Collection Six: Biography

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


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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


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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


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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


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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