All the same, this is
the best biography of Rasputin and a splendid piece of work.
Good biography of the band.
Not exact matches
Morton used six tapes
of interviews to write the
biography, knowing that he was sitting on revelations that could tear apart the country's oldest and
best - loved institution.
«This is a
good time for Ron Chernow's fine
biography of Ulysses S. Grant to appear,» wrote Bill Clinton in the New York Times Book Review.
Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing
biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like,
well, wildfire as soon as word
of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.
While Jobs's treatment
of his first child, Lisa, was deemed to be seriously lacking (with
good reason) in Walter Isaacson's
biography Steve Jobs, and the silver screen film adaptation that followed, he apparently had changed his parenting ways with the three children he raised with his wife Laurene Powell Jobs.
Indeed, Jobs
biographies are filled with accounts
of him screaming at his employees, imploring them to do
better, and often firing them for little cause.
We're often
better at evaluating the strengths and experiences
of others than we are at examining our own, so Clark suggests you «ask your friends to identify the most fascinating elements
of your
biography, your interests, or your experiences....
Credits: This infographic would not be possible without the great
biographies done by Roger Lowenstein (Buffett: The Making
of an American Capitalist) and Alice Schroeder (The Snowball), as
well as numerous other sources cataloging Buffett's life online.
A
GOOD subtitle for a
biography of Karl Marx would be «a study in failure».
Walter Isaacson, whose
biography of Steve Jobs was an instant
best seller after the Apple CEO's death in October 2011, shares the real management lessons from Jobs.
In this New York Times
best - selling
biography, Metaxas gives a full account
of Bonhoeffer's heart - wrenching decision to leave the safe haven
of America to return to Hitler's Germany.
Liberals indulge in periodic public rhetorical displays
of «So - to - Speak» support for the Constitution, and they like
well - told history or
biography about the Founders as
well as anyone, but they aren't as interested in treating them as a guide.
It is reasonable to be dubious about
biographies of philosophers, even when they are
good.
Walter Isaacson,
best known for
biographies of Steve Jobs and Einstein, is unsurprisingly most interested in Leonardo da Vinci's scientific achievements.
And I've been keenly interested in the question
of religion, having written a
biography of Jesus and practiced Christianity as
best I can for much
of my life.
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo — This is another one that could have gone on the picture book list because the paintings in here are sublime but the
biographies of 100 notable women are written as bedtime fairy tales.
But translating the
Good Book into progressive politics has always been a mainstay
of Obama's political
biography.
yken's
biography is perhaps better positioned to explain Packer's Evangelical fame than was the earlier effort of Packer's fellow British Evangelical Alister McGrath, J. I. Packer: A B
biography is perhaps
better positioned to explain Packer's Evangelical fame than was the earlier effort
of Packer's fellow British Evangelical Alister McGrath, J. I. Packer: A
BiographyBiography.
While historians have welcomed Appleby's nuanced study
of how the War for Independence altered the lives
of ordinary Americans (Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation
of Americans), an even broader and more appreciative audience has made David McCullough's
biography of John Adams a run away
best seller.
And we should, at last, have time to keep up with
biography, with fiction, with history, as
well as with all the branches
of theology.
Olson's lengthy Federalist Society
biography makes no direct mention
of the work for which he is now
best known and closes with a disclaimer disavowing any organizational endorsement
of its expert's views.
Odd again, because, despite my
best efforts to see something heroic in this man's
biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at
best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review
of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»
For (and this may be the chief lesson to be learned from these
biographies) George Eliot is perhaps the signal figure for those who maintain that we can be
good without God, indeed, that belief in the Christian God is a great impediment to the achievement
of «individual and social happiness.»
While many
of the books about Jesus are written in scholarly language and primarily for other scholars, Viola and Sweet have written a
well - researched and documented
biography of Jesus, but in a way that the average Christian can read and understand.
I'm not sure it is
good policy, but Santorum's policy
of no corporate income taxes on manufacturers, might do him some
good when added to the stuff about his
biography, etc..
Well, I suggest you read the
biographies of John Adams, John Jay, and Thomas Paine.
Still, Urofsky's
biography is a valuable guide to the life and thought
of a man who, for
better and worse, profoundly shaped modern constitutional law.
Leonardo da Vinciby walter isaacsonsimon and schuster, 624 pages, $ 35 Walter Isaacson,
best known for
biographies of Steve Jobs and Einstein, is unsurprisingly most interested in Leonardo da Vinci's scientific achievements.
gave me a chance to rediscover Jane Austen, not least because she is my mother's favorite author: For not only does the Oakesian matriarch own all six
of the Austen novels in the elegant Oxford edition, but Park Honan's marvelous
biography, Jane Austen: Her Life, occupies a prominent place on her bookshelf as
well ¯ which I gobbled up (naturally) even more avidly than I did the novels.
