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Book Board: Favorite biographer?
Posted on 12/28/14 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 12/28/14 at 8:15 pm
I love me some Ron Chernow and Walter Isaacson. I've read The House of Morgan (about JP Morgan), Titan (John D. Rockefeller), and Alexander Hamilton by Chernow. All excellent.
I have read the biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin by Isaacson, also all excellent.
They both do a great job of getting tremendous detail but making it flow in a solid narrative.
I really enjoyed the pulitzer price winning Edmund Morris biographies of Theodore Roosevelt: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex. However, Morris revealed his strong liberal leanings with his terrible biography of Reagan called Dutch and his 3rd biography of Roosevelt. I threw away Dutch in disgust and stopped reading the final Roosevelt biography.
I want to read the Washington biography by Chernow and The Innovators by Isaacson.
Who are your favorite biographers? Any recommendations?
I have read the biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin by Isaacson, also all excellent.
They both do a great job of getting tremendous detail but making it flow in a solid narrative.
I really enjoyed the pulitzer price winning Edmund Morris biographies of Theodore Roosevelt: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex. However, Morris revealed his strong liberal leanings with his terrible biography of Reagan called Dutch and his 3rd biography of Roosevelt. I threw away Dutch in disgust and stopped reading the final Roosevelt biography.
I want to read the Washington biography by Chernow and The Innovators by Isaacson.
Who are your favorite biographers? Any recommendations?
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Posted on 12/28/14 at 9:06 pm to LeonPhelps
Einhard
Posted on 12/28/14 at 9:07 pm to LeonPhelps
Isaacson, dude is thorough
Posted on 12/28/14 at 9:37 pm to biglego
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Einhard
I had to Google him. I was not expecting someone dead for nearly 1,300 years. lol
I take it you read his Life of Charlemagne? I have always been fascinated by Charlemagne. Next to Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Napoleon, he was the most interesting person I remember learning about in high school some 14 years ago.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 9:38 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
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Isaacson, dude is thorough
He is actually from NOLA and went to Newman.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:03 pm to LeonPhelps
I read it years ago.
I generally don't like biographies but I do love history. I recently read one on Richard the Lionheart and I also read Zealot which was a fascinating look at Jesus.
I generally don't like biographies but I do love history. I recently read one on Richard the Lionheart and I also read Zealot which was a fascinating look at Jesus.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:06 pm to biglego
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I also read Zealot which was a fascinating look at Jesus.
A friend of mine just started reading this. We watched the interview the author did with that Fox News correspondent. It was hilarious. Here is the interview in case you didn't see it.
LINK
The correspondent could not get off the fact that author is a muslim writing about Jesus rather than a "scholar of religions with 4 degrees who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who just happens to be a muslim" as the author responded.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:26 pm to LeonPhelps
I didn't even know he was Muslim when I read it. I think I read that he was raised Christian and converted later, and his conversion sounded to me more like a cultural thing since he's Iranian. Besides, I don't know if a Christjan is capable of writing such a book. But it was fascinating and very easy to read, and seemed well-researched.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:33 pm to LeonPhelps
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The correspondent could not get off the fact that author is a muslim writing about Jesus rather than a "scholar of religions with 4 degrees who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who just happens to be a muslim" as the author responded.
That chick was so clueless. She was so over-matched that she just kept stuttering. It's almost like she was told exactly the stance she had to take and couldn't deviate from it even in the face of being owned over and over.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:25 pm to Methuselah
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It's almost like she was told exactly the stance she had to take and couldn't deviate from it even in the face of being owned over and over.
That is the primary theory I found when Googling explanations. It did not reflect well on her. She had already been demoted for being a poor anchor or whatever the regulars are called on that show.
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