7 Top biography books like The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin

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The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Hardcover

Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he…

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1. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

By: James Shapiro

4.08

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous pl… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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2. Walk the World's Rim

By: Betty Baker

3.79

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

A 14-year old Indian joins Cabeza de Vaca's 16th-century expedition through the Southwest. A vivid … read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • middle grade
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3. The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Hardcover

Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Real Frank Zappa Book

By: Frank Zappa , Peter Occhiogrosso

2.96

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

The legendary Frank Zappa, one of the most influential, innovative and controversial musical artist… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

5. Living The Best Day Ever

By: Hendri Coetzee

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction

6. The Great Fire

By: Jim Murphy

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flour… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

By: D.T. Max

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. Lincoln: A Photobiography

By: Russell Freedman

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. Th… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
"I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongs…"

-Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography

9. My Brother Sam Is Dead

By: James Lincoln Collier , Christopher Collier

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

The classic story of one family torn apart by the Revolutionary War -- now with special After Words… read more

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10. Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

By: Brigid Schulte

5.00

Format: 646 pages, Hardcover

Overwhelmed is a book about time pressure and modern life. It is a deeply reported and researched, … read more

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11. Marcelo in the Real World

By: Francisco X. Stork

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear--part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has… read more

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12. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

By: Jean Lee Latham

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to … read more

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13. Wilson

By: A. Scott Berg

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

From Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitiv… read more

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14. Eminent Victorians

By: Lytton Strachey , John Sutherland

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high… read more

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15. Bismarck: A Life

By: Jonathan Steinberg

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This riveting, New York Timesbestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the s… read more

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16. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

By: Steven Lomazow

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more

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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

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17. "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

By: Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

4.31

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A GREAT MAN AND HIS UNHERALDED ASSISTANT For some 50 years, Paul Sochaczewski has been on the tr… read more

Similar categories in Paul Spencer Sochaczewski's "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion book and Steve Sheinkin's The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The “facts"

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

"A key element in everyone’s hero’s journey is the “decision point,"

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

"The Wallace-Ali relationship reflects the great mythic “hero’s journey."

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

"Wallace would not have been as successful as he was without Ali’s support."

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

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18. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

By: James L. Swanson

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more

Similar categories in James L. Swanson's The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America book and Steve Sheinkin's The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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20. Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

By: Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart comes a standalone companion to the critic… read more

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  • middle grade
  • audiobook
"But it's not the sandwich that matter Coyote. It's someone bringing you the sandwich."

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

"I'm gonna go ahead a fast-forward the story a bit here. Because, basically some boring stuff happened and then some very exciting stuff happened, and I think it's best to just skip the crust and go s…"

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

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21. Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

By: Karen Hinton

4.27

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

“A vivid, clear-eyed glimpse into American politics from a woman who grew up in the hinterlands of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I don’t remember anything about the accident that changed my life. All I knew was what seemed like an endless, foggy dream."

-Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

"…I was finding that reporting the news wasn't enough. I wanted to be more than just a paid observer. I wanted to be in the fight. I got my chance."

-Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

"We…realized that no matter who won the race, we were girls, and we were from Soso, Mississippi, population 434, which meant we were destined to be last in pretty much everything else."

-Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

"The last few weeks of that summer, Janice lost interest in our conversations…. Her mind was taking her to other places, as though she was listening to a song or watching a movie or reading a book we …"

-Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

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3.44

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