Best Selling Biographies of the legends
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reading the biographies of these legends.
1. The Story of My Experiments with Truth
authored by M.K. Gandhi
The incredibly popular
biography of Indian National (freedom) movement's most prominent leader
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi accounts/recounts the year of his childhood through
the year 1921. The popular autobiography of one great Indian Freedom Movement
leader was first published as serials (weekly installments) in Navjivan between
1925 to 1929.
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2. A. Lincoln – A Biography
authored by Ronald C. White. Jr.
Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name “A. Lincoln.” In his
lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to
characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent
book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln
as a man of integrity–what today’s commentators would call “authenticity”–whose
moral compass holds the key to understanding his life.
Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and photographs, White provides a portrait of Lincoln’s personal, political, and moral evolution. White shows us Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of thoughts in his wake, jotting ideas on scraps of paper and filing them in his top hat or the bottom drawer of his desk; a country lawyer who asked questions in order to figure out his own thinking on an issue, as much as to argue the case; a hands-on commander in chief who, as soldiers and sailors watched in amazement, commandeered a boat and ordered an attack on Confederate shore batteries at the tip of the Virginia peninsula; a man who struggled with the immorality of slavery and as president acted publicly and privately to outlaw it forever; and finally, a president involved in a religious odyssey who wrote, for his own eyes only, a profound meditation on “the will of God” in the Civil War that would become the basis of his finest address.
Most enlightening, the Abraham Lincoln who comes into focus in this stellar narrative is a person of intellectual curiosity, comfortable with ambiguity, unafraid to “think anew and act anew.”
A transcendent, sweeping, passionately written biography that greatly expands our knowledge and understanding of its subject, A. Lincoln will engage a whole new generation of Americans. It is poised to shed a profound light on our greatest president just as America commemorates the bicentennial of his birth.
Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and photographs, White provides a portrait of Lincoln’s personal, political, and moral evolution. White shows us Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of thoughts in his wake, jotting ideas on scraps of paper and filing them in his top hat or the bottom drawer of his desk; a country lawyer who asked questions in order to figure out his own thinking on an issue, as much as to argue the case; a hands-on commander in chief who, as soldiers and sailors watched in amazement, commandeered a boat and ordered an attack on Confederate shore batteries at the tip of the Virginia peninsula; a man who struggled with the immorality of slavery and as president acted publicly and privately to outlaw it forever; and finally, a president involved in a religious odyssey who wrote, for his own eyes only, a profound meditation on “the will of God” in the Civil War that would become the basis of his finest address.
Most enlightening, the Abraham Lincoln who comes into focus in this stellar narrative is a person of intellectual curiosity, comfortable with ambiguity, unafraid to “think anew and act anew.”
A transcendent, sweeping, passionately written biography that greatly expands our knowledge and understanding of its subject, A. Lincoln will engage a whole new generation of Americans. It is poised to shed a profound light on our greatest president just as America commemorates the bicentennial of his birth.
- NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The
Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
- WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD
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3. Einstein: A Life of Genius (The True Story of Albert Einstein)
authored by Alexander Kennedy
No man—not Hitler, not Gandhi, not Franklin D. Roosevelt—did more to shape and
reshape the twentieth century than Albert Einstein. His ideas exploded
centuries of established physics, paving the way for electronics, space
exploration, and the atomic bomb. The very device on which you read this blurb
would not exist without his work. But amazingly, Einstein’s influence didn’t
stop with his scientific ideas; he also became a pre-eminent advocate for world
peace and nuclear disarmament, and was offered the presidency of the new state
of Israel.
In this readable, compact biography, Alexander Kennedy surveys every aspect of this complex, towering figure that pop culture too often reduces to a cartoon absent-minded professor or Apple advertisement. By exploring the darker corners of Einstein’s life—such as the way anti-Semitism shaped his childhood, and the nastiness of his 1919 divorce from Mileva Maric—readers come away with a renewed sense of wonder at his many triumphs. Written with the lay reader in mind, Einstein: A Life of Genius includes readily understandable explanations of even advanced theories such as general relativity. By the end, we not only understand how Albert Einstein’s genius has shaped our past, but how it continues to shape the future of our species as well.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein
Buy Now to Discover:
In this readable, compact biography, Alexander Kennedy surveys every aspect of this complex, towering figure that pop culture too often reduces to a cartoon absent-minded professor or Apple advertisement. By exploring the darker corners of Einstein’s life—such as the way anti-Semitism shaped his childhood, and the nastiness of his 1919 divorce from Mileva Maric—readers come away with a renewed sense of wonder at his many triumphs. Written with the lay reader in mind, Einstein: A Life of Genius includes readily understandable explanations of even advanced theories such as general relativity. By the end, we not only understand how Albert Einstein’s genius has shaped our past, but how it continues to shape the future of our species as well.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein
Buy Now to Discover:
- Explanations of Einstein’s most important scientific contributions, including quanta, special relativity, general relativity, and his analysis of Brownian motion.
- Debunkings of popular Einstein myths, including the claim that he failed math as a young boy.
- A detailed exploration of Einstein’s personal life, including his divorce and complicated relationships with his children.
- Einstein’s key role in the creation of the Manhattan Project.
- Einstein’s political activism and the resultant FBI investigation.
- A look at Einstein’s role in pop culture.
- Insights and witticisms in Einstein’s own words.
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4. Wings of Fire authored by APJ Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari
Avul Pakir
Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in
Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, had an unparalleled career as a defence scientist,
culminating in the highest civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna. As chief
of the country’s defence research and development programme, Kalam demonstrated
the great potential for dynamism and innovation that existed in seemingly
moribund research establishments. This is the story of Kalam’s rise from
obscurity and his personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of
Agni, Prithvi, Akash, Trishul and Nag—missiles that have become household names
in India and that have raised the nation to the level of a missile power of
international reckoning. This is also the saga of independent India’s struggle
for technological self-sufficiency and defensive autonomy—a story as much about
politics, domestic and international, as it is about science.
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5. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
authored by Walter Isaacson
Based on more than
forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as
interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries,
competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally
bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isaacson
tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of
creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive
revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies,music,
phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Although Jobs cooperated with
this book, he asked for no control over what was written, nor even the right to
read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits. He encouraged the
people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally
so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes,
and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism,
obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his
approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
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