BIOGRAPHIES

[Anonymous No.17317513]

What's the best biography you'v ever read?
I am thinking about reading stuff about Alexander, Napoleon, Khan, Roosevelt... You know, great men with mounstruous penises who changed history.
What are some biographies you can recommend?

[Anonymous No.17317676]

Bump?

[Anonymous No.17317688]

>>17317513
Not a great man but the snowball about Warren buffet sorta opened my eyes to how the stock market worked and how ingenuity plays a part in it (they used to check the assets of a stock and if the stock was lower they would buy the company and if it didn't sell they would just sell the assets but that was when he first started).

[Anonymous No.17317736]

bumping for interest

[Anonymous No.17317742]

Does anyone here knows any good Biography on Theodore Roosevelt? The man was badass, a fucking unit.

[Anonymous No.17317771]

>>17317513

Rockefeller by Ron Chernow is the best i've ever read. However, i was like 18 at the time. Hamilton by Ron Chernow is pretty good. The Power Broker by Robert Caro is also very interesting but, like the others, its pretty dense and you really have to have an appetite for the material.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is supposed to be really good but I haven't gotten around to it.

Unironically, Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography Total Recall is actually fantastic but I also read that when I was like 18 so keep that in mind.

>>17317742
Mornings on Horseback by McCullough is one I've read part of. it only covers the early aspects of teddy. I didn't finish because it was relatively
boring but also pretty cozy if you're looking for that

[Anonymous No.17317797]

>>17317513
Ivan the Terrible by Henri Troyat

Anything by Henri Troyat

[Anonymous No.17317809]

>>17317513
"khan" isnt a surname, its a title. genghis is too, to be fair, but every steppe turkic/altaic ruler was a khan, but only genghis was genghis.

[Anonymous No.17317881]

>>17317513
Life of Samuel Johnson

[Anonymous No.17319048]

Bumperino.

[Anonymous No.17319059]

>>17317809
Genghis was the Khan
One says Khan, and his meaning is understood

[Anonymous No.17319099]

>>17317809
Yeah, but since it can be any Khan how do you know i am talking about Genghis? Maybe you just guessed? Or maybe Genghis was the only relevant Khan, and no one would say "Khan" in a general context referring to another person under that same title?
But thanks for the info, nerd.

[Anonymous No.17319129]

Peter green has a good Alexander book.
Andrew Roberts has good Napoleon stuff
I like the adrian goldsworthy books about Caesar & Augustus
Also; the Power Broker.

[Anonymous No.17319283]

hate to break it to you, but biographies suck ass

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[Anonymous No.17319314]

reading a wilde biography currently. great to see into his outrageous character and how utterly contrived it was most of the time.
doesn't matter who you read (unless its pop shit that constantly goes on about him being gay and "le tragedy") its gonna be reproductions of his witicisms anyway

[Anonymous No.17319316]

I started this last week and have been reading it off and on. Its' very good. Ancient rome seems like such a clown world, it's politics comes across as an actual drama with so many large personalities and betrayals.

[Anonymous No.17319323]

can anyone reccomend a good goethe biography?

[Anonymous No.17319419]

yes, read P Green on Alexander to find out what little megalomaniac that mommas boy was.

[Anonymous No.17319432]

American Sniper is an autobiography and its pretty good and based (even tho its kind of neocon sometimes). Definetively worth a reading.

[Anonymous No.17319441]

>>17319419
But i want to read something about how much of a hero he was, something retracting him as a super smart and brave man.
I need someone to look up to.

[Anonymous No.17319460]

>>17319441
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.17319478]

>>17317513
I read a biography on Francisco Franco I really enjoyed by Payne and Palacios. It's the most even keeled book I've ever read that touches the discussion blackhole that is the Spanish Civil War.

The other one I really enjoyed was a biography on Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. A niche topic but it actually made me tear up, and a book hadn't done that to me since I was 11.

[Anonymous No.17319480]

>>17319316
Nice! Caesar was (among many other things) a wonderful writer, and Raaflaub's translation is very very good.

