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"Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints." — Boston Globe
Pulitzer Priz...
Это одно из тех жизнеописаний, на фоне которых меркнут любые приключенческие романы. Перед вами биография Тома-Александра Дюма, отца и деда двух знаменитых писателей, живш...
George F. Kennan
Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. With a breadth and depth mat...
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.
Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand ...
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teac...
No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of...
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the th...
Никита Сергеевич Хрущев - человек, оставивший заметный след не только в советской, но и в мировой истории. Секретный доклад, положивший начало разоблачению культа личности...
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its mos...
This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demon...
Книга "Вера (Миссис Владимир Набоков)" Стейси Шифф, в 2000 году была удостоена Пулитцеровской премии. Это серьёзное биографическое исследование читается легко, словно увле...
Charles Lindbergh is at once one of the century's best-known and most misunderstood figures. In Lindbergh, bestselling author and National Book Award winner A. Scott Berg ...
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women -- a book that is, as its title suggests, composed of both personal m...
Один из величайших романов ХХ века. Книга, которая принесла ее автору Пулитцеровскую премию за 1997 год. "The Times" включил "Прах "Анджелы" в список лучших книг, написанн...
What sort of 'person' is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book, as a character w...
"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject....But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can ...
A founder of the NAACP, a brilliant scholar and writer, Du Bois was a towering and controversial personality--a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the ...
