10 Top biography memoir books like Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas

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Robert Kennedy: His Life

By: Evan Thomas

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

He was "Good Bobby," who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it . . . …

"Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy"

-Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life

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1. Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Lisa McCubbin

4.24

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"We had been through so much together, mrs. Kennedy and me. More than anyone can imagine. More than anyone can ever know."

-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

"it's been a long time since i've thought about that night, that wonderful raucous night. I can still see the president s surprise and amusement while opening gifts. I can still hear the music, the gu…"

-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

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2. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

By: Robert Dallek

3.99

Format: 849 pages, Paperback

Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"She was a little removed,"

-Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

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3. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

By: John Le Carré

3.99

Format: 589 pages, Paperback

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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"Let's die of it before we're too old."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

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4. The Making of the Atomic Bomb

By: Richard Rhodes

4.39

Format: 886 pages, Paperback

Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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5. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

By: John Milton Cooper Jr.

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The first major biography of America's twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of A… read more

Similar categories in John Milton Cooper Jr.'s Woodrow Wilson: A Biography book and Evan Thomas's Robert Kennedy: His Life

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Robert F. Kennedy

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over it… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Life Itself

By: Roger Ebert

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks

By: Mick Foley , WWF

3.63

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Mick Foley is a nice man, a family man who loves amusement parks and eating ice cream in bed. So ho… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

9. Living The Best Day Ever

By: Hendri Coetzee

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

10. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation

By: Sheila Weller

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists --… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation book and Evan Thomas's Robert Kennedy: His Life

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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11. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

By: John Elder Robison

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he w… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

12. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

By: Thurston Clarke

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president—a re… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his."

-Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

14. The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

By: David Nasaw

4.30

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

In this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full sto… read more

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15. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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16. Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

By: Chris Matthews

4.06

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

“What was he like?” Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic q… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century

17. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart

By: John Guy

3.34

Format: None pages,

A long-overdue and dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots by one of the lead… read more

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18. Once a Runner

By: John L. Parker Jr.

4.20

Format: 251 pages,

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19. The Moon's a Balloon

By: David Niven

3.00

Format: None pages,

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20. Pensées

By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer

3.95

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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21. Robert Kennedy: His Life

By: Evan Thomas

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

He was "Good Bobby," who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it . . . … read more

Similar categories in Evan Thomas's Robert Kennedy: His Life book and Evan Thomas's Robert Kennedy: His Life

  • american history
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • leadership
"Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy"

-Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life

22. The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici

By: Elizabeth Lev

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing life of a long-misunderstood Renaissance virago. Wife, mother, leader, warrior. Cat… read more

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23. 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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24. "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

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25. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

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26. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • the united states of america
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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27. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson book and Evan Thomas's Robert Kennedy: His Life

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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28. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

By: Sam Wasson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more

Similar categories in Sam Wasson's The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story book and Evan Thomas's Robert Kennedy: His Life

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya

29. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

By: Clemantine Wamariya

4.19

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of the imagination to save us Clemantine … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Now it felt like I did nothing. I had everything and I did nothing."

-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

"When you don't belong to a country, the world decides that you don't deserve a thing."

-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

"But clean, in that dress, holding Marietta and Freddy’s hands, I felt like somebody’s somebody."

-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

"She wanted to tell a true story, a complete story. No ending ever felt right. History made it hard."

-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

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30. All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia

By: Matthew Algeo

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of eastern Kentucky to gauge … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction

13 best-selling history books like Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Lisa McCubbin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

Robert Dallek

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

John Milton Cooper Jr.

4.05

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Javier Zamora

4.48

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Safiya Sinclair

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