Biography
Real lives unfold on these pages through intimate portraits of world leaders, everyday heroes, and remarkable personalities who shaped our world. Whether following someone's complete life journey or focusing on transformative moments, these carefully researched accounts reveal the triumphs, struggles, and wisdom of human experience.
Biography Book Summaries
The Salt Path
Memoir
Travel
Nature
Legionnaire
Five Years in the French Foreign Legion
Military Fiction
History
Biography
The Woman All Spies Fear
Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life
History
Biography
Historical
G.I. Gurdjieff
The War Against Sleep
Biography
Philosophy
Psychology
No Hero
The Evolution of a Navy SEAL
Military Fiction
History
Biography
Investing the Templeton Way
The Market-Beating Strategies of Value Investing's Legendary Bargain Hunter
Finance
Business
Biography
Smith Wigglesworth
Secret of His Power
Christian
Biography
Christian Non Fiction
Smith Wigglesworth
Apostle of Faith
Christian
Biography
Faith
Danse Macabre
Horror
Writing
Essays
The Gold Standard
Rules to Rule By
Business
Comedy
Humor
Engineers of Dreams
Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
History
Engineering
Science
Defenders of the West
The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
History
Christianity
Christian
Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
Economics
Finance
Business
The Man Who Ran Washington
The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Biography
Politics
History
Bad Blood
Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Business
True Crime
Science
Sons of Wichita
How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
Biography
Politics
Business
A Class With Drucker
The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher
Business
Management
Leadership
Bad Gays
A Homosexual History
History
Queer
LGBT
Maestro
Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
Economics
Biography
Politics
The Age of Turbulence
Economics
Biography
Business
Bagehot
The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
Biography
Economics
History
The Facebook Effect
The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World
Business
Technology
Biography
The Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
Business
Finance
History
Real Estate
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Return to the Little Kingdom
Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple
Business
Biography
Apple
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
Finance
Economics
Biography
The Robber Barons
History
Business
American History
Diaries 1969-1979
The Python Years
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Art
Philosophy
Biography
The Most Beautiful
My Life with Prince
Memoir
Biography
Music
That First Season
How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
Sports
Football
Biography
Mindgames
Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey
Sports
Basketball
Biography
The Special One
The Dark Side of Jose Mourinho
Football
Sports
Biography
The Big Three in Economics
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
Economics
History
Politics
Hedge Hogging
Finance
Business
Economics
Cleopatra
The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
History
Biography
Egypt
The House of Medici
Its Rise and Fall
History
Italy
Biography
Nada se opone a la noche
France
Roman
Memoir
Left for Dead
My Journey Home from Everest
Adventure
Mountaineering
Memoir
Andrew Carnegie
Biography
History
Business
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
History
Biography
Business
Tocqueville
A Very Short Introduction
History
Philosophy
Politics
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Biography
Military Fiction
History
War as I Knew It
History
Biography
Military Fiction
The Founders
The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Business
Biography
Technology
The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
Leadership
Business
Biography
It Worked for Me
In Life and Leadership
Leadership
Biography
Memoir
Spy Catcher
The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
History
Espionage
Biography
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Film
Biography
Media Tie In
The Phantom Prince
My Life with Ted Bundy
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
