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biography Anonymous 2016-10-04 15:38:58 Post No. [Report]

Anyone here into biographies? I've been enjoying Robert Caro's extensive research into the life of LBJ. It's super deep and relates Lyndon's own fabricated myths of his upbringing with interviews of his contemporaries. I'm only on volume 1 of 4, with the 5th volume waiting to be published.

I've never seen a biography like this, but it's fascinating. Can anyone recommend other biographies that are as well researched and as readable? I plan to read all of Caro, as well as his book on Robert Moses.

What else is good?

Anonymous 2016-10-04 16:52:46 Post No.8582968
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 16:52:46 Post No.8582968 [Report]

>biographies
you love self help books too, i assume.

Anonymous 2016-10-04 16:56:42 Post No.8582981
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 16:56:42 Post No.8582981 [Report]

>>8582968

You're a goddamn scrub

Anonymous 2016-10-04 20:05:33 Post No.8583643
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 20:05:33 Post No.8583643 [Report]

>>8582698
It's pretty great. It's amazing how dirt poor Johnson was growing up, and how he rose to power through sheer tyranny of will. I'd like to read Caro's book about Robert Moses

Anybody got other political bio recs? I'd like a good bio of Zhou Enlai

Anonymous 2016-10-04 22:26:21 Post No.8584149
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>>8583643
>>>/r/books

Anonymous 2016-10-04 22:44:11 Post No.8584236
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 22:44:11 Post No.8584236 [Report]

>>8582698
If you hadn't already specified your interest in Caro, I would have recommended the Power Broker. Definitely give it a read, it's fascinating if you're at all into urban planning or New York. Probably my favorite nonfiction.

I can't recommend any other bios; haven't read many. You might like Richard Rhodes' tome on the making of the atomic bomb. Haven't read it yet but I believe it delved into both the science of the bomb and the biographies of the people that created it.

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This is one of my favourite books ever written. Can't recommend it highly enough if you're interested in the Romantics, Richard Holmes is a fantastic biographer. And Shelley, what a life.

Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:00:28 Post No.8584312
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:00:28 Post No.8584312 [Report]

Blake baileys biography on Donald Barthelme is pretty good and interesting. Got me into him too.

Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:07:34 Post No.8584341
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>>8582698
the only canonical biography ofc...

Life of Johnson.Boswell

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