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What's the best biography or autobiography you've read recently? [View all] pscot Jul 2013 OP

Not exactly recently, but I liked Warlord by Carlo D'este. Neoma Jul 2013 #1

I read Wm. Manchesters 2-part biography pscot Jul 2013 #3

Oh, Warlord touches his flaws, that's for sure. Neoma Jul 2013 #5

If you can believe Manchester, he put on a brand new pair pscot Jul 2013 #6

Well, I can believe the alcohol consumption. Neoma Jul 2013 #7

I was so looking forward to reading Manchester's third volume Zorro Dec 2013 #11

Woody Guthrie: A Life limpyhobbler Jul 2013 #2

I saw Arlo once, in concert pscot Jul 2013 #4

Sounds like a nice place to live. limpyhobbler Jul 2013 #8

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Three quarters of a century pscot Dec 2014 #22

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It's a great life if you don't weaken pscot Dec 2014 #24

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I just finished No Ordinary Time kag Aug 2013 #9

I haven't read that pscot Aug 2013 #10

It is a fascinating book GeoWilliam750 Jan 2018 #44

Not recent but last year I read The Honeycomb by Adela Rogers St. Johns Zorro Dec 2013 #12

There's a new biography of Barbara Stanwick pscot Jan 2014 #14

Destiny of the Republic: SheilaT Jan 2014 #13

That sounds like a good one pscot Jan 2014 #15

I read some of them a very long time ago, when SheilaT Jan 2014 #16

That's why we have time to loaf around pscot Jan 2014 #17

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It is very much a different world today. SheilaT Dec 2014 #29

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I agree this is a great book very fast and easy for such a large book I gabeana Dec 2017 #40

My three books cntrygrl Jan 2014 #18

The best part of reading is the way one book leads you on pscot Jan 2014 #19

Thank you pscot I will cntrygrl Jan 2014 #20

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She was illiterate but dictated naratives. Olive Gilbert cntrygrl Dec 2014 #31

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Right now I'm reading "Sins of the Father" CountAllVotes Jan 2015 #33

My library has it only a a 3M ebook pscot Jan 2015 #34

I bought a hard bound copy of it for $5 from Abebooks.com CountAllVotes Jan 2015 #36

Just started Haywire, by Brooke Hayward - tell you this, closeupready Jan 2015 #35

The Autobiography of Angela Davis. lovemydog May 2015 #37

So Anyway by John Cleese. camelfan Jun 2015 #38

Just finished photographer Sally Mann's memoir "Hold Still" womanofthehills Sep 2015 #39

Fatal Passage Mendocino Dec 2017 #41

Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks JonLP24 Dec 2017 #42

My favorite president pscot Dec 2017 #43

My Cross to Bear - Greg Allman The Polack MSgt Jan 2018 #45