10 must-read biography memoir books like The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester

Cover of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

By: William Manchester

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1) by Ian Kershaw

1. Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1)

By: Ian Kershaw

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Re… read more

Similar categories in Ian Kershaw's Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1) book and William Manchester's The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1) by Robert A. Caro

2. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3) by Robert A. Caro

3. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, cont… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester

4. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

By: William Manchester

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

s/t: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 When Winston Spencer Churchill was born … read more

Similar categories in William Manchester's The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 book and William Manchester's The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • politics
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1) by Winston S. Churchill

5. The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)

By: Winston S. Churchill

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed su… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction

6. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

7. Peter the Great: His Life and World

By: Robert K. Massie

4.14

Format: 909 pages, Paperback

Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2) by Winston S. Churchill

8. Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2)

By: Winston S. Churchill

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
Cover of Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt) by Edmund Morris

9. Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

By: Edmund Morris

4.10

Format: 766 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK •  “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling readi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Ensconced, he (Roosevelt) lacked some of the neuroses of progressives-economic envy and race hatred especially.His radicalism was a matter of energy rather than urgency."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot o…"

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

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10. Churchill

By: Paul Johnson

4.21

Format: 96 pages,

An acclaimed historian presents a revelatory look at the greatest statesman of the twentieth centur… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

11. The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)

By: Robert A. Caro

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON… read more

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12. Lincoln

By: David Herbert Donald

4.19

Format: 714 pages, Paperback

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

13. Theodore Rex

By: Edmund Morris

4.18

Format: 772 pages, Paperback

Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biograph… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital."

-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex

"Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his chara…"

-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex

14. 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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15. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By: Robert A. Caro

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more

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16. My Early Life, 1874-1904

By: William Manchester , Winston S. Churchill

4.25

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Here, in his own words, are the fascinating first thirty years in the life of one of the most provo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"My education was interrupted only by my schooling."

-William Manchester, My Early Life, 1874-1904

"The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE."

-William Manchester, My Early Life, 1874-1904

"Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen."

-William Manchester, My Early Life, 1874-1904

"You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth."

-William Manchester, My Early Life, 1874-1904

17. Dreadnought

By: Robert K. Massie

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.… read more

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

18. 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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19. Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

By: Claudia Clark

4.28

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

One of the great political friendships of the modern world, as told through key moments that shaped… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013."

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

"Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the …"

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

"Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something…"

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

"In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the p…"

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

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

20. "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

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  • 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

Cover of Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts

21. Churchill: Walking with Destiny

By: Andrew Roberts

4.36

Format: 1105 pages, Hardcover

A landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from pr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

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