[Anonymous No.17319482]

>>17319314

"The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde" is the worst Wilde bio.

Richard Ellmann's remains the best.

[Anonymous No.17319486]

I've only read one biography: Ray Monk's book on Wittgenstein.

It was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.17319712]

>>17319460
Kek'd!

[Anonymous No.17319734]

>>17319059
No... just no. Khan means king in Turkic/Mongolic. If I tell you I read about king, do you know which one of the one million kings in history I'm talking about?

[Anonymous No.17319797]

Gucci Mane

[Anonymous No.17319847]

>>17319734
he means that genghis was THE khan so people understand who you mean if you use just the word similar to people knowing what you mean when saying THE ninth symphony or something

[Anonymous No.17319849]

>>17317513
Shapur I beats them all.

[Anonymous No.17319854]

>roosevelt

[Anonymous No.17319858]

>>17317771
I second all of these recommendations and add Napoleon The Great by Andrew Roberts.

Arnold’s book is distilled insight into the disciplined mind of a man who’s taken every opportunity life gave him through sheer work ethic

[Anonymous No.17320254]

Lawrence and the Arabs

[Anonymous No.17320260]

>>17317513
Edmund Morris' three-volume biography of Roosevelt is pretty great.

[Anonymous No.17320277]

>>17317513
Plutarch's Lives

[Anonymous No.17320294]

>>17319734
You tipped your hand in your first post that you knew he was talking about Genghis Khan specifically so you played yourself here

[Anonymous No.17320322]

The Last Lion

[Anonymous No.17320337]

>>17317513
What book about Roosevelt are you referring to?

Also Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander is based massive cock-pilled

[Anonymous No.17320444]

>>17317513
I recommend the Alexander's bibliography written by Curtius. It has a lot of fluff which probably never happened but it is the most entertaining. The Penguin's version has footnotes saying what happened and what didn't though so it's fine.
As for other bibliographies that I read, I found Plutarch's too short and Arrian's too dry but by far the most accurate out of all of them.

[Anonymous No.17320563]

>>17317513

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>>17319478
What about the biography by Preston?

[Anonymous No.17320609]

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2VHZZ66IGH0A9

[Anonymous No.17320951]

>>17319482
>"The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde" is the worst Wilde bio.
let me guess, focuses on all his gay hijinx? snore

i'm reading Hesketh Pearson's. his goal was to give a view of his character, not his controversy, and its been done very well so far. doesn't seem biased one way or the other, though he namedrops bernard shaw way more often than needed, which i find pretty funny

[Anonymous No.17321029]

>>17317513
Plutarch's Lives

[Anonymous No.17321137]

any recs for biographical novels? like The Agony and the Ecstasy, where it's a biography but written as a narrative?

[Anonymous No.17321153]

>>17320277
>>17321029
+1

[Anonymous No.17321887]

>>17321029
based

[Anonymous No.17323046]

>Roosevelt

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[Anonymous No.17325676]

>>17317513
Have a bump.

[Anonymous No.17325844]

Any good recs for Admiral Nelson?

[Anonymous No.17325868]

Kantorowicz - Frederick II
Stolfi - Hitler Beyond Evil and Tyranny
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty - Ron Chernow
Danny S Parker - Wars of SS Colonel Jochen Peiper
Always With Honor Memoirs of General Peter Wrangel

These are on my reading list

[Anonymous No.17325963]

>Roosevelt

Lol there is not a single amerifat even close to the men you list

[Anonymous No.17326030]

>>17320563
In addition to this I would add the Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris, even if it is historical fiction.

[Anonymous No.17326035]

>>17321137
I, Claudius perhaps.

[Anonymous No.17326059]

Perhaps this will help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Biography_or_Autobiography

[Anonymous No.17326751]

WWII is very unremarkable for the cult built around it. I don't think Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, or Roosevelt were exceptional men.

[Anonymous No.17327595]

>>17317513
Are there any good biographies of Baibars?

[Anonymous No.17328856]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.17328865]

>>17326059
>(((Pulitzer)))
Thanks, anon. It will be veeeery helpful.