Biography
Real lives unfold on these pages as visionaries, leaders, and everyday heroes share their transformative journeys through success, struggle, and profound change. These intimate portraits and personal stories illuminate the human spirit while offering wisdom, inspiration, and powerful lessons drawn from lived experience.
Biography Book Summaries
A Numerate Life
A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
Mathematics
Science
Biography
My Fellow Soldiers
General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
History
Biography
War
Letters on Cézanne
Art
Poetry
Classics
World Travel
An Irreverent Guide
Travel
Food
Memoir
House of Bush, House of Saud
The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
Politics
History
Biography
The Fall of the House of Bush
The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future
Politics
History
American History
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Economics
Politics
Business
Uncle Tungsten
Science
Memoir
Biography
Killing the Dream
James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
History
American History
True Crime
Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
Biography
History
Politics
Marco Polo
From Venice to Xanadu
History
Biography
Travel
The World's Banker
A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Economics
Finance
Biography
The Last Warlord
The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime
History
Military History
Military Fiction
Education of a Felon
Biography
Crime
True Crime
Lucky
How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
Politics
History
American History
Most Dangerous
Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
History
Biography
War
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies
The Real West
History
Westerns
Biography
Hero
The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Front Row at the Trump Show
Politics
History
Journalism
Courage to Soar
A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Beyond the Robot
The Life and Work of Colin Wilson
Biography
Philosophy
Psychology
The Way of the Explorer
An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds
Science
Philosophy
Memoir
Empire of the Summer Moon
History
Biography
American History
Blood and Thunder
An Epic of the American West
History
American History
Biography
The Wrath of Cochise
The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
History
American History
Biography
Wyatt Earp
The Life Behind the Legend
History
Biography
Westerns
To Hell on a Fast Horse
Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
History
Biography
Westerns
Public Enemies
America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
History
True Crime
Crime
Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
History
True Crime
Crime
Blackbeard
The Birth of America
History
Pirates
Amazon
Thinking In Numbers
On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Science
Mathematics
Essays
Some Girls
My Life in a Harem
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The White Darkness
History
Biography
Adventure
The Story of the Integration of the Indian States
History
India
Politics
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
History
Biography
Italy
What I Ate in One Year
Memoir
Food
Biography
The Forgotten Highlander
My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
History
Biography
War
Rogue Trader
Finance
Biography
Business
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History
Civil War
American History
The Quest for God
A Personal Pilgrimage
Religion
Christianity
Biography
Is That Really You, God?
Hearing the Voice of God
Christian
Biography
Faith
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
Memoir
Music
Biography
The Perfect Mile
Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
Sports
History
Biography
The Alchemists
The INEOS Story – An Industrial Giant Comes of Age
Biography
Business
Rick Rubin
In the Studio
Music
Biography
Business
A Century Is Not Enough
My Roller-coaster Ride to Success
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised
A Memoir of Survival and Hope
Sports
Memoir
Basketball