Schmidt is at his
best in drawing out social history from the fine details
of biography.
All holy book scriptures have been subjected to the views
of given authors — which is no different than a modern - day
biography — and, at
best, should be used to guide one's decisions — much like a fable written for children.
«William Franklin Graham Jr can safely be regarded as the
best who ever lived at what he did,» said William Martin, author
of the
biography A Prophet With Honour.
Regrettably for A.A., I believe, the writer
of A.A.'s official
biography of Dr. Bob Smith (DR. BOB and the
Good Oldtimers) then gratuitously added the following statement — which was not at all a part
of the Amos report: «It might also be noted that many terms now considered by A.A.'s to be misleading were then used, not only by non-A.A.'s discussing the movement, but sometimes by members themselves: «cure,» «ex-alcoholic,» «reformed alcoholic»» (DR. BOB and the
Good Oldtimers, pp. 135 - 36).
Nevertheless, there are subtle but important differences between them, and where they differ I find myself siding with Whitehead.2 Since Whitehead's conceptuality is presupposed in my extensions and applications, it seemed
best to introduce the reader to this thought by way
of an intellectual
biography tracing the development
of his theism.
Panikkar's theology is highly marked by his
biography which laid the encounter
of different religions and contexts in his cradle, as it were.40 He has faced this challenge and engaged in an intense study
of languages, philosophies, theologies and sacred scriptures as
well as living everyday life in many contexts.
The general writings mention him, but for a fuller treatment the
best sources are two books by Y. P. Mei: Motse, Rival
of Confucius, a
biography and systematic discussion
of his thought, and The Works
of Motse.
As a concrete example let me read a page from the
biography of Antoinette Bourignon, a
good woman, much persecuted in her day by both Protestants and Catholics, because she would not take her religion at second hand.
British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, author
of the new book «Jerusalem: The
Biography,» knows the city
well.
Since this is territory that has been
well covered in recent years — in
biographies of the principal players, as
well as in numerous volumes
of history and political analysis — the question naturally arises: what does Kramer have to say that sheds new light on the subject?
Broadwell is the author
of Petraeus»
biography, All In: The Education
of General David Petraeus, and was embedded with him in Afghanistan where rumors
of something romantic between the two were common but dismissed by people who knew them
well.
All
of this happened to me, in a close proximity
of time and believe I am living proof
of how the Old and New Testaments are all part
of the same story, the revelation
of Jesus and his
biography as
well.
Mundanely enough, the early Church councils were in the
best position to judge which
biographies were reliable and they chose Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.Anthony McRoy,
of Wales Evangelical School
of Theology, says that the way the Church decided on the books
of the New Testament bears little resemblance to the conspiracy theories
of Dan Brown and Philip Pullman.
To his contemporaries he was certainly a man anointed by God with the Spirit and with power; a man who went about doing
good; a chasid or Jewish saint; perhaps a prophet, «like one
of the prophets
of old,» or even «more than a prophet,» perhaps the prophet, «like unto Moses»; («Prof. David E. Adams» Man
of God (1941) is a study
of the Old Testament pattern used repeatedly in
biographies and presupposed in stories
of holy men in the Old Testament and in related literature.
Second, it requires affirming through the media persons and events that have been able to deal with these «boundary situations» creatively and with faith: news stories from Manila and South Africa;
biographies of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Archbishop Tutu — and a host
of other unfamous people
of faith as
well.
If he believes his dubious assertion that «the more we know about Shakespeare the more we will understand his work,» then why has he failed to consult important
biographies by Park Honan and Katherine Duncan - Jones, as
well as James Shapiro's award - winning A Year in the Life
of Shakespeare: 1599, among scores
of other books and articles?
The religious part
of the commemoration
of the Prophet's birth is a recital by the leader from one
of the
well - known
biographies of the Prophet — written either in verse or in rhythmic prose — interspersed with songs
of praise sung by the leader or by the leader and congregation together.
A
good biography, expertly researched and finely crafted, conveys not just the trajectory
of someone's life but also a feeling for the era in which the person lived.
We are obliged therefore to forego chronological order from the outset, as
well as the reconstruction
of any development in Jesus, in his success, in his conflict with his enemies — a «
biography»
of Jesus in this sense can not be written.
The front matter to what Beranbaum terms her «bread
biography» contains perhaps the
best explanation anywhere
of how yeast works and a description
of the sponge method used for almost every yeast - risen bread.