Biographies

[Anonymous No.22780917]

Thread for biographies! I want to tank as many good ones as possible. To entertain and to teach myself. Picrelated's Lives is an obvious one, but what others? There's no shortage of figures to learn about. Generals, statesmen, academics, philosophers, scientists, adventurers, religious leaders and other absolute mad men.

List figures, even a little obscure/local, and their best biography(ies). Recently bought R M Johnston's biography of Napoleon. I would appreciate recommendations on more elaborate and precise biographies on Napoleon.

Some interesting figures
>Washington and other founding fathers
>Roman dictators and emperors
>Stalin
>Lenin
>Kepler
>Berkeley
>Schoppy
>Wagner
>Mozart
>the great Khan
>Charles XII of Sweden
And many more, too many to list.

[Anonymous No.22781082]

>>22780917
just read all of Walter Isaacson's books

[Anonymous No.22781128]

ma'am darling by craig brown
about princess margaret
very entertaining and interesting book about how she appeared in the public eye throughout her life

if you normal biographies about people just writing what their lives are like jan swafford's ives and brahms biographies are good

[Anonymous No.22782262]

>>22780917
Great thread I too want to read a lot of good biographies
Napoleon: A Life - Andrew Roberts is pretty good
Alexander the Great - Philip Freeman
Julius Caesar - Philip Freeman

[Anonymous No.22782268]

>>22780917
Malcom X's followed by Everyman A King

[Anonymous No.22782330]

>>22782268
>reading about a sped who believes in the yakub mythos

[Anonymous No.22782369]

>>22782330
Mythos? Yakubian demon detected.

[Anonymous No.22782379]

>>22780917
>Napoleon
The andrew roberts one
>Roman dictators and emperors
Adrian goldsworthy
>Wagner
His autobiography

[Anonymous No.22782525]

>>22780917
>Mozart
John Suchet

>Stalin
Robert Conquest

>Lenin
Victor Sebestyen

[Anonymous No.22782700]

>>22780917
>Founding Fathers

>George Washington
James Thomas Flexner and Washington Irving

>Thomas Jefferson
Dumas Malone and Jon Meacham

>John Adams
David McCullough and John Ferling

>Benjamin Franklin
Carl Van Doren and Ronald Clark

>Alexander Hamilton
Robert Hendrickson and Willard Sterne Randall

>Samuel Adams
Ira Stoll and Stacy Schiff

>Paul Revere
Edith Forbes and David Hackett Fischer

>Benjamin Rush
Stephen Fried and Harlow Giles Unger

[Anonymous No.22782727]

>>22780917
>R M Johnston's biography of Napoleon
>>22782262
>Napoleon: A Life - Andrew Roberts is pretty good
>>22782379
>>Napoleon
>The andrew roberts one
So. Was he really a cuck or what?

[Anonymous No.22782744]

>>22782727
Yes. Both he and Josephine fucked other people and did right from the start of their marriage.

[Anonymous No.22782873]

>>22782744
More interesting. Why her, an aristocrat?
What about the ideals of the revolution?

[Anonymous No.22783015]

>>22782727
>>22782744
>>22782873

[Anonymous No.22783147]

>>22783015
free translation


BUONAPARTE

Holy vases are the poets,
Where life's wine, the Spirit
Of Heroes, are preserved;

But the spirit of this youngman,
So quick, how could it not break,
If tried to hold him, this Vase?

That the poet let him untouched like the Spirit of Nature;
With such stuff the master becomes a boy

He can in the poem not live nor stay,
Let him live and stay in the World.

[Anonymous No.22783401]

>>22782744
That was only at the beginning of their marriage and after Napoleon found out she begged to not leave her and she stayed loyal since then. Keep in mind aristocracy cheating in France in the late 18th century was about ten times more common than the modern day military wives stereotype.