I’d like to read more biographies. What biogrpahy do you think deserves the “Hamilton” treatment?
I love history so I'm always down to read more historical books. Who do you think led such an interesting–for lack of a better word–life you'd love to see their life adapted for screen/stage?
*The Court of the Red Tsar* by SS Montefiore is about the later life of Stalin, and is fabulous. I think it would be logistically extremely difficult to adapt but if some genius could pull it off, it would be gripping.
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*West With the Night* by Beryl Markham. She was born in Kenya in 1902 and was an early aviatrix, flying mail planes over the bush and became the first person to fly across the Atlanic solo. She grew up with the Maasai and she writes beautifully about their role in the fighting during World War One.
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John Muir, Henrietta Lacks, EO Wilson, Rachel Carson, Alexander von Humboldt, maybe even John James Audubon.
These are all from books I’ve recently finished.
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Biographies are my jam. Particularly presidential biographies which a lot of this list will he.
Napoleon by Andrew Roberts
President Garfield by C.W. Goodyear
T.R. The Last Romantic by H.W. Brands
Grant by Ron Chernow
Truman by David McCullough
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Betty Ford by Lisa McCubbin
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Wilson by A. Scott Berg
LeftyRambles2413 on
For the US. Ulysses Grant coincidentally enough with the same writer who wrote the Hamilton bio as the source material. For someone international, Grainne Ni Mhailie, she was a fascinating woman who was a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. I love telling my ten year old niece about her because we’re distantly related to O’Malleys and Grainne was known to command her own ships.
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*The Court of the Red Tsar* by SS Montefiore is about the later life of Stalin, and is fabulous. I think it would be logistically extremely difficult to adapt but if some genius could pull it off, it would be gripping.
*West With the Night* by Beryl Markham. She was born in Kenya in 1902 and was an early aviatrix, flying mail planes over the bush and became the first person to fly across the Atlanic solo. She grew up with the Maasai and she writes beautifully about their role in the fighting during World War One.
John Muir, Henrietta Lacks, EO Wilson, Rachel Carson, Alexander von Humboldt, maybe even John James Audubon.
These are all from books I’ve recently finished.
Biographies are my jam. Particularly presidential biographies which a lot of this list will he.
Napoleon by Andrew Roberts
President Garfield by C.W. Goodyear
T.R. The Last Romantic by H.W. Brands
Grant by Ron Chernow
Truman by David McCullough
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Betty Ford by Lisa McCubbin
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Wilson by A. Scott Berg
For the US. Ulysses Grant coincidentally enough with the same writer who wrote the Hamilton bio as the source material. For someone international, Grainne Ni Mhailie, she was a fascinating woman who was a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. I love telling my ten year old niece about her because we’re distantly related to O’Malleys and Grainne was known to command her own ships.