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Old 05-30-2014, 09:51 PM   #16
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I read Red Baron: The Life & Death of an Ace by Peter Kilduff and found it a well done, easy read.
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Taste is so personal.

The best biography I have ever read is The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. But I've heard that when it was assigned as summer reading at the Columbia School of Journalism, hardly anybody finished it.

Check out Jung Chang. Some scholars didn't like her Mao book, but I don't think there are many votes, this side of the PRC government, against her Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China.

Walter Isaacson is outstanding, so I was surprised to find myself not finishing his Kissinger book. That's probably my fault. And there's not much better than his Franklin volume.

Fawn Brodie was a great biographer. But not one of her titles seems to be available as a proofread eBook. If you aren't bothered by misscans, and your library is cooperating, you could try this:

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7329...e_of_the_South
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Being in the legal profession you may find Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas interesting. Of course this is a pseudonym and we don't know who she really is. But, she is a sociopath and a lawyer.
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss.

The story of Alexandre Dumas' father, the son of a French aristocrat and a black sugar plantation slave from Haiti.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/bo...pagewanted=all
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Plus one for The Black Count. It's a great book and I believe a Pulitzer Prize-winning one.
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