COLLECTION SIX: BIOGRAPHY
A well-researched biography takes us on a deep dive into a life of impact. There is much to discover and learn from this list, tracing lives through the Italian Renaissance to modern-day China and encompassing more familiar worlds. People are fascinating, and none more so than these.
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Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna by Ramie Targoff
A biography of Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
As China battled through a hundred years of seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history
FDR at War Boxed Set: The Mantle of Command, Commander in Chief, and War and Peace by Nigel Hamilton
The definitive three-volume history of World War II that Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not live to write
Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolffe
Barack Obama’s previously untold and epic story of how a political newcomer with no money and an alien name grew into a powerful leader
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath edited by Karen Kukil
The complete, uncensored and vivid journals of Sylvia Plath, one of America’s most iconic poets, published in their entirety