011 No.1502311 >>1502306 Nice. The Buddha one is soothing, and the Peter the Great one is very informative and often unintentionally hilarious. Do you have any you recommend?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 28 23:35:16 2011 No.1502312 >>1502301 You are an enormous fucking faggot.

>>	Eames !pJ.3kCIADs Fri Jan 28 23:40:16 2011 No.1502318 >>1502311 Oh I'm the biggest fan of the BBC civilization docs; they don't focus directly on the leaders but there are sections. Egypt is my favourite, The Celts is pretty interesting too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 28 23:40:16 2011 No.1502319 Prophet trilogy, by Isaac Deutscher. It's about the life and times of old Trotsky. Orwell: Authorised Biography, by Michael Shelden. Freud (Fontana Modern Masters), by Richard Wollheim.

